Speaking of anything -- did you know that Willie Aames is Bibleman? 

Yes I did know that. My mates and I saw a few Bibleman tapes at Walmart once, but I couldn't bring ourselves to pay even 5 bucks they were price at for them. Maybe for a laugh one day... 

Im very glad to see the revival of QMAP as we know it. And happy icons ! <sheep>
Thank you metlslime 

hey, no icons 

It looks just like QMap. >P 

is fat 

is fat 

is fat 

refreshing the page after posting causes duplicate posts 

in Opera at least. 

this is cool, w00t.

Good work metlslime.

should i Post something meaningful?

see if links work ok ....

<a href = "http://www.planetquake.com/u... website</a><br><br&... 

oh its got those funny tags right? :/ 

. 

 

MOTHERFUCKERS! 

had a little lamb. 

test, this is nice 

The main forum index doesn't tell you how many posts their are. 

A preview function may prove useful :) 

Since registered users have a personal information page which displays their email, website, etc., perhaps you could add an 'add map function' where they could add links to maps they've made :) 

and a happy new year 

Qmap is back!

Maybe you'd noticed already? 

A link back to the forum page at the bottom would be nice after reading through all these silly posts. 

I'd like links back to the main forums placed at the top, bottom, halfway and 3/4 points of the page. 1/4 down would also be nice. thank you. 

BRAVOO METLSLIME GO GO GO! 

a small touch of jungle theme had been exitingly fresh! ;) 

There so has to be a link to go back to the main forum page down here by the reply box, because it's a minor hell every time I have to scroll up to the top to go back...

HITTING BACKSPACE IS NOT AN OPTION!
YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED! 

See the home key.

Press it. 

 

I like.

But IE:mac croaks sometimes...

nice job metl. 

why can't titles be empty, it's really stupid to have a title for your yes or no posts. 

some ppl prolly never use the home key.

cmon guys, you NEVER use it for typing? did you take it off from the keyboard.

well then, put it on a separate little interface like the ctrl alt del when you used to run win98!!

ps this is VERY close to old qmap. i feel all warm now 

(no offence to russians but the italian lira is now extinct...)

how many still use the qmap.peej.co.uk? are ppl comfy with switching totally or will it be a bit of both?

i'll give you my attorney's number if you win the prize because i dont have 1m rubles. i spent it on the mars bar i'm eating atm 

How do you use them in GTKRadiant? Where do I put them and how do I load them in GTKR/ 

I never woulda guessed. 

good'ol homey qmapness

WITH THE CRATE ICON!!!! 

 

In the old QMap, if you left the title blank (that is, you cheated and used a space instead of a character) and then used QMap's search function, if that post contained information relating to your search, it was impossible to view that information.

That is to say, QMap tried to make a link, but since it used a space instead of a character, you couldn't click on it. Until now I hadn't thought of checking the source code for the URL, but it's still stupid to have poor functionality just to appease those who are too lazy to type in a title. 

maybe I don't want my post serachable. 

With your typing/spelling, who'd want their post "serachable"? 

You go girls! 

rpg has a point
scampie gets a sarcasm point (what colour dyou wannit scampie?)

chick-fight ended. next on qmap deathmatch mac users tell pc users who the daddy is

round 976: "who originally stole the idea from xerox"

fight 

ARE there or WHERE there any chicks in qmaps bunch of lions? 

are fingers and other lads posting with different names, secretly or just aint got time? 

blahblah 

It woiks! 

"I never woulda guessed."


well, yes, I do. I got a chance to lease a computer through work, and opted for an ibook. I have a PC system at home as well as at work, but 2.2 kg together with apples solutions for laptops sounded really nice.

oh, wait - were you being caustic just there? 

#47 was me.

what the flying fuck happened? 

test 

if I use safari for osx, I can't even log in.

carry on. 

so what happens when you try to log on in safari? Do you get an error message when submitting your username and password? If not, does the "register | log in" change to "account | log out" on the next page? 

no, it never changes, it's like safari just doesn't understand that it's supposed to be logged in.

safari is still in beta though, so hopefully it's a bug that'll be ironed out.

I'm using ie for mac now, cause safari is having problems not only with func but also with planetcrap.com. also, I can't access the exchange interface for my work-mail.

other than that, it's great. :) 

on this board, being logged in or not is just a matter of a cookie being present (and containing valid info.) So maybe safari is having trouble either sending or recieving cookies. 

I though it was good when it told you who was logged in, is that going to be included? 

probably. 

yeah, I'll be fucked if I know...

nevermind, if it still goes tits up after beta, I'll look into it. 

SITE/MAP/PERSON Tracker 

would be to bring back the map editors columns 

I doubt i will add site/map/review trackers, or columns. They don't seem critical to the community in the same way basic thread/post functionality is.

If you want a column to spew nonsense (as many did,) write it on your website. If you have something worthwhile to say that people will comment on, start a discussion thread.

Map releases can be announced via news threads. If you want people to see all of your maps, put them on your website. And as for reviews, even on the old qmap review sites typically posted a handful of reviews at a time and announced it with a news thread.

Oh, and you mention a people tracker -- that's what the "people" link is on the menu at the top of the page. 

I'd kill for a link bar like the one at the top, right here, between the last post and the Post a reply doodad. 

Good Point 

I have to agree with czg. It's a bit annoying having to scroll back to the top of the page to get to the nav bar. 

i didn't even know about this. this thing rocks! 

I need to use the toilet. 

i think Scampies news submission CERTAINLY qualifies as news! 

these last two posts are examples of news submissions that were rejected. Whenever a news submission is rejected, they become normal posts in the GA thread. Anyone have a problem with this? 

bleh 

reject me! i am un-newsworthy! 

i released a map beta which nobody cares about becuase it's a box room with 4 quads. 

I put up a website which has no reviews, just a crappy html thing with a 300k logo. 

that worked. 

Excuse me people, is this the department of floral decor? 

the link for 'last 25' doesn't work. it links to http://www.celephais.net/board/vie... key part of that being the "start=-24" part which is incorrect and seems to refer to post# -24 and not post# (totalposts - 24) like I believe you're trying to accomplish. 

it seems that Opera can't log in correctly, but I can still post as myself. 

would it be possible for the news items to say how many new posts there are in them? 

Scampie: Okay, that explains why you keep posting anonymously :)

As for the "last 25" link, it works for me. Very strange.

necros: Yes, i could do that. 

okay, i guess it was only broken when you're logged out. Works now. 

Due to excessinve spam I've changed my email address (the old one was just becoming unuseable).

So this is the new and current email address to use:
d@planetquake.com

No one loves me and I never get any email anyway so I guess no one cares. But if you ever do need to mail me (to shout abuse, or tell me I'm a loser) that's where to send it. 

When we want to abuse you, we do it here. :) 

omg there is a cube icon.. /me hugs metlslime 

that's just a placeholder until i can come up with one that sucks less. :) 

so how does news posting work here? I just submitted some news but it doenst come up, does it get stored somewhere for approval or cant everyone make news? 

new submissions have a 'pending' status where they wait to be approved or rejected by a moderator. There's more info on the "site" page, but maybe i should repeat that info on the submit news page. 

are there plans for some kind of random title if there isn't one present in the box? 

yeah I figured it was something similar to the way Peej 'n' Frib used to work but thought I'd ask anyway (I didnt read the site page). Sorry, I was just used to posting news at qmap I guess :) 

 

sheesh. sure a lot of tips and stuff you're giving metl. site is improving considerably. 

So after like, five years, I finally decide to get something better than the little steamengine that I currently use...
Anyway, I have come to something along the lines of this: (Hope the lines aren't too long, and anyway it'll all be screwed up because I forgot how to use the q tag)


AMD Athlon XP2600+ 2.083 GHz 333 MHz bus Socket A (Thoroughbred)
Asus A7V8X/LAN/GD Hovedkort Socket A DDR VIAKT400, ATA/133, ATX, USB2.0, 8X AGP
TwinMOS PC3200 DDR-DIMM 512MB CL2.5 Memory 184-P (for DDR-PC400MHz)
Asus V9280 GeForce4 Ti4200-8X 128MB DDR AGP, (V9280/TD) DVI, Tv-Out
Western Digital Caviar 120GB IDE 7200RPM Special Edition 8MB cache WD1200JB
Suntek Miditower TH-656 Silver Case w/300W P4 / AMD
Creative Soundblaster Audigy Player Soundcard PCI with Firewire
Pioneer DVD-player IDE 16x/40x Slot-in (DVD-106S)
LG 19" CRT F900P TCO-99 Flatron screen USB
GlacialTech CPU-fan Socket A/370/FCPGA Igloo Silent Breeze to 1,4GHz/ XP2700+
Logitech Cordless Optical Mouse SE Wireless mouse USB/PS2
Keytronic keyboard KT2001 Ergoforce USB
Logitech Z-540 (Speaker), 4.1, 4 Satelites and Subwoofer


Comments? Anything I should change? Recommendations?
Budget isn't too much of an issue thankfully, since I've been saving up for a long time now... 

czg, perhaps consider ATI Radeon 8500, they're faster than the ti4200's but do have some compatibility problems with older games (ie maybe quake). Worth looking itno though. 

Buy an ATI Radeon 9500 (Ģ113 from Novatech with delivery), then there is a software mod you can download which unlocks the chip and you can take it so it is just as good or better than the 9700. Fullscreen AA with max graphics on any/most games.

Isnt the latest surrond 5.1?

Anyway the rest looks fine.

p.s. The Radeon totally beats the GF4ti 4600 128mb 

YOu have got to get the 9500 non pro, the 128mb one that is based on the 9700 pcb

This software mod activates the extra four pipelines on your card, turning it into a Radeon 9700 

good quality bits there. i trust you have made pcs with separate bits before. there is always some niggle round the corner (either with the hardware, like the case is slightly wrong, or initial conflicts). are cordless mouses good enough these days. how much do they weigh with new batteries?

do you need new screen, keyb and all?
well, all i can recommend is to have a really good HD (which you have). if you do music, turtle beach and other companies do the biz. if you don't, all the common makes are good for games... 

On the other board you asked if I was able to do the engine mod I was talking about, where the engine auto-loads mapname.cfg to set values such as gravity and fog.

The answer is, I can do it in QC code, but not in the engine. However, I have posted to forums.inside3d.com asking about it. I'll let you know what they say (maybe it's already been done, or they'll add it to telejano or darkplaces).

Also, I'm going to ask what the best way to do it in qc is (it's a simple task, the question is timing), and I'll post it here for those interested. 

Cheapalert says:
It's only done on mhQuake and Telejano i believe...

Telejano is a good bet then. 

is half-life based on the quake 1 engine or quake 2's, or a mix of Quake1/quake 2?

I always thought it was clearly based on Quake 2's engine, but others seem to think otherwise....can anyone offer a definitive answer? 

 

i think it started with the Quake 1 engine then switched to the Quake 2 engine later in development, then they modified it 

...it doesnt seem to me any of the original quake 1 engine is in the final half-life product, it just doesnt look or feel like quake 1, it must be quake 2. 

It's a very heavily modified Quake1 engine. 

I think I read somewhere that it is some monster consisting of q1 and q2 engine plus valve's own evil additions/modifictions of course. 

as i said

and confirmed by the <a http://www.bluesnews.com/guide/hal... blues news guide</a> 

blues news guide? 

 

I first heard Q2 engine but now everyone says Q1. I can guess that's a measure of the game's success -- think about coming out with a hyped game AFTER Q2 using the Q1 engine -- they can now admit the truth. Plus, it probably does include Quakeworld type enhancments and has 3D support out of the box, is that really different than Q2? I'd guess it is more Q1, since it performs fairly poorly while Q2 is smoother than Q1, but that is hard to judge since maps and polys also differ. Anyway... 

Wireless mice can be a little bit less reliable than their corded bretheren, also batteries are a bitch. Do you really want to use the mouse anywhere the cord won't reach? I never do.

Also, dos games won't recognize the audigy, the sb emulation doesn't work for me. If you're big into the old dos games, then you should look for a different card. Otherwise, it works and sounds great. 

http://www.quake.cz/winclan/qe1/

for those who get fed up with browsing thru' pq just to get any NON-q3 news. 

Years have passed. The remaining Strogg army hordes have retired from fighting, but have not given up their bloodthirsty lust for revenge. They have gathered in their heavily fortified headquarters, lying in wait like wound animals for you to return to finish them off. They know you're coming. You always do. But this time, they are ready for you. They are ready to die to the last soldier to see that this time, you die too.

You have more powerful weapons for this battle than you ever have had in the past. You are primed! You are trained! You are rested! You are ready to battle the last of the Strogg to finally restore definitive universal peace (Pax Imperia) to the world."


Screenshots and more info http://www.markshan.com 

but neither of these really qualify as news. Quake retexturing is a generally ongoing thing where a handful of new textures show up regularly -- in this case most of the textures on that page have been posted previously on other pages. And a promo for a map where all you do is provide screenshots, half of which i've seen (i think i even saved a few on my hard drive last year) isn't news either.

Both links are worth checkin out, though. 

HL has blatant use of the Q1 clipping bugs. It rather annoyed me in that way. 

YAY!!!! 

It works! Or did I actually post this already? 

There's an outfit down here in Wellgniton that's looking for people to work in the games industry. I've already expressed my interest, but they want samples - on CD, if possible.

Now, none of my crap runs without Quake, so what do I take along to the meeting?

Currently I'm thinking of just making a little Powerpoint slideshow, and maybe adding the zips as well, assuming I can get hold of a burner. Any other suggestions? 

I'd say bring a CD with your Powerpoint slideshow plus your best maps. I should think that if they don't have a copy of Quake then they could get their hands one fairly easily.

And GL, Fatty! 

the obvious suggestion would be to contact them before the meeting and ask them to install/give them Quake to install on their machine.

Unless i have misunderstood something. 

The other thing you could do is use some sort of utility to grab a video file of walking through a level, it's fairly common for animators to render animations of walk cycles and stuff in CD portfolios, but I've not seen many level designers with walkthru vids, although it can easily give a better impression of a level than static screens without really requiring your prospective employer to have any particular software installed.

You might also want to think about a printed portfolio with screenshots, plans, sketches and stuff that you can take along to interviews. This is handy because it gives you something to talk about beyond the usual 'so, what can you offer the company' bollocks. You can say 'Hey this map is smart, because of this, this and this, and I planned it like this, but I changed this because... blah blah... these are the ironic crates... blah... and I made all my own textures out of scans of used kleenex! And this archway is shaped exactly like hello.jpg! I rock!' Er, well not exactly like that but you get the idea. This technique is especially useful for those who are morbidly obese, have a single nostril or whose eyebrows meet in the middle because it allows the interviewers to not look at the applicant without feeling self-conscious.

Whatever you do, concentrate on what you feel is your best work rather than bringing everything - portfolios that concentrate on a few gems have more of an impact than those laden with less exciting work. Of course, this assumes that you have work that is less exciting, and indeed enough to pick and choose from. And I can't remember if you have, because I suck! LOL!!!1

The last interview I had I seem to remember spending most of it discussing what Dreamcast games I'd been playing and what I thought of them! And the portfolio meant no-one had to steal awkward glances at my webbed, six-fingered left hand!!!

(Sorry, I've been reading too much Digitiser lately) 

a printed portfolio is a nice idea. right now i have http://www.celephais.net/cv/portfo... but that's not very helpful in the interview ... well actually, they probably have web-ready computers in their conference rooms, but better not to count on it.

Another thing you could put on a CD-ROM is a complete quake install and the engine of your choice (fitzquake, of course.) With a fast CD drive, you could basically play it off the CD. You could even have some demos of yourself running through the levels ready to run. 

The video idea may be a bit far-fetched... my compy is, as everybody knows, heniously out of date. However - I wonder if it would be easiest to just lift the quake dir "as is". While not kosher, it'd be quicker than having to go through the install process. Can this be done, though?

I'll stick with WinQuake, however. Reliability. And I haven't managed to run FitzQuake at all (well duh.)

The feetchewed selections are:
OUM
RCDM7
RCDM8
RC2
RC3

Should about do it, ne?

Incidentally, my parents have given me permission to buy a CD burner. Goodness... I could spend all day happily burning... all sorts of things... Zips... programs... MP3s... witches... 

what about czg02?

Surely you could use that as an example of collabation etc? I'm sure companies are keen on mappers who can map with other people's stuff too. 

Good lookin HL sp stuff

http://tenfourmaps.telefragged.com... 

metl. your portfolio blew me! of course many of the chaps here have abundance of games experience so fatty, i hope you can make something like that. basically, nobody cares if you put the quake dir in your cd and run it from there. i dont think there are gonna be any "slowness" probs or legal problems just for an interview. go ahead and do it!!

from experience with my interviews (in automotive industry: not the same but you still bring along designs, renderings, bits and bobs you made in workshop...) i always take as much as i can and then see what the guys want. if they like doing aptitude tests that's fine. if they want to see your innovation show them your shower-cum-coffemachine-cum-bed etc...

oh. why do you still have a crappy pc!!!! get a job at the petrol station or whatever. and YES, grab a video even if it's with your dads 20 yr old vid cam. adjust the contrast though!!! and the crt refresh will make those lovely frame flickers...lol 

dunno if you all checked ALL the screenies. they are ab fab! wish he had time to make a couple more q1dm maps...

bel lavoro mark. in gamba! 

refers to post #119

And here one is trying to make nice Q1 sceneries...need a beer or five..

oh well, any ways, portfolio looks great metlslime! 

i'm not suggesting that you install quake at the company's office during the inteview -- i'm suggesting that you put the installed game onto the CD and play it from there. Loading might be slower, but the game will run just as fast.

As far as how "kosher" it is ... it's totally legal! You own a license to play the game, and if you're at some company's office playing it then that means you're not at home playing it at the same time. As for mailing the CD to people, or giving them the CD at the end of the interview, that's not such a good idea, though maybe you can get away with it. 

Is possible, I've done it. Be sure to have everything right, maybe even shortcuts setup to work at the CDR root level (including engine options). Note, for others wanting this for more fun purposes, there will be no savegame or options saving, although the latter at least produces no error messages.

BTW, the Winquake windowed mode pixel doubling uses the following sequence to turn off ( ;) ):
vid_stretch_by_2 0
vid_forcemode 2 

i've been using the same 'install' of quake since two years ago. and i've had to change hds twice, and survive a mobo crash once. i just copy the entire quake dir into a zip, then toss it off onto a cd. this game doesn't have any reg keys or anything to worry about, so 'installing' isn't even necessary (you could just copy the files right off the cd).

not sure if this is what you meant. 

OK, so I get carte blanche to buy a CD burner, and I screw the thing in and plug it all up...

FUCKING BLUE SCREENS OF DEATH. EVERY SINGLE ATTEMPT.

Take out the old CD-ROM, rewire, try again: BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH.

Lessee... got enough memory, reasonably fast processor, wires are plugged in the right way, sufficient hard drive space free. Why does this fargnaxing thing keep crashing!?

Gods. Why am I even bothering? 

do you have the sucker set up for master/slave properly? mine cddrive is always a slave, but sometimes i get a drive which is set as master, and it fucks up the comp when i start it up without checking... it's worth a look...

beyond that... what os are you running, when is the bsod happening, etc... 

It was causing some sort of b0rkage, so I removed it, now everything's jake.

Should've looked at Ahead's webby first, eh?

It's just that this is a big step for me, and a shitload of money.

Now I have a free CD-ROM drive, which I may try to insert into the Compaq, if I can figure out how...

Heh. Yesterday, the shelf above the Compaq fell on top of it. Mercifully, my essay survived, and if you'll ex-squeeze me, I have to shift some files... 

2 cd drives is always cool for multi cd. play something and have the music. oh, wait. on a slow comp put the music cd in your hi-fi system. sorry... didnt mean to hurt your feelings....

in my celeron 500 in italy 2 cd and cdr drives conflicted (even when changing slave/master bla bla). it just used to crash once in 3 times. the cdr is a LG, so i't better than the original drive at READING cds so i just used the other in another pc (no, i dont have 6 pc. just my dad has an old one. 

new discussion topics posts have to be given the go ahead by the admin. how organized. it's a useful tool anyway...

i await in despair...no wait, that should read patiently 

Fatty, what is it you're trying to get, since I could do videos of your maps and upload them for you if you want.

