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Got it, thanks!
Do you have the original zip files of lm231 temple_e1 sm65_megazoid too? yeah, I saw a screenshot of it, looks ace. Again though, I'm not doing bumpmaps/specularity, just basic textures. Like the Quake Retexturing Project, but coherent.
If gibbie has a full set of id base textures, including bump/specularity, that might be a good reason for me to map for Quake 4.
I have finally cracked down and bought the game. However, I am experiencing some weird issues that are truly infuriating me.
1) When playing online, I am getting a 3 second respawn delay. Ie, when I die, I have to wait for 3 seconds before a respawn, no matter what buttons I press. Friends on IRC are saying that this doesn't happen to them. Tried playing on different servers, doesn't help. 2) How come Q4DM is so tough on hardware? I can play Q4SP just fine at 1024x768, high quality with everything turned on and hardly get any slowdowns. However when playing online, even if I play at 800x600, medium quality with "static" lighting, I still get major slowdowns in some places. 3) I cannot find any CVAR to disable blood, gibs and decals in the game, is this even possible? My machine is an Opteron 144, 1,8 @ 2,45 Ghz, 2 x 512 mb ram, GF6600GT 128mb running Windows XP SP2. I think there are a number of tools/engines for graphic adventures although I have no idea if they're all retarded or not...
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/ seems to have been used for at least a few good games. http://indygamer.blogspot.com/ - seems to bea good place to find all kinds of interesting "indy" games. I haven't seen Scampie do anything besides join/part for 2 or so months now. Shambler hasn't been on IRC for 4 monhths at least.
The respawn delay is normal. I never liked it either but it stayed.
DM is tougher on hardware I think because it's a lot easier to have a lot more going on than in SP, where the amount of effects and monsters and shooting was more tightly controllable. A sierra/LEC type adventure seems pretty simple code-wise. The entire game is just a big tree of "screens" containing hotspots that react to certain commands, sometimes with inventory items as parameters, with a second tree of prerequisites that sets up what things have to be done before what other things are activated.
Seems like the big hurdle would be doing all the necessary art - the system behind it is uniform enough that it really amounts to a scripting language. scampie seems to ingore #tf these days. I tried to contact with him (via #tf, private, email) and got no responce.
btw anyone can host my site? my previous site was deleted by admins when I've been away for 6 months If gibbie has a full set of id base textures, including bump/specularity, that might be a good reason for me to map for Quake 4.
Ditto. http://www.houseofchthon.com/
Emo? What the hell is this? I don't know; I saw the URL advertised while I was watching Smokey and the Bandit II on TV. I think it's some television show.
but WTF they stole the name of map? OMG new Metroid, Mario, Yoshi's island and Starfox. Yaey!
And what the fuck four grown men are standing on the stage waving their hands playing tennis and what the fuck it looks awesome. And yay Osu! Tatake! Ouendan! gets a western release! ... you can't guess who is working on Starfox DS? ;)
I wish it were Quake DS though - with Nintendo modding Network. Man, that presentation was the awesomest thing EVER. It crapped so hard (with bad diarrhea) onto Sony's PS3 presentation.
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