Re: Is Dom3 built on a new engine?
I doubt they started from scratch. But I remember Johan saying that they went to compressed .rgb (sgi) files for maps and sprite images. Plus the changes to how sound files are done, different screen resolutions, different audio support, adding a map generator, rewriting the AI fairly extensively it sounds like, zoomable commander tokens. Then there is all the network code to allow for compression and transmitting of maps along with turn files.
All in all I would hate to guess the percentage of code that has changed.
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