If it's just CD burning I'm less help :) 

what are you talking about? 

Im looking to buy a graphics card for my PC, at the moment I have a GF4mx 64mb card, which is pretty crappy.

I'm looking to spend roughly Ģ140, what would you recommend, GeForce ti 4200 128mb or a Radeon alternative?

Which is best for games? 

radeon has some problems with older games but it is faster. So if you're mostly into newer stuff, go the radeon. 

maybe clicking on the thread name show all new posts rather than all of them. I think the old qmap did this? 

The company's actually still in startup mode. Currently, they're thinking of doing simple web-based games, in order to establish themselves, before moving along to more ambitious stuff.

"What's this? An investment banker, an ad-man and an ex-US Ranger? Can't you read? No posing fer jokes this side on even dates!"

Looks like I now have to mull it over, recover from their hospitality, and let them know if I'm still game. The bastards got their hooks into me, so...

(No, seriously, it does, doesn't it? "There was this banker, an ad-man and an ex-Ranger..." 

Ask me in a week or 3, just installed Radeon 9000 pro ~$140 in the old can but ended up with problems in both hig res. Quake and OpenGl gaming. I guess its fixable but its a an aditional pain in my already sore as right now.. 

I've already decided now, I'm gunna get the Geforce4 ti 4200 128mb with goldensample. It's by Gainward and it's only Ģ139.99 

Is anyone else having problems connecting to any GameSpy site? (fileplanet, planetquake, planethalflife, etc...) 

Been having trouble with Q3W for several hours. Just tried PQ out of curiosity and got the same thing.

Several unrelated sites seem to be out too e.g. BBC News, so it may be some sort of massive DNS cock up. 

http://65.61.157.176/ Console #4!??

Believe it or not, someone is going for it....Check this one out as it is rather interesting....compared to the rest of the console systems.. 

The most hilarious thing being claimed about the Phantom is that they're saying it's going to launch with 32,000 titles available. Now, even assuming that figure's all PC games, which I doubt, I suspect that roughly half of those are old DOS games that won't remotely run on a modern PC without extensive fucking about with boot floppies and shit like that. If the figure isn't all PC games, what are they on? Even if they can make it work, it will be interesting to see how many publishers will actually make a deal to go on the service. Unless this company can very quickly establish a credible image, I'm guessing not many will be interested.

I was initially extremely skeptical about the whole thing - the website is half finished, the only 'photo' of the hardware is blatantly a render, and it's called 'The Phantom' for God's sake! I'm still not entirely convinced and half expect it will turn out to be some sort of absurd sting advertising campaign for one of the other consoles, or just someone out to make a point... So far we've seen nothing that a few guys with a couple of hundred dollars couldn't achieve.

PS The internet seems to be better now. 

sounds like a supped up Phillips CD-i, and that did so well in the American market. Imagine, a console that you can "pay per play" and "subscribe to games" instantly.

Please. It will be lucky if an actual hard box of this thing is madee, let alone released. It's just like the countless other consoles that have buzzed, then fizzled. Don't count on this happening, ever. 

Should cost ~same figure but in euros. Otherwise gf4200 is good value. Rad 9500-128 or 9500 pro also provides good speed/features for your money 

Should cost ~same figure but in euros. Otherwise gf4200 is good value. Rad 9500-128 or 9500 pro also provides good speed/features for your money 

Do you consider such layout to be better than the usual structured page, where your work is subdivided into sections (ie quake maps, doom maps, textures, models etc..)
Also you dont provide d/l links for half of your complete projects, and not much informations about your older (but good) maps, like first rubicon.

'Less is more' seems to be the rule here. But with general CV I`v been tought that its good to put all past jobs, education and skills on it...
Any opinions ? 

At the very bottom of the page, I list four released levels without download links, becuase they are old and don't show off my current abilities. All other work is either unreleased, or there is a link to where you can find it (direct download for single levels, website for Oblivion and Cube.) If some company wants to see my unreleased stuff, i can provide it, but i'm not going to put a download link to work in progress on a public website.

As for the layout, It's chronological, and since i've jumped back and fourth across 5 different games, and have done mapping, modelling, skinning, textures, etc. throughout my career, categorizing seems like a bad idea. I don't think there's so much stuff that it is impossible to browse, anyway.

As for the CV itself, it is already two pages long, which is about the limit i think. I intentionally didn't mention unrelated work becuase i wanted to go into detail about the related work. 

...and it's called 'The Phantom' for God's sake!
LOL
Although it did look too good to be true, that line decided it for me!
Is broadband really embedded enough to make a broadband console likely; it certainly isn't in the UK yet.
Also, the quotes pay per play and games on demand nearly made me choke, I think I can see what's proposed there and it isn't pretty..
The words nose and pay through the... come to mind! 

nt 

http://www.tdcom.net/lacos/misc/cr... 

so any1 to test my map ? 

I dont know if you really care but I've got some bots that can *shock horror* grab the RL in lun3dm2 and also dont have a sexual attraction to the teles too. 

Sure, mail it over! 

Those new bot code or a different bot definition file thingy? 

just some tweaked bots (noe new code) I got off someone, they play a *lot* better than standard bots and get itmes on maps that I've never seen bots get before. And like I said above, they dont just keep on toing and froing from teles too (ala bal3dm2 and lun3dm2). 

Same ones from the CPM forums? 

ok: you all know about my mystical quake map called bwdm1 that i almost finished, back in the day. i'm back and i want to finish it. if anyone, absolutely anyone, has a file starting with the letters 'bwdm', please email me at inertia@groove.ath.cx and tell me where i can get a hold of it. my computer got owned once and the .map/.rmf i was using got corrupted - if anyone can help me fix the corruption i would also be in great debt. thanks 

is it possible to edit .rmf files for quake 1 without worldcraft? im using worldcraft 1.6b (registered version of 1.6a) and i want to edit an .rmf file, but i get error messages when loading it. this has to do with the resurrection of bwdm1 so i hope i can get some help. 

is it possible to edit .rmf files for quake 1 without worldcraft? im using worldcraft 1.6b (registered version of 1.6a) and i want to edit an .rmf file, but i get error messages when loading it. this has to do with the resurrection of bwdm1 so i hope i can get some help. 

is it possible to edit .rmf files for quake 1 without worldcraft? im using worldcraft 1.6b (registered version of 1.6a) and i want to edit an .rmf file, but i get error messages when loading it. this has to do with the resurrection of bwdm1 so i hope i can get some help. 

i refreshed but the data must have still been in the browser's cache for the page, that might require some fixing 

I think that quark can read .rmf from different versions of worldcraft, and then export them back, so I'd recommend trying that. Can't say I like the level editor that comes with it though.... 

Wanted to let you all know I'm working on a Q1DM after a loonnnnng period of not mapping. So you can rally behind me or cut me down with blantant abuse, just thought I'd let you know.

I'm using a really random, but blendable assortment of textures.

Also, crazy mad props to metl for this outstanding replacement to QMap! 

good site metl

my Q2 custom-server *STILL* serves..

(*) 

yep, although they're slightly modifed than the ones posted there. Those ones seemed to default to the gauntlet and use no other weapon. 

"So you can rally behind me or cut me down with blantant abuse, just thought I'd let you know."

Your map makes me sick, I hate your guts and your mother is a whore. 

"So you can rally behind me or cut me down with blantant abuse, just thought I'd let you know."

That's great man, we need more people like you, standing up for the old game we all know and love.

Keep up the work, looking forward to the release already. 

Like that? :) 

a crate, but no barrel!
Can you do the icons in your post still? <grin> 

blah :( 

Can you mail them to;

chris dot gilbert -at- rebellion dot co dot uk

please nitin 

Anybody know where he's at?

Have to say I miss his sharp tongued remarks. 

west.gamesnet.net #terrafusion 

noentity,

check your mail. 

This is unlikely, but was anyone in Catecrasher in Sheffield on Saturday (Jan 25th) wearing a T-shirt with "somebody set up us the bomb" written on the back, and "all your base are belong to us" on the front? 

why? you have a bullet to deliver? 

You mean this one?

http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/g...

I think it was Cats, and he was after all your base. 

nt 

Could you be so sweet as to email the bots to me as well?

dietz -at- spawnpoint dot org

kthx 

done.

BTW, why is everone using that method for email addys? 

There are spider programs out there that can extract email addresses from web pages. The relative inconvenience of having to manually type in an email address is considered worth not getting spam, especially spam from yourself like I have. 

...T-shirt with "somebody set up us the bomb" written on the back, and "all your base are belong to us" on the front...

Can anyone explain these phrases to me? 

RPG, yeah, that's the one he was wearing.

I was just wondering if someone from the quake community lived in the sheffield area. I was gonna ask him about it, but then I lost him and never saw him again.
DaZ was with me at the time, and he peejed hard over the t-shirt. 

"All your base" is hardly a quake-only phenomenon, so it's rather unlikely that the dude you saw was from "the quake scene", let alone reading being a reader of this board. 

but it may indicate that this guy was a geek, which is pretty cool 

dont ask who wants to test your map.

just send it to chris-catto at libero dot it

(cheers fatcon for letting us know about the trick. i guess i get enough spam as it is just with sites asking for my address. i always try to give my defunct one if i think its not important...)

ps, anyone wanna rimind me where i can get some quake 1 related clothes? i actually made meself a q2 tshirt in 98 with a screenshot and all but i wore it out playing basketball and all. sob!! 

another q3 looker : http://www.quake3world.com/ubb/For...

Should be an sp map after some rescaling IMHO. Very nice detailing although for sheer originality, Cardigan's bet map Ecstatica was better. 

The complete actual text from the Toaplan game "Zero Wing", as taken from the Toaplan site itself, is as follows!

Captain: What happen?
Mechanic: Someone set up us the bomb
Operator: We get signal
Captain: What!
Operator: Main screen turn on.

Captain: It's you!!
Cats: How are you gentlemen!!
Cats: All your base are belong to us
Cats: You are on the way to destruction

Captain: What you say?
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time
Cats: Ha ha ha ....
Operator: Captain!!

Captain: Take off every 'ZIG'!!
Captain: Move 'ZIG'.
Captain: For great justice.

(As taken from the Unicorn Jelly forum.) 

http://fraggle.alkali.org/img/ayb.... 

That's fantastic! I've just spent an hour at work looking through some of the sites and links and, of course, the video.
It has really made my day :)
This whole thing must have passed me by the first time around, so thanks again for the lead. 

Not enough bullets in this world... 

has anyone downloaded a certain clip with a guy pretending to be arnie pizza delivery (on the phone)? he talks about punching pizza through the guy's brain and pizza with bullets and so on. it's hilarious believe me. cant remember the exact name of the clip. i got it on some backup cd somewhere... 

what is happening with the q3 support only? what would it have better than the q3 engine? ok extra tweaks but arent the team taking a risk? hope anyone can fill me in with some info. their site doesnt seem to give away much. any rumors around? 

thats a legendary clip, thought about using it as my answer phone message but then realised it was ridiculously long.

Check the Tenebrae developers message board for info on the new version, btw, theres quite a bit of stuff there. 

Cheesy pic:
http://www.planetquake.com/starbuc...

Yeah its a cliche i know. And not funny. But i was bored, dammit! 

i like 

Would it be posoble to email me those bots you were talking about up there ^^^ , or direct me to a download link please.

jih64 at yahoo dot com dot au

Thank you. 

done. 

Enclave tools = now

I will personally remove your vital organs through your penile duct unless you see to it that the Enclave editing tools are released to the public. 

Hey recently I've been wanting to play some QW using Zquake, but I'm getting an error after I start the server when I want to load the map to play.

Host error:PR_Loadprogs -- couldn't load qwprogs.dat

Help is appreciated. Thanks guys. 

First of all. No man, woman or killer-cyborg are bad-ass enough to take me on. If I ever catch you making empty threats to my persona again, I'll face-rape you with a fire extinguisher.

That said, I'll raise the issue, I promise.

One of the possible reasons why it'll never happen is that the editor and engine is un-documented to the point of it being silly. 

wrath is my hero :) 

It's not like Build was documented -- well, it was, but it's not like it actually helped anyone. And QE4 didn't have any documentation either.

So basically that's just a cheap excuse worthy only of some stoopid programmer. Cheap excuses are not acceptable. 

"So basically that's just a cheap excuse worthy only of some stoopid programmer. Cheap excuses are not acceptable."

I'll be sure to pass your input along to the parties involved in the decission.
Also, your foot is bleeding, stop shooting it. 

the demo looks awesome btw 

available at FilePlanet: http://fpweb1.fileplanet.com/files...

The map is made by Rinie Brouwers and the link is taken from TenFour: http://tenfourmaps.telefragged.com...

It's certainly no masterpiece, its major drawback is IMHO a very confusing layout, probably due to being mainly a DM map populated by monsters. Still a rather nice first effort with an old-skool feeling. 

ill definately be getting Enclave on the basis of that demo. The engine, the models, the textures, the architecture, the layouts, the interface, the sounds, everything was spot on!

It has a real solid feel, which I find to be a rare quality. The section at the end of the demo even made me want to make a void map :) 

Can I request a forgotten password option please, since I can't log in at work and am dreading losing my cookie at home :/

(Yes I forgot it) 

At the relentless poking and prodding of some people at Inside3d, I've finally put some screenshots of Jeht on my moddb page. They show off the mod pretty well, though nothing substitutes actually playing. I figured it couldn't hurt to post about it here too. :)

http://mods.moddb.com/851/ 

The only way that could work is to send the forgotten password to the email listed in the account. And your email appears to be fake.

Okay, how about this: send me your cookie in the mail when you get home. That will verify your identity and i will reply with your password. 

Also, ever heard of the SITE HELP THREAD? 

Yes but I was in a rush and forgot :/ 

are all you guys? :P

fetch me a hot air balloon, 3 chimps, some duct tape and simering noodle water.

Lets have ourselves a party! 

posting drunk again? 

Struck me the other day:

Why is mapping for Q1 so difficult beyond 1750 brushes?

Well, it's not like the old days where "room-corridor-room" design was the order of the day and intelligent horizontal placement of areas meant easy visual editing on any axis. The SP levels in progress that I've viewed recently have layouts that are so interconnected even vis grouping is problematic as a building assistance strategy. I'm not surprised that more SP levels aren't released, I usually have to spend half an hour "re-acquainting" myself with the architectural relationships involved in my current levels before I can put pointer to brush. If I'm not guaranteed at least three hours of uninterupted mapping at a stretch, I generally don't bother. 

Ok I've recently tried to re-install the game and cant do it. I get a severe error saying something about the reigstration number not being correct and halting the installation before anything is allowed (including typing the cd key in). It's only happened since I installed and then uninstalled the rather disappointing Spearhead expansion so I'm guessing it's linked.

A quick search around the web and MOH forums seems to indicate a conflict between rundll32.exe and Spearhead/MOH installs or MOH not uninstalling properly and needing registry editing to be completely removed. I've tried the solutions to both of those (including manually editing the registry and closing down anything requiring rundll32.exe) but to no avail.

So, I was wondering if anyone else had this problem or heard of it? 

Galactix is a lateral arcade-type overhead space shooter. Think of Raiden. You fly around picking up powerups and destroying enemies for points, in hopes of making the high score.

Visit the [url=http://mods.moddb.com/gallery... page[/url] on Moddb.com and check out the screenshots & description.

I plan to add more attack patterns and spiff up some graphics and such. For example, I'll be using a ship model from one of CheapAlert's mods for the player's ship. After I add some stuff and tweak, I'll add more screenshots.

Unfortunately, the screenshots don't show how fun the mod is. But that means, fortunately, the mod plays a lot better than it looks.

The mod is scheduled for release durring QExpo in June, 2003. See you there. 

That url for galactix is http://mods.moddb.com/984/

Gotta get used to that... 

an overhead shooter mod for quake 1?

excellent! first one i know of... if you need another beta-tester i would be happy to help. 

static _ void @ hotmail . com 

i know what ya mean...

on one map. it takes me half a minute just to find the place where i left off the day before! 

What about clayer? 

TeamShambler - Dead (for a while too)
Ethereal Hell - ?
Religion Quake - Was never living to begin with... what's the status on this guy?
Ten Four - Alive
Retro Quake - Dead
UWF's Site - Alive

are those right? am i missing any? 

so anyone doing a map with these :

http://www.planetquake.com/polycou... 

not at the moment, but they are very nice looking ones. i am thinking about using them for something after i finish up some other stuff. 

clayer is not a quake mod, it's programmed from scratch. 

oh yes clayer, forgot that one.

necros, it would seem me and ten four are the sites doing active Q1 reviews at the moment.

I hope retroquake makes a comeback, i thought it was a good site. 

can you make large clear font instead of quake`s ? and some variety in backdrops 

Yea, what you're looking at is an ugly demo of the mod. There's no skybox yet but I'm open to any that would look good. Large clear font? I'm not any good at replacing the graphics in quakes wads, but if anyone has a pre-made font I'd be completely open to it. It would fit the theme better to have some tech type font or something.

BTW, here is the Starwars Dogfighting mod that was just put up. Its development is halted and it's got some crippling bugs but the screenshots are beautiful. http://mods.moddb.com/gallery/992/ . FrikaC and team should be proud. 

Extract the GFX/CONCHARS.LMP file from OUM. That's a relatively techy and clean typeface. 

where's Xenon's site? 

Has anyone played Unreal 2 yet? Gamespy only gave it a 76. 

I finished it a couple of hours ago. decent levels. some infuriating design decisions. a few bugs. probably manegement fuckups - my guess is they had a project lead who couldn't stop the feature-creep, hence the lack of polish.

The drakk levels were the worst. mostly due to bad texture-choices. 

is it as pretty as it looks in the screens (especially those gorgeous skins)? and how's the gameplay, all the reviews dont seem to like it too much but they dont hate it either? 

I'm a bit jaded. I personally get more excited about the aesthetics rather than the execution itself. ICO is a good example - it's not the prettiest game technically speaking, but the visual design comes together to make every single frame absolutely fucking beautiful.

The gameplay is your basic run of the mill stuff, with some defend-the-perimiter type missions thrown in to break up.

This is a solid buy for $20-$25, not so solid at full-price. 

I found the gameplay far too linear. The defense bits aren't particularly amazing, but they do at least give a little variety.

The boss combats suck (as ever).

The graphics are gorgeous although there are some bugs in places. Some amazing scenes (the very first scene, when you walk out of the general's command room and you're standing on top of a tower overlooking an entire island :)

I do think some amazing things could be done by the mapping community if they tried. 

guys, looks like I should wait till I upgrade then :)

wrath, what's ICO? 

The boss combats suck (as ever).

Indeed, why do developers persist and insist on these boring boss combats, all they can ever be is dodge, shoot (repeat until bored fuckless), i dont think i have ever enjoyed a boss combat, honestly. 

That is exacltly the type of computer I wanna buy for this coming april. And I'll get that remote control for the DVD player. Now good question here; I bought the monitor PF795 Viewsonic Professional Series 2-3 years ago, it is a flatscreen monitor 19inches CRT and dot pich = .25 center, then .27 for corners. I went to a friend that had recently bought also a kickass computer and his monitor is a Samsung with .20 for dot pitch. Now I'm worry to have blur all what I will see with my new computer in april IF I keep my PF795? What should I do? 

the cyberdemon rocked. 

and chton too

as for the unreal2, i'm playing thorugh it now.
well indeed, visuals are the best there. they crammed bazillions of polys there, and every poly does its work. and it seems developers were too busy adding polys and forgot about proper gameplay. too much intermissions that break your immersion into the gameplay. the missions are short. indeed, some designs look uber pretty, but true atmosphere is only in certain places/maps, not in the entire game. (remember u1, it was fully atmospheric game)
and what i disliked the most is jump puzzle room with broken lazers. this is the most stupid place i encountered so far: arseloads of polys (ie lower framerate), and you have to jump with high precision over lazers and melted metal. this just plain sucks. it's clear that developers wanted to increase playing time via such silly attempts.
anyway, have to finish it yet, maybe there will be more good things in the game i hope... 

do you mind posting more when you're finished with u2 please? 

it is one of the best games I've ever played - it was developed by sony and released on the ps2.

http://www.gamespy.com/games/2763....

