Rage For PC Lets You Mod Right Out Of The Box

10 responses to “Rage For PC Lets You Mod Right Out Of The Box”

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   Scared

   May 6, 2011 at 10:24 am

   Great news. I remember them saying originally that there would be no mod tools because it was ‘too complicated’.

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   MadDogMike

   May 6, 2011 at 11:19 am

   Excellent news, there is hope for PC gaming yet! I’m definitely going to get down and dirty with this mod toolkit. I hope level design isn’t all you can do with it though. Will it feature source code?

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      Snacuum

      May 6, 2011 at 5:55 pm

      “Will it feature source code?”

      Of course not, what incentive will any company have to buy license for this engine if you have full access out of the box?

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         MadDogMike

         May 6, 2011 at 8:59 pm

         The game code, not the engine code, genius.

         id’s previous games have generally had two sets of source code. Most of my experience comes from Quake 2 modding, which consisted of:
         1. The engine code, which compiles into the game’s executable file (e.g. Quake2.exe).
         2. The actual game code (the thing which controls how the game behaves, e.g. items/weapons, enemies, AI, etc), which compiles into a DLL which gets “plugged in” to the game engine (e.g. baseq2.dll).

         id have always given players access to the game code, just not the engine code. All I wanted to know was if they would release the game code for modders on day one, or if it would become available later (or perhaps not at all with this one).

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      Kyle_Katarn

      May 6, 2011 at 7:44 pm

      Well, if ID lets you code with C++ (or any other programming language that isn’t a scripting Language), chances are it will allow you to ACCESS the source code (with pre-build static or dynamic libraries), but not CHANGE it, which is what licensee’s would be able to do.

      Cant wait for this game, I’ll be building my new PC in anticipation for it.

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   Heath

   May 6, 2011 at 11:45 am

   Awesome! I wouldn’t mind tinkering with my own levels! 🙂

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4. 

   welbot

   May 6, 2011 at 11:59 am

   This is just fantastic news! iD have always been so great with supporting the community with mod stuff! I was a bit worried myself with initial talks that there would be nothing for us, but this is just great! A step back to the good old days of modding q2 and q3 perhaps! hopefully with a few less limitations!

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5. 

   James Mac

   May 6, 2011 at 12:05 pm

   Carmack… I love you.

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6. 

   Hellofun

   May 6, 2011 at 1:46 pm

   Thank god they only gave bethesda publishing rights.

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7. 

   Goddy

   May 7, 2011 at 3:20 am

   And this is why id Software is still one of the very best.

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