Doom 3

Editing Categories:

Modding 

General information about producing and distributing mods

Coding 

Modification of the engine's source code

Mapping 

Information about level design and the tools

Modelling 

Modelling and file format information

Texturing 

Explanation of material shaders and image files

Scripting 

Information about Scripting for GUIs and Levels

Declarations 

Declarations define the properties and behavior of game content

Audio design 

The creation of musical tracks and sound effects

Featured Articles:

How to get help 

A good introduction to the use of this wiki

Console 

Everything you need to know about the Doom 3 engine console

• CVars
• Commands

Script events 

Doom 3 relevant script events

Startup parameters 

Parameters you can add when starting Doom 3

Folder structure 

An overview over the folders used by Doom 3

File formats 

All the different file formats used by the Doom 3 engine

Tutorial list 

An extensive list to tutorials on a wide range of topics

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This wiki is focused on documenting the various aspects involved with developing assets, levels and mods for Doom 3 engine based games. Please visit the about page or talk to some of our editors in #modwiki on irc.gamesurge.net if you want to learn more about this project.

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High quality links:

Other interesting Doom 3 engine editing sites:

www.doom3world.org 

The premier discussion forum for all Doom 3 engine games

www.iddevnet.com 

The official id software website for Doom 3 engine editing

Doom3 game and engine:

The Doom 3 engine made its debut on August 2004 with the release of Doom 3. It introduces several advantages over current available engines:

• Unified lighting system
• Fully dynamic shadowing
• Interactive, resolution-independent surfaces, called GUIs
• Built-in editors sharing the same renderer pipeline as the game
• Strong and flexible scripting language
• Material shaders with bump- and specularity-map support
• Physics system
• Inverse Kinematics for characters/monsters

Doom 3 was created by id Software and published by Activision. Release date for the PC version was August 3, 2004.

System Requirements:

• Operating System: Windows 2000/XP, Mac OSX, Linux
• CPU: Pentium 4 1.5 or Athlon XP 1500+
• Memory: 384MB
• Storage: 2.2GB
• Sound: 100% DirectX 9.0b Compliant / 16-bit
• Video: 100% DirectX 9.0b Compliant / 64MB RAM

ROE Expansion:

• Storage: Additional 1030MB
• Video: 100% DirectX 9.0c Compliant