It's perfection on a disc, really.

---

u2;

also, non-skipable cut-scenes makes wrath reach for the big red button. 

Good
* Great graphics
* Some good weapons

Bad
* Shockingly slow loading times ( made worse by the frequent need for quicksaving/loading )
* Crap enemies ( plus most take at least 3 close range blasts with a shotgun = not fun )
* Vomit inducing attempts at humour.
* Cutscenes that are so dull your brain will shut down, thus you will usually have no idea what you are supposed to be doing.
* Falling into the same stupid traps as every PC fps ever, such as not giving you enough health/ammo to take on extremely tough enemies.

I'm probably about 2 thirds of the way through and I really cant be bothered to go back to it.
But did I mention the nice graphics? It will probably form an OK base for user levels/mods. I'd recommend someone makes the enemies weaker to hopefully make things more fun. 

was the cyberdemon the boss at the end of Doom? (or Doom 2)?.

I never made it to the end of Doom or Doom 2 i stopped near the end, about 5 levels off i guess, so i dont think i ever faced a "cyberdemon" and if i do i dont remember it. Dont ask me why i stopped before the finish, i just got bored i guess, although i do love Doom, of course. 

well, i still keep me words with me.
and fully agreed with damaul.
gfx part is 10/10, but gameplay/story is silly. and indeed, cheap jokes are enraging. there were some fun moments in the game, but i can use one left hand to count them all. after finishing the game i have load of sweet screenshot in my head. but not a single remembrance about funny gameplay moments. there, of course, are very nice ideas, i was impressed (won't tell you, don't wanna spoil much) watching how developers made it. but as i said, they (developers) were too busy making visuals looking top. it looks like their primary task was to make shiny new geforces of casuals to work off their money 100%. i'm sure the game will not fly 120fps even on powerful computer. but it'll work as a good test for hardware testers :)
and of course, using such vast possibilities of the engine, it's OUR job to make proper levels for this game :) there is excellent editor, top textures and possibility to modify the gameplay. so, i'm really hope there will be talented designers who'll make proper maps/mods out of this engine.

now, only doom3 left, my last fort of hope :) 

Boss combat is not a bad thing on its own, but it needs to be setup well. For some reason in most 3d shooters boss combat is either boring frustrating or both.
I`m finding classic console games bosses much more fun 

so basically it seems like its:

graphics over gameplay.

is this what the state of current gaming is now?
and if so, what hope does the future hold? 

"what hope does the future hold?"

Putting back in the gameplay, maybe? Probably need to start with making it easy to put in the slick stuff.

As to boss battles, Good finale if they're not too long. Maybe something smarter instead of something you dump ammo into. Max was pretty cool in Nehahra, could have been over in half the time and still got the point though (but hey, after 20 levels or something...). Actually, the standard big tough fast Unreal enemy would make good bosses. 

The current state of gaming is thus:

If you want to play fun games: get a console ( or 3 ), if you want to play online games or tech demos with a poor excuse for a game tacked onto the end: get a PC. 

now tell me what you REALLY think of pc gaming. 

play zelda instead 

That the Vietcong multiplayer demo is absolutely incredible, and the game really has some possibilities. Like my friend so nicely said, "It's like air soft, I like go 'OMG! lolol n00bz' when playing!" Oh, and I already introduced his ass to my boot.

But in any case, the game can be really atmospheric, and it's mostly because of a few simple tricks, like hearing the heart beating really fast when shot, not actually hearing the shot that kills you, tinning when a grenade goes off right next to you, the need to use iron sights to really hit anything, and the lack of any HUD. And on top of all that, the level is quite nice, finally with enough foliage for some good jungle warfare. 

Sorry for taking such a long time to reply. Where can I get OUM?

DaMaul: I like consoles, but the one problem resides in the making and obtaining of quality mods. Haven't seen any Armored Core 3 mods on Playstation II yet. :) 

Picked up and started playing The Thing, but very little info on the web about this game. From what I can tell UK based development. Anyone know more about the game or the development? 

I found <a http://www.technologyreview.com/ar... article</a> rather interesting. 

http://www.technologyreview.com/ar... 

end of the second episode of doom? In doom2 they were used as a normal monster on some levels. 

cheers for your info.

Metlslime, is it possible to have no subject please? 

so goodbye maps n' this forum i suck at it anyway, ciao 

from good to bad:

amazing geometry everywhere
often very good atmosphere
some varied level designs
decent textures
better weapons than unreal 1
terrain part of the engine very simplistic and ugly
many irritating/not fun to fight AI
sub-standard gameplay (it's really boring)
a most amazingly retarded storyline for 2003 (cringe) 

given the quality of the level designers there, I was hoping for some quality level design. It seems most people tend to acknowledge the levels and the skins/models as the best part of the game.

aard,

one question, from the 2-3 terrain based screenshots I've seen, it looks pretty good though admittedly in-game can be a lot different. Could you please outline what you thought was wrong with it? 

Galactix has gotten some pretty new screenshots that show off its nearly final form. Go to http://mods.moddb.com/984/ to look at the screenshots and mod profile.

Regarding mapping (as many people have been asking about it lately), since there is little that will be changed between maps (mostly fog and skybox values, and player move speed), most of the variation will consist of cfg files. Instead of releasing a new bsp for most of the new maps, simply modify the existing one with a cfg that the player execs in addition to loading the map. The architecture never changes - it's a box with some boundaries. Only the skybox and other variables would ever change, and a cfg is much smaller and simpler to build.

For example, if you have the skybox "planet", you could make planet.cfg and include it with your skybox. The cfg would set fog to none, would set the skybox to planet, and would lower the player's speed slightly (it's a hard level). You could also modify how much points are recieved, etc.

For those of you who do wish to mess with more than that (for example, changing the distance of the background garbage that floats by or doing something creative), a new bsp would be in order and would likely work fine with any cfg modifiers that are released as well. Default variables of the map would be loaded if no cfg is present. 

you could use engine with skybox rotation (mh quake has it) for cool effect 

OUM's over here: http://www.planetquake.com/fatty/o...

Look under "downloads."
It's on FilePlanet, I'm afraid. 

- terrain texturing is a bit simplistic but ok
- terrains are always very small (if I remember correctly tim said it is brute force rendered in one chunk, which could explain it)
- they are very barren vegetation wise, esp from a distance they look extremely bland
- looks very monochromatic
- the shape is often smooth and not realistic/interesting. the technical term for this is "molten icecream modelling" ;)

I guess I am spoiled by our in-house landscape engine (see screenies on crytek.com), but most other games do good as well. Compared to their amazing indoors/architecture, the terrain in unreal2 is clearly a generation behind. 

interesting points, the only ones I can pick out from the screenshots are the smoothness and barreness. Textures and size are only something that can obviously looked at in-game. Interstingly, I thought the terrain in q3:TA and games based off that engine looked a bit too smooth too. I think Ritual in Fakk2 were the only ones who managed to make some non-smooth terrain but that had its own share of problems too. 

oh crap aardappel those screenies look great. 

i know this has been asked alot nowadays, but here it is again: how the fuck can i get Q1 to run under XP? must i masturbate with broom to get make it work? 

Speedy: Thanks, I'll see about that. Maybe CheapHack (the engine I'm driving at currently) can do that too.

Fatty: Thanks, I'm d/ling it now.

Quack: Have you tried the newer engines? I'm sure the dos quake won't work but the new engines (cheaphack, mhquake, darkplaces) should do ok. Hopefully. And leave the broom alone, it never did anything to you. :)

BTW, over at the inside3d forums I've been entertaining the idea of finishing Galactix mostly as is, and then distributing its full source to several people so they can make their own Galactix derivatives. We'd all release our versions at QExpo (some may even end up being stand-alone!). Someone brought up an idea I've been putting aside but now looks feasible if I do it as a different mod (having the ground move under you with turrets and tanks etc on it, as well as air enemies; like Raiden. there'd even be bosses at the end of each level, and some actual mapping oportunities).

What does everyone think of that? 

Mapping for an overhead shooter sounds interesting. Especially if the player may need to dodge some of the architecture (protruding antennea that break off when you hit them but they still cause damage to your vehicle; maybe cliffs, etc too). 

dosquake won't work on any NT, but winquake and glquake will. 

At this point, Galactix is going to split into several different mods as it is distributed to and worked on by multiple people. Everyone will release their version durring QExpo (if all goes well). The one I intend to do will involve a (probably) randomly generated terrein moving below the player, with various architecture and enemy forces strewn about, their movement and placement guided by various algorithms (curving roads, place enemies on roads and flat plains, placement of taller architecture etc).
In this sense, the taller architecture that must be dodged would sort of take the place of asteroids in the existing Galactix (something solid to dodge that randomly presents itself).

There is also the idea of just having a lateral map the player moves through. Every location of everything would be staticly defined, by the mapper, and actions would generally be scripted. However, this would add some definition and structure to the action and would beter allow the placement of bosses and powerups, etc. It would take up a lot of area though and could be tricky to implement.

I'm also considering working on Metal Slug Quake, which would operation the same idea: either have randomly generated areas the player moves through, or have a pre-built 2D world the player moves through. It wouldn't have to be lateral like Galactix though, which would help a lot.

If you're interested in trying out Galactix or mapping for it (which is about as un-complex as a box-map can get), e-mail me at static _ void @ hotmail . com . 

I'm interested, but I'm really way too busy right now. Things should ease up around the middle of May, though. 

Does anybody know how to record video from quake without any special hardware ? Nongrindspire said he has a prog, but I havent heard from him for a week. If you know how to do it, mail or post here please. 

Makes more sence to me to have a team working on a single mod, to output finished, full of features, polished and tested game, rather than five guys, each making his own version with minor variations, half of which probably wont reach even beta status. 

Yea, I don't know what to do really. In all the mods I've ever worked on for myself, I have been a 1-man army. It's hard to depend on people to deliver when you're pretty sure they won't. :)

The nice thing about Galactix (and much of the quake1 programming world) is, most of the models and pictures and stuff can be found or adapted from something else, leaving mostly only programming (which can be done by a single or maybe 2-3 people at most) and maybe some mapping. I am Galactix's 1-man team, and I produced that alone in my free time, in a relatively short time period. The 'minor' variations I'm talking about would have a fairly large effect.

And besides, I would never consider having people map for a mod until it's nearing completion. Things could change durring development (rendering the map obsolete) or the whole mod could bomb out, leaving everyone hang'n. That's not very nice.
As fickle as modding is, especially in the older games where support is limited, it's nice to be able to go at it alone.

But it would be really nice to assemble a dedicated mod team. 

Galactix is completely done. All that's been done to it lately is a few enhancements (skybox on the map, couple bugfixes, new models to replace ugly ones). That's an advantage.

What we're doing is, we're taking the completed Galactix and giving it out to people, allowing them to use it as a code base for their own mods. That's how Galactix got started. I took frikac's Snowed mod and screwed it up so bad it'll never be fixed, and thus Galactix was born. ;p
From here people will make their own games with it. 

If you wrote a good and solid design treatment first, and then took the time and effort to design every aspect of your mod, breaking stuff during the development should be almost impossible. 

The Inside3D forums people and others are planning for QExpo, but we do need help. Our php coder, Horn, and CocoT, one of the people responsible for news and planning etc, have both announced that they'll have to back out due to real live obligations.

This leaves a gaping hole relating to site design. If anyone here wishes to contribute or help, or knows someone who can, please visit at the Inside3d Forums.

http://forums.inside3d.com/
The Events forum is mainly where QExpo is discussed.

A domain has already been purchaced, by FrikaC and Horn I believe. QExpo.com isn't too shabby, now is it? We do, however, need hosting.

Also, now's the time to start figuring out what you want to do for QExpo if you wish to participate. The event is planned for late June, and as soon as we get our act together exact dates will be defined (about 10 days is the lengh we've agreed upon).

If you want help for the map or mod you're developing, it would be a good idea to frequently hop between forums and look around and ask. Things like rubble, earthquakes, force fields, endless cliffs, laser gates, radars, etc are easy for a qc coder to implement, and asking them may save you some time of scrapping code together yourself. Much of it may already be written, so it couldn't hurt to ask. 

wrath didst say:
>If you wrote a good and solid design treatment first, and then took the time and effort to design every aspect of your mod, breaking stuff during the development should be almost impossible.

Because so many mods turn out either unfeasible or simply impossible, I usually start coding before I define it too much or expect promises from a team. Also, it's my wierd coding style to get the backbone of the mod completed before I go into detail. I want to make sure everything is working first, before I shoot off with all this elegant planning. This rarely gets me into trouble, and often saves the mod. Quite often if I have a mod all planned out, and then I hit a debilitating and tenacious snag, it's usually quite depressing and what I have seems very insignificant to how far I have to go.

I guess you could say I keep a little saftey buffer of ignorance in front of me in case I hit something. I can work through it single-mindedly and then continue on.

Once the mod's physics etc are working, I can then branch out and start the magic. Here and only here does the detailed planning begin. Had I not realized this was my personal style of programming soon enough, Galactix and Battle Mech and even Jeht would have never made it off the ground.

I'm an odd one, yes.

The reason Super Smash Quake has had such a sluggish start is because I took off and planned the whole thing. Then things weren't working and I couldn't even get my unit to move and I was too frusterated to continue. So I trashed it. I had a whole amazing, elegant player control system and I just abandoned it.
It was only recently that I picked it up off the cold hard ground, brushed it off, figured out its little problems, and suddenly I have an enforcer running around and jumping on a 2-dimentional level Super Smash Bros style. So, it really *did* work, except for a little bug or two. My next mountain to tackle is getting the player to be able to jump through from below and then land on the semi-solid platforms (those ones you can land on or pass thorugh from below in SSB are essential). It's working except my way of testing if the player is stuck turned out b0rked because the quake engine hates me. I may have to do an engine mod (which I've never done before), or completely change how the mapping entities are structured.

Taking it one step at a time. In a mini mod of this calibur, physics come first, then I'll get one character working with all his moves. After that, I can make all the other characters.

Also, remember that when using a game engine you didn't make yourself, and pushing its limits, bending its will in ways it wasn't supposed to be bent, you'll always hit snags. There's always a gotcha, and you have to be ready to adapt to it (which could easily break all your old plans). 

to each his own. 

autoscreenshot (0/1, default 1):
added in as an easy way to make avis/mpegs from your quake demos. When this var is set to 1, both "playdemo" and "timedemo" will take a screenshot of every frame they render, and save them to files named "ani00000.tga" and subsequent numbers. These can then easily be stitched together with any animation software (if you don't have any, I can highly recommend "FastMovieProcessor"). Needless to say, this is very slow. Playdemo will save frames to the exact equivalent of 10fps (recommended, good for most animations), and timedemo uses the original demo fps (usually excessive!). Warning: even at 640 and 10fps, this generates 10 meg data per second of demo.

from panquake. rtfm!!! 

I just had old panquake that lacked this feature.
TA Ray 

kay. thanks guys! me will download...one of those engines. :D

and yes, the broom is safe. hehe. a girl cant do it with a broom, its no fun! >:) 

Quack: I'm sure it's quite relieved.
:)


BTW, 10 megs per second... I wish I could make some movies of Galactix and Battle Mech and Jeht, and upload to fileplanet for gratuitous advertising, but I'd run out of space REAL fast. :) Thanks for the info tho. 

Not being able to decide if it's better if people around me are happily enjoying their lives, or just as miserable and lonely as I am, I've decided to settle with just wishing everyone a happy Valentines Day. You'd all better enjoy it, but not too much or I'll come after you. 

Wazat, I find just ignoring it works fine. 

my boyfriend left me a few weeks ago and im all alone. but i was very heart broken, so i though that, by keeping my mind in other things would help me forget about the problems, i decided to start mapping! and i dont feel sad anymore! whoa!! hehe.

so...valentines day? well, i never cared about valentines day. i dont think i actually cared about holidays.

...i wrote the complete opposite of what i was going to say. :D

never mind. 

I just noticed something...

You don't have current users listed at the bottom of every page! (Hi Vigil!!!)

You do have it on the 'Site' section of the board. Just thought it would be cool if you could work it out so that its at the bottom of every page. Cheers. 

http://www.purplepussy.net/d/20020...

Holidays for February
1 St. Chronos
2 St. Roger Corman
3 St. Pokemon
4 St. Zeus
5 St. Benedict Arnold
6 St. Tlaloc
7 St. Alfred E. Newman
8 St. Teletubbie
9 St. Lewinsky
10 St. Marilyn Monroe
11 Overindulgence Festival
12 High Confiscation of Property
13 St. Snuffleupagus
14 Aztec Day/St. Seka
15 St. Grigori Rasputin
16 Cremation Wednesday/Hash Wednesday (approximate)
17 St. Isaac Asimov
18 St. Frank Miller
19 St. Senor Wenches
20 St. I.G. Farben
21 St. Boris Karloff
22 St. Hunter S. Thompson
23 St. Monty Python
24 St. Huey Newton
25 St. Burke/St. Hare
26 St. Emo Phillips
27 St. Carl Sagan
28 St. Ken Kesey 

That is a strange, strange cartoon. 

i figured leaving those statistics out of most pages would speed things up. The "who's online" thing might be nice to have on every page, though. We'll see. 

http://www.planetquake.com/speedy/...

Aghast map 'trailer'(560 kb lowres divx)

Was playing with video producer (the prog as old as quake) and refilmed vondur`s aghast demo.
Turned out rather nice imho for such low size file (and its the first time I tried video editing). I`v made all the screenshots at 320x240, so it looks messy and rather dark.

I think it can be used for quick online map preview instead of static screenshot. For portfolio it is worth making higher resolution and longer video. 

This time it's a much simpler, quicker design and I'll be offering more than Q1 maps in time. There's also one Q1 DM map there - um.. yay? 

hehe, looks very nice :) 

that's pretty cool. Maybe i should do something like that for a demo reel. 

Still waiting for ph8sp1. 

..yeah.

well. didnt know where to post this, so i guesss i'll just bother you guys here.

im making this q1map thats like an egyptian tomb/underground level. dark, tight rooms, caves, fucked up arquitecture, blah blah blah.

anyway. for a change, it would be nice to actually make it more of exploration type of map than a action based one. not just walking around and stuff, but tons of traps...kinda like indiana jones or something. there will be monsters, 'cause its gonna be way boring without them. :)

what i wanna do, is something like Thief's Down on the Bonehard mission (from the first game).

anyway, what you guys think? gonna put up some screenshots in pipeline sometime soon. :) im gonna make the map HUGE!!

... 

bahahahah

hrm.. 500 brush limit in shareware worldcraft...

the potential for me to create something even decent seems slim o.O 

Do you want Full version Worldcraft?

http://freshteam.telefragged.com/i... 

yep. 

Dont mind me 

No, its not the "Fuil Version"

But it is the Full Version, I promise you.

:) 

your map sounds interesting, i like HUGE maps :)

See it through to completion and i will give it a review at my site. 

cheers man, thanks! 

Is there a Quake 1 In-game frontend? I'd love to be able to be in game, then launch a menu that reads the maps directory, and from there you choose what map you'd like to play. That way it'd wouldn't be a bitch having to remember what's in the maps dir... 

that would seem like a simple thing to write, but (as far as i know) i dont think one exists... 

anyone know of any good programs to fix corrupt registries? 

Well RPG is awaiting my first SP map so you'll be getting that *provided* I don't become too perfectionist and quit. I decided to go with an old map I had once tried - the plot summed up is you were on a discovery job and the ground beneath you fell and you come across an underground temple. So I need to flesh out the story and get to work on it - I drew out the map on paper and it's not real big but I think this should be a good first effort; I intend it to be non-linear as well, to some extent. 

