Your favourite map in 2009!


Congratulations to than. His map Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties (But They Do Carry Shotguns) was deemed the best release of the past year by the about 70 people who voted.

Time to replay this gem!

03.02.2010 in quaddicted.com | 2 Comments »

textures2quake, next bounty claimed

Baker has released a tool to convert image files to Quake textures. It adjusts the length of the filename if needed and keeps a log of those renamings. Converting “modern” texture sets to use with Quake and engines that support external textures has never been easier.

Baker declined the bounty and instead proposed a new one: Provide whatever is needed in QuakeC to use origin brushes. Please read through this thread if you are interested. We are both not sure how to properly phrase the goal.

The Lingering Legacy of id Software’s Quake: A Glimpse Into Thirteen Years Of Darkness

As some of you might know, Tronyn held a talk about Quake recently. Called “The Lingering Legacy of id Software’s Quake: A Glimpse Into Thirteen Years Of Darkness” it takes a look on Quake’s custom mappery. Both slides and text can be found below. Highly recommended read even though as Tronyn admits “that the later stuff is a bit biased toward my work, and I’m sure I forgot all kinds of important stuff“. I thoroughly enjoyed this. Thanks Tronyn!

Update
Instead of the ZIP with proprietary formats there are now two PDF files available:
Tronyn-QuakeTalk.pdf
Tronyn-QuakeSlides.pdf

First Model converter alpha released

Sajt released an alpha version of his model converter tool (for which a bounty was declared) over at Inside3D. “(…) this is NOT a stable release. It’s not even a beta. It’s an alpha.” so make sure you read that post entirely.

Since mdl/md2/md3 to mdl conversion is working quite well already and it is not like Sajt would run away laughing like a madman, I gave him the bounty already. So that makes two successful bounties already. Awesome!

18.01.2010 in quaddicted.com | 1 Comment »

First bounty claimed, multi-thread VIS bug fixed

I am very happy to announce the first bounty being claimed. Tuna has fixed the bug in WVis where interrupting and resuming would lead to an error. The patch is available here. A binary is available here. (Somehow I could not create a ZIP file, sorry…)

Thanks Tuna!

The model converter and Ogg Vorbis bounties are going strong. I am very glad how well this turns out.

17.01.2010 in quaddicted.com | 9 Comments »
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