Mostly spelling fixes.

4.XX_Changes.txt

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Using third-party libraries:
 - improved "set game directory" action
 - ability to reverse sound channels; controllable with "s_reverse_stereo"
 - player skins:
-  - md2: can use skins without icon ("*_i.???") file -- skin shound have name "skn_*.???"; side effect: even when
+  - md2: can use skins without icon ("*_i.???") file -- skin should have name "skn_*.???"; side effect: even when
     skin icon exists, it will be ignored
   - md2: implemented skin selection logic when specified skin is absent
 - added "disconnect" menu item into "multiplayer" menu
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ Console/Menu
   - Ctrl-Backspace - delete word before cursor
   - any char - insert text
 - history navigation:
-  - Crtl-Home / Ctrl-End will rewind console to begin/end of buffer (old behaviour: same, but without Ctrl)
+  - Crtl-Home / Ctrl-End will rewind console to begin/end of buffer (old behavior: same, but without Ctrl)
   - PgUp / PgDn will scroll history up/down (hold Ctrl to scroll faster)
   - mouse wheel scroll history (hold Ctrl to scroll slower)
 - changed command history code to prevent appearing of empty lines and duplicates
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ Network
   - surface-dependent bullet hit sounds (client-side)
   - camper sounds (server-side)
   - falling sounds (server-side)
-  - customised rail trail
+  - customized rail trail
   * side effect: demos will crash server, when played with original Quake2; to record compatible demos, just
     use cl_extprotocol=0 or sv_extprotocol=0
   - faster downloading speed (10 times)

README.md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Source code: https://github.com/gildor2/Quake2
 
 For more details, please visit http://www.gildor.org/en/projects/quake2
 
-## Just a brief list of major heatures
+## Just a brief list of major features
 
 - Support for game levels (maps) from other games: Quake 1, Half-Life, Quake 3, Kingpin. Those levels are playable with standard Quake 2 game
   and mods, level entities are converted into Q2 at loading time.

bugs.!!!

@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+- a.bat, map tokyo, nosound 0, snd_restart -> crash with "cannot read file ... .wav"
+  - the file is corrupt, so should simply ignore it
+
 - q3a map "mythology": has areas with very slow lighting (shoot from hyperblaster inside a long corrydor with disabled lightgrid ...
   fps will fall to 15, 'ent light' will be 50ms)
 

fast.txt

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ MAP PATCH:
     - surface flags: envmap, autoflare
     - fogging (patch worldspawn entity)
     * this will allow us to modify patch script specs with reimplementation of macros to keep compatibility
-  - these include files may be overriden in mods (use game-based name to include), mod can use following file:
+  - these include files may be overridden in mods (use game-based name to include), mod can use following file:
     ... <code> ...
     #include "/baseq2/includes/entpatch.h"
     ... <code> ...

net.txt

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 when it is possible, that 2 sockets (server+client) used at the same time? (server browser?)
 which port used for network connection? (server port?)
 BUG: when server launched, cannot see other servers in "join" menu - cl send "info" req, remote
- server ansver "info ...", and this answer go to out local server, where rejected (should go to client!)
+ server answer "info ...", and this answer go to out local server, where rejected (should go to client!)
  - original Q2 uses PORT_SERVER and PORT_CLIENT - 2 sockets
  - may be, create temp connection with separate port (when to close connection, if no answers?)
 =================

newengine.txt

@@ -96,26 +96,26 @@
     - screen (manage/visualize everything)
     - network/game support
   - CSubsystem: as class; all should Tick() from MainLoop() (not from client)
-    - shedule using system->MaxFps value (some subsystems really do not require high FPS)
+    - schedule using system->MaxFps value (some subsystems really do not require high FPS)
     - server: separate too (game+network; game - 10fps, network - more);
-    - add "bool inactive" - do not shedule
-    - global sheduler may create sleep() system calls when everything is fast enough!
+    - add "bool inactive" - do not schedule
+    - global scheduler may create sleep() system calls when everything is fast enough!
 