*STORY*
The news of the week was sickingly abundant. Corpses of animals littered across a half-mile radius of the country were often discovered; hell, literally stumbled onto. There was just pieces of the animals left, and one was left to only guess just which animal it is. Or used to be. No predatory animals had been reported to of escaped from any zoo or the like. The gruesome discoveries were definitely abnormal. What the hell was it that was doing this? That question became quite widely asked when ten human victims were discovered at a nearby recreational camp. The communities job had grown more vigilent, and authorities swarmed in to do what they could do. Whatever it was they could do, and they weren't quite sure yet.

For you, this all became personal. Two of the victims were your friends. Just last week you had spoken to one of them... she was so full of life. You couldn't even fathom the natural fate of age to steal her life from her. You were in discord, anger and disbelief. Your anger boiled over and it became quite evident. You'd seldomly spoke to anyone, much less your own lover and kids. It was starting to affect them. The tragedies toll on you was too much to bear, and you became obsessed with putting this murderer to death. You had no idea where to start. Eventually, you decided to settle in the camp area where the victims had once spent only one day. People couldn't believe your audacity. Some speculated the affect of the loss had warped your mind, even if your intentions were whole.

On your fourth day of the outing, your routine walk of the area in search of answers had taken a turn. You'd fallen through the ground during sunset, and landed hard. The fall knocked you out for quite some time, and you had awoken by daylight. The area before you was dimly lit by the day's sun invading the hole that was your entrance. You were alone.

Just you, your shotgun and your axe.

If only... 

I don't remember the title, but I remember it had this trap where you went onto a walkway/floor and a button was pressed and that floor would open and drop you into some kinda well killing trap.

Now, that's probably vague, but this may help: it was on a PC Gamer disc years ago that I no longer have.

Any idea? (lol) 

the one where the Quad is inside a long cage suspended over a slime trough, and the cage is dunked by a shootable button up one end of that area...then I could probably track it down otherwise <tongue> 

fitzquake has a "maps" command that lists all custom maps. It also has a "mods" command that lists all mods. I hope to have these features in the menu at some point, but for now it's still a big improvement. 

i'd strongly recommend a smallish map. maybe not small in diameter/outer boundaries but at least tight enough not to get lost. maybe consider splitting it into several maps? that way you dont have the problem of leaving it incomplete. just a suggestion...
on the other hand if you have lots of time to map, you may well want to do something quite incredible and innovative. good luck anyway! 

it sucks, i suck 

i dont have much done, kinda like 5% or something. i dont know how big its gonna be, or if its gonna come out small or how long its gonna take.

what i have in mind is to make the player go anywhere, a non-linear map, doesnt matter where you go, you'll still be able to find the exit without getting confused (pretty sure the player will get confused).

i dont mind if the player finishes the map without seeing the whole level, thats when the exploration thing comes.

i also though of making this a whole new thing, like adding new weapons, monsters and stuff...but i have no idea of how to do those. hehe.

to get the map finished. i think its gonna take me like two months or two. im very slow when it comes to quake mapping. :( 

i am thinking about maybe adding some more features/sections to my map review site.

<a> http://www.planetquake.com/underwo...

Some thoughts i had included a Quake 1 Timeline/History or A Breakdown of the Quake 1 monsters.

Has anyone got any other ideas about possible website content they would like to see? 

. 

Anyone who needs a breakdown of the Q1 monsters has serious problems. 

I'd like to see some Quake history divided into time periods. I think that could be very interesting. You'd need people who have been around since the beginning, and it would require quite a bit of time and research, though.

For example, there might be the "Ancient Period," the "Renaissance," the "Revolution," and the "Penis Fascination Period." 

And yes, I has half joking and half serious. The Penis Fascination Period would be more of a subset of the Golden Era -- perhaps 1999 through 2000. Although the Penis Fascination Period is still continuing today and we're well passed the Golden Era. :/ 

ROFL....you sarcastic bastards :p

I guess i will just stick to map reviews then.

BTW, I dont want to know anymore about your penis fascination period, RPG. 

At least not entirely. 

there sort of already are eras, for instance oldskool versus nowadays mapping... 

But they could be subdivided even further. For me, there was yet another distinct period between then and now when Q1 mappers were truely thriving and producing high-quality maps at a very prolific rate. 

The Quake1 mod Battle Mech has gotten some nice screenshots posted at moddb.
http://mods.moddb.com/1023/
They're rather plain compared to gameplay because the test map has not been lit. They do give a decent impression though.

Here are a couple samples:
http://mods.moddb.com/gallery/1023...
http://mods.moddb.com/gallery/1023...

The mod is very easy to map for, and has interesting gameplay. It's scheduled for release in June, during QExpo. I can be contacted at
static _ void @ hotmail . com
if you're interested (remove the spaces from the addy if you're not a spam bot *wink*). 

The Quake1 mod Battle Mech has gotten some nice screenshots posted at moddb.
http://mods.moddb.com/1023/
They're rather plain compared to gameplay because the test map has not been lit. They do give a decent impression though.

Here are a couple samples:
http://mods.moddb.com/gallery/1023...
http://mods.moddb.com/gallery/1023...

The mod is very easy to map for, and has interesting gameplay. It's scheduled for release in June, during QExpo. I can be contacted at
static _ void @ hotmail . com
if you're interested (remove the spaces from the addy if you're not a spam bot *wink*). 

Looks better in the maps I made. 

http://forums.overclockers.co.nz/s...

Nice :)

(Porrasturvat was that game where you pushed the guy down the stairs, if you've forgotten) 

New Zealand...

my ex girlfriend was from there...

but I'm not going to whine on this forum.

*scuttles along* 

http://pherrous.phaitaccompli.com 

Thanks to PushPlay, I now have some screenshots I can be proud of:

http://mods.moddb.com/gallery/1023...

The architecture is relatively in a above-view game (most of what you'll see is the uper surface), but on bmech03 PushPlay did an excellent job of making a map that both plays and flows extremely well.

Thanks PushPlay!

Also, I've started working on making the bot's aim direction be based on mouselook, so it's independent of the direction you're traveling. This will improve the controls greatly, and should fix the bug of not turning fast enough or not at all on some computers.

I only took shots of the first map, but there are others that can be taken too. I'm looking forward to any further additions by pushplay and anyone else who wishes to map for Battle Mech.
static _ void @ hotmail . com 

Should be
The architecture is relatively *simple* in a above-view game

And it was the third map I took shots of. :)

How do I mess up so often? :) 

That was my mix of ikblue and pox3 which I think turned out pretty well. I might do another with that combo. 

Dont know how old this is, but Ten Four (http://tenfourmaps.telefragged.co... has put up a review of a very Alien-esque map made for HL called Someplace Else. Teh visuals are very non-HL and the atmosphere is quite good. Gameplay uses standard HL alien enemies so it isnt spectacular but it's better than most HL alien only maps.

Review (http://tenfourmaps.telefragged.co... 

http://tenfourmaps.telefragged.com... 

Hi. I'm looking for mappers to make custom maps for UD. The dynamics of the game are very different. Check out http://www.freewebs.com/shadowalke... for info on this quake1 mod. To download it goto http://planetquake.com/botarea51/m...
257 downloads last version.

People with serious interest contact me...

as 

http://pherrous.phaitaccompli.com/... 

thanks for the links folks although sometimes i think you are in a rush and dont post any suitable title when you're in a rush! :-P

goin back to uvfan, yep i agree a breaking down of monsters is for retards BUT (don't go away UWfan, i'm only kidding...come back here)i would love it if you put info on various styles and eras. very much think its useful. indeedy. the penis attraction is a bit like those 2-3 yr periods in art like the "Blaue Reiter" (have i got this right? i've forgotten names of austrian and german art) 

i am not saying anything. 

It took you seven words to not say it. 

correct.... you have proved you are clever.

Now go away, or you wont keep getting such good map reviews from me! 

fucking sonofabitch goddammit i hate mapping i can't do SHIT my 30138193114891741th attempt at a single player map and i start out and it sucks major ass why do i even TRY 

i envy all of you 

know where i can get any converted Q2 for Q1 maps, DM or single player? (pref) 

know where i can get any converted Q2 for Q1 maps, DM or single player? (pref) 

...you try because you want to, but it's bloody hard work.

As a Quake noob about 3 years ago I tried to start mapping and I failed miserably :(

I started doing the double-helix staircase from Chambord Chateau as my map centrepiece, which eventually worked after about four attempts from scratch and about 30 hours work including learning the editor, but that was all I ever achieved; I just found the rest, trying to learn *everything* including brushes, placement, lighting, construction, clipping, occlusion just TOO time-consuming and TOO frustrating.

I had more success modifying some of my favourite DM maps for CTFBot, but that was just entity work, which was fun.

So, I just hang around here, now, admiring the works of others and enjoying the ambience... 

heh...
hehe...

hehehehehehe...

no, really, why are you here? 

No descriptions yet but I'm sure you can guess how they'll go:

Grunt (lowlius gruntus)

Rottweiler (canus bitesus)

Enforcer (laserus fireus)

Knight (likus gruntus withus swordus)

DeathKnight (knitus deathus)

Rottfish (annoyingus lowframeus)

Ogre (bombus uglius)

Shrag (uglius aerus)

Shalrath (uglius rectalis-in-facus)

Tarbaby (hydrus bouncus)

Shambler (bigus badus assus maximus)

Chthon (lavus invincibus) 

i know the editor real well, its just.. well i think i'm decent, but not up to what i think i can put out.. i just have to conceptualize further my ideas 

sorry my non-sense of humour upset you. i still think your idea is cool.. 

you assume to much, my young jedi. (or something). 

yeah yeah starting over higher standards blah blah..

http://pherrous.phaitaccompli.com/...

cant derive much yet, but i think you can see it's kinda curvy there'll be like 3 levels to the map, i actually drew this muthafucka out on paper so its coming along nicely - just don't let me rush it! 

you better do not post such screens here. if you really wanna map, just sit tight and learn how-to, and after you get something really interesting, tell us about it. stop annoying with useless and tiny screenshots :)

or at least use screenshots thread....
rememeber, noone interested in your boxy pre-alpha screenshots. ppl needs at least playable betas or something... 

What can I say, I'm new :P It's coming along quite nicely however, I think it should turn out to be a good map. 

good if so, but try holding your development screens for yourself :) we need final (or beta) product :) 

when you spend HOURS on a map only to be totally disatisfied with it? I was really confident about it's start.. I had it sketched out and was following to plan. Then I realized the map lacked something, I don't know what. I was trying to add a 2nd level to the map but didn't know exactly in what I was going to, and now all that work is gone. What damn justification is there to wasted time like this? 

if you don't think it's worth the risk of failure, maybe this isn't the hobby for you. 

don't worry about it, you're not saving the world, it's a quake map. relax, and keep mapping, scrap it if you don't like it - but keep mapping. 

yes, what slime and wrath said. it's just a hobby, no need to make inquisition out of it. find other, more satisfying hobby for yourself, if mapping is a torture for you. with troubles you have, there never will be a good map in the end, remember that. 

What damn justification is there to wasted time like this?

Improvement. Getting more familiar with the tools. Learning what works and what doesn't.

The start room in RPGSP1 went through at least 3 completely different designs before I found one that was moderately acceptable. And this does not include the dozen less significant revisions I made to each design trying to get it to work.

Also, I'm working on a map now which has 2 rooms that are not good enough. I've reworked each room at least 3 times each, and they're still not right.

Mapping is not something you can do overnight. It took me 9 months to complete RPGSP1, and the final room was still rushed (and it shows). Take your time. When something doesn't work out, change it, or delete that part and start it again. It will come to you. 

Okay, I'm vaguely considering purchasing a digital camera. I wouldn't use it very often, so I'm not interested in having a geekishly large amount of features, but I'd also like something of good quality and at a good price.

Any suggestions? 

does anyone know an alternative download site i could use for map downloads at my site, apart from fileplanet?

It must be free, obviously. 

<RPG> Hey nice! Google search for "s4wk" brings up my old web page on Tripod!
<RPG> http://images.google.com/images?q=... haha
<RPG> Searching for "r4wk" brings up a picture of Vanessa Upton and a pic of me! :D
<RPG> 0wn!
<Friction> CONSPIRACY
<RPG> http://images.google.com/images?q=...
<RPG> 0wn 0wn 0wn!
<Friction> bizarre

Now is that indescribably cool or what? :D 

Top link should be: http://images.google.com/images?q=... 

You will need to turn Google's SafeSearch OFF to get those results. 

AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO POSTS ON THIS BOARD??! 

every other post is auto-generated by the metlslime-forumbot ai.
it's all a plot to kill you, we have your adress, you know too much, et cetera. 

If you kill me then at least I know you're not ignoring me. 

I wanna see em.. so, anyone know where they at? Can't find em 

I wanna see em.. so, anyone know where they at? Can't find em 

an alternative to scrapping a map, is to leave it alone for a span of time and come back to it later. i started nesp09 about ... shit... like a year ago or something. i just came back to it a couple of months ago, and construction is going fast again. if you feel yourself slowing down or getting bored, take a step back and get some fresh air-- work on something else maybe -- but don't simply delete your unfinished maps. you never know when you'll find something you really liked in an old piece of junk. 

Also make maps that are easy to walk and maybe even align textures ! 

try http://www.dpreview.com, nice resource. it helped me to select my camera.... 

I don't know that I'm using them but..

I can do better, but this was kinda my first shot.. the tiles aren't as tile-ish as I want and aren't perfect squares um the bottom half of the wall needs to be done better.. the blood's alright.. what do you think?

http://pherrous.phaitaccompli.com/... 

http://pherrous.phaitaccompli.com/... fun 

the dir is open

http://pherrous.phaitaccompli.com/...

i should fix these 

the dir is open

http://pherrous.phaitaccompli.com/...

i should fix these 

See that thing called the screenshot thread? Right then. 

.... 

Give us double-post protection NOW =) 

phait, man. the screenshot thread is empty. go fill it with the screenshots ;-)

answering rpg's question: i'm thinking of buying one of these

canon powershot a40 (Ģ210, 1.9Mp, 1600x1200 8/10 in digital photography magazine)

or

sony cybershot dsc-p71 (Ģ280, 3.2Mp, 2048x1536, 8/10 review)

i just happen to have the mag on my desk now... 

does anyone have experience with Maya? I'm using it at the uni and trying to make a car (like i did with 3dsmax with polys) with nurbs. does anyone know some good tutorials on cars (or else)? I'm doing Birail 2 and 3 so i'm finding quite a steep learning curve because i'm not used to the modifying parameters in Maya yet.

I know there's a lot of tutorials around but i always like to dload some that have been recommended to me so i dont spend ages sorting through poor tutorials.

...now, where can i use that fur effect on a car...hmmmm.... 

on the dices in the window. 

Cheers you two. Daftpunk, I think those a bit out of my price range though. Hopefully I can find something reasonably nice for less money. 

http://images.google.com/images?q=... 

http://www.michellebates.net/bman/... 

http://www.sweet-mystery.com/WEB%2... 

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/so...

got it for my Bday last week...




haven't used it much tho 

I envy you. 

It's the Sony DSC-P7, not P9, my bad, sorry... 

I moved my site.
http://www.cursesandepithets.com/ 

cool metl.
i got some pics of a car with live grass on it somewhere 

My little brother uses Maya. Quite proficiently, apparently. He never uses the net 'tho. He says it's a wonderful program. 

 

as people in the business refers to it; the web, yo! 

is there a site that is full of quake screenshot art, like with captions and such? 

i been thinkin of making some doom 3 inspired textures and taking an original doom 1 level and adding some extras to it and using these textures.. 

i just played HIPDM1 in Single player, pretty good! (See the Coagula Contest 2 thread for details).

Anyway, does anyone know of any others DM maps (ID/hip/rogue or otherwise) that can be played in true Single Player [not DMSP] like this? 

Most of Vondur's DM maps have SP combats... 

and it's ZED2
but it's rather difficult to find how to open SP secret there ;) 

I can't find the secret place in ZED2, even when I use noclip! And this prevents me from playing this map in DMSP also! I hate you! 

Try [Kona]'s Chanthood: http://ethereal-hell.telefragged.c...

And Gilt's Symbiotic Pipe Dream: http://204.50.28.112/qexpo/upload/...
Gilt's site is here, but it seems to be down ATM: http://sobe.ath.cx/~gilt/ 

Unless I'm completely mistaken, Gilt released a Q1DM map called "Cube" or something similar. The map was made using only rectanglular brushes. Can someone please point me where to find it? :( 

silly noclipper! 

lob many grenades into the aaaaargh...gurgle 

http://speedmap.narod.ru/trw.zip


Right angles are beautiful too 

There's a pair of deep slots in a wall somewhere. Arm up and keep shooting down it until you hear teleports. 

hey guys.. anyone remember quite a while ago seeing a port of Quake that all the textures appeared pencil shaded?? It looked like all the polys where drawn by hand.

I was looking for it couldnt find it.. someone must have a URL. :) 

hey guys.. anyone remember quite a while ago seeing a port of Quake that all the textures appeared pencil shaded?? It looked like all the polys where drawn by hand.

I was looking for it couldnt find it.. someone must have a URL. :) 

maybe you're thinking of NPRQuake. I'm going to bed, but a simple google search should suffice. 

any Quake 1 maps of Quake 2 SP or DM maps.. surely it's been done!

Yes I have Q2 I would convert if I had a better computer... 

distrans/Fatty: Cheers, guys. I had already berated Vondur on IRC into giving me some tips on how to find it. Maps that have a little something extra are cool. :)

speedy: j00 r4wk!

phait: I'm fairly certain that there was Q1 version of Q2DM1 The Edge. Regardless, the only way I know how to find it is to check MPQ, which has been removed from the internet. 

http://www.gamers.org/pub/idgames2... 

http://www.gamers.org/pub/idgames2...

same author, too. 

(metl, now we can officially regard this board as inaugurated)

POSTING DRUNK!!Q 

finally! 

I've just started to play this game and think it is amazing. Have any of you tried it? what do you think? 

already got edge though, unless this is a diff tex' one (hopefully) 

who here agrees with me that:

using Quake's default textures in their maps is more skillful? because custom textures usually do most of the work of making a map's appearance, atmosphere, mood etc that much better.. even though Quake's texture's are bland compared to todays, they are their own - but using them to their best potential over finding the limits of them while putting out a good quality map is talent.. agree? hopefully i wasn't too vague 

or, not "over" 

i do think there is a challenge to making something fresh with familiar old textures. 

Well it is for me. Hi everyone, just thought I'd say hi and stuff. And thanks to Metl for coming to QMaps rescue. I'm still on my travels, just thought I should let everyone know that Frib is much taller in real life. 

nice to hear from ya, peej!
force frib to map while you're there damnit! :) 

Taller than what? 

someone else who is shorter. 

yeah, i'm playing Morrowind right now too. this game just refuses to end! it's amazing how long it is... not to mention, there are so many 'plugins' to get. also, the Construction Set thing is so easy to use! mapping for it is a little gay though, since you can only use premade chunks, meaning any new chunks must be made in a 3d modelling program beforehand...

yeah, anyway, it's a cool game! 

Glad to hear you're getting on alright! :) If you check back here again, enjoy the rest of your travels. Actually, enjoy the rest of them anyway. 

Does anyone have a copy of XeNoN's (also known as xen) Trick or Treat (xntrick)? 

Scampie was kind enough to pass it to me. (I mean xntrick, not AIDS.) 

Here is the link you're searching for:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/graphics/Ga...
:)
Salutes 

is pretty amazing, played it for ages. it gives so much freedom, and exploring the world is so much fun. if you like RPGs though, you have to play gothic II... it is just as amazing as morrowind (but in a different way), and with better story, npc interaction, and diversity. 

Iīve been in love with this one too, althought it encourages to much being a thief (the evil side is too strong :). I think I'll install it again... 

