problem solved/crisis over.

Beside, I’m pretty sure the gtkradiant people will get doom3 support implemented in a few months.

Meanwhile, as someone else says, you can still play window’s users levels.

Don’t blame Carmack for this, he is not the head at Id anyway… And, who knows, the level editor code might be ported to linux/osx later and released as a “patch”.

If you dont get Doom3 for the sole reason that it doesnt have an editor included, you are shooting yourself in the foot… as well as in every linux gamers’ feet out there.

The fact is, there are some very clever people
developing and using GtkRadiant. Some of those
people use Linux exclusively, and most, if not all,
will be playing Doom3 for a large part of this year.

Think back to the Quake3/Quake2 releases. The editors
that were released for those games, were win32
only (iirc neither were released _with_ the games).
But thanks to Loki and co, the editor was ported
to gtk and is now maintained by mostly volunteer
developers and runs on both Linux and Win32, and
more recently OSX.

iirc, id Software has never officially released a level
editor for the Linux platform.

I’ll be buying and playing Doom3 on Linux as soon
as it is available. And editing Doom3 content on
Linux as soon as that capability is available, and
if it needs help getting done…

All I said was thanks to Transgaming, I made my personal switch to 100% gaming
under Linux, and immediately all the anti-wine zealots jump to conclusions and
attack me from all directions.

First of all, I have been buying Loki games ever since the company was in
business, and the last game I bought from the was Kohan. I bought quite a few
tites from Loki, and I still play them. Native games. I only play Windows
games on occasions, and I use Linux all of the time.

I made my switch to Linux gaming about a year ago because the only game I played
was Counter-strike, and there was no chance in hell of the game being ported.
However, I wanted to actually *USE* Linux day-to-day, because it means alot for
people to use it. Why does it matter if I just use Linux?
Every time you visit a website, your OS is registered. Every time a game comes
out, and it’s not released for Linux, you’re MUCH more inclined to send a
friendly email to the company and let them know that one of their customers has
switched platforms, and you’d love to continue purchasing games from them..
People who dual boot don’t do this. When you use Linux, full time, it MAKES A
DIFFERENCE. Sometimes not a small difference, but it does.

Of course, I played a Windows game for a while, got my fill, but guess what?
After I was burnt out on the game, I was USING LINUX. Not only do I use Linux, but I don’t go out and buy a ton of games that don’t run under Linux, I got to Tuxgames. End of story.

Anyway, my original post still stands. People who game under Windows are
placing their vote for Windows, and are not helping the Linux gaming situation. People who attack others
for using Wine to play a game that would never be ported are also not helping
the gaming situation.

The only thing that will help Linux gaming is if Linux actually has a bunch of
full-time gamers who don’t do things like go buy Neverwinter Nights and play it
under Windows because they can’t wait for the Native version and they had a dual-boot setup going.
We can’t expect developers to port their game to appease a very small percentage of gamers. That isn’t going to get us games. A healthy Linux gaming audience will get us games.

What I do think is convenient is ID Software include the Linux binary program on the same commercialy-sold Compact Disc/boxed retail product as the Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OSX software. That is convenient for me and many other ID Software supporters, who do not have access to high-speed internet access to download any large peices of software in ethical time.

And while brother Carmack is interested in maximum market penetration, perhaps they may consider to also build Doom3 for Linux/Alpha and Linux/PPC? Many computer owners out here are using good 3D performance with Opensource drivers and allows us to enjoy the freedoms of using operating system software that doesn’t abridge our rights. We all can appreciate this.

Sincerily,
The Alpha Troll

I think it would be verry convenient and kind for ID Software to decide upon including the Doom3/Linux/X86 binary program on the same Compact Disc as the Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OSX binary programs.

And of’cours, may Carmack speculate on the availability of a Linux/Alpha (and mayyyyybe Linux/PPC) binary program?

Sincerily,
The Alpha Troll