wishlist / suggestions for yquake2

[j4reporting]

here are some suggestions you may want to add some day...

1. reorder list of available renderers, list vulkan before software, e.g. gl1/gl3/vk/soft/custom

2. introduce separate r_modes for windowmode and fullscreen e.g r_mode_fullscreen 25 and r_mode_window=14
   default r_mode_window == r_mode_fullscreen

3. maybe consider vid_fullscreen 1 to be the same as vid_fullscreen 2 on Windows
   or get rid of vid_fullscreen 1 on Windows
   or make vid_fullscreen 2 default fullscreen mode when switching to fullscreen via ALT + RETURN
   or restore previous fullscreen mode when switching from vid_fullscreen 1/2 to vid_fullscreen 0 and back to fullscreen via alt + return on Windows

[Yamagi]

I think we'll pull the major release card with 8.0 and change the semantics of vid_fullscreen back the Vanille Quake II behavior. vid_fullscreen becomes real fullscreen that switches the resultion. A new cvar vid_desktopfullscreen becomes the desktop fullscreen mode. vid_desktopfullscreen overrides vid_fullscreen. This would be much less confusing.

[DanielGibson]

What I've recently implemented in dhewm3 is using r_fullscreen 1/0 to switch between window/fullscreen mode, and r_fullscreenDesktop 1/0 to select whether vid_fullscreen 1 means desktop fullscreen or real fullscreen

[j4reporting]

this is a great idea. Much better than doing some extra quirks for Windows only.

[Bittermens]

2 things that i would love to suggest, its going to be long due to screenshots

1-IQM/WM(inter quake model)
This Model format has been a blessing for Q1 modding and some stuff like Wrath game, also people have been trying to port the Q2 PSX exclusive monsters into Q2 but the PSX models has more frames than what Q2MDL permits it, which leads to md3 but said format is supported only by KMQ2, Q2XP, the late Q2Evolved and the RTX port, a thing that even Q1 sourceports got rid of it for stuff like AD and other mods.

2- A better filtering system
Yamagi is great for that so as other ports, but stuff like Cheb's old GL patch for Q2 had lanczos had some interesting detail tied to its "upscaling" method for the original Q2 textures, which i tested it recently while testing a work that im doing.

Bonus for Software mode using external archives and retexturing.
Im still in love with this one, but its kinda slow, also software cold get some love from custom rendering modes, 3.24 has a ref_soft patch that adds lightmaps and true color rendering that is wonderful. plus there are people who prefers playing Q2 using software mode due to the original Q2 GL rendering having compressed image issues or old pc's.

YQ2's software renderer with the external files on, the maiden is a ai upscale project

3.24 BATF mod maps using the custom software renderer

3.24 Slaughtership by Neil Manke with it