I sincerely thank you, but I really didn't deserve it. Because of the fact that PQ is a big, well known site it's humbling yet honoring that I got that mention - maybe you all are like "uh dude.. why are you making a deal out of this?" -- I'm new to this community. I haven't developed a reputation - and frankly, my skills ain't all that.

But anyways, thank you - whoever. 

this is one of the sites pq news people visit periodically for news stories. So i think they just saw the story on our news page. 

does anyone know an easy way to sort data automatically within HTML. Its for my hall of fame/map rankings page.

What i want is just to be able to put in the new totals and it automatically resorts the maps.

thanx uwf 

NT. 

i suppose i could possibly learn php. i have deliberatly and studiously avoiding it so far.

any other thoughts/suggestions from anyone? 

Well similar to php but not quite the same is asp. Besides that you could use javascript and put all the processing client side, or use a javaservelt and put all the processing server side.

If you know sql then go php, if you know java go servlet, otherwise go php. It's less powerful but really good for basic sorting. 

BTW, more reviewage (Q1SP-brainstorm architecture, Cube-Monster Machine) now available at my site.

http://www.planetquake.com/underwo... 

You thank me far too easily. :)

http://www.cursesandepithets.com/d... 

and check out this piece I spent 2 hours on originally at 800x600 :P

http://www.phaitaccompli.com/desig...

all Photoshop, wee...

I need to work on some more textures 

I checked my referrals and news of my map is on Quakepit.com and http://qw.fpp.pl/ and ... ok - I'm just ECSTACTIC - I didn't think any of my stuff would be worthy of mention anywhere else... wow... I dunno what to say lol *sniffle* I want to get a comments system up on my site, I'll look into that...

Oh by the way.. why are sites that don't have my site linked, in my referral stats? 

so would a p3-733 with 384mb ram and a GF2 handle this game well at high-meium settings? 

I coded my own PHP form script - major accomplishemnt for a non-dev for me:

http://pherrous.phaitaccompli.com/...
http://pherrous.phaitaccompli.com/... link to comment 

Minimum:
WindowsŪ XP, ME, 2000, or 98 (95 and NT™ not supported); 600 MHz Intel PentiumŪ III or AMD Athlon Processor; 192 MB RAM; 4x CD-ROM; 2.2 GB Hard Drive Space; 16 MB Direct3D Compatible 3D Accelerator Card with Transform & Lighting Capability (GeForce 1 or Equal); DirectX 8.1 Compatible Sound Card; Keyboard; Mouse

Recommended:
Intel PentiumŪ 4 1.5 GHz or Athlon 1 GHz; 256 MB RAM; 16x CD-ROM; 32 MB Direct3D Compatible 3D Accelerator Card with Transform & Lighting Capability (GeForce 3 or Equal) with DirectX 8.1 Compatible Driver; Environmental Audio Capable Sound Card 

thanks wrath, so how will it really run on something just above the min requirements <smile> 

what would you like to see?

so far it's coming along rather nicely, i may post screens later. it's mostly a green theme to it so far but this could change. i'm really confident in this map seeing how well it's progressing and looking. 

How will it run?

Like Christopher Reeves post accident. Covered in crude oil. On Jupiter. At absolute zero. 

ok, I guess I'll pass on it then. 

Yes, you're an asshole. 

It's just a lite joshing from someone with too much free time on his hands, don't take it as anything else.

Using grenade launcher and ammo as proper nouns did strike me as odd though 

You dont sound like your english is perfect either, some of your corrections (didnt read thru whole text) are not needed or just wrong.
If you really wanted to help uwfan with the review, you could just email him.
Be nice ! 

http://www.planetquake.com/musashi...

Map by maric for q2 dm I think. 

Some of them might be style issues, but if you think I'm wrong then go nuts and tell me where. 

yeah, that map looks nice. I don't agree with all of the detailing and stuff, but the overall effect is very impressive. 

I am thinking about trying to set up one night a week where people can get together and play FFA or 4v4 (with random teams) on custom maps at a specified time. Each week I would select a collection of maps from a specific mapper and people could play on my server as long as they wanted. I need to have some input if the mappers/readers of this site would want to take part in this. My server is located in the eastern USA and can handle 8 people. If an odd number of people show up, or more than 8 show up, I will always be the first to sit out.

Here would be an example of what would happen if it were "Fribbles" night:

We start out playing a 10 minute game on EFDM1, then 10 minutes on EFDM2, and onward till we finish with EFDM13 or until no one wants to play anymore. If people still wanted to play we could play pkeg or fribweb1.

If you are interested in playing, please message me on irc with times that are good for you and suggestions.

Thanks,

zzjzz 

do you mind elaborating please? I would like to hear your viewpoint on what you with do differently on detailing etc? 

I'm interested as long as it'll take place sometime when I can participate. 

I agree, they look very nice. Good use of textures, and the architecture is very good looking from the screenshots. 

tis much nicer than a gf4mx.

1280x1024 32bit, 6x AA and 8x Anistriopic filtering in unreal2 smooth 

from what i hear though the 128mb ti4200's are just marginally better/faster than the ti4200 64mb's, to the point where you get more for less buying a 64mb one (which i just did). 

but the 128mb should be more future proof, hopefully :)

it cost Ģ130 

I Am Looking for maps that people have played in DMSP that work good with the mod (in gameplay terms). cool textures etc are an added bonus. 

If it isnt the weekend i can participate, i dont have a decent connection on weekends. 

Not that I want to overpimp, but I recommend DMSP in the readme for kdmd - In The Dark Decayed. I enjoyed it; partly because of the cold, nocturnal medieval atmosphere, partly because the layout makes for some interesting combat but mostly because - almost uniquely - it contains no rocket launcher. You're forced to use your weapons wisely and develop strategies for defeating the Bad Dudes, which is exactly what Aard talks about in the DMSP readme.
So there :P 

zzjzz:

Sounds cool. I'd need a day's warning to get hold of the maps for that night ( hey, some of us ain't got a lot of drive-space or net-access :/ ) but I'd be up for that.
Of course, I'll die like a gnat in a fire but that's not the point... 

went over to your page and downloaded most of your DM maps, gonna give them a try. "Void Runner" might be interesting in DMSP, i will see... ;) 

at the list of registered "people" here(that would be "us"), and i noticed an astonishing and outrageous fact!

Scampie has not yet made a single post!

Where are you Scampie? ;) 

It sounds like Saturday would be a good day to have it, as people are requesting the weekend. Now all I need is for people to suggest times. I am in irc a lot, so just tell me a time. I have a webpage where I can list the maps and put host them for download. Hopefully next Saturday (or Sunday) we can start. 

i could DM but unfortunately apparently AOL has some firewall that inteferes with Quake World yeah you'll flame me but i don't pay for AOL so..... put that in yer pipe n' smoke it

but we're sposed to go to a local, cheaper ISP soon, hrm.. 

i can dm on qw... are you sure it's not some local setting? 

an article i wrote
http://www.phaitaccompli.com/perso... 

like? i was going to DM months ago with a web design friend and I fired up QW, kept saying it was connecting over and over but didn't get anywhere, he attributed it to AOL. 

http://veepersplay.budweiser.com/i... 

Hmm...

It's been coming along rather nicely, but it's a bit larger than I originally intended. Theres a moderately open area, I am thinking of walling it... I'm on my way to working to the outside of the map...

I'm thinking of scrapping and starting over but smaller. Unless *maybe* someone wants my work and wants to do something with it, but gimme credit? 

for the base that is 

john, I'd play, but I need to get a net connection at home first (hopefully fairly soon).

Slight problem with timezones though... 

That's not nice :( 

So... You have a job? Hopefully it's as an international porn star. Or even better, a level designer! 

didn't get anywhere, he attributed it to AOL.

that's your problem.

not being able to connect to a game can be any number of problems that i won't even bother going into now. 

I'm gonna mess around w/ this tonight 

Lun knows I love him. 

Ok I've got QW 2.3 and Gamespy..

I launch a game and it says:

connecting to [address], server version is 2.40

then it pauses a second, and the message appears over and over and over... 

it repeats:

connecting to [address], server version is 2.40
[address]: Challenge
[address]: Print 

I'm on NetZero now, not AOL and I have the same problem.... 

I think you guys are gonna love it.. it's bloody, and it um.. stares at you.. MWAHAHAHAHA this is my best work yet, I've never done anything quite this realistic before. 

I have lost my quake cd someone and have recently format, am I allowed to download a copy of quake and if so where can I get it? 

I like cubes! 

I put up a DMSP2 page at my site...

http://www.planetquake.com/underwo...

someone can easily beat my times, i know. 

I've made a single player map called 'The Hellbridge'. It isn't so good as yours but it's my first real Q1 map.

Would you look at it and tell some words about it to me.

you can download it from
http://www.pulsar.pochtamt.ru/maps... 

Downloading your map now, if its good enough, there will be a review at my site soonish. 

Well, someones been playing the id maps for inspiration ;) Definately showing your influences and that's no bad thing.
The texture theme is a cool combination of blues and browns, metal and stone. The architectural features are a little plain in places, but some of the roofwork and metal bars are nicely done; definately nothing stands out as ugly to my tastes.
The gameplay is great fun - I mostly enjoyed this map. The monster placement is intelligent and you have some good use of ogres in their. i think my favorite bit was with the two hollow squares that drop to reveal ogres and switches inside: a good combination of effects.
There are a LOT of switches though. Although I didn't find it particularly difficult to work out where to go, I sometimes wondered what each switch was doing - a little more visual and thematic connection needed there.
Some of your doors were kind of plain, with nothing to indicate they were actually doors; you don't need to conceal a door if it's part of the mandatory level progression.
My least favorite aspect of the map, and the only really objectionable one, was the lava and hazards. The first 'hellbridge', with the spikeshooters on either side, gives absolutely no warning you are about to be shoved sideways to your death...that's a bit much, and is the kind of thing that can ruin an otherwise good map. The series of crushers preceding the Gold Key were also excessively harsh. And the winding metal beam to said item was really a bit much; reducing the lava to slime or water and placing some rotfish, something to make it damaging but not lethal, would have been preferable.
I found three of the secrets fairly easily, but that's not a criticism.
Oh, and the trigger_push leading to the Silver Key traps you at the top of the wind tunnel. Needs fixed.

However, you got a lot more right than wrong - the fact that I've just had several entertaining minutes is the sign of a good map. For your nest one I recommend establishing strong consistency to you theme and refining it with more detail, trim, decoration and so on. Ease up on the traps a little andyou'll be turning out some very good SP maps.

Kell 

there's an interview with me :P and with the owner of PC-Chick that I did at http://www.phaitaccompli.com/perso... 

yeah, what kell said...
avoid deathtraps they're frustrating.
overall, nice oldskool map, keep on mapping :) 

I don't think Netzero will let you game. In fact I think it may have removed online capability for regular Quake on my machine as a result of trying. Oddly, the tricks for using Dreamcast on Netzero does allow gaming. Obviously, that has no ad bar or anything. I don't know anything about the pay Netzero except that it's supposedly the "Ultimate Internet." Not.

AOL can be used but I did see some cases it refused to connect anything but its own browser (normally, let it connect, minimize AOL, pretend it's normal service). Usually a reboot would fix this.

Currently switched to Intergate, getting more speed, some sub 200 ms pings, much cheaper. Not broadband but still impressive. Now I just need my computer to work again.

As to deathtraps, yeah, but there is something irreplacable about seeing 20 ton bloody steel spikes slicing away and stuff like that. 

Just downlaoded the latest tread and upon trying to use textures in a quake map it gave me the error message: Seek unable on this

I assumed the textures were gfx.wad??

How can I make textures work in tread 3d for quake? 

Ok Gib, it is a pretty decent editor, at least the version I use is 1.12 (all personal opinion of course). I can't say that I care all that much for the Tread3D 2.4 version that is currently available for download. That said, I am willing to make what I have available to the Qmap "gang of louts". It is/was registered in my name back in the day when they charged for it. Yep, I paid $35 to get my paws on it and have been pretty happy with it for over 4 years. I do use a couple versions of Radiant, Quark and World Craft now and then too.

BUT, try this first...

-Look in your Tread3D root dir. for ExtPak2.exe
-Run it with a double-click
-Point it's browser to your Quake dir. and allow it to run.
-Thats it! There will now be a c:\Quake\id1\quake.wad in your Options/Game Quake/textures viewer.

You will be ready to go from there and you can do the same process to load custom .wads.

Just a few bits about Tread;

-It loves to crash after the viewing of large quantities of textures in the Texture browser. I recommend that you save just before and right after selecting a texture.
-The CZG is scetchy at best and horrible in general, for the most part. I suggest that you NEVER CARVE with Tread (or any other Quake/Quake2 editor).
-Once a map grows to a large size, the Render view is very, very slow. I build without the use of the Render window exept when tweaking textures.

You may want to try an iteration of Radiant, I personally can't stand any of them but they are more stable and flexible. Once you get used to Tread and its quirks, I doubt anything else will do. (I imagine all editors have that effect eh?) 

Again, does anyone want to use this as a base? Just give me credit, and let us all know how it turns out if you use it.

http://pherrous.phaitaccompli.com/...

Have fun! 

Just finished Moonlight Assault.

Wow.

Fucking huge! How long did that take to compile, what are your machine specs?

I like how it lead me on to think that after one batch of a good challenge of monsters, I thought I was through only to find - I wasn't. I think the map was too big though - fairly empty. But it was a good challenge, and great map. 

yes, I am alive... but I don't visit this board.. becuase for whatever reason I can't login my account(s). :(

everyone else knows I'm still quite active in #terrafusion. 

yes, I am alive... but I don't visit this board.. becuase for whatever reason I can't login my account(s). :(

everyone else knows I'm still quite active in #terrafusion. 

D-D-D-Double post!

fuckin' awesome or what dudes? :D 

i have a job at TKO in santa cruz. I put all my stuff in storage, but i'm currently homeless. So, all my home projects like func and rubicon2 and fitzquake are on hold until i can set up my computer. 

at my site

hellBridge
Rune Run 

your site is all black and in turn it makes every page I go to appear black unless I restart the browser - but your site remains black... 

Rater good map. I liked the layout, gameplay (except that nasty push into lava) and some imaginative designes.
What you lacking is the consistency and proper texture usage. The map is a mishmash of styles and textures. IE same blue wall textures (the dm4 one) used allover walls, floors, bridges, supports, railings..
Look at how things done in e3 quake maps, or better some custom maps with strong style.

Nice to see a mapper from ??????. ?? ?????? ?????? ??????? ? ?? ?.??????????
Cheers 

Íó ũōî įā íāôčã ? 

http://pere.50megs.com/wpolys.htm

rofl :) 

Ïðčĸōíî âčäåōü åųå îäíîãî ėāïïåðā čį Ðîņņčč. Čį ęāęîãî ãîðîäā ęņōāōč? ß čį Ņ.Ïåōåðáóðãā 

Glad you had fun. 8)

Moonlite was made on a PII300 w/320MB RAM (started out with 128MB, but had to upgrade!). I don't really remember the compile time too well, but I think it was something like 15 mins bsp, 4 hours light and 7 hours vis. 

http://pere.50megs.com/wpolys.htm

rofl :) 

http://pere.50megs.com/wpolys.htm

rofl :) 

i need a new machine.

150 MHz CYRIX of all CPU's... 48MB RAM..

however my friend Murph in the UK offers to compile my maps on his PC... 

Here you go.. I'm not normally big on photo manips, but oh well.

If you can spot the muscle man, I'll give you a cookie!

http://pherrous.phaitaccompli.com/...

Sorry it's only 800x600... 

/me wonders if Maric's misspelling of CSG was intentional or not... 

.. 

Ummmmm... No, but what a brain-fart induced typo eh?

My appologies good sir. For all I know there is nothing scetchy about you whatsoever, then again... ;-) 

Where did you get the name "CSG?" Is it a reference to the BSP process?

Dietz: heh. 

Christian Something Gravert.

right? 

Your HELLbridge map is nice, especially gameplay-wise. My only complaints would be the aforementioned slightly annoying lava trap, the wind tunnel bug and the fact that I had some trouble finding the whereabouts of the gold key.

If you have more maps like this in your drawer, I'd like to see them ... 

CSG = Constructive Solid Geometry

Not a Quake thing, but a Half-Life and Quake 3 thing. I thingk. :P 

"That tactic owned hard that wall." 

That link was handy, but you didn't have to post it 3 times. :)

Thanks.

H-Hour: lol 

Thanks everyone who said something about my map.

But this is my first SP map, but soon I'll publish another one.

to Speedy:
ß čį Ðîņōîâā-íā-Äîíó.
Ā ėíîãî åųå ėýïïåðîâ čį Ðîņņčč ęðîėå ōåáĸ č Âîíäóðā? 

I'm impressed Pulsar that you could build such a large level in only three weeks.
Liked it but has the same complains as others.
the lava trap that came out of nowhere, the wind tunnel and some confusion as to where to go when I had pressed the two buttons in the start room. Found the gold key though!
Let us get some more maps from you! 

quake does csg. unreal does csg. Pretty much any game that has brushes has csg. 

The original GTA has been released by <strike>DMA</strike> Rockstar games as a free download. This actually happened about a week ago, but their server was farked / slashdotted / wanged / makeupawordhere.

http://www.rockstargames.com/class...

It's a classic, go get it. 

I remember there was this one site that offered GTA 1 and other games for free - some kinda deal with the developers/publishers.

GTA 1 was a blast, never played GTA 2 or 3. Yet. 

Eternal Dismemberment Complex is a great map aesthetically but it seemed sparse on ammo and weapons. I was using Reaper bot 0.8 beta, got creamed o_O

Fucking awesome map though. 

try using a bot that doesn't cheat! 

yeah use omibots. Skorpion's done heaps of routes for them too at his page : http://www.planetquake.com/skorpio... 

rocks with frogbots tho
insanely fast and fun gameplay
one of the best maps!!!

/me hugs Tyrann once more :) 

Tomorrow (Saturday) at 3pm Eastern Standard time, we will be playing some FFA or Teamplay on my server. We will be playing all of Aardappels maps for about 10 minutes each on my server. Stop by #terrafusion for details a few minutes before 3pm EST. 

The game is quakeworld... 

you don't get any cookies for a week! 

Vagrant Story Quake
http://mods.moddb.com/1127/

Quake Tactics
http://mods.moddb.com/1128/

Quake-e-mon
http://mods.moddb.com/1131/

CTF Plugin
http://mods.moddb.com/1151/

VoidTF
http://mods.moddb.com/1152/?view=a...

Return Fire Quake
http://mods.moddb.com/1153/

Shub Fusion Weapons Demo
http://mods.moddb.com/1159/?view=a...


Some of these mods are still in the works (like Return Fire Quake), while others are as done as they're going to get (like Quake-e-mon, though I'm considering doing a remake of that for QExpo...under a different name... ;p ). 

Quake-e-mon looks cool. I haven't tried it, though. If you remake it for QExpo, let me know. I'd be interested in making some arenas for you (maybe distintive arenas for each Quake monster?). 

hey guys, sign the petition!

http://www.petitiononline.com/bal3... 

You are teh funny man!

I could start a similar SP petition for Kona to release some of his maps.

I will email him soon about them, i think ;) 

Maybe you could rather have some good maps, instead of just sticking to one particular author ? 

to remove over-content flash ads and popup-flash-sound/music ads on Gamespy.

I don't care that you can still close them anyway - it's annoying, frustrating, and interrupting the content us visitors are looking for.

At least, that's what I think. 

It was kinda fun, if slow (not performance wise but gameplay wise) but that's part of it. I think it'd be cool to have spectator voices like "Enforcer wins" etc... also having people create their own arenas.

Nice effort :) 

I havent completed it yet, but it's awesome - very professional design to it, I'm impressed. Love the Half-Life health/ammo/armor replenishment homages too 

is so stupid I can't even think of anything sarcastic to say about it. 

"Makes me glad Lun3DM4 is in the capable hands of RPG."

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA [...] HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH [...] HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA [...] HAHAHAHA! 

I bought Enclave today. I won't have time to play it for a few days, but I'm really excited about it. It looks very cool.

