I was wondering if there is a book that covers Quake one game engine? I have seen few articles that covers the code, and I was also following along with HandmadeQuake project. But I'm interested in professional complete analysis and break down of the code.
I would love to read a book that covers a commercial open source game engines.
Thanks in advance.
No books I'm aware of. The best analysis, but it's really quite high-level, is Fabien Sanglard's at http://fabiensanglard.net/quakeSource/
There was a thriving community around this engine years ago but it seems more-or-less dead now.
Direct3D has need of instancing, but we do not. We have plenty of glVertexAttrib calls.
Michael Abrash graphics programming covers a bit of quake. But most comments are from quake 2 and quake 3.
Just to make this question all linktastic and stuff, for drop-in googlers, Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book is hosted on this very site at http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/technical/graphics-programming-and-theory/graphics-programming-black-book-r1698 and has a few quake specific chapters (but we already knew that).
