qwsv-lua

This project is a complete conversion from QuakeC to Lua 5.3 of the original qwprogs game source and the required engine changes for qwsv to support running it.

Goals

• Complete as-is conversion of QuakeWorld QuakeC source to Lua
• High compatiblity with original qwsv (minimal changes to engine)
• Portability to production quality forks of qwsv like MVDSV
• Replace built-ins with Lua where possible (vtos() etc.)
• Clean up the source and API where it makes sense, see API.md

Non-goals

• Changing QW gameplay in the converted progs
• Adding new functionality to converted progs
• Changing the engine in any way
• Engine Windows compatibility

Nice-to-haves

• Savegame support (patches welcome)
• NetQuake monsters for single player (patches welcome)

Building

Requirements:

• Lua 5.3
• GNU Make and GCC

To build:

$ make

Run after extracting pak0.pak to id1 directory:

$ ./qwsv +gamedir lua

Tested to build and run on:

• Fedora 26 x86_64
• Ubuntu 16.04 x86_64 running on Bash on Windows

Disclaimer

Original QW source was chosen as the base for simplicity as many forks have extended the built-in functions of QW and those are not needed to run the original game.

Included qwsv has been imported as-is from the original source release. That means all bugs and exploits that were present when the source was released are in it so it might not be a good idea to run a public server.

Native Windows compatiblity is not a priority as you can build and run the project with Bash on Ubuntu on Windows.