Any news on the tools? If you/they are not planning to release them, I have some fine, white powder that I'm going to send to the Starbreeze offices. And it's not cocaine. 

vote / view source http://www.phaitaccompli.com/perso...

major accomplishment for me 

Today we played all of Aardappels maps ranging from the sleak and stylish e1m2ish to the maniacal slopy. We had between 4 and 7 people playing at a time.

Next week will will feature the maps from Bal. We will play all the Baldm's and a few of his lost maps. If I have a chance to hack into his hard drive, we may even play some maps bal never released :)

Finally to speedy: I would just like to have a day to get together to play all the maps from a selected author. If people just got together to play the best maps of all time, it would just be like playing on a standard FFA server. 

Some reason there's a bug there - it wasn't there locally.. fixing - disregard till later. 

your childish threats have but an amusing effect on me. 

Bleh, if you're bored enough to actually vote on the hairdo I should get - my poll is working now *whew* http://www.phaitaccompli.com/perso...

Fun 

You didn't answer my question. 

okay, for real this time.

everyone has work up the ass right now, so I can't tell you anything new. I'll be sure to keep you folks updated if there are any changes.

Also, you're a softwitted sheep-fucker. 

I wouldn't want anyone to think I was hardwitted. But more importantly, being a sheep-fucker is probably better than being a Maj-fucker. (Poor Maj.)

Thanks for the update. I hope you lot can get the tools out. (And I don't mean the penises.) 

I should do a Quake madlibs, definitely:

http://www.phaitaccompli.com/crap/... 

Will you survive an Alien Invasion?

http://www.ugo.com/channels/filmtv... 

with 50, so I'm still a sitting duck. 

yarr 

Chance of survival: great. Apparently i've 'got your wits about me.' 

'got my wits about me' 

starbuck, you're kurt russell then, you can fight them but die in the end then :) 

arb arb arb! 

 

score = 75 "you've got the basic skills, but alien invasion is anything but basic"

Q. What do you do if someone says to you "I'm much better now, I want to come back inside"

A. Set them on fire!

Bwahahahaahaha 

Interesting story. I used such words as "CardO", "wankery", "penis", "dildo", and "man-love" and it had a remarkable resemblance to my everyday life! 

Well the story was really on-the-spot.

I hope to do something Quake related with what I've done with PHP so far.. any ideeas? 

One day, Cthon decided to go for a walk. As they grabbed their voreball, they tripped over a lightning and broke their ravenous paw. Cthon cried out in pain, and soon Shub-Niggurath came to their help. Unfortunately, Shub-Niggurath had a severe case of ineffable bileitis, and it soon spread to Cthon.

Not realize the devastating effects that ineffable bile had on human beings, Cthon and Shub-Niggurath decided to check into a hospital. Upon arrival they discovered that many hospital employees were very slimey. Cthon and Shub-Niggurath were shocked and retched in sheer black! As we all know, history repeats itself and Cthon and Shub-Niggurath injured themselves by running flat into a spire. Things had now gotten quite bloody, and everyone in the hospital disemboweled.

The moral of this story is absolutely leathery and has no point whatsoever. Therefore the author of this story, ever Lovecraftian, really had no idea what to write for the sole entertainment purposes of Cthon and their completely fictional misadventure, so this is all really a indelible piece of Celephais!

Okay... 

I didn't mean with that story persay, but oh well :P 

even PQ seem to think that daz and dranz are the same person. 

I always thought they were; just split into two bodies for maximum efficiency. 

http://www.planearium.de/flash/sp-...

I'm gonna do something like this but with Quake, hehe - 'cept I don't know / own Flash... maybe do something through PHP somehow. 

http://www.signsofkoth.co.uk/koth-... 

You did all of Contract Revoked, correct? 

Yeah 

Interested? 

Yeah, sure 

do you have AIM or Yahoo Messenger or ICQ? If not I'll just e-mail the questions, but conversational interviews are so much better.. 

I don't have any of those.
Could we do it across IRC?
Sorry, I'm new to all this :P 

IRC uhm... sure, but I've only used that once and so I'll have to d/l and figure it out - what room / whatever? 

IRC uhm... sure, but I've only used that once and so I'll have to d/l and figure it out - what room / whatever? 

Well, if we logon to Gamesnet, we can create a channel specifically for oursleves. I know how to do that much :) 

can I do this through mIRC? (new to this) 

can I do this through mIRC? (new to this) 

yeah, that's what I installed for #terrafusion 

Make yer channel :) 

Make yer channel :) 

#phait

( do I need to post this twice? :P ) 

Couldn't you just have finished the interview here?
Since you were already at such a flying start I mean.... 

:P 

Stuff you, CZG :D 

This is the General Abuse, after all. 

nice 

"The film business is a shallow money trench. A long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs." -- Hunter S. Thompson 

"The process of trying tomake a film in Hollywood is like trying to cook a side of beef by having a succession of people come into the room and breathe on it" - Douglas Adams in The Salmon Of Doubt 

http://www.planetquake.com/underwo...

if enough people post them here, i might make a page at my site. 

http://www.cursesandepithets.com/p...

More than any of the others anyways. 

Gave Pherrous a facelift while retaining the original design (mostly)

http://pherrous.phaitaccompli.com 

czg is on Func right now! There are 5 registered users online right now: czg, Phait, PuLSaR, R.P.G. and Vondur.

I've always wondered what it feels like to get high on funk. 

I`v left some question unanswered...

Distrans: do whatever you want, its your work afterall. I`m still working on that map, just not very often ...

Pulsar: the only other russian mapper that comes here (rarely) is parboil. I know some others, but the dont hang on international forums like this or q3w. 

Ta Speeds, but if your still working on it I'd rather not spoil the effect when you finally release it.

Cheers, hombre. 

why I map for a living.

FUCKING ASSBITCH SON OF A MOTHERFUCK! PIGARSED BULLCRAP PIECE OF WANKPHLEGM!!!

oh, look, five consonants in a row! 

i probably didn't, but i'm wondering if i missed a huge q1sp map... maybe an older one, from before '99...

anything fitting that description? 

OK so I've upgraded all but my video card, new harddrive and new installs for everything. Proper drivers for my crap TNT2 until I upgrade it to radeon 9800 (hehe), and proper drivers for all of my new hardware. PLus the latest glide. What is it that I'm missing that causes GlQuake, MhQuake etc to not run and also, perhaps connected, WC 3.3 (which uses 3d acceleration) is running slower than it did on my old system, which was far slower.

any suggestions?

thanks, tronyn 

the radeon's known to have problems with older games, perhpas try one of the new custom engines like mhquake, fitzquake or GQ and just turn all extra features off. 

Glide is 3dfx only, you don't need it for your TnT.

Probably all you need to do to get GLQuake working is remove the opengl32.dll file from your quake dir. Nitin's comment above obviously doesn't apply yet (until you actually get a radeon), but I currently use a radeon with no problems - no need to use a modified engine unless you want to for other reasons.

I believe WC uses directx for acceleration (at least v1.6 used to). Maybe you haven't installed that yet? 

I obviously didnt read that properly in regards to the radeon and also in regards to you already trying mhquake etc. SOrry about that. 

Today at 3pm EST (which is about 8 hours from now) we will be playing all of bals quakeworld maps on my server. Stop by #terrafusion before 3 so I can give out the server information. We plan on playing reinc5, baldm1-8, and the two lost maps: balcc and balscy. 

Is it possible, like next week, to do it on a Sunday instead? That way I could join in. I'm usually busy at that time on a Saturday. 

Where can I download these? 

Try here:

http://www.planetquake.com/bal/bal... 

just got to the bottom of the page. sheesh. somethin like 150 posts. the punishment for not logging in for a week eh? (or more perhaps). 

I had a grand time playing all of Bal's maps on zzjohnzz'z server today. It was fun time on fun maps. 

Next week we will play on Sunday instead of Saturday. It seems more people will be able to play on Sunday. We will play Blackpope's maps. If BP can't find a place to host his 8 maps, I will find space and post download links later this week. 

where can I download Bals two lost maps? balcc and the other one. 

You can download Bal's two "lost" maps here:

http://www.planetquake.com/bal/bal...

Balcc and Balscy. 

"The Final Flight of the Osiris" is a spooge magnet. Except for the final chase scene (although it isn't exactly a chase scene) which was way to short. Most of if was shown in the trailers at The Animatrix website, which just adds to the frustration.

And I know this is going to sound stupid, but the movie was a bit too sexual. There were too many gratuitous crotch-shots. If they were a bit less obvious and more subdued, I think it would have been better. 

I need to place more emphasise on the fact that the movie is very cool looking, and the kung-fu and slow-motion stuff is very awesome. 

I tried the other link and it didn't work but it's ok now, ta. 

Better late than never :)

Enclave r0x0rs my b0x0rs! :)

The level design is awesome and the physics and cinematics are very cool. Gameplay is fun and sticking nine arrows into a soldiers head with 1 shot is very satisfying :)

I'm gonna pick up a copy of this when its out. I herd that the compant aren't sure wether to release the editor, IDIOTS! RELEASE IT NOW!!! :) It would be such a waste of a great game and great engine. Natch... 

I lost my qped! can someone send me a new one?
just upload somewhere for download or email to netgames@netdp.com
Thanks 

there were lots of big q1sp maps! you are going to have to be more specific... 

http://www.planetquake.com/underwo...

I have added a new page at my site just for some fun, which is a "South Park Gallery" page. 

Although I have been playing Quake for many years, I never really got to the bottom of all the graphics drivers issues.

So now I'm stuck.

I just copied my old Quake folder over to my new PC (Pentium 4, GeForce4 4600) and I can't get any Quake executable to run. I get the message:

Missing Glide2x.dll

As far as I know, this should only be required for Voodoo cards, which I had in my previous compo, so what do I do now? 

I'm going to Australia on Friday, back on the 6th or so.

Terrorists/police permitting.

(Seriously! There's been threats that something'll go down in Wellington this Friday...) 

Delete or rename the file "opengl32.dll" in your Quake folder, and all will be fine 

"Dumbass Question"
Dumbass spelling :) 

Try this..

http://www.telefragged.com/gmc/qpe... 

your input has been forwarded to the people responsible. 

uwf: cool! ( although I appear to be called 'koth' instead of 'kell' nm ) 

Yeah, that fixed it good.

Thanks... 

I have plenty of hair, it's just that I cut it to like 1cm. 

lol.....oops! sorry about koth..will fix it. 

sorry man...i couldnt think of anything else to write, i am sure you have great hair. :o 

Pushplay doesn't need more hair - he just needs a smaller head 

heh. 

there were lots of big q1sp maps! you are going to have to be more specific...

well, really, any map that is huge (like insomnia huge, on a per level basis) and that has decent to awsome brushwork... any titles i should check out? i was leafing through some of the reviews on Shambler's site, but it's difficult to find what i'm looking for... plus, there are a lot... 

there are the obvious big famous maps like:

Bestial Devestation
Scorpion Garrison
Colony
Memento Mori

also there is:
some of the maps in OUM
some of the maps in Soul of Evil
some of the nehahra maps in episode 2: eg "your last cup of sorrow", "sacred trinity" 

You probably wouldn't know this, but I have been told that I have a rather large head. It's one of the reasons I keep my hair short. Yet my dentist has told me that I have a somewhat small mouth. Weird.

(Snipet from my autobiography: Slightly Out Of Place Facts About Me.) 

It draws near...and by the time I next get net access (Friday AEST) it will have passed :P

/me goes to find Rev 13:18 

"Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man: and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." 

i was thinking of maps made earlier than that. but thanks anyhow. :) 

Can anyone provide me with a brightened wad of Quake2 textures? I'm running into troubles converting + brightening them myself. 

All of these i'm pretty sure you can locate on file-planet. If i got the zip file names wrong, it's close.

The Epoch Turning - epoch.zip
Rust in Peace - grc4beta
The Tale of Abbot's Rune - sgodrune.zip
Morbidity 2 - i completely forget 

yes. 

This week we will play Blackpope's maps pope1 through pope7. We will start around 3pm EST, so stop by #terrafusion if you want to play. 

yes. doch vive. yes. 

yes. doch vive. yes. 

Guidoski 

Guidoski 

yes. doch vive. yes. 

note to metlslime: more spamming by lame alt-nics. 

yes. doch vive. yes. 

damn those planetquake fockers they deleted my site 

i think i know doch. i might just know who wrote those messages. hehehe. 

you do realize your ip address is attached to every post? thptttt 

:( 

do you live in santa cruz? 

yes indeedy. i was talking to yogi, and turns out, so does he. 

why the hell cant i get on gamespy irc servers??? it says "address is banned" when i try to join any channels. meh? 

Didn't all aol users get banned or something? 

yeah you show em'. 

uh, what? 

. 

/me slouches toward Bethlehem 

Perhaps you are thinking of the mexx9 series? It was a 5 level pack iirc, with old school but very massive architecture. it 0wn3d. 

Tower Of Twilight was fairly large inside, but it's the facade I remember. Took ridiculously oversized architecture to new heights - if you'll pardon the pun. 

The`v just recently deleted bunch of pages not even warning the authors 

I think what PQ is doing is crap, but:

I believe in the hosting rules it says that your site needs to be moderately updated. The majority of the sites at PQ that I come across, sadly, are very, very outdated.

Can't really blame PQ - though I know it sucks. I guess the best thing would be to just buy/get hosting elsewhere.

But then again, you don't get the recognition as much. 

subject: brave new world.
time/date: 22:02_26october(friday)_2001

TBA

---

that was my last news post. :) 

quote: "In the last couple months, we've been going through the Genre, Console and Planet sites taking stock of the diverse sites on our Network. As part of that process, we have been removing abandoned sites or removing users that no longer participate on certain sites."

So they did warn people. Just not very loudly. 

sorry bout those doch guid stuff. was testing some stuff with my brother that lead nowhere. 

Is Lurker on this board anywhere? I've tried e-mailing him, but his box is full and I can't get one through. 

>So they did warn people. Just not very loudly.

Reminds me of the Hithhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

`...You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them had you? I mean like actually telling anyone or anything.'

`But the plans were on display...'

`On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.'

`That's the display department.'

`With a torch.'

`Ah, well the lights had probably gone.'

`So had the stairs.'

`But look you found the notice didn't you?'

`Yes,' said Arthur, `yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of The Leopard".' 

http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/... 

Do you have any idea how much damage this bulldozer would suffer if I were to just let it roll straight over you? 

We could spend all day quoting douglas adams. :D 

I'm feeling bored... 

"`This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer, `I never could get the hang of Thursdays.'"

"`The best way to get a drink out of a Vogon is to stick your finger down his throat...'"

"`You'd better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It's unpleasently like being drunk.'
`What's so unpleasent about being drunk?'
`You ask a glass of water.'"

Marvin:
"`I think you ought to know that I'm feeling very depressed.'"
"`Life, don't talk to me about life.'"
"`Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down to the bridge. Call that "job satisfaction"? 'Cos I don't.'"
"`I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side.'"

"`If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.'"


Everything important in life turned out to already have been covered in those books. Kinda funny, after all that work of trying to figure out what to do with my life, it was all right here. ;) 

The first million years were the worst. And the second million years - those were the worst too. The third million years I didn't like at all. And after that, things went into a bit of a decline. 

You're a load of useless bloody loonies! 

...which is exactly the kind of thing we need to know. I mean, do people want fire than can be fitted nasaly? 

... defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as "Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun to Be With."

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes," with a footnote to the effect that the editors would welcome applications from anyone interested in taking over the post of robotics correspondent.

Curiously enough, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica that had the good fortune to fall through a time warp from a thousand years in the future defined the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came." 

These were done simply with the F12 key, some right-arrow-key taps and gentle mouse movements

http://pherrous.phaitaccompli.com/...
http://pherrous.phaitaccompli.com/...

I wish I could have all the shots in the same perspective though... I think I'm going to do shots like these for my maps. 

PQ also seems to have missed my old site, the last update of which was on 13th September 2001 (and said that the site was no more :) 

lol. 

will any1 help me with final map compile ? I`m stuck on 300mhz at the moment ;/ 

2ghz, 512 ddr

david.carter@boltblue.com 

try something like these:

http://www.celephais.net/images/qu...
http://www.celephais.net/images/qu... 

Trouble with PQ deleting stuff is that there was a lot of decent information out there. Just 'coz something is no longer updated doesn't mean the information isn't just as valid as it was the day it was written. 

10-10-2000 - Auh3dm1 Realesed 

Hmm, my account on PQ only serves as a redirector since about a year already, I don't even display their banners or shit. I was expecting my account to be deleted for quite some time now but they didn't even killed it this time... *scratch head* 

We just finished playing blackpopes maps and I think everyone had a good time. Next week we will play Auhsan's maps and then Biff's maps. The map order will be: auhsan1, auhsan2, auhsan3, auhdm1, auhdm2, then impdm1, impdm2, impdm3, filthy, imp1dm5, and imp1dm6.

The carnage starts Sunday 3pm EST. 

Are you going to use Imp1DM6 or Imp1DM6 second edition? 

/me works on his next map like mad to get have his played too 

So, when you tell someone that you're a mapper, how do you describe it to them? Do you use any similes or metaphors? If so, what are they? 

Just use the normal one. 

i say that i design "the 3D environments in which the game takes place." 

What would you recommend based upon reliability/performance?
What would you suggest to avoid?

From:

CPU's, hard-drives, mice/keyboard, graphics cards, motherboards, RAM, CD-ROM and CD-RW drives, monitors?

Yes yes, I'm searching pricewatch. 

It's like architecture plus interior decorating, but with more dead bodies. 

and more crates 

Please give me your thoughts on this list based upon what you know of the reliability, etc (not your personal opinion):

http://www.phaitaccompli.com/pc-x....

I need to go sleep for work now zZzzz

Thanks 

avoiding ebuyer.com as you get your parts late and with possibility of damage. DABS on the other hand are very good.

Whatever you do, don't skimp on your motherboard, get a decent one. 

When people ask what coding's like, I tell them I weild absolute control over an entire game universe. Every faucet of its so-called "reality" is in my merciful hands.

This, notably, is not true, as I do run up against limitations, and I'm not as good as I'd like to be. But it does sound reeeal goood at a job interview (i.e. "Wow! You're hired!"). ;)

If only I were all-powerful in reality.

Reminds me of another Hitchhiker's Guide quote:
"In summary, anyone capable of obtaining absolute power is the least suited to have it. In summary to the summary, people are a problem".
(or more or less like that) 

Every faucet? 

...but the kitchen sink 

Can't wait for biff's and Aushan's maps =) Thanks for hosting! 

Are you sure the powersupply in the case is going to take care of you? I don't know how that "AMD recommended up to 1.2 GHz CPU" compares to the 2.4ghz pentium, but it might not be enough. 

*blush* 

A 2ghz athlon is supposedly a 2ghz compare to a pentium 4 although it actually runs at roughly 1600ghz. 

Says who? AMD? 

That's what AMD reckon.

Having never had a p4 before I wouldn't know.

Mine is a 2ghz Athlon XP which equals AMD Palomino @ 1.63GHz. 

Is it just me, or is it really really cool to get fake virus warnings in your e-mail from people you don't even know? 

got the same shit 2 days ago, just delete it and forget 

But now you're reminding me of it... 

is the "Tired of SPAM in Your Inbox?!"

yes, frankly, I am - and I'm coming after you and your family, organ harvesting my way to fame.

sickfucks. 

LOL!

My favorite are the "Lose 20 pounds in 20 days!". I'm 6 feet tall, 125 pounds, and hypoglycemic. If I lost 20 pounds over any period of time, I'd die.

But the "Tired of SPAM in Your Inbox?!" takes the cake. I've never gotten one though. 

I'm built like that too. If you can call it built. Parts of my body stick together, presumably mostly out of old habit.

If I would fall for every spam like that, and the infamous "add 3 inches to your penis" I'd be a two yard dick with feet.

Alas, I'd do all my $300 000 a year work from home (EASY!) - so it really wouldn't matter. 