 ------------ New renderer system -----------
 - separate renderer (math only) and backend (OpenGL); call hierarchy: mainEngine->renderer->backend->gl
   names: ref_gl -> SceneGraph + OpenGLDrv
   - remove dependency on "gl.h", "glext.h", "qgl_*.h" etc from scene graph files
 - backend should provide "caps" field:
   - rect textures (GL_NV_texture_rectangle: clamp, no mipmap)
-  - rect textures 2 (GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two: full-feautured textures)
+  - rect textures 2 (GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two: full-featured textures)
   - compressed textures (for disabling by menu)
   - fast blend (for soft renderer: can draw console etc with opaque rects)
   - fast culling (for soft: when "false" will try to cull everything before sending to backend)
   - some lighting info (software, hardware with/without cubemaps etc)
 - images.cpp -> renderer (not backend); backend - uploading only
-* (abstract) class CImage, wisible from GUI/client - implementation in renderer, some service funcs
+* (abstract) class CImage, visible from GUI/client - implementation in renderer, some service funcs
   (uploading, retreiving from screen, rendering to texture) - in backend
-? vid_restart: restart backend ? (renderer restarting - unneded ??); rename cmd ?
+? vid_restart: restart backend ? (renderer restarting - unneeded ??); rename cmd ?
 ? share model/map loading with cmodel (separate into own library, used by server/client/renderer)
 - CImage->CShader (CMaterial?); CImage->CGlImage; CMaterial->CGlMaterial
 - client rendering:

q1_rest.txt

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 - 'ahl_streets': lamps have 'halo' with rendermode==5 (additive)
 - 'ccity2':
   - have rotating lamps with rendermode=5 (additive)
-  - BUG: this rotating lamp have surf with "red" texture, whith is listed in "lights.rad" -- it will generate light
+  - BUG: this rotating lamp have surf with "red" texture, which is listed in "lights.rad" -- it will generate light
     emitter at map position {0,0,0}
   - have sliding doors with glasses -- uses trigger_multiple for synch ?
 ! use LightOrigin for renderer entity (weapon model, multi-part models ...)
@@ -69,4 +69,4 @@
   - can detect light surfaces:
     1) check lightmap for all faces with same texture
     2) all of them should be filled with a single color (because received light is smaller, than emitting light)
-    3) at leats one of color components should be 255 (normalized color)
+    3) at least one of color components should be 255 (normalized color)

q3_rest.txt

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ COMBINER BUGS:
 zoneportals (q2,q3):
 ! can clip visible contents with portal:
   a) no portals open - draw nothing (q2 does)
-  b) 1 portal open   - compute special fructum for it (should improve performance)
+  b) 1 portal open   - compute special frustum for it (should improve performance)
   c) 2+ portals open - draw everything (q2/q3 does) or expand computed frustum by all portals
 ! Q2 portal game code is completely different from Q3 one, so, Q3 map portals will be "invisible"
   for Q2 game dll -- require server-side hook (or create func_areaportal entity?)

todo.!!!

@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
-- limit packet size to 1400 bytes (old behaviour), but add possibility to use a few sequential packets as a single
+Mar,2019:
+- use pdb files (can borrow code from umodel), probably remove .dbg file system at all
+- most HL maps (game=hl) will say that there's no spawn point: probably should replace some entity with it?
+- most HL maps uses wad files, so they're not textured - code assumes that WAD will be converted to TGA with
+  offline tool "WadExtract"; should load WAD files?
+
+-------
+
+- limit packet size to 1400 bytes (old behavior), but add possibility to use a few sequential packets as a single
   large packet (new protocol); should support "older new protocol" for demo playback compatibility
 - server->client: do not remove entities which are not visible for player - simply stop updating their properties
   (this may significantly reduce bandwidth when there are a lot of "static" entities on the map)
@@ -56,7 +64,7 @@
   conflicts, when few versions (mostly - win32+unix) resides in a single directory
 
