id Tech 3
id Tech 3, popularly known as the Quake III Arena engine, is a game engine developed by id Software for their video game Quake III Arena. It has been adopted by numerous games. During its time, it competed with the Unreal Engine; both engines were widely licensed.
Quake III, the engine's parent game | |
| Developer(s) | id Software |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 1.32b
/ August 19, 2005 |
| Repository | github.com/id-Software/Quake-III-Arena |
| Written in | C (rewritten 14% in C++) |
| Platform | Windows, Mac OS, OS X, Linux, Dreamcast, GameCube, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox, Xbox 360, iOS, Android |
| Predecessor | Quake II engine |
| Successor | id Tech 4, IW engine |
| License | GNU GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Website | www |
While id Tech 3 is based on id Tech 2 engine, a large amount of the code was rewritten. Successor id Tech 4 was derived from id Tech 3, as was Infinity Ward's IW engine used in Call of Duty 2 onwards.
At QuakeCon 2005, John Carmack announced that the id Tech 3 source code would be released under the GNU General Public License v2.0 or later, and it was released on August 19, 2005. Originally distributed by id via FTP, the code can now be downloaded from id's GitHub account.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.