I remember the funniest spam I ever got. I wish I'd saved it so I could see all of it again, but the line that had me on the floor was:

If you think we're trying to sell you money, you'd be wrong!!!

Stupid shit. 

As I'm sure many of you are aware by now, I am the owner of #terrafusion.

And although it is an honor, (kthx Pauk) I have decided that I would like to relinquish ownership to whoever sends the first e-mail to scampie at spawnpoint dot org. 

Bl1tz you suck. 

just so everyone knows, this is me, scampie [66.231.198.47]. the post above me was Blitz. (see above post #708 posted by Blitz [24.218.135.18])

Blitz, you annoying me is not a good idea. you're probabally already going to be banned from gamesnet for that stunt you pulled earlier. Why don't you just give up now and spend your time mapping. 

just so everyone knows, this is me, scampie [66.231.198.47]. the post above me was Blitz. (see above post #708 posted by Blitz [24.218.135.18])

Blitz, you annoying me is not a good idea. you're probabally already going to be banned from gamesnet for that stunt you pulled earlier. Why don't you just give up now and spend your time mapping. 

w00ps, double post :o

this is getting confusing! ;D 

this is entertaining 

*** Lun is now known as Lun|Mapping

Dietzman13: mapping??
Lunaran2: ssh
Dietzman13: mapping what?
Lunaran2: ... maps ...
Dietzman13: bahhh
Dietzman13: what map?!
Lunaran2: don't tell anyone but it's actually lun3dm7
Dietzman13: oi
Dietzman13: what happened to 4-6?
Lunaran2: they're done
Dietzman13: show me :D
Lunaran2: no
Dietzman13: blast
Dietzman13: show me a screenshot at least!
Lunaran2: My NDA won't let me ;-)
Dietzman13: wtf
Dietzman13: how/why is it dm7 then??
Dietzman13: lun3dm7 i mean
Lunaran2: I guess it would technicaly be lun4dm3 ...
Dietzman13: oooo
Dietzman13: woooot
Lunaran2: do you know what day it is?
Dietzman13: i hope q4 isn't TOO much of a system hog
Dietzman13: its tuesday
Dietzman13: oowetowet
Dietzman13: FEKING SUCM!
Lunaran2: you fucking schmuck :D
Dietzman13: BASTARD
Dietzman13: FEKING SCUM!!!!!!
Dietzman13: WQ%#@%%# 

got you linked :D 

Hope this link works:
http://click.alltheweb.com/go2/2/a... 

some maps:
http://www.planetquake.com/greyvoi...
A few of them look cool... 

...is my hero. I love him very much!

Looking forward to the next official, completed czg map. 

I wish you had screenshots of all your maps :| 

http://www.u.arizona.edu/~jcfisher...
(google rocks) 

I found them but only by viewing the source then corresponding on the page itself.

It's clever, but I think it'd frustrate visitors more than amuse them. 

 

cant wait to try those maps out...

shame i got so much work right now, but looking forward to checking your stuff out 

I just downloaded some of the maps, including all the completed maps on the main page.

/me like! 

Anyone got a link for it, cos he hasn't linked it his site and I would love to read it again.

And, where IS Fatty these days? 

http://www.planetquake.com/fatty/d... 

From: "Charles Weitzer" <weitzer@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Quake Level Design Opportunities

I have several opportunities to work on AAA game titles. All positions
are
fulltime/onsite, located throughout the USA

Development Director
Technical Director
Senior Gameplay Programmer
Graphics Programmer
Lead script programmer for MMO
Senior Tools Programmer
Senior/Lead Tools Programmer
Enemy Behavioral Programmer
Network Programmer
Engine/Assembler/Renderer Programmer
Lead script programmer for MMO

Senior Audio Programmer

Executive Producer

Senior Game Designer
Lead Game Designer
Level Designers 1st Person Shooters

Special Effects Supervisor
Art Director
Technical Art Director
Senior Lead Artist
Senior Animator
Character Modeler/Rigger

If you or anyone you know of has an interest please forward a resume
to:

Regards,

Charles Weitzer
Subject Matter Experts, Inc.
weitzer@ix.netcom.com
(510)558-9182 

goes straight to earthlink.net .... 

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shoulda put this all in one post, but didnt occur to me *shrug* 

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I got that 3 times and I cant map for crap. 

Is the e-mail address it was sent to, isn't really public. I've used that address to correspond with a couple from this board tho.. 

http://pherrous.phaitaccompli.com

Hey why not? 

OMG, you seem to be damn bored Phait...

GO MAP! 

Dunno about that Mail Phait. Looks a bit weird to me, especially since I haven't found anything about that company or that Weitzer guy on the net. Kell and Scampie got the same mail too it seems and all of us deleted it.

Feel free to call that guy tho ;)... 

New truck:
http://gamefreaks.net/defrag/perso...

Biff Debris.. calling Biff Debris..
email me at defrag@tscnet.com in regards to Jones Crusher bugs & missing brushes for a possible recompile for my new Q2 server rehosting effort 

I got that e-mail too. I did a search on the company name and came up with subjectmatterexperts.com. The webpage sucks ass but it looks like some kind of half assed training institute. 

Would be nice if you'd actually specify a bg color for your interview page - everyone doesn't have the default white background colour. 

on holiday.

Oh, btw, there's a Cube-based game called Death Illustrated out. It's mainly notable for being done in black and white, and can be downloaded through http://www.gamehippo.com/download1...

Actually, I thought I'd connected that Q1RAD tut up to the rest of the site ages ago. Farg. 

This guy started one thread for each of those positions in Q3W's help wanted forum. The mod deleted them on the basis it was forbidden by the forum rules (only modifications for id games can recruit). I felt quite sorry for him... I'm sure when Paul Jaquays was the mod of that forum he let real job adverts go there, if they were serious about recruiting from the community.

It's difficult to tell the genuine companies from the people full of shit until they've actually shipped a title. I tend to think he's genuine, but too lazy to personalise emails at all :) He's definitely making some serious efforts at recruiting.

My funniest to date was some dipshit with a company based in the Bahamas that kept bugging me on ICQ to make levels in radiant for his alleged XBox beat-em-up even after I'd told him several times that it would (a) breach the exclusivity clause in my contract with my employer (b) be illegal to use radiant for this purpose without a license from id. It was all very suspicious. 

it's probably a head-hunter company trolling the internet and hoping that someone sticks. I wouldn't touch it with a stick myself. 

I also got that e-mail. I forwarded it to FrikaC to ask him if he thought it was legit, but I wouldn't be surprised if frik has one of his own.

If only you could burn spam for warmth without having to print it out first... ;) 

I tried that Death Illustrated download but it's broken. :( 

the e-mail, and that white bgcolor issue. I'll fix that. Thanks. 

Are there any screenies of Death Illustrated? I'd be interested in looking before downloading. 

Wonder where he got my addy from?
hmmm... 

He probably got it from one of these two places:
http://www.qmap.org/qpeople.php3
http://www.celephais.net/board/peo... 

Are there any screenies of Death Illustrated? I'd be interested in looking before downloading.

Detailed overview of DI, posted over 2 months ago (heh):

http://www.planetquake.com/underwo...

My site does everything cube!
/end of pimp 

heh. Thanks, underworldfan. 

I have a bunch of private search engines here that I'm trying to use to find books and articles on architecture. Specificly, I'm trying to find stuff about general concepts in design, structureand organization; instead of stuff like architectural styles such as victorian. I'm not hitting on much so far, and I was hoping that people might be able to suggest some keywords or even authors that I should try. 

The webhost for DI is being a dick. I'll look into getting the download placed somewhere. Maybe my own site. Give it a day or so. 

The one that everyone seems to mention is "Architecture: Form, Space, and Order" by Francis Ching. 

I just stuffed the words "philosophy" and "architecture" into Google and got some interesting results; you might try using those as keywords.

Example: Book Review

[q]
Proportions: Science, Philosophy, Architecture
Richard Padovan – 1999

The main argument which appears to dominate this book is the idea that "The world is a harmonious mathematical creation and that in order to participate in that harmony the things we make must obey the same mathematical laws".[/q]

http://students.bath.ac.uk/ab1ajl/...

Unfortunately, a lot of the results are personal and academic pages; so be prepared for some Adventures In Tasteless Html :P 

fek off wi' yer quotation tags :/ 

If "philosophy" produces to much 'pie in the sky' you could instead use "theory" or "mathematical harmony" ( I tried just "harmony" and got a ton of ads for some server package :/ )

This is an online book, and it's quite extensive:

http://www.math.utsa.edu/sphere/sa...

Okay, end spam 

You are mah friend. Thanks, that's very helpful. If anyone else has some ideas... 

I completely forgot to send you the link to that littel Q2-Dm I made using your Speedbaze set. So, you can grab it here if you are interested in taking a look at "Blood-Red Sky"...
http://quake2.abs.net/pub/maps/q2/...
Screen caps...
http://www.backshooters.com/maric/...
http://www.backshooters.com/maric/...

And while I am at it...

This one is 99% Ogro textures, but I did use some of your Lights. It is called "And What Rough Beast" Oh, and it does make extensive use of "Kat's" Rock textures.
http://quake2.abs.net/pub/maps/q2/...
Screen caps...
http://www.backshooters.com/maric/...
http://www.backshooters.com/maric/...

Lastly, I used your Speedy Tech set in a shameless re-make of Deck-16 for Q2 (All original brush-work btw). I do not in usual practice do "covers" of other's maps but I have had a couple mates that bugged me incessently to make this one over for Q2. Ergo...
The tech set was just the ticket...
http://quake2.abs.net/pub/maps/q2/...
Screen caps...
http://www.backshooters.com/maric/...
http://www.backshooters.com/maric/...

Thanks for all your hard work on these sets, your textures/art are so nice to work with.

These are all Q2-Dm maps BTW 

Looks like I'll be re-installing Q2 then. 

I found this in my PlanetQuake inbox:

<quote>I have several opportunities to work on AAA game titles. All positions are
fulltime/onsite, located throughout the USA

Development Director
Technical Director
Senior Gameplay Programmer
Graphics Programmer
Lead script programmer for MMO
Senior Tools Programmer
Senior/Lead Tools Programmer
Enemy Behavioral Programmer
Network Programmer
Engine/Assembler/Renderer Programmer
Lead script programmer for MMO

Senior Audio Programmer

Executive Producer

Senior Game Designer
Lead Game Designer
Level Designers 1st Person Shooters

Special Effects Supervisor
Art Director
Technical Art Director
Senior Lead Artist
Senior Animator
Character Modeler/Rigger

Regards,

Charles Weitzer
Subject Matter Experts, Inc.
weitzer@ix.netcom.com
(510)558-9182</quote>

Looks like they're building a whole new company there! 

is a headhunter agency i think...

anyway i'm sure that anyone that's ever released a level has gotten that email, plus it's way to long to look good on the news page :) 

have received it :) 

maric72 looks very nice there, especially the lighting.

And seriously, those maric76 shots just call for that to be turned into an SP map, very RTCW-ish looking. CLassy stuff! 

i got that e-mail too. no kidding, and i havent even released a level! hehe. 

Thought I'd mention that PC Gamer said that Enclave was a better game than Unreal 2 and the screens look awesome.

I beleive that wrath(?) worked on Enclave, so congratulations to you. =) 

/me adds another vote for MaricSP
btw those rocks are terragen or 'handmade' ? 

but, "being a better game than Unreal 2" isn't excactly high praise, IMHO 

http://planetunreal.com/tygra/ 

...well, I make the basic terrian with Nem's Terrain generator.
http://countermap.counter-strike.n...
It seems to be a bit more comprehensive than Terragen, I love the "lock" feature which allows each vertice to be locked into place once you get it where you want.
I'd still say though, that about 80% of the work is pretty much brush by brush (or small group) manipulation. After a few hit or miss attempts it gets pretty easy to get what you want/need.

I am playing around now with an entire map done entirely in rock/terrain brushwork. This one is requiring some tedious manipulations but may be worth it in the end. Here is a pic of one small corner with a simple -minlighta compile...
http://www.backshooters.com/maric/...

I am hoping that the complex terrian will be detailed enough without becoming too tiresome. It is literally four seperate .map exports, all from using Nem's. Q2 is choking a bit and giving me the occasional Vismap_expansion Overflow but there is always the Func_wall "cop-out" if needs be. 

"Architecture: Form, Space, and Order" by Francis Ching, like nb mentioned, is an excellant book. Lots about size and proportion and all that good stuff. Lots of good illustrations to show the point.

Another book I have, which is not specifically about architecture, is called "Geometery of Design" by Kim Elam. It deals mostly with the golden ratio and it's application in art and design. First part of the book is introduction to the golden ratio, the second disects various posters, buildings, and even a VW Beetle and discusses how the golden ratio is used to give the designs good proportion.

Don't have any other books on the subject, but while I'm at this, I'll throw out the general recommendation of "Shapes, Space, and Symmetry" by Alan Holden which I recently got. Awesome book illustrated by of photos of the 1,000+ polygons this gentleman has made with nothing more than light cardboard, a ruler, a draftsman 30-60-90 triangle, and some glue. Very cool. 

I understand you wanted to get rid of all those once and for all and forget about it ?
Does it mean you wont finish any of those map and gave up on quake mapping alltogether ?

Sad if its the case... Maybe we can change your mind somehow ? 

Should I go with a GeForce or a Radeon? Will I be able to play OpenGL games (i.e. Quake) on either? Probably a stupid question - but obviously I'm not too in the know, so I'm asking ;)

Thanks. 

Definately with Geforce, don't know much about Radeon, but I would imagine so. Which one is the best? dunno, you'll get good and bad from both sides, have a read of some reviews. As for the future, future proofing, I don't think there is any such thing. Just buy the best/fastest available when you do buy, thats what I do, you can't do more than that. 

Great one there ! And perfectly usable in mapping too 

I don't know how big Legends budget was for u2, but my guesstimate would be around for or five times ours. Also, they had access to a marketing machine the size of a small country.

Also, for the record, I was involved in the final 5 or so months of enclave. Meaning I didn't contribute all that much.

Most of the weapon special effects are mine though :P 

Phait: work out exactly what you need/want from a video card, and how much you're prepared to pay. Read some reviews and find out which one best suits you.

These are the words of someone who bought a gf4 and now wishes he had bought a Radeon. :D 

Just got a gf4ti 4200, wish I'd gone Radeon now. 

why do you wish you had got a radeon instead? 

I wasn't meaning anything against Enclave, I know excactly nothing about it. Just stating that a game, any game, being said to be better than Unreal 2, imo, isn't what I'd call high praise.

"I don't know how big Legends budget was for u2, but my guesstimate would be around for or five times ours. Also, they had access to a marketing machine the size of a small country."

Well, at least the marketing machine done their job ;) 

I dunno, in the eye of the casual gamer - such comparisons are very powerful. The unreal franchise is an established one, and when Joe Average reads in PC Gamer than a beginner studio does a better job at delivering than an unreal game, that's pretty good praise. 

Comes in a windows installer:
http://www.deathillustrated.com/fi...
and zip file flavor:
http://www.deathillustrated.com/fi...

The website is finally back up. 

I like to think that I'm "Joe Slightly Above Average"

Anyway the point was that here was this hugely hyped game (U2) and it was just so-so. Enclave comes out of nowhere, with no promotion and impresses the reviewer enough that he says that it is more fun, has better replay value, etc. etc.

Even if it wasn't praised, it's still cool that someone we know worked on it =) 

and I think you understand what I am saying. To "ME" saying that a game is better than Unreal 2, is only saying it is better than average, at best.
Again, and I must stress this point, I am not saying anything about Enclave, like I said, I know nothing about it.

"has better replay value"
Hey, lets hope so, A single use syringe has more "replay value" than Unreal 2 ;) 

Indeed,

If I had half the talent of some of the people who frequent this board, I would be a happy old man. 

It's all about having a passion for exhaust pipes. 

:)

(Also, fuck replay value.) 

what was that custom software quake engine?

does it work on everyone's system who can only run software quake?

and does it have a higher edict limit? (more than 600) 

I believe that you're thinking about TOChriS. I have no idea whether it bumps edicts or not, but it should run on systems that can use WinQuake.

It seems as though PQ killed the TOChriS website when they did their spring cleaning. If you need it I can e-mail. 

i'd appreciate that, RPG.

i really hope it's got a higher edict limit though... 

Is this for a map you're making? If it has lots of switching lights, I have a util that can reduce the edicts these consume to the minimum possible. Also, if TOChriS doesn't work out, I can compile a copy of WinQuake for you with the edict limit raised. 

GAY MSGBOARD PUT DM4 ON 

/me smacks Lun with non-senseless posts

Or is there such a thing? 

GAY POST RESTART WORK ON CS 

CF 

lol 

http://www.quake3world.com/ubb/For...

checkit 

Some nice alice style levels could be done in Quake 1 using the Tomaz engine, maybe some swinging pendulums :) 

i dream of alice in q1.
:)

and yes i know about that "stamppot" map.

a whole full size map or episode like that.
it would be incredible. 

You got/have played eternal darkness, right? Är det värt ~300kr? 

Where can I download? 

Is in the first 100 brush mapping contest. DL here: (approx. 4mb) http://wouter.fov120.com/files/map... 

The one with the funny angled doors. I use to have it, ta. 

thanks, RPG
-
i emailed ya, Tyrann. 

yeah, 300. sure. If you like the genre.
Otherwise, Metroid Prime - I can't recommend that enough. 

Well, after wrestling with many of the most evil of HTML's pitfalls, I've finally managed to crap out a beta, which can be seen here. It's taken all the webpage coding knowhow I have in me (IMHO, not much), and a good 5 or so hours of troubleshooting (I discovered browsers don't like my tables. At all. And includes don't work running it off the harddrive...).

Hopefully I can get some graphics for the right and left to replace that coughing quake guy, and maybe a center logo for the site name.

I'm also considering renaming the site. To what, I don't know.

Any comments? 

The side links don't work, because they're not done yet. 

er.....seen where? 

as per necros request:

ne_sp04
ne_sp06

http://www.planetquake.com/underwo... 

I need to know a time for the next FFA. This last one took place at Sunday at 3pm and only one player showed. After waiting 30 minutes I just decided to cancel the games that day.

Please, if you want to play, tell me a time that you can play. I didn't want to have to resort to this so early, but next weekend is VONDUR WEEKEND. No one would dare miss Vondur weekend would they? 

thanks, UWF!

and i think you take better screenshots than I do! ;) 

My webbie at http://www.planetquake.com/biff has been given a serious facelift, due mainly to the talents of GomJabbar and Vondur. Also, got a couple of screenies from the latest beta of my upcoming q3dm =) 

whats the difference between marics76 and m76a ?
(btw .pcx skybox has wrong palette) 

nice design, but you spelled func_msgboard wrong :P 

Since I just changed some small thing to Biff's page I edited the link and changed it to Func_Msgboard. Are you ok with that? ;) 

Any map of mine that has an abreviated name as in m76a is a map specifically made with the Awakening mod "weapons loadout" in mind. We pretty much play that mod all of the time, it has no hook and replaces a few of the standard fare weapons with a few that are a bit more interesting. I tend to add the "Awakening" into the worldspawn title as well. I highly recommend trying the mod, it is fun in both Sp and Dm. The new weapons create a whole new playing eperience in Sp mode. I know that having two version of such LARGE .bps's is a bit of overkill but...

This way the Lith/Vanilla players are happy and us "other mod" players are happy =)
I just hate the hook outside of the Chaos mod and the occsaional Insta-gib CTF scuttle. 

It has been play tested and is pretty much final. I know that for many the items/weapons/whatever loadout will seem a tad odd, it is simply based on how we play 'em in the Backshooter's servers. I pretty much always tend to favor the Railgun and this one is no exception.

I hit what I beleive is the very limits of the basic Q2 engine here. I found that if I add just one more brush, even a simple triangle the bloody thing will not compile. Thus, it is not quite what I wanted in the end but what I had to settle for.
Screens...
http://www.backshooters.com/maric/...
http://www.backshooters.com/maric/...
http://www.backshooters.com/maric/...
Download...
http://quake2.abs.net/pub/maps/q2/... 

if you want a design/gfx, I'm up for doin' em. Free. I did a design for Tronyn... 

so frustrating not getting time to read all posts tonite. gotta go sleep. workin all week long thru hols.

just wanting to complement vondur on his new q3 "conversion" of his own map.
also speedy for the same. 

