Neothyne is an attempt at getting back to the roots of good old twitch shooting akin to that of Quake World.

Neothyne is a game/engine with a focus on matching that of idTech3/Q3A in terms of visual fidelity. At its core, Neothyne is a relatively simple engine with a focus on providing a minimum set of features to make a twitch shooter.

As of late Neothyne is just a piece of tech which, while primitive in nature, embodies the following:

• Efficent KD-tree (which allows for)

  • Efficent static and sweeping collision detection
  • Efficent scene management
  • Smooth world traces for accurate and efficent collision response

• Deferred renderer (which can do)

  • Directional lighting (with ambient and diffuse terms)
  • Specular lighting (with power and intensity terms)
  • Point lighting
  • Spot lighting
  • Sky meshes (skybox, skydome, etc, any mesh will suffice).
  • Normal mapping (dot3 bump mapping)
  • Displacement mapping (steep parallax and relief mapping)
  • Fog (linear, exp and exp2)
  • Fast approximate anti-aliasing (FXAA)
  • Screen space ambient occlusion (SSAO)
  • View frustum culling
  • Skeletal model animation (IQM)
  • Hardware occlusion query culling
  • Variable color grading (supporting)
    • Color balance (shadows, midtones and highlights)
    • Hue, lightness and saturation
    • Brightness and contrast

• Immediate-mode graphical user interface (which can do)

  • Buttons
  • Items
  • Check boxes
  • Radio buttons
  • Windows
  • Collapsible areas
  • Labels (left-justified text)
  • Values (right-justified text)
  • Sliders (horizontal and vertical)
  • Indentation
  • Headers (vertical separations and lines)
  • A variety of raw rendering primitives (such as)
    • Lines
    • Rectangles
    • Text
    • Images
    • Models

• Console (which allows for)

  • Global configuration
  • History and tab completion
  • Reactive changes to various engine components (including renderer)

• Asset optimization (which can do)

  • Online texture compression
  • Online linear-speed vertex cache optimization
  • Online half-precision float conversion
  • DXT end-point optimization (helps old hardware DXT decode fetches)

• Shadow mapping
• Networking (client/server model)
• Build the game
• Scripting

An imgur album of screenshots showing the engine and development of it can be found here

Please check the build documentation

Neothyne requires a GPU which is capable of GL 3.0. Modern low profile GPUs may function poorly. (Note: Some cards are advertised as being GL 2 capable, but with newer drivers, can become GL 3 capable. This is the case for some cards in the GeForce 8 series, for example.)

Documentation may be found in the `docs' directory.