Comments - Dracus

The requirements can be seen if you expand the info about the file. It is also available on our download page on our website. To be seen without extra clicks for you we need to put it in the summary and I don't think it fits there.

The high requirements (and bad graphics) can be explained by mainly three factors. For one the content isn't the best even though the engine supports (and we use) many modern techniques for nice results. The second is that as we have a deforming world we can't use regular solutions other engines use to optimize the performance. Last we have only one programmer coding everything so the time to optimize the engine are not as in commercial engines.

Hope you enjoy the game!

Great article! Can't wait for your general pointers in part 2. Though I guess I have read most of them in various forum posts and the wiki. Hopefully this will help me finally finish a map :).

Thanks for your comments. We will look into that gravity, if it is worth implementing we will give it a try. In the patch we changed the HUD some and more changes are likely to come, thanks for the suggestion. There is also a more simplistic HUD in the game now, just write cg_hudStyle 2 in the console. Maybe you like that better.

If you check our forum it is a lengthy guide there about everything you need for mapmaking.

Yeah, updated the description to include some of the changes. Visit our forum (or read the changelog included in the patch) for a complete changelog.

You can zoom in and out with that gun. But not in the screen on the gun, your entire view is zoomed in.

I guess we wanted an clear and easy GUI and then so it happend to be like Q3. Thanks for the nice words about the game!

Varsity: Please send the full log to me, dracus@celestialimpact.com . Hopefully we can find out what is the trouble.

The engine is developed by ourselves. We have followed same/similar names for commands as the id tech engine series so players find things easier.

Nice screenshot, playing our game in a way we didnt anticipate :).
We are working on an optimized renderer so more hardware can play the game but we didnt want to wait for that to this release. I will let you know when it's done.
About the logos, I might have borrowed some similarities :).

It is a custom engine developed by us. Maps are done ingame with the dirtgun and some special commands to paint different materials. Thats mostly all to it, we will write a more detailed howto so anyone can easily make maps.