Quake II engine | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-07-06

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00:01:42 1 Games using the iQuake II/i engine
00:01:53 1.1 Games using a proprietary license
00:02:54 1.2 Games based on the GPL source release
00:03:31 2 Ports
00:04:07 3 See also



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The Quake II engine is a game engine developed by id Software for use in their 1997 first-person shooter Quake II. It is the successor to the Quake engine. Since its release, the Quake II engine has been licensed for use in several other games.One of the engine's most notable features was out-of-the-box support for hardware-accelerated graphics, specifically OpenGL, along with the traditional software renderer. Another interesting feature was the subdivision of some of the components into dynamic-link libraries. This allowed both software and OpenGL renderers, which were selected by loading and unloading separate libraries. Libraries were also used for the game logic, for two reasons:
id could release the source code to allow modifications while keeping the remainder of the engine proprietary.
Since they were compiled for specific platforms, instead of an interpreter, they could run faster than Quake's solution, which was to run the game logic (QuakeC) in a limited interpreter.The level format, as with previous id Software engines, used binary space partitioning. The level environments were lit using lightmaps, a method in which light data for each surface is precalculated (this time, via a radiosity method) and stored as an image, which is then used to determine the lighting intensity each 3D model should receive, but not its direction.id Software released the source code on December 22, 2001 under the terms of the GNU General Public License.