Developer id Software has the source code for the BFG Edition of Doom 3 made public. The files are available through Github. The code is under the GNU General Public License. The code does not include the rendering technique known as Carmack’s Reverse.
Publisher Bethesda makes via its blog announced that the source code of Doom 3 has been released. The code is download from Github. Developer id Software, since 2009 the property of Bethesda, announced earlier this month that the source code would be. The code is under the GNU General Public License. The studio gave a year ago all of the source code of Doom 3, the shooter who in 2004 came on the market. In October, brought id Software, however, the BFG Edition of Doom 3, a new version of the game with an improved appearance, better sound, support for 3d screens and an improved system for savegames. The BFG Edition also includes a bonus chapter.
From the source code of the BFG Edition are a number of components removed. So is the code that the integration with Steam controls omitted and also the part that the playback of Bink video”. In addition, id Software is a piece left out that is related to a rendering technique known as Carmack’s Reverse. It is a part that the rendering of shadow volumes’ controls. The studio had about a conflict with the Creative, the manufacturer best known for sound cards. Who has a patent on a similar technique as Carmack developed for Doom 3. The same conflict made in 2011 for the considerable delay in the release of the source code of Doom 3. At the same time with the source code also released a patch for the BFG Edition.
Doom 3 BFG Edition