 ? remove "./" from all OS filename starts ? (when non-game mounted FS used -- for .pak files etc (not "./baseq2/pak0.pak" but
-  "baseq2/pak0.pak")) -- but keep for quake fs to allow load root-relative file (w/o searchig in few game dirs + w/o adding "baseq2")
+  "baseq2/pak0.pak")) -- but keep for quake fs to allow load root-relative file (w/o searching in few game dirs + w/o adding "baseq2")
   - can replace (add synonym for "./path" = "/path" and use it everywhere)
 ! add [auto-]detail for rail
 ? make InitialSnapPosition() work with Trace() to allow "teleporter grenade" in LOX mod
@@ -107,7 +115,7 @@ MOD COMPATIBILITY:
 - "paused": incorrect timing (at least, fx will be incorrect after paused=0)
   - should reimplement it in a different way
   - may be, make multiplayer pause (with sync clients to server; make attention to not timeout clients when server is paused)
-? check for hook ability of precicious PMove (more than 1/8) (2 non-spectators cannot be in the same quantized world point;
+? check for hook ability of accurate PMove (more than 1/8) (2 non-spectators cannot be in the same quantized world point;
   every new player will be performed InitialSnapPosition()
   - idea: save non-quantized+quantized positions (+velocity?); next time find non-quantized by quantized (save for few pmove types
     only to avoid 2 ghosts in one quantized place); may be, if few players in one quantized place - ignore detailed info
@@ -174,7 +182,7 @@ HALFLIFE2:
 CAMERA:
   - interpolate camera 1st/3rd person change
   ? cl_3rd_person 2 -- smooth camera; add game option: play with 3rd person camera (ext protocol only ?)
-  - 3rd person camera trace: can extend Trace() to decect point of contents change
+  - 3rd person camera trace: can extend Trace() to detect point of contents change
     (do not leave water; current: will not enter water, but can leave it)
     - trace note: can add flag for contents: CONTENTS_VIS_BLOCK (different name?) to detect visibility block: can check
       collided brush side surface flags - when TRANS33 | TRANS66 | ALPHA | NODRAW (?) - continue trace, else - stop
@@ -309,7 +317,7 @@ BSP:
     every frame twice, and without portal - once per few frames.
   - culling:
     1) PVS: project portal entity to destination, find its leafnums->clusters, combine PVS
-    2) shrink frustum by original portal entity (may use GetBoxRect(entityBox)); shring 5th frustum plane too!
+    2) shrink frustum by original portal entity (may use GetBoxRect(entityBox)); shrink 5th frustum plane too!
     3) use this computed data for determining rendered leafs
   - requires server-side code to not cull entities by PVS, when player can see it with portal
   - rendering:
@@ -320,7 +328,7 @@ BSP:
 ? place LoadMd2 outside renderer and perform lovercase for a skin names
 ! fog occlusion (for global fog) -- implement it like sky (occluded surface -> sky surface, sky -> fog color);
   may look at Alice (additional clip plane to 4 frustum planes)
-- detail textures + magnify filter (i.e. advmame2x -- check its name!) - use file "detail.lst" (?) wich will specify detail+filter
+- detail textures + magnify filter (i.e. advmame2x -- check its name!) - use file "detail.lst" (?) which will specify detail+filter
   for Q2 (KP) textures
 
 ------------ SOUND ---------------
@@ -348,16 +356,16 @@ BSP:
   - add support for "1024x768@70"-like strings (see UT2003 for ideas)
 
 - add marks: bulletholes (?), explosion marks, blood (!), "cheesy shadow" (!), water ripple
-? support for view-dependent LightForPoint()
-
+? support for view-dependent LightForPoint()
+
 ------------ COMMON --------------
 
 ? console command line parsing: add special chars (C-like '\"' etc.)
 ? console: change "]/command" -> "]command" (after completion, may be, other places), but keep
   removing "/" and "\" at line start before parsing; may be, change prompt "]" -> other (">", "#"
   or #define'd string; draw prompt separately -- remove it from input line, i.e. empty line will be
   "" (in memory), not "]")
-  ? may keep Q3-like behaviour (any text during game, not beginning with slash -> chat) -- but for multiplayer only (not for
+  ? may keep Q3-like behavior (any text during game, not beginning with slash -> chat) -- but for multiplayer only (not for
     botmatch) and when developer=0
 
 - md4.c::Encode()/Decode() -- works exactly as memcpy() for little-endian platforms, memcpy()+LongSwapBuffer() with big-endian
@@ -399,4 +407,4 @@ BSP:
   ? complete savegames too (load/save command)
 ? make completion "dir"-like formatting + colorizing against char-marks (types)
 ? add "Cmd_AddHidden()" - for server commands (cannot be completed/listed, but accessible)
-  (or just implement with Cmd_AddCommand(), but use name prefix, which will be ignored for seaching, but disables completion)
+  (or just implement with Cmd_AddCommand(), but use name prefix, which will be ignored for searching, but disables completion)

todo2.!!!

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-- sort levelshort by numeric strcmp
+- sort levelshort with numeric strcmp
 - check misc/ut/network.htm
 - try LZMA decoder for resources and for .7z
 
@@ -74,5 +74,5 @@ Win32 CDS (ChangeDisplaySettings()):
 - Win9x: vid_restart will restore resolution (via WM_SIZE+MINIMIZE)
 ! should centralize resolution changes: do not restore desktop res when not
   minimized (check WM_SIZE correctness ?)
-  ? place to GLimp_Activate(), call CDS simputaneously with minimize/restore
+  ? place to GLimp_Activate(), call CDS simultaneously with minimize/restore
 ? try TNT with 16 <-> 32 bit change with "force=false"