Main Features
Fully integrated per pixel lighting and shadowing technology (diffuse, normalmapping, specular lighting, with shadowmaps or shadow volumes supported), lightmapping and deluxemapping (directional shading for lightmaps, supporting full normalmap and specular features), and a variety of material effects fully integrated in one shader system that deals with all situations.
Variety of file formats supported (Quake1 and Quake3 file formats, skeletal models, various image formats, ogg vorbis support on all sound effects, and more).
Game logic scripting in QuakeC programming language.
Advanced networking designed to scale from dialup to broadband, with automatic distance-based prioritization for optimal close-range gameplay in a densely populated world.
Realistic global fog feature with height limit for seamless blending with sky.
ODE physics engine integration.
Per-polygon collision detection optimized for large static meshes, as well as Quake brush technology.
Background music support with sequential and random playlists and playlist switching (with resume), in ogg vorbis or wav format.
CD audio support.
Model formats
Quake MDL, Quake2 MD2, Quake3 MD3, DarkPlaces DPM (converters from SMD and MD5), DarkPlaces/Cube2 IQM (Blender exporter available, SMD converter available), UnrealEngine PSK, Wavefront OBJ, Quake1 BSP, Quake3 BSP.
Related Articles
Hey Guys! Today is a special day to us, we launch the first public beta of A Dark Place with the Source Code + Extras of the game development. Depsite of being cancelled, all the reviews and opinions are welcome because if the game had some good feedback it might had a chance to be finished.
It contains a Beta Build + Source Code+Extras in a .rar format (you need WinRAR to unconmpress) that contains the follow things:
- Launcher with graphics options.
- New Manin Menu with advance options.
- 4 dificulty levels.
- First two levels totally playable.
- Save/Load game for the most scarry people.
- New post process effect.
- Optional download: Source Code of the game with some extras for the followers of the game.
Beta Build:
Source Code + Extras:
Thanks to all and enjoy!
ChaosEsque Anthology Release 100
ChaosEsque:AnthologyThe Team is here, a year later, to again wish you a Merry Christmas, and bestow an early Christmas present: After years of constant, grinding, development...
A Dark Place... Update 2
A Dark Place 5 commentsNews and update about the new things that we are doing in the game,some exterior work,and some great and cool features.
A Dark Place... Update 1
News 3 commentsBig update with great news about the game and the new things that happen in this update time.
Introducing: A Dark Place
News 5 commentsThis is the oficial introduction to A Dark Place, a survival horror adventure game from CatGazing Studios, powered by the DarkPlaces Engine in all his...
Games
Doombringer
First Person ShooterDoombringer is a first person action game predominantly inspired by old school shooters like Quake 1, Quake 3 and Doom.
Revenant: Darkborn
Hack 'n' SlashChallenging, story driven third person perspective slasher with bits of RPG mechanics thrown in. A hobbyist, one man team effort at developig a single...
ChaosEsque:Anthology
First Person ShooterA standalone game based on Xonotic which included extended weapons, maps, vehicles, buildable buildings, mounted weapons, spell casting, monsters, player...
The Mansion-182
First Person ShooterYou have to survive on this haunted mansion and kill all the ghosts that want to take your soul, in the best arcade retro way.
A Dark Place
StealthA Dark Place is a stealth horror game in which you are trapped in a old factory and you dont know what are you doing there or how you ended up in that...
Let it Grow
AdventureLet it Grow is an adventure first person game, with narrative components, focussed in exploration and resolution of puzzles in which every object and...
SUPERQOT
First Person Shooter1996 called and asked for SUPERHOT. We delivered! SUPERQOT is an unholy concoction of the following bits and pieces: QUAKE by id Software, DARKPLACES...
Dark Revelations - Katharsis
StealthKatharsis is a first person gothic novel game with Stealth and RPG elements, based on the DarkPlaces engine.
RetroBlazer
First Person ShooterRetroBlazer features elements prevalent in 2D games with a focus on classic running-and-gunning gameplay. You are challenged by a wide variety of enemies...
Post a comment
Profile
Community Rating
Highest Rated (2 agree) 10/10
Engine of choice if you still dabble in quake one. What can it do? Ton of visual effects & rendering magic. It CAN load Quake 3 maps! Yes, quake 3. All shaders arent supported, but this is one heck of an achievement. Also loads half-life maps. Super customize quake-c code - create console vars on the fly, detect map information like texture names - there is a massive extension list in dpextensions.qc. Colored lighting for your maps. Dynamic lighting. This list goes on. Open source, so you could…
Aug 25 2011 by numbersix
Tags
Embed Buttons
Link to DarkPlaces engine by selecting a button and using the embed code provided more...
Statistics
You may also like
Build
Proprietary
Unity
Commercial
Unreal Engine 3
Commercial
EDuke32
GPL
Unreal Engine 4
Commercial
Unreal Development Kit
Commercial
DarkPlaces is an incredible engine, but there's still a lot of compatibility bugs (especially with Scourge of Armagon) that need ironing out. I hope there will be another release of DarkPlaces at some point.
the best id tech engine ever are gpl (open source code and free access to the work and changes), most commercial engines does not have the quality of the free software mades.. i love linux benefits
where the download link??!
Icculus.org
what happened to the games?
Best IdTech based engine ever, imo :D
What does GPL mean ? I can use it but give it credit ? I don't understand
You can use it but if you distribute it, you must make it open source. It allows you to sell it commercially but open source and commercial products aren't really compatible.
AsronGlazer what you said is wrong GPL is totally compatible with commercial products, GPL only demands this, that you give access for free to the original engine source code and any modifications you do to it, if you don't modify the engine then you just need to give access to the original source code. GPL DO NOT demands you to release for free any of your ingame script code, models, textures, sounds, etc, etc, all assets of the game belong to you and you can lock them if you want, also any custom tools that you make to be able to use the engine source are also yours and you can decide to not release them.
That's exactly what I meant.
> that you give access for free to the original engine source code and any modifications you do to it
Exactly. Any modifications you make must be made open source. And modifications are necessary because you'd have to modify the engine to make it load all of your assets and whatnot.
You don't need to modify the engine to load assets if you only import assets already supported by the engine, and that is what everybody using any third party engine GPL or not does, that is why they use a third party and not make their own.
En.wikipedia.org