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Dethrace Contributing Guidelines

Thank you for investing your time in contributing to our project! Contributions can be in the form of bug reports or code additions / fixes. Please read this document to learn how to contribute as effectively as possible. If you have any questions or concerns, please ask in #dethrace channel on our Discord chat

Reporting bugs

To report a bug, ensure you have a GitHub account. Search the issues page to see if the bug has already been reported. If not, create a new issue and write the steps to reproduce. A screenshot or a video can often be useful. Please state which architecture and version of the game you are running, e.g.

Harness_Init version: v0.4.0-15-g31afabc
Windows (x86-64)

Project goals

  • Faithfully reproduce the original gameplay from Carmageddon 1
  • Provide documentation in the form of code and docs of the internal workings of the Carmageddon 1 engine
  • Fix bugs in the original game logic
  • Provide quality of life improvements (eg support for modern platforms, higher resolutions, higher framerates, increased limits for cars/tracks etc)

In contrast, extending or altering the gameplay of the base game is not encouraged.

I do not agree with the goals, what can I do instead?

Fork us!

Many of these will never be accepted into main, but we love seeing creative and interesting ways to modify Dethrace.

Please post your work (screenshots, videos etc) in our Interesting Forks discussion thread.

Legal stuff

License

By contributing your code, you agree to license your contribution under GPL v3.

Contributing code

Join us in the #dethrace channel on our Discord chat. We'd love to talk!

Code style

We expect code to be formatted with our clang-format style.

We recommend to configure your IDE to run clang-format on save. Heres how to enable it in Visual Studio Code for example: image

Fixing a bug in the original logic

Please wrap fixes for bugs in the original game logic.

#if defined(DETHRACE_FIX_BUGS)
  // describe the original logic bug
  <code to fix bug>
#endif

Function and variable names

Functions and global variables and local variables are all generated from a symbol dump and captured in our codegen-output. In very uncommon cases, it is required to add extra local variables in cases where the retail code differs from the code at the time of the symbol dump (the symbol dump does not match the retail binary). If this is required, please clearly mark those variables as being added.

// Added by dethrace
float velocity;

Inline BRender functions

Please use the inline BRender functions where possible.

Instead of

vector_a->v[0] = vector_b->v[0] * 6.0f;
vector_a->v[1] = vector_b->v[1] * 6.0f;
vector_a->v[2] = vector_b->v[2] * 6.0f;

it should look like

BrVector3Scale(&vector_a, &vector_b, 6.0f);

Magic values

Many "magic" values are already defined as enums from the code-gen.

Before adding something like #define DEPTH_EFFECT_WATER 1, look at dr_types.h and try to find the existing enum. For example:

typedef enum tSpec_vol_depth_effect {
    eSpec_dep_acid = 0,
    eSpec_dep_water = 1,
    eSpec_dep_slight_fog = 2,
    eSpec_dep_med_fog = 3,
    eSpec_dep_thick_fog = 4
} tSpec_vol_depth_effect;

In this case, can just replace the "1" with eSpec_dep_water.

Modern platform code

If you need to add new code to interface with modern platforms or cross-platform (for example, audio, rendering, get system time), please add this code into src/harness. harness contains only new code written by the dethrace project, and its goal is to provide a simple cross-platform interface to BRSRC13 and DETHRACE. We want to keep the code in BRSRC13 and DETHRACE as faithful to the original as possible, and not be polluted with extra modern code or dependencies. Instead, that code goes into harness.

Why is it called harness? Good question! It contains the real main function, so harness starts up first, reads the command line, configures a few things, then calls into the original main function in src/DETHRACE. The original game calls harness functions for platform services like audio and display. In this way, it acts like a harness for the original game engine.

Language

This is a C project. No C++ please.