Following the discussion on https://github.com/Unvanquished/Unvanquished/pull/3527, I was inspired to try the exercise of porting another ioq3-based game to the Daemon engine. Tremulous seemed maybe a bit too trivial, so I'm attempting Smokin' Guns. See how it's going so far!
This is on a 99.9% vanilla Daemon engine, except I tweaked the register shader function to accept shader names written with backslashes. Of course that could be fixed by changing the assets too.
That's awesome!!!! 
I have to show this to Téquila. 
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There is now a server up hosting the SG port. I've modified the bind commands so that it can be played with default Unvanquished binds.
Excellent! After playing a bit bank robbery I did a callvote for switching to deathmatch gameplay and that killed the server. 
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I experience very bad performance when there is fire:
With fire (6fps here):
Without fire (200fps here):
This can even go down to 4fps:
This makes it unplayable as soon as a dynamite explodes.
That's probably a slow IPC thing like we had with particles in Unvanquished.
System: Ubuntu 24.04
Kernel: Linux 6.17.0
Driver: Mesa 26.1.0
CPU: Intel i9-7900X
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT
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The fact input isn't read properly when fps is low means you can't even control your player when there is fire! 
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I noticed that credit.roq isn't played (it displays the “missing image” shader instead) when quitting, despite being shipped.
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Pro tip: try lowering your max FPS for faster movement. The movement code has a bug, inherited from the original ioq3 version, that the higher the client FPS, the slower the player's acceleration. You can easily see it by moving in a circle using only WASD keys. The higher your FPS, the smaller the radius of the circle, given a constant rate of button switching.
illwieckz wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2026 1:45 pm UTCI experience very bad performance when there is fire:
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This makes it unplayable as soon as a dynamite explodes.
That's probably a slow IPC thing like we had with particles in Unvanquished.
System: Ubuntu 24.04
Kernel: Linux 6.17.0
Driver: Mesa 26.1.0
CPU: Intel i9-7900X
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT
On my system there is no effect on FPS from the fire (even with a high max FPS). But I used to have a similar issue with Unvanquished on an older Radeon:
https://github.com/Unvanquished/Unvanqu ... ssues/1109. Like the Unvanquished flame texture, this one has multiple stages resulting in increased texture switching. For the next version I will add entityMergable to the shader to allievate that.
Also I added depth fade, but that is probably not an issue unless you have a tiled GPU architecture or something where depth reads are slow.
Yeah I didn't try to port 100% of all the code, just what's needed for playing. I haven't fixed up the main menu, the binds menu, or cinematics for example. All cinematic stuff is commented out.
The Smokin' Guns fire performance problem is just the particle performance problem we already have with MSAA on Unvanquished.
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