Nuclide - Software Development Kit

Software Development Kit, built around id Technology with focus on advanced features and clean-room implementations of true-and-tested game-logic frameworks.

It's been used to ship a commercial product. So it's proven to some extent.

All of this is written in QuakeC, but there's also some GLSL and shell scripts in here. If you and your team are unfamilar with any of these, you may want something else.

Features

The missing SDK for engines like FTEQW
Support for client-side predicted movement, weaponry and vehicles
Documented APIs for everything you need to interface with the engine
APIs and Frameworks for managing updates, mods, servers, and platform specific features
Complete re-implementations of hundreds of entities, from GoldSrc/Source engine games
Entity communication via traditional one-way triggers, or our Source Engine I/O compatible system
Includes BotLib, a framework for multiplayer-AI that can receive game-specific overrides
Includes VGUILib, a re-imagining of Valve's GUI library, which can also be used for in-game surface based interfaces
Designed to be familar to developers coming from GoldSrc/Source
VR/XR aware codebase
All permissively licensed

Documentation

You can find up-to-date documentation over at https://developer.vera-visions.com/

This documentation is built entirely from this repository using doxygen. You do not need to be on-line to view the documentation.

You can build the HTML documentation by running doxygen inside the root of the repository. The output is located under Documentation/html/index.html

Support

You can get personal support for Nuclide by negotiating a support contract with us. Reach out to marco@vera-visions.com if you want to know about our rates.

Special Thanks

To id software and specifically John Carmack for having released the sources of various works of id Technology under free licenses, without which a project like this would be unfeasible.

David Walton for FTEQW and the FTEQCC compiler, which is the brain of this SDK.

Timothee Besset and the GtkRadiant contributors, as well as the NetRadiant team for giving us a base for our editor WorldSpawn.

License

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF MIND, USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

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