BspModel

Author

Claudio & Stefan

Goal

This module will load and handle Quake III levels as proposed in ticket:133. Though QIII-levels are great, they don't offer the extensibility of orxonoxs XML-levels. Thus BspModel is not meant to replace orxonoxs xml-levels.
To keep things as simple as possible, we intend to iplement a QuakeIII level loader which allows us to load QIII-.bsp files the same way, orxonox lets us load .md2 or .obj models.


​There you find some recent ​screenshots.

Design

TODOS

• Transparency as described on ​Rendering Q3 Maps (Claudio)
• Multitextureing (Stefan, Claudio)
• Lightmapping (Claudio)
• Contents (Bsp Files, Textures)
• Speed optimization (Claudio)
• Support for big endian architecture (50% done)
• Animated Textures (60% done)
• Water
• Collision with patches
• Get the normals of the planes to which the player collided (Claudio)

Road map

Date	Claudio	Stefan	State
Mi, 03. May	CollisionDetection: Definition of Interfaces & Implementation	Multitextureing: Implementation
Mi, 10. May	CollisionDetection: Implementation Prepare BspFile and BspManager for Lightmapping	Multitextureing: Implementation
Do, 18. May	CollisionDetection: Implementation	Lightmapping: Implementation
Do, 25. May	Revision & (Support for big endian architecture using SDL_endian)	Revision & (Lightmapping: Implementation)
Do, 01. June	Overall Enhancement / Review Contetnts Doc	Overall Enhancement / Review Contetnts Doc
Do, 08. June	Project freeze: debug and documentation	Project freeze: debug and documentation
Do, 15. June	Code finished and working perfectly (hopefully )	Code finished and working perfectly
Mi, 21. June	Content creation	Content creation
Mi, 28. June	Content finished: all models work, the world is playable	Content finished: all models work, the world is playable

Further Information on the Q3 level format

​Rendering Q3 Maps by Morgan McGuire
​Unofficial Quake 3 Map Specs by Kekoa Proudfoot
​Quake 3 Collision Detection by Nathan Ostgard