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Baker



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 5:57 am    Post subject: Quake Navigator 4.0 Reply with quote



http://www.quakeone.com/navigator

I hate updating this, really, but with PlanetQuake finally once and for all out of the hosting business, I won't need to update it for them changing site urls or deleting all the Quake sites again Wink

This time I aggregated all the information from here and Func_Msgboard and Quake Expo to attempt to create a very quick and easy resource finder for anything mapping, QuakeC, engine, etc.

Any feedback or oversights identified is welcome.
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scar3crow
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 3:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There needs to be a message indicating what section you are in. Either "General" "Mapping" etc at the top, have the dotted line extend to connect to the button you clicked, or have the button of the section you are currently on retain a lighter tan.

Abbreviated links should at least have some sort of tooltip on hover action to show their full name. "Teach Old Progs ..." just looks odd.

Just a mild personal preference, I find the gloss on the spinning Qube (see what I did there?) to be distracting. My eyes keep looking up at it while browsing the lists.

Having the Tenebrae entry be marked RIP and the AI Cafe one not seems a bit incongruous to me.

I'll post more feedback as it comes to mind.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

By the way I do want to say, excellent job on this, it is very snazzy, and also very generous as far as contributions go.

Random list of additional defects:
Page is not centered on webkit browsers it seems (Chrome, Iron, Safari, Safari for Windows), aligns to the top left.

Most of the columns in IE7 are centered, headers and entries, except for the left most one in General. Looking at the code, it seems that only that one section got a td align="left", everything else got the table class of thinman but nothing more specific past that. I'm guessing IE7 is just failing to inherit something that the others are picking up on.

One addition may be the TastyCast ( http://tastyspleen.tv/ ), its not strict to Quake, but it does cover Quake.
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Baker



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the feedback scar3crow. I'll take a look at some of those things and try to fix or address.

The "Teaching old progs" is the name of the thread of Func_ so that's the name I gave that ... and I put that in the mapping thread since technically that thread is about new tricks without new QuakeC.

Anyway, much appreciated.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 12:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the info scar3crow and I have most of those done including adding TastyCast.

IE7 fixed. Webkit browsers fixed except it doesn't center in the page (will fix some time in the future).

Added several new resources like SVNs for things like Nexuiz, Kurok, PSP Quake, Flash Quake and links to Avirox's CSQC GUI Menu tutorial, etc.

I almost never use IE and use FireFox on OS so I hadn't thought of re-testing in IE, Chrome, Safari, etc.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 2:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wish you added my QuakeWiki.net, too. I know it's a fresh one, but at least for the PlanetQuake archives.
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Baker



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 4:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Chip wrote:
I wish you added my QuakeWiki.net, too. I know it's a fresh one, but at least for the PlanetQuake archives.


That's a rather large oversight. Will fix!
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Spirit



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 6:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Earth to Chip, Earth to Chip: Will you ever share or it is a "closed" archive?
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 6:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Spirit wrote:
Earth to Chip, Earth to Chip: Will you ever share or it is a "closed" archive?


Chip, just real quick ...

Regardless of the answer, obviously I'll be linking stuff to your QuakeWiki.Net in the Quake navigator and on QuakeOne.com because what you've done is very admirable.

I've seen 2 comments from Spirit saying you won't share "files" that you have saved. Is this true?

None of us would be here today if we didn't cooperate with each other! The various Quake communities today only exist because we help each other.

Spread the Quake love!
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 11:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Spirit wrote:
Earth to Chip, Earth to Chip: Will you ever share or it is a "closed" archive?


No way, man! It was a time issue. I'm going to make .zip archives for each folder and share it.

Sharing is the key. But, bare with me for these holidays. I simply don't have time.

Thanks, Baker.

EDIT: .zip archives are now available! The PHP programmer in me decided to take action.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 4:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Awesome, thank you! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 5:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Chip wrote:
EDIT: .zip archives are now available! The PHP programmer in me decided to take action.


Nice work, man. And thanks for saving all those sites.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 6:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

great job Baker!
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 6:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Chip wrote:
I wish you added my QuakeWiki.net, too. I know it's a fresh one, but at least for the PlanetQuake archives.


Chip, the Navigator has been updated again adding several more resources including yours.

Extra note: I added links to both QuakeWiki.Net archives and Quaketastic to the QuakeOne homepage (it really needed some maintainable). As an extra note, I also added the Quake Injector in the clients section at the bottom. I don't think the sidebar links at QuakeOne had really been updated since 2006 and needed some updating especially since the PlanetQuake sites were dehosted.

One more thought, Chip ... where do I find a link to the .zip files of say, the Worldcraft entity reference. It has some archaic HTML in it and I have always thought that entity reference was useful and want to fix it.

st3ady wrote:
great job Baker!


Ah! A model conversion video on your site. Nice!

http://www.howcast.com/videos/166220-How-To-Convert-a-Model-in-3d-Studio-Max-To-Quake-1-mdl-Format
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 6:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Baker: http://www.quakewiki.net/wp-content/themes/quakewiki/zip.php?zipit=worldcraft

A GUI zip tool did not show me any contents but commandline unzip worked.
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