ATatesti·Nov 28, 2012Submission
The Doom3 source code seems to contain a ScaleForm-like SWF player
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DOOM-3-BFG
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Doom 3 BFG Edition
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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6 sourcesWhat's this?
https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM-3-BFG/tree/master/neo/sw...
A whole SWF-parser/player/renderer? Like Scaleform?
Seems to have no ActionScript implementation.
Does anybody know more about this? How complete is it and what features of flash does it play?
It's remarkable that ID software created such a clean nice game engine and holds all the IP without integrating other components: The whole physics engine is also in there and had even been open sourced very early as part of the Doom 3 sdk.
In Doom 3 BFG Edition source code releasedYou might find my previous comment about this topic interesting:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4088162
Here is the code section that you might find interesting in tr_backend_draw.cpp. The comments start at line 1439:
https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM-3-BFG/blob/master/neo/re...
In Doom 3 BFG Edition source code releasedNot that we don't have enough of them already, but this release comes with a new port of the Doom1/2 engine as well[0]. I don't know either codebase enough to say what's different, but it's now C++ vs. the original's C[1], and appears to be some Xbox and PS3-specific code as well (not that it's useful to mere mortals)
[0] https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM-3-BFG/tree/master/doomcl...
[1] https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM
In Doom 3 BFG Edition source code releasedDoom 3 BFG Edition source code released
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