"The Quake III engine (1999) was developed by id Software and is used in many games. The first game that used the engine was Quake III Arena, released in 1999. In its heyday, it competed with the Unreal engine, although both engines were widely licensed.

The Quake III engine is a substantial improvement from the Quake and Quake II engines. Although the Quake III engine was derived from the Quake II engine, a large portion of code is new or re-written. It was succeeded by the Doom 3 engine, which was derived from the Quake III engine, but has none of the original code.

At QuakeCon 2005, John Carmack announced that the Quake III source code would be released under the GPL, and it was released on August 19, 2005."

Q3A 1.17 Game Source: ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake3/source/q3agamesource_117.exe
Q3A Tools (Quake III Arena level building and editing tools - Q3Radiant): ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake3/tools/q3toolsetup.exe
Q3A Tools Patch: ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake3/tools/q3toolsetup_mar172000.exe
Q3Radiant Manual: ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake3/tools/q3rmanpdf.zip
Q3A Bot Edit Documentation (Editing information for the Q3A bot (game AI): ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake3/tools/q3abotedit.zip
Q3A Shader Manual (Manual defining the concepts and tools that are used when working with the Quake III Arena shader system): ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake3/tools/q3ashader_manual.doc

hmm... engine-ul de doom 3 derivat din engine-ul q3, dar nu are nimic din codul original de q3... imi suna cam ciudat... oricum...
Q3 Engine a fost printre cele mai tari la momentul lansarii

Da plus ca orice s-ar spune e cam vechi si e FPS based, daca vrei sa faci alt gen e cam naspa;.

Sunt de acord cu partea ca e vechi, dar in schimb ca si tipuri de jocuri, poti sa il modifici sa faci ce vrea muschii tai. La vremea lui a fost un engine foarte licentiat care a fost folosit intr-o gramada de tipuri de jocuri, nu numai shootere.