Quake2-engine-playground | Playing around with quake2 engine to learn about 3d graphics

(installdir is whereever you want to install quake2). Continue with the "To Install This Program" directions bellow.
download ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake2/q2-314-demo-x86.exe
unzip -L q2-314-demo-x86.exe into a temp directory
cp baseq2/pak0.pak to /baseq2/pak0.pak
(installdir is wherever you want to install quake2, and cdromdir is wherever you mount the Quake 2 CD-ROM).
copy /Install/Data/baseq2/pak0.pak to /baseq2/
copy /Install/Data/baseq2/video/ to /baseq2/ (optional)
download q2-3.20-x86-full.exe from ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake2/ or a mirror site, and extract the contents to a temporary directory (use unzip -L, as this is a standard zip file).
copy <q2-3.20-x86-full.exe temp directory>/baseq2/pak1.pak to /baseq2/
copy <q2-3.20-x86-full.exe temp directory>/baseq2/pak2.pak to /baseq2/
copy <q2-3.20-x86-full.exe temp directory>/baseq2/players/ to /baseq2/
if you really want to use the crakhor model, you can find the skins/sounds on websites like http://www.mike-d.com/games/modskins.html (optional)
(builddir is either debugi386 or releasei386) 0. edit Makefile if needed, then 'make'.
copy /gamei386.so to /baseq2/
copy /ref_*.so to
copy /quake2 to
copy /sdlquake2 to (optional)
copy /ctf/gamei386.so to /ctf/ (optional)
(cdromdir is wherever you mount The Reckoning CD-ROM).
enable BUILD_XATRIX in Makefile
download xatrixsrc320.shar.Z from ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake2/source/ or a mirror site, extract it (it's a compressed shell script) and place the contents in <quake2-rX.X.X>/src/xatrix/
make
copy /xatrix/gamei386.so to /xatrix/
copy /Data/all/pak0.pak to /xatrix/
copy /Data/max/xatrix/video/ to /xatrix/ (optional)
when starting quake2, use "+set game xatrix" on the command line
(cdromdir is wherever you mount the Ground Zero CD-ROM).
enable BUILD_ROGUE in Makefile
download roguesrc320.shar.Z from ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake2/source or a mirror site, extract it (it's a compressed shell script) and place the contents in <quake2-rX.X.X>/src/rogue/
make
if the compilation fails, change line 31 of src/rogue/g_local.h from: #define _isnan(a) ((a)==NAN) to: #define _isnan(a) isnan(a) and try again. 4.5 if the compilation fails on the include, change #include <nan.h> to #include <bits/nan.h>
copy /rogue/gamei386.so to /rogue/
copy /Data/all/pak0.pak to /rogue/
copy /Data/max/Rogue/video/ to /rogue/ (optional)
when starting quake2, use "+set game rogue" on the command line
Quake2 Max is a set of GL improvements to the Quake2 source base by psychospaz, http://modscape.telefragged.com/q2max/ the 0.25 version has been merged into the Quake2 for Linux source tree. To build the added visual candy:. You will also need to download http://www.icculus.org/quake2/files/maxpak.pak and place it in your quake2/baseq2 directory. Please note that the resulting Quake2 binaries and video drivers are incompatible with binaries and drivers built with BUILD_QMAX set to NO. For right now, the driver gets built as ref_glx.so and ref_sdlgl.so. In the future this will change so that both drivers can be build in parallel.
make clean
set BUILD_QMAX to YES in the makefile
make