some questions about CUBE

by MDL on 08/30/2005 01:22, 31 messages, last message: 09/10/2005 04:11, 8829 views, last view: 05/05/2024 16:45

Hello.
I have 3 questions about CUBE
1)Can I change menu, create main menu like in other games?
2)How to change a language?(make a translation)
3)How to add\modify weapons and monsters?

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#12: Re: ..

by dcp on 09/01/2005 00:44, refers to #10

if you like it, why not? ;-)

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#13: ..

by makkE on 09/01/2005 01:27

CrazyTB, I don´t think island is intended to be played (that´s why it´s so far at the end of the list)..
Still it´s kinda.. impressive.

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#14: Re: Cube on Win XP

by ernest on 09/01/2005 16:52, refers to #11

Hi,
Thank you for the help.
I've a PIII 900 with 128Mb memory and a Trident 16Mo card.
Thank you,

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#15: ..

by MDL on 09/02/2005 23:06

i bought my windows xp professional copy for 65 ru = $2 ;) COOL?

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#16: Re: ..

by kernowyon on 09/03/2005 02:33, refers to #15

Ripped off ;) I got my Linux for free :)

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#17: ..

by MDL on 09/03/2005 23:04

heh=)))

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#18: Re: ..

by pushplay on 09/04/2005 21:40, refers to #16

It's only free if your time is worthless.

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#19: *sigh*

by pushplay on 09/04/2005 21:54

I don't know why I said that, it can only lead to a discussion I don't want to have. Can we just stop it with the linuxissogreatlol? No one here is going to win any converts.

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#20: Re: *sigh*

by kernowyon on 09/04/2005 22:09, refers to #19

lol - its always a mistake to play the old Linux vs Microsoft game :)
I have no problem with the use of either OS myself - I simply prefer Linux.
I am not one of those who crusade against the MS world. Theres room for all. For normal everyday users, Microsoft is probably what they are used to - and they are happy to use it - thats fine :)
My comment about my OS being free was merely a humourous comment.
Use and enjoy whatever OS suits you - as the end user - best :)

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#21: ..

by -Rick- on 09/04/2005 22:41

FreeBSD > Linux

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#22: Re: ..

by >driAn<. on 09/04/2005 23:38, refers to #21

Which Distro? SuSE? sure!

but:

Debian > FreeBSD

;))

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#23: ..

by -Rick- on 09/05/2005 00:29

FreeBSD > Morg... hmm nah ;-)

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#24: Look What I Caused

by pushplay on 09/05/2005 00:34

It's gotten to the point where I have to rethink every post I might make because I might cause Morgaine to reply and make everyone's day just a little less happy.

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#25: ..

by -Rick- on 09/05/2005 00:49

How about use both? http://dev.gentoo.org/~citizen428/doc/gentoo-freebsd.html ;)

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#26: Re: Cube on Win XP

by CrazyTB on 09/06/2005 17:06, refers to #14

I suppose your video card is not 3D-accelerated, or has poor OpenGL support. Pentium III is enough to play cube (if the video card is good enough - even a Riva TNT2 is good enough).

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#27: Re: Cube on Win XP

by dcp on 09/06/2005 23:46, refers to #26

on my good old pII400 + TNT2 it's still playable. as it is on my pII400 with geForce4MX400. or on my K6II500 with a TNT2. or on my AthlonXP 2.6+ with FX5200... it even runs on my pI200 with voodoo3 2000, but not that fast... lol...

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#28: ..

by Grogan on 09/08/2005 01:55

For a laugh one time I installed cube on my PII 300 (with a pretty good ATI Rage Fury Pro card though, which has excellent Linux DRI support) and was pleasantly surprised to be able to play it half decently with most maps. It turned out to be no joke and I was impressed even more with cube. 1024x768 with default settings in autoexec.cfg. This was the previous release of cube where MinLod was I think 100 by default.

The primary hard disk since failed on that PC, so now it's only got a minimal slackware installation on it, with only stuff related to its role as a fileserver. Not even a monitor hooked up. Kind of a waste of that video card.

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#29: Re: ..

by Pxtl on 09/09/2005 15:34, refers to #28

Well, I remember playing Quake 2 quite well on a p166 back in the day, and Quake 2's graphics dwarf Cube's (not that I expect Aard to outdo Carmack on a hobbyhorse project - nobody has that kind of time on their hands), so I don't see any reason that Cube shouldn't run will on an old p2.

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#30: Re: ..

by CrazyTB on 09/10/2005 01:23, refers to #29

Maybe because Cube is not as optimized as Quake? I'm not sure about Quake 2, but Quake 1 was programmed in a way to keep the x86 pipeline full most of time (it does mean: deep assembly knowledge and coding). Cube, on the other hand, is written entirely in C/C++ and is portable to different architectures (it means, no assembly).

Although C compilers can (and should) make optimizations to make code run faster, of course it never will be as fast as pure assembly.

Another issue is that some maps are slower than others.

However, the most important thing for Cube is a 3D accelerated card with good support to OpenGL.

Conclusion: cube is light and fast, but requires a 3D accelerated video card.

Note: The latest cube does not have dynamic LOD change. This is a bad change, in my opinion. I think the new version won't run as fast as older versions, in old hardware.

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#31: Re: ..

by Aardappel_ on 09/10/2005 04:11, refers to #30

Cube was made "brute force" on purpose: to keep it simple. The speed of the Q2 engine comes at a cost, that of complexity of the engine, and especially complexity of the level design process (has to run some heavy duty precompilation). A .bsp file is essentially a "recipe to render", all the hard work has already been done.

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