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id Tech

0 id Tech is the family of game engines designed and developed by id Software.

0Prior to the presentation of the id Tech 5-based game Rage, the engines lacked official designation and as such were simply referred to as the Doom and Quake engines, from the name of the main game series the engines have been developed for.

0 id Tech numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 have been released as free software under the GNU General Public License.

id Tech 0

0 id Software had developed 3D engines for several games before creating id Tech 1. Each game's engine had progressively more advanced 3D technology.

0 Hovertank 3D (1991) used solid-color drawn walls and scalable sprites.

0 Catacomb 3-D (1991) added texture mapping to the walls.0 Wolfenstein 3D (1992) increased the color palette from 16-color

EGA to 256-color VGA. The game engine was also licensed out to other companies.

0 Shadowcaster (1993) features diminished lighting, texture mapped floors and ceilings, walls with variable heights and sloped floors.

Doom engine (id Tech 1)

0Originally developed on NeXT computers, later ported to MS-DOS for Doom’s initial release

0Commercial games using Doom engine0 Doom – id Software0 Doom II: Hell on Earth – id Software 0 Heretic – Raven Software 0 Hexen: Beyond Heretic – Raven Software 0 Strife – Rogue Entertainment

Quake Engine (id Tech 1)

0 Less commonly, but also known as id Tech 1, the Quake engine is the game engine that was written to power 1996's Quake. It featured true 3D real-time rendering and is the first id engine to use the client–server model.

0 Commercial games using Quake engine0 Quake (1996) – id Software0 HeXen II (1997) – Raven Software0 Half-Life (1998) - Valve Corporation (Half-Life uses the

GoldSrc engine, which is based on the engines for Quake and Quake II)

id Tech 2

0 Previously known as the "Quake II engine". id Tech 2 is based on the Quake engine, and features some enhancements such as colored lighting and a new model format. Game code is now written in C and loaded from a DLL, in place of the original Quake engine's "QuakeC" scripting language.

0 Commercial games using id Tech 20 Quake II – id Software0 Heretic II – Raven Software0 SiN – Ritual Entertainment0 Soldier of Fortune – Raven Software

id Tech 30 Previously known as the "Quake III Engine", it was derived from id Tech 2,

although a large portion of code is new or re-written.

0 Commercial games using id Tech 30 Quake III Arena (1999) – id Software0 Return to Castle Wolfenstein (2001) – Gray Matter Interactive (SP) / Nerve

Software (MP)0 Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (2003) – Splash Damage0 Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (2003) – Raven Software0 Call of Duty (2003) – Infinity Ward

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id Tech 4

0 Formerly the "Doom 3 engine", originally based on id Tech 3. It has a C++ based engine framework, and a new renderer, AI framework, physics engine, gameplay trigger system, and sound framework.

0 Games using id Tech 40 Doom 3 (2004) – id Software0 Quake 4 (2005) – Raven Software0 Prey (2006) – Human Head Studios0 Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (2007) – Splash Damage0 Wolfenstein (2009) – Raven Software0 Brink (2011) – Splash Damage0 Prey 2 (2012) – Human Head Studios

id Tech 5

0 This is the engine being used for id Software's new games.

0 The engine is not based on any previous id Tech engines, however it reuses much of the technology from the most updated id Tech 4 engine, including MegaTexture technology, parallax mapping, bloom, motion blur, soft particles, soft shadows and pixel shader effects.

0 Games using id Tech 50 Rage (2011) – id Software0 Doom 4 – id Software

id Tech 6

0 id Tech 6 is an upcoming OpenGL-based game engine under preliminary development by id Software, which will tentatively follow id Tech 5 for id Software games following Rage and Doom 4. It will work by raycasting the geometry represented by voxels (instead of triangles) stored in an octree.

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