vkOpenArena: The ioquake3-Powered OpenArena Game Gets Ported To Vulkan

[phoronix]

Phoronix: vkOpenArena: The ioquake3-Powered OpenArena Game Gets Ported To Vulkan

OpenArena, one of the most well known open-source games built atop the ioquake3 engine of what started out as id Tech 3, has now seen an independent port to the Vulkan graphics API...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=vkOpenArena

[GunpowaderGuy]

hope Unvanquished gets vulkan support
btw would it be better if that game was ported ioquake 3 from its quake 3 derived engine ?

[Etherman]

"vkOpenArena: The ioquake3-Powered OpenArena Game Gets Ported To Vulkan"
Becouse we need the performance? :-)

[R41N3R]

Nice work! I'm always happy to see these Vulkan ports for old games! Will test this as soon as possible :-)

[GunpowaderGuy]

"vkOpenArena: The ioquake3-Powered OpenArena Game Gets Ported To Vulkan"
Becouse we need the performance? :-)

better performance is always a plus for reinforcement learning research

[adomas]

I don't understand this sentence:

"Independent developer Sui Jingfeng has been working on vkOpenArena as a port of the OpenArena engine over to using the Vulkan graphics API rather than Vulkan. "

Using the Vulkan graphics API rather than Vulkan? What does this mean?

[andrei_me]

Michael tildearrow typo:

vkOpenArena as a port of the OpenArena engine over to using the Vulkan graphics API rather than OpenGL

[DanL]

Because we need the performance?

No. From the GitHub page:

I am naive programmer, this repository is mainly for myself learning Vulkan and Quake3's engine. I actually haven't the ability to maintain it as lacking documents about Q3 and lacking knowledge about game graphics. I am learning by modification, however, only to find that I introduce bugs and mess the code up. So, Any documents, instructions, advices would be appreciated.

[jrdoane]

Independent developer Sui Jingfeng has been working on vkOpenArena as a port of the OpenArena engine over to using the Vulkan graphics API rather than Vulkan.

Using Vulkan rather than Vulkan, huh? Cool story.