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Network Protocols

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List of Protocols

TODO: this list should be edited for accuracy, this was cobbled together from snippets of info -metlslime

Number Protocol Client Support Notes
15 Netquake Protocol quake.exe
winquake.exe
glquake.exe
Orignal Quake protocol
15 QUAKEDP LH: "darkplaces extended quake protocol (used by TomazQuake and others), backwards compatible as long as no extended features are used"
15 TOMAZ LH: "this unfortunately does not match up with the QUAKEDP protocol it claims to use, it has some different entity encodings, and it's not easy to fix this"
15 NEH15 almost same as 15, 8-12 byte transparency/fullbright data added on to entities. used by joequake, nehahra, and bjp (with sv_protocol 15)
28 Quakeworld Protocol qwcl.exe
glqwcl.exe
id Software's improved protocol, optimized for netplay.
28 FTEQW LH: "I do not know the details of this, but it uses the same QW protocol ID, it negotiates extra features on connect, I don't know how well demo playback works."
96 DARKPLACES1 LH: "uses EntityFrame entity snapshot encoder/decoder which is a QuakeWorld-like entity snapshot delta compression method"
97 DARKPLACES2 LH: "various changes"
250 NEHAHRAMOVIE LH: "Nehahra movie protocol, a big nasty hack dating back to early days of the Quake Standards Group (but only ever used by neh_gl.exe), this is potentially backwards compatible with quake protocol as long as no extended features are used (but in actuality the neh_gl.exe which wrote this protocol ALWAYS wrote the extended"
666 Fitzquake Protocol Fitzquake protocol, introduced in version 0.85, supports more models, sounds, frames, edicts, adds entity alpha, high-precision client aim, and a few other things.
3500 DARKPLACES3 LH: "uses EntityFrame4 entity snapshot encoder/decoder which is broken, this attempted to do partial snapshot updates on a QuakeWorld-like protocol, but it is broken and impossible to fix"
3501 DARKPLACES4 LH: "various changes"
3502 DARKPLACES5 LH: "uses EntityFrame5 entity snapshot encoder/decoder which is based on a Tribes networking article at [1]"
3503 DARKPLACES6 LH: "various changes"
3504 DARKPLACES7 LH: "added QuakeWorld-style movement protocol to allow more consistent prediction"
10000 NEHAHRABJP aglquake
darkplaces
DirectQ
LH: "same as NEH15 but with 16bit modelindex"
BJP: "Extended protocol (models > 256 etc), hopefully no conflict"
10001 NEHAHRABJP2 aglquake
darkplaces
DirectQ
LH: "same as NEHAHRABJP but with 16bit soundindex"
BJP: "Extended protocol (sounds > 256), problems with Marcher (Some progs (Marcher) send sound services)"
10002 NEHAHRABJP3 aglquake
darkplaces
DirectQ
LH: "same as NEHAHRABJP2 but with some changes"
BJP: "Extended protocol (sounds > 256), more compatible, but less functional"

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