Bug#777338: Bug#764200: ITP: rbdoom3bfg -- Doom3 BFG edition game engine

[Tobias Frost]

Am Samstag, den 07.02.2015, 17:02 +0100 schrieb Alexandre Detiste:
> > [Tobias]
> > Yes, the OpenTechBFG folks have a demo map that works with the engine,
> > details are in the README.Debian.
> 
> That works ! But it just show you the inside of a yellow cube;
> not so much fun.
> 
> I mean by 'demo' the cut down version of the full game.

Got you. Sorry, I'm not aware of a demo for it (There seems have to been
one, but the links are going 404)

> 
> I found this and unpacked it with wine (Installshield wizard):
> http://www.fileplanet.com/145822/download/DOOM-3-Demo
> 
> tchet at antec:~$ find .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Doom\ 3\ Demo/
> .wine/drive_c/Program Files/Doom 3 Demo/
> .wine/drive_c/Program Files/Doom 3 Demo/Doom3.exe
> .wine/drive_c/Program Files/Doom 3 Demo/INSTALL.LOG
> .wine/drive_c/Program Files/Doom 3 Demo/UNWISE.EXE
> .wine/drive_c/Program Files/Doom 3 Demo/Docs
> .wine/drive_c/Program Files/Doom 3 Demo/Docs/License.txt
> .wine/drive_c/Program Files/Doom 3 Demo/Docs/readme.txt
> .wine/drive_c/Program Files/Doom 3 Demo/Docs/MSR.txt
> .wine/drive_c/Program Files/Doom 3 Demo/demo
> .wine/drive_c/Program Files/Doom 3 Demo/demo/demo00.pk4
> .wine/drive_c/Program Files/Doom 3 Demo/gamex86.dll
> 
> The most interresting file is demo00.pk4,
> but I can't get it to work with rbdoom3bfg;
> and I don't know either if it's supposed to work at all
> 
> Sys_Error: Couldn't load default.cfg

There's a default.cfg in the rbdoom3-bfg/base folder; 
But I just tried with the original doom3 data-files.. It does not work.

> 
> > Thanks for the hint, I'll take a look at game-data-packager.
> As an habit (it's not really a policy written somewhere)
> for all games with a free engine & non-free data;
> Doom3 BFG should either 
> "Depends: doom3bfg-data | doom3bfg-demo-data | game-data-packager"
> or
> "Depends: doom3bfg-data | game-data-packager"
> depending if the demo data can be used.
> 
> Then your README.Debian should point to G-D-P.
> 
> > [Simon]
> > Am I right in thinking that the original and BFG editions are
> > incompatible, and will require separate engines and data files if Debian
> > will eventually support both? (I ask because this influences how it
> > should look in game-data-packager.)
> 
> I found this,
> http://doomwiki.org/wiki/Doom_3:_BFG_Edition
> but it's hard to tell if "original" Doom 3 data works with  rbdoom3bfg,
> 
> I think only the BFG version is open sourced,
> so owner of Doom 3 data would have to rebuy the same game again :-(

no, id soft also relased the code for "original" doom3, but the forks
somwhow lost tractions. The original repository is here:
https://github.com/TTimo/doom3.gpl
Maybe I'm gonna package: https://github.com/dhewm/dhewm3

--
tobi