ioquake3 Engine Nears New Version
The team behind the development of the ioquake3 engine, a spin-off of the open-source Quake 3 engine, is preparing for the release of a new update. The second release candidate for ioquake3 1.36 is now available and it features a number of new improvements. This new release of ioquake3 brings off-server data downloading support, OpenAL sound support for surround-sound configurations, Ogg Vorbis audio decoding, full x86_64 architecture support, improved Quake Virtual Machine tools, and there are many other features. There is also an SDL back-end for the OpenGL context, window management, and input.
The complete set of new features available in ioquake3 1.36 RC2 is available on the
IOQuake3 web-site. Now all that is left is for the official update to be released and then the various open-source games that utilize the engine (Urban Terror, Tremulous, World of Padman, etc) to pull in this new version.
