Heres what ive done Ive done game programming before. I took the Q2 engine, plugged in opengl enhancements but ive never coded them myself. I got pretty good at modifying game physics etc but everything was already there. Heres what I want to do I feel like my next step is to make something from scratch. I want to make a 3d racing game with SDL/OpenGL. Im basically making an engine from scratch. I dont quite know much from there though. What level format should I use? What model format should I use? What should I do to start off? Yes... im a n00b.

Quote: Original post by shiboujin
I took the Q2 engine, plugged in opengl enhancements but ive never coded them myself.

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I feel like my next step is to make something from scratch.

Um, your next step is to code the OpenGL enhancements and plug them into the Q2 engine (or do the same/equivalent for another engine). Creating an engine from scratch is several steps further.

Good idea. The Q2 engine is fairly dead tho. Maybe enhance the Q3 engine?