Half-Life for PQ.....

[awesomeL337guy]

yo, i heard somewhere that quake an half-life use similar if not identical engine's, is this also true with PQ? can i put a HL pak0.pak file in my ID1 folder and get it to work? i know HL files are huge, the valve pak is 111mb!!! but maybe if i compressed it or took out the unneeded textures and sounds it might work, his is more of a question for the developer, i'm just curious......<br><br>also, i love this game, i just put a tape recoreder on my desk and kill monsters instead of listening to my idiot teacher blab on about the french revolution, this game is great! but how do i get new levels and senarios, i'm more of a HL person so i'm not to sure about the quake community, thx for any help......

[suchiaruzu]

Well, good luck trying!<br>Maybe you're speaking about Quake3...

[Dan East]

Valve licensed the Quake engine from id Software, and then modified it heavily. In fact, I think there is little left of the original code. Half-Life is more Quake II-ish in its capability than Quake. So no, you cannot just plop Half-Life pak files down in a Quake directory for it to load. There are many (thousands) of Quake mods, including Single Player, mission based levels, that may be similar to the Half-Life genre.<br>Try looking through 's Quake I section.<br><br>Dan East

[RwGast]

I don't know where this idea came from but half-life uses the quake2 engine not the quake engine. This information is right i dont want anyone to argue with this post until they have a credible source to back it up. If you dont belive me try searching on planethalf-life.com or through back issues of pc gamer. Not to be so defensive i just wanted to inform you guys of this without an arguement.

[randall]

After licensing Quake, id software let VALVe look at the NEWER Quake2 source. So some of the code includes snippets of Quake2.<br><br>It is so heavily modified (70% is new code) does it really matter any more?

[Moose or Chuck]

Valve licensed the Quake source, but as randall just said, they included a lot of the Quake 2 source, instead of programming something that already had been programmed. But some of the Quake 2 source wasn't need, and they needed some things that are not in either source. So the base is Quake, but lots of Quake 2 code was used, and they made a lot of their own code.

[Phantom]

Code is not the problem. HL needs to much data.

[awesomeL337guy]

alright thanks guys, i'll go try and find a couple mods and levels for PQ, this shareware stuff always frosts my cake <br><br>Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3, Quake Arena.....hell i'm  Half-Life person, CS and DoD are up  my ally, Quake seems too crazy for me

[Paul]

yeah thats what i'll say to her. "hey baby, you frost my cake" SMACK!