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Descent 3 Source Code Available! -- Outrage Entertainment (Published by Interplay)

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Descent 3 is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person action, FPS, shooter and vehicle combat game in the Descent series.

The game's source code was released on GitHub by Kevin Bentley, one of the game's programmers, on April 16, 2024. It includes changes from the unreleased v1.5 patch.



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https://github.com/kevinbentley/Descent3

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Descent_3

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https://github.com/kevinbentley/D3Edit
Descent 3 Editor

This is the latest code I could find, flagged as 1.1. I don't remember if there is a newer version, if anyone finds it, let me know and we can merge it in.

Ultimately, I'd love to see this code integrated with the main Descent 3 repository
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Cutscenes?

Some proprietary sound and video libraries from Interplay have been stripped out (the ACM and MVE format). I have that code if someone wants to help make a converter so the old cutscenes work. It'll take some effort to stub out that code so it compiles.
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Descent is a highly advanced first person shooter boasting six degrees of freedom. One of the few games in its class to allow the player full freedom in moving up and down, left and right, backwards and forwards. Players control a ship as they move through levels in both single player and multiplayer modes, using a wide variety of both energy cannons and missiles to defeat opponents.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20080926073902/http://www.interplay.com/games/descent.php


DescentWindows 9X1997-01-01
Descent 1&2: The Definitive CollectionWindows 9X1997-11-06
Descent 2DOS1996-03-13
Descent 2 J/CWindows 9X
Descent 3Windows 9X1999-06-15
Descent 3 / Descent 3 Mercenary Dual JewelWindows 9X2000-12-01
Descent 3: MercenaryWindows 9X1999-11-23
Descent Freespace: Silent ThreatWindows 9X1998-09-30
Descent Mission Builders 1 and 2DOS1996-01-01
Descent Sharware
Descent to UndermountainWindows 9X
Descent: FreeSpace - The Great WarWindows 9X1996-01-01
Descent: FreeSpace BattlepackWindows 9X1999-09-07
 
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And 3D Movie Maker, but when MS open sources things I always get the impression it's either a: officially abandoning it after recognizing it has no value to them or b: them not waiting to maintain it anymore
 
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And 3D Movie Maker, but when MS open sources things I always get the impression it's either a: officially abandoning it after recognizing it has no value to them or b: them not waiting to maintain it anymore
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If Microsoft wants to do an absolute power move, they should make Starcraft open source. Remember when that one Reddit dweeb got the source code disc for Starcraft Gold and sent it back to Blizzard for merchandise?
 
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These games have confused players with inverted Y Axis and motion sickness.

Original band members reunited for a Kickstarter and made a Decent Descent Clone ™ ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overload_(video_game)


A new six-degree-of-freedom shooter with intuitive controls, amazing lighting and graphics. From the creators of Descent, Overload is the best zero-gravity robot-blasting combat ever.
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https://www.playoverload.com/




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Three degrees of freedom (3DOF), a term often used in the context of virtual reality, typically refers to tracking of rotational motion only: pitch, yaw, and roll.


(Do a Barrel Roll)
 
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Modern 6dof games I strongly recommend: Everspace 1 and yes, Overload.

I never did play Descent 3. Does it have interior sections or is it all exterior? The problem with 6dof is it eliminates traditional level flow and barriers, the relevance of elevation in level design, platforming gone, swimming gone and so forth, so it needs to heavy compensate in other ways. Often, this is done by highly complex maze levels navigation mindfuck (love it!), as well as the complexity of 6DOF combat by it's own merit. Taking the environment outdoors as Descent 3 seems to do has me concerned - how are they compensating this time? Everspace compensates in many ways despite being outdoors, so maybe I should just try it, but I want to hear from you guys what Descent 3 in particular did. Already added to my wishlist and waiting for sale regardless.
 
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deuxhero said:
And 3D Movie Maker, but when MS open sources things I always get the impression it's either a: officially abandoning it after recognizing it has no value to them or b: them not waiting to maintain it anymore
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To be fair, that's true for most game source code releases. Considering how many studios MS has gobbled up, if throwing code over the wall for old games they no longer care about was all they did it would be huge incline. Having one of the original devs still looking after the code like we have here with Descent 3 is of course even better.

Seems this release may have been rushed a bit though, will need to wait if it actually ends up open source or more limited: https://github.com/kevinbentley/Descent3/issues/32 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40061744
 
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40048177&p=2


Descent 3 Source Code (github.com/kevinbentley)
1244 points by kevin42 2 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 322 comments
Someone recently asked if the source code from Descent 3 will be released. I reached out to my old boss (Matt Toschlog) at Outrage Entertainment and he gave me the go ahead. I'm going to work on getting this running again and I'm looking for some co-maintainers.

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ends up open source or more limited
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I don't know what the license on the source code is or will be.
 
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I don't know what the license on the source code is or will be.
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From his github:

Thanks to Jeff Slutter, who did most of the work modernizing the code from the 90's. I'm looking forward to seeing what the community does with it!​

Don't know if that's fully open source, but that sounds promising.
 
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I used to love 6DoF and couldn't get enough of it.

I kinda wish I could remember offhand what sequels introduced the way I can with doom 1 vs doom 2.
 
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https://github.com/InsanityBringer/PiccuEngine/releases

a source port for Descent 3 has been released, called "Piccu Engine".
It has bugfixes, widescreen support, better scaling, adjustable FOV, the ability to switch between fullscreen/windowed modes and many more

wonder if someday someone do something with Descent to Undermountain....
 
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