Did you know that Quake 3

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was developed procedurally?

Produral programming FTW! :smiley:

Does anyone know of any other major piece of software that was created procedurally?

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OOP ftwā€¦ doom Iā€™m betting was proceduralā€¦ hmmā€¦ probably a lot of older games.

Meh. What a random thread.

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Firefox, from the looks of its UI performance.

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I think Doom was too. Any others?

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snake

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[quote=Templarian;2339551]OOP ftwā€¦ doom Iā€™m betting was proceduralā€¦ hmmā€¦ probably a lot of older games.

Meh. What a random thread.[/quote]

Thanks. I feel it suits the section perfectly :wink:

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rumblesushi, as long as your not planning on using procedural programming style. :lol:. I mean really in this day-and-age its not very practical or time effective (depending on the language and IDE).

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Well actually quite the opposite, Iā€™m moving onto AS3 now, and trying to get my head round an OOP way of thinking.

However, itā€™s difficult for me, because I started programming with AS1, and have never learnt another language. So for years Iā€™ve only known the procedural way, itā€™s so hard to think in terms of classes, even though I write reusable functions all the time.

So this thread is just defending my roots and honour :stuck_out_tongue:

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Back in 2001, I did a lot of custom levels and shaders for Quake3, and even got some good [COLOR=ā€œBlueā€][U]reviews[/U][/COLOR] on a few of my projects.
Relatively easy to do, and the performance of this old engine was amazing at the time.

Hereā€™s a snippet from one of the external shader scripts from ā€œFlatironā€ that creates a transparent rippling liquid with environment-mapped reflections on the surface.

textures/snick_terra/ripple_wawa	
	{
		qer_editorimage textures/liquids/pool3d_3.tga
		qer_trans .5
		q3map_globaltexture
		fogparms ( 0 0 .376 ) 256
		surfaceparm trans
		surfaceparm nonsolid
		surfaceparm water

		cull disable
		deformVertexes wave 64 sin .5 .5 0 .5
		{ 
			map textures/liquids/pool3d_5.tga
			blendFunc GL_dst_color GL_one
			rgbgen identity
			tcmod scale .5 .5
			tcmod transform 1.5 0 1.5 1 1 2
			tcmod scroll -.05 .001
		}
	
		{ 
			map textures/liquids/pool3d_6.tga
			blendFunc GL_dst_color GL_one
			rgbgen identity
			tcmod scale .5 .5
			tcmod transform 0 1.5 1 1.5 2 1
			tcmod scroll .025 -.001
		}

		{ 
			map textures/liquids/pool3d_3.tga
			blendFunc GL_dst_color GL_one
			rgbgen identity
			tcmod scale .25 .5
			tcmod scroll .001 .025
		}

		{
			map textures/effects/tinfx3.tga
			blendfunc add
			rgbgen identity
			tcGen environment
		}

		{
			map $lightmap
			blendFunc GL_dst_color GL_zero
			rgbgen identity		
		}
	}