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This is great. I remember back to the late 90s when I was busy hacking gamex86.dll to customise my Quake2 Death-matches with my friends.

One thing I wonder about this release is though - the Original Quake2 engine had a very fixed palette and also some odd lighting that always skewed the palette to a brown tint - does qengine fix this?

Also... Bonus... Some Quake2 maps, that I made way back: http://www.jaruzel.com/blog/my-quake2-maps

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From my perspective, that odd lighting and tint is part of the aesthetic that makes it great. You can learn more about how the renderer works here:

http://fabiensanglard.net/quake2/quake2_software_renderer.ph...

You can create your own palette using the included pcx2pal: https://github.com/klaussilveira/qengine/blob/master/src/too...

After that, you might want to generate the colormap: https://github.com/klaussilveira/qengine/blob/master/src/too...

If you enjoy the code of Q2, but also would like more modern rendering, I highly recommend quake2xp from Barnes: https://www.moddb.com/mods/quake-2-xp

Yamagi is the gold standard for all Q2 engines: https://github.com/yquake2/yquake2

And some art help: http://maps.rcmd.org/tutorials/q2_palette_textures/

I think I remember playing these maps! (or else confusing my shades of grey) I'll need to boot up that computer and see if they're on there.

I can't find the website I used to download maps and skins from. It must be gone by now.

I recall from somewhere that the team behind Carmack (Tom Hall, Romero, etc) chose the brown palette since it looked best within the theme, given the color constraints. I have no source, sadly.

Cool maps, btw. :)

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