Go see, go see -- http://www.planetquake.com/biff 

clean, organised, brown... :) 

nice looking map there, busy looking but brushwork looks good. I take it you havent done the lighting yet? And it does look a bit flat from those shots.

and very nice clean site too. 

You can thank Vondur for that layout, and GomJabbar for the code. Head back and check out the art page, btw -- got some goodies up there =)

As far as the q3 map is concerned, nitin -- those pics were taken after a test compile. The map is lit, and will look better after a full compile. Tnanks for the comments =) 

in this new UT ctf map : here

general consensus seems to be that it doesnt play well or run well, but it does look amazing. 

<a href="http://www.ina-communit... 

in this new UT ctf map : here

general consensus seems to be that it doesnt play well or run well, but it does look amazing. 

just go to planeunreal.com and check out the news item about CTF-skorbut.

and I didnt double post, I just refreshed the page once. 

http://www.ina-community.com/forum... 

I cant believe you`v never made a map
havent you even tried to make something ?? 

Yes, the general consensus is correct, it neither runs nor plays well at all. In fact it take about 4-5 minutes for the thing to load. I actually thought that it lock-up my PC... nope, when left alone for long enough it finally loads and launches.

It has pretty ok atmosphere but I have seen what I consider to be quite a lot more interesting atmosphere in UT2003 already. 

no 

the screenies looked cool to me. 

asfasfasfdasdsad 

I like the theme. Was that one of the level themes that shipped with UT2? 

Definite sp00ge material there. 

that looks awesome!!! if only i had q2 installed. good job mang 

=) 

thats one completely new set of models, with not much (if any) bsp 

not letting me post... 

not letting me post... 

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Internet Explorer 

My new site is at http://static.condemned.com 

%^D 

I get the same thing. 

every now and then though.

also, metlslime, that UT2 level was done entirelly in max from scratch, the whole thing had no bsp at all. 

Nitin = Shambler :) 

hi 

jeez cant post 

whenever I type more than 1 line it refuses to post ! 

Is it possible to run shrakitha unreal sp in UT ?
it says package fifth not found..
some other sp maps run fine 

I need 2-3 testers for quake sp map

Required: play the map, record the demo, write feebdack and send to me. And dont postpone it for month please. 

Are you using the OldSchool Mod? I believe you can with that. 

Ill have a look 

Sorry I missed today. We can do it tomorrow if people want. We will play Vondurs maps at 3pm EST on Sunday. The map order will be:

uzul, aghast, dokkur, dokkur2, dokkur3, dokkur4, dokkur5, ferrum, zed, hook, zed2, and lilith.

Again sorry for missing today. Thx 

yeah use the oldskool mod (http://www.usaar33.com) for playing any unreal sp maps in UT.

Also, fifth is a music file, it should come in the zip file but if it doesnt, I can mail it over. 

I cant install umod files without the patch and I cant install the patch cause I dont have cd ..
Is there a way around it ? 

C:GamesUnreal TournamentSystemSetup.exe install "%1" 

cant I post properly? 

Post Bitch!! 

http://cogs.games.telstra.com/game... 

436 NoDelta patch 

having trouble posting too 

/me is back in blighty. 

blighty is a town or something, right? Blimey! 

cor blimey, guvna - lawks, ets a roight pey souper, innit? 

=) 

w000t! 

/me kisses Peej, gently 

u cant use apostrophe in your post, if you do the board refuses to post 

consider yourself hugged 

cheers 

speedy, you are a fucking hero!!!!! 

when my webhost upgraded their servers they must have changed certain PHP settings which affect how apostrophes are handled when inserting strings into a database.

Thanks for noticing that, speed -- i am way too busy to have discovered that on my own. I will try to get the issue resolved, but in the meantime, everybody just leave apostrophes out of their posts -- Strunk and White would approve. 

Now that I can post, the NoDelta UT patch I linked to above will allow you to patch the game to version 436 without having to insert the CD during the patch installation.
(Just incase it may have been thought that I ment No CD required to play or whatever) 

[n/t] 

Sorry that I havent talked yet, I had to read the whole stuff first. (Man am I exhausted.) 

Sorry that I havent talked yet, I had to read the whole stuff first. (Man am I exhausted.) 

(punctuation removed in an attempt to get post to work)

Ive been playing more Quake2 deathmatch lately and Ive found all of your maps that Ive played so far very interesting. You seem to try to keep away from traditional Q2 futuristic base themes and that is just more interesting to me.

Since youre an interesting obviously skilled and competent and probably still alive Q2 dm mapper I was wondering if I could get some help from you.

I want to convert a couple of deathmatch maps to Quake2. One is a map called Pit Mine that I did in 1997 for q2 gave up on then remade for a project called Nexiuz. I want to put it back into Quake2. Im also interested in doing a version of Dm-Ariza which Im sure you could help with since you ported Dm-Deck16.

Email me or reply here and well discuss this further.

Cheers
Tronyn 

...and yes, Id be more than happy to help in any possible.

I am still mapping for Q2 pretty much exclusively. In fact we have quite a thriving community of new Q2 mappers coming along at Backshooters now.

Just let me know what it is you need and Ill do what I can. 

If it`s for Q1 or any other supported game, you might be able to use Quark to convert it. 

I have a nice new site design courtesy of Phait :) 

Nice page Gib, good work Phait ;). I kinda like the design, simple yet not boring.

Now hurry up and fill it with content! 

That author list could be updated. For example, GrindSpire (now known as nonentity) has moved to his own domain www.geneticrose.com and Gufs site is now dead.

Also, Im not included in the author list. D; 

Yes, me neither in there.

You si teh s4wk! ;) 

he just took a "mappers list" from some website last updated in 1999! Retinal? Jvox? 

actually yea, I did get an old author list.

In the proccess of updating it, any names/links would help. 

You have been added now 

no http://scampie.spawnpoint.org ?

:( im totally insulted 

while we`r at it, add me too 

www.signsofkoth.co.uk

You know it makes sense. 

Ta RPG :) 

I`ve updated my list, is there anyone I have missed? 

[nt] 

Post a url, I wanna see it.

I hear Phait is real good. I wanted to reply to his offer to do a site for me, but that was just before I was told that my posts wern`t going through because of apostrophies... :( 

http://www.telefragged.com/gmc is my site.

http://www.phaitaccompli.com is his site.

He is very good :) 

Just got coranto and a comments sytem working kinda smoothly 

very nice! 

You people make me writhe in utter.. glee and humbleness. Thank you.

Anyways, Wazat... yea, just drop me a line through http://www.phaitaccompli.com/desig...

but keep in mind Im not charging anything (to us mappers) :D

Arent I grand?
No?
Hrm.. 

impressive 3d demos (just hit the page to find out details)
http://www.theproduct.de/

for more
http://www.farb-rausch.com/

Ofcourse if you are aware of demoscene you`v seen those lready 

Can someone list me some good coop games please. I`ll need people to think about this as I`d quite like a good choice of games that fit the following maybe...

> Not too difficult
> Not purely shooting - something tactical, strategic, rpg-ish and/or with puzzle elements would be nice.
> Fairly new and with great graphics if possible.
> Something sci-fi, fantasy, or surreal rather than gritty realistic action.

For example, Serious Sam would be entirely unsuitable. A co-op version of something like a good 3D rpg would be much better.

Any ideas? 

i heard raven shield is rather nice
or vietcong
personally i didn`t like vietcong much, but maybe it`s fun in coop mode 

I picked it up for Ģ14 and it`s great Coop.

Vietcong is a bit big for Coop and you need loadsa people really.

Also battlefield is an amazing coop game.

Raven Shield is good too 

Thats some amazing stuff!

When I clicked Download and it only came to 64k i thought there had been an error, though!

It`s ridiculous to think that they managed to fit a 3d engine, 66 textures, about 20 3d scenes, a synthesiser and 15 minutes of music into the size normally reserved for a button texture :) 

YAY! Thanks Speedy!

I already knew that farb-rausch website but the other one is new to me. Some really impressive stuff there, I wish I could code that :(... 

Operation Flashpoint si teh fun! 

masturbating together with your friends. 

Starcraft ;)

Q1 Team Fortress.

HL/CounterStrike (if you`re into that kinda thing... ;P ).

(btw, had to re-type this post. This &#(^%(&@`n apostrophe buisiness is driv`n me nuts!) 

you dont like consoles, right shambler?

well anyway, halo coop is awesome. loved it.

ive been playing ghost recon and i like it best coop - its a realistic game though. teamwork is what its all about.

i didnt like dungeon siege coop because you dont get a party. you only have a single guy, but others seemed to like that. maybe if that single guy could be cooler... 

Is the best fun I`d had in ages and for Ģ14 you can`t go wrong.

I`ve play Halo and didn`t go much on that at all. Although Sega GT was an amazing game it`s just like Gran Turismo but with alot better graphics.

/me thinks consoles are t3h s4wk 

Thats one of the failings of Dungeon Siege, as H-Hour pointed out, in multiplayer youre restricted to a single character (per player) only.

As I tried to mention in a post in Shamblers last 8 months of gaming thread, before said post was eaten by the apostophe bug... the gameplay is a bit too simplistic if you only have a single character, as you cant control their actions much (they fight automatically), so the gameplay is more about managing your party (the characters you collect as you play) than micro-management of a single character.

So multiplayer might get quite boring, especially with only 2 people. Its hard to say without trying it properly I suppose.

I still recommend you pick up a copy of Dungeon Siege, Shambler... its a lovely game and I think youd appreciate it. The gameplay certainly isnt bad, just a bit simplistic. 

NWN is good coop if you like to read. It's not coop but I'm going to recommend any 4player tetris version anyways. 

uhhh
some problems I hate fixing
map delayed
;( 

An interesting schism in what people are suggesting (perhaps the schism between those who read the whole post and those who didn`t :P)...

Raven Shield, Vietcong, Battlefield 1942, Operation Flashpoint, Ghost Recon - NO! I asked for NOT gritty realistic action.

Starcraft, Q1 TF, HL/Counterstrike - NO! I asked for fairly new with great graphics.

Nor, for that matter, did I ask for teamplay - just coop.

Dungeon Siege, NWN - Yes! This is more like it. I didn`t know if coop is possible in those sorts of games. How focused are these two games on hack`n`slash button mashing action compared to exploration, story, characters etc etc?? Also would it be possible in a coop game for one player for focus on action and the other to focus on other aspects of progression??

Any more suggestions (not just RPGs) now this post might have clarified things?? 

HL2 screens : http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/ryanw/...

Build your shelters now, the world is going to end soon. 

Does anyone have contact details for tawilson from Undulation (http://planetunreal.com/undulatio... The @home.com email is bouncing :[ 

last I knew, he went pro so he hasnt touched that site in a while I think. 

hl2 is looking amazing...and september release date! 

First off, I am sorry to anyone who I have ever pissed off, especially Fern if you still come around or read this. Lately, I have been thinking, and nothing positive comes from my talking to anyone in the mapping community, most likely due to my own negativity.

I have not mapped in a long time nor do I have the desire to do so. I think also, that when I post here or talk to people in #terrafusion, I am looking for something and expecting something that I should not from total strangers, and once again I apologize for that.

So, consider yourselves lucky to be (seemingly) gaining a positive member of the mapping masses (Shambler) and losing a negative one.

Thanks guys. 

Precisely, Fribbles. When I played Enclave, the first thought I had was, what if they employed this simple mechanism of attack/defend into the multiplayer version of Dungeon Siege? It would have made the game much more engaging.

Also shambler, something you should know about Dungeon Siege coop: Its not the single player campaign coop. Its just that the multiplayer world is also a campaign. So you can play the one-character multiplayer campaign with other people, but you cant have two guys controlling a party, moving through the campaign story.

Also, for those that enjoyed Dungeon Siege coop, Ive been following the progress of the Shadows of Winter mod which looks to be a huge, professional overhaul of the system, with completely new monsters, an in-depth story and lots of other changes (most notably getting rid of the hack and slash gameplay). Since Dungeon Siege was pretty useless to me after I finished the SP campaign, Im hoping this mod will breath some new life into the game for me. For those interested, heres the URL:

http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~shado... 

if HL2 has a september release date, its quite possible it could be going almost head to head with DOOM 3 [which i have a strong feeling will be released around October/November].

Which could be fun. 

Indeedy :D 

sorry to lose you man,
but have a good life! :) 

what mag did the shots come from? i might have a look in PCG here in UK. been in italy for the hols so missed the previews and stuff.

a good piece of news (at least for me). i accepted a 12 month placement offer with british aerospace systems. 

Bye. 

Have a good one! 

Just the one review IMP1SP1 by biff.

Just been down the pub and watched the Utd v Madrid game, amazing game but Utd lost and I`m rather drunk after winning Ģ25 outta the arcasde machine :) 

what are you gonna do (job/family/travelling/new hobby)? 

An Iraqi, on what America will bring to Iraq:

Democracy, whiskey, and sexy!

Finally! Someone who realizes what America really stands for! 

;) 

NWN was pretty much built for the multiplayer experience. If you don't like hack and slash much you can set the difficulty to low so that you can blow through the battles and concentrate on the role play. You can also avoid a lot of battles by just running away.

I'm not sure how close together a party has to stick. It may be possible for someone to go hurt some baddies while another hangs around it town, but I make no guarantees. 

/me waves goodbye

...never found you negative *shrug* 

"So, consider yourselves lucky to be (seemingly) gaining a positive member of the mapping masses (Shambler) and losing a negative one."

LOL Blitz I think QMap could do with more of that sort of humour!




P.S. The closest I`ve come to mapping is de-ticking the UnrealEd install box while installing UT... 

http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/ryanw/...

SOLD!

A D3 vs HL2 would be very fierce indeed... 

H-Hour thanks for that info. But is the multi-player coop in DS against other players or against the computer??

Pushplay thanks. 

For the first time ever I have temporary access to a connection better than my usual "two cups and a piece of string". So in theory I could play some of you lot online.

Games I`ve got available: UT2, Battlefield 1942, Iron Storm, IGI2, Splinter Cell, WC3, C&C Generals, AOM....(okay and CS but there is no way in hell...)

Games I know how to play: UT2.

Games I could probably learn: The other FPSs.

Games I would need to be walked through: The rest.

Times I can play: 10pm - 12am UK time.

I`m very rusty so ideally I could play something against a similar incompetent, or better, teamplay with a few similar incompetents =).

So....errr....ummm..../looks shy... 

Give Cube a go. 

go play outside :-P
more excercise anyway 

It is primarily geared to be against the computer, but you can fight players as well. 

Q1dm Atrium

http://www.telefragged.com/gmc/gib... 

Pushplay - I did a while ago.

Daftpunk - yes but it`s cold here.

H-Hour - thank you, I will look into it more. This holds promised =). 

pure ownage that map! nice one lun. 

test 

tomorrow we finish up excessus maps and then play cybears maps. Stop by terrafusion at 3pm EST on Saturday. 

You've said that you're not going to restart TSQLR (and for all the right reasons) but I'm wondering if you'd be interested in beta testing Q1SP maps? Or even other game modes and games, for that matter. 

If nothing else, download & try a few people`s mods and spiel about them in notepad. If you like what the results are, post `em.

You`re basically a god in the quake community, so you can get away with saying most anything... ;) 

This part shouldn't have been part of the quote:

Absolutely!... wrong! You'd be surprised how many people hate Shambler's guts. Of course, there are plenty of people who think he's infallible, too. Interestingly enough, though, there aren't really any people in between. 

I am curious as to how someone can hate his guts.
He is intelligent, well spoken, and a very driven person.
He also couples that with wits and a lot of common sense.

Also, I want to have his babies.

Or her, Iīm not quite sure, itīs never been revealed, AFAIK. 

Or her, Iīm not quite sure, itīs never been revealed, AFAIK.

He's made several references to his testicles swaying gently in the breeze, so I suppose he's either a male or a hermaphrodite.

I'll let you decide. 

you almost sidestepped the issue. why is it again that some people "hate" shambs? I donīt buy it.

And, are we sure the testicles in question does actually belong to shambler? Might be they are "trophies"? 

I don't know squat about him. 

His review site was a valuable focal point for the community. As far as shambler as a person, i've had very little interaction with him so i'm fairly neutral. 

yeah, Iīm not trying to imply I actually KNOW the man. I have read enough of his blah to form an opinion. But that is an opinion formed on someones blah - so it doesnīt mean jack.

But I like Shambler - the person behind I have no idea about.
Cybear, for example, I have met in real life - and thus I know a wee bit what heīs like. 

I was trying to avoid turning the GA thread into a personal attack/defense thread, and since I don't share their views, I can't accurately speak for them. But since you insist, I'll give you some wild speculation.

Some people probably dislike Shambler because they felt he deleted their supposedly legitimate threads on the old QMap, and started some questionable ones of his own. Others probably hate him because they feel he treated them illy on #terrafusion. There are probably others who think he presses his opinion on others too forcefully and is not willing to acknowledge others' opinions, no matter how valid. Some probably feel he is too hostile towards newbies who are susceptible to misinterpret his remarks.

I thought of at least another but it escapes me at the moment.

Like I hinted at, I am only speculating here. I cannot accurately speak for those whose opinions I do not share.

(erm was trying to find the quote of Shambler's swaying testicles but couldn't find the right one blah.) 

I guess "some people" are in dire need of a soldering-iron eye-socket-fuck then.

Shambler - you should be mightily proud, all those people pissed off, and still youīre so young. So many possibilities ahead.

;) 

We could all play the Enemy territory Test. people can dl it, and we"re all go. if somebody sets it all up, Ill show up. 

and started some questionable ones of his own


I resent that! They were all good threads!

I can`t argue with the myriad of other virtues you pointed out... 

I watched L.A. Confidential last night and today when I checked your webby for news, I see this!

Remember kiddos, you heard it here first; off the record, on the Q.T., and strictly hush-hush. 

SM17_Bear = BEST. SPEEDMAP. EVER. 

Forgot to reply to this. Ummm what was the question again?? Oh yeah...

Maybe....possibly.Sometimes nice to do, but I have so many new games to think of I may not re-install Quake.

I dunno... 

...can you lose the daikatana symbol please!! 

any news on when qmap.org will be resurrected? 

There are 5 registered users online right now

"Lo" to you five peeps. 

you hate celephais already? :-P

heh, i dont wanna be goin through 2 separate forums with the same people. although it can be a bit of fun.. yea, like when i have 5 windows open and post in the wrong one.

there, daikatana for you sham. well, at least the textures in the game where good...and the music, a little 

no, it was just that I figured metl was doing this as an interim until peej got back and could sort qmap out again. 

what is your email address?
mine is netgames@netdp.com
Cheers.
Tronyn 

Ifno is on the way this very moment. I am looking forward to working/helping out in any way. I have been on a foced three week mapping/online-gaming vaction. Need to do that now and then to keep priorities in order... am back in the editor again now =) 

I like Shambler because he`s opinionated, intelligent, and know`s his shit. He`s very elitist and sticks to the rules closely, which rubs many people the wrong way, esspecially when they`re being idiots and he tells them they are.

As for his "questionable" threads... I don`t seem to remember any. Any Shambler thread had a good topic that pretained to mapping or gaming in general, and was generally thought provoking. As for his deletion of threads... him and I only deleted the off topic; "public masturbation"; "hi how do i map 4 teh max pain!!!email me here" bullshit... why? because that`s the way the site was set up. But past is past, community attitudes have changed.

Personally, I hope when Qmap gets back on it`s feet, we`ll be able to move posts to where they belong, and close off-topic/flamewar/nondiscussion threads, instead of deleting, and have a proper FAQ/rules section that can evole with the community. oh, and I also hope to be able to use proper ` again... :D 

i`m pink! proper shrimp colors :D

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