Get enough finished for a first semi-stable release

[ensiform]

• Investigate porting some lighting options from Q3e. #3 - ARB/PM lighting for dynamic lights (mostly done but there still is some ET lighting options that never got ported and it does look poor in some conditions

• "unknown cmd userinfo" shows in console when leaving server #7 - unknown command userinfo still happens in all mods

• Modern Linux port #9 - Linux port

• Bring wav recording back #14 - bring wav recording back (preferably as cleaner abstracted code similar to cl_avi but just wav)

• Test Wo:ET www download to see if it still works #16 + Replace www download with download system changes from Q3e #17 - Extensively test the download code and see where it needs to be improved.

• Connecting to ETF server via etmain causes weird desync issue #34 - game_restart features don't seem to fully work when switching on connect causing a weird desync issue making unable to disconnect from connection screen.

• Question - Should we do anything about pak security, especially mods that change bins and or menus? Whitelist? Blacklist?

Optional

• Fognum sometimes goes way out of range #21 fognum bug that can't be repro right now
• Possible collision physics issue on unreleased etf_furious map #32 physics bug that apparently exists in the original game

[Joeao]

Can I hijack this issue to ask about what's different when comparing this repo to the original ET repo?
Also what's the plan with this project, could it power a new version of ETF or something?

[ensiform]

Will get back to you in more detail after work but yes the idea is a basic updated client that has focus on ETF and basic etmain support with some added features but not bloat.

[ensiform]

So its hard to quantify everything because I've basically been manually merging commits from https://github.com/ec-/Quake3e on top of the ET codebase but skipping anything unrelated like QVM stuff.

Some of the core principles are light overhead, performance and security fixes.
Tries to prevent issues that would result in security and buffer issues like too large userinfo and msgboom protection.
Better handled memory operations
Mod switch capability is improved over ioquake3 and ET:L
Uses raw mouse by default and no SDL overhead
Optimized snapshot entity data
New Download code on client side though there isn't a download server that has maps like Worldspawn does.
Handle newer Windows versions more gracefully and Windows DPI scaling is properly accounted for
New rendering options like:

• screenMap for shiny weapons.
• hdr and bloom, fbo, true dynamic lighting using ARB shaders
• ARB shader gamma
• vbo cache for static geometry
• increase many limits

[Joeao]

From what I understood from that, sounds like some useful upgrades. I don't recall the technical limitations of the game as I was only ever just a player. But having it look, respond and perform better can only be a good thing.

If you have plans to push an update to ETF, I have skills in web development so if there's anything you'd need to offload I'm happy to help. Unfortunately there's next to nothing that I can contribute to this repo with my current skillset.

[ensiform]

So your skills are more for web dev? That would be useful indeed.

Have you joined the ETF discord? https://discord.gg/RPfFJF

[ensiform]

Went ahead and made a test release anyway.

[ensiform]

Updated original post with task list.