I know ezquake can record straight to avi (I've done it and it works beautifully, the sounds are captured too), but it's a quakeworld client, so gameplay is somewhat different to sp quake, and it can't play .dem files. Graphics are similar to normal sw or glquake (if you turn off all the fanciness). 

or Anthony of Dead on Que's avi code that can be added to most engines, but it sounded like Dumaul
needs something that does screen capture video directly from the PC instead of the game. Maybe EXQuake would still be satisfactory. 

Fraps (http://www.fraps.com/) is pretty good for video capture in general. I have a registered copy at home if you need it, just send me a mail (andyp.123, I use gmail) and I will send it to you.

I also would use Fitzquake as it keeps fullbrights and doesn't make lighting look muddy and shit. It is much more vibrant than anything else basically. 

latest Darkplaces beta has HDR bloom -
looks really sweet (better than many pos console games with shit textures and bloom), I`d use that for screenshots to make quake maps look cool in the portfolio :)

fraps for video ofcourse 

Thanks, guys, ham sandwiches all round! I'll be checking all that stuff out tonight.

PS. I'm slightly worried that everyone seems to be on first ( or second ) name terms with me today! 

i miss your great maps :) damaul2 and damaul7 got great bots waypoints :) i made then few years back! 

psuedonym, skewerd from Die Hard, my mistake. 

That's funny! I didn't realise my real name conjured up images of a sweaty man in a vest.... ( His name is John McClane anyway! )

Interestingly, my birthday is the same as that of Bruce Willis. Write that one down and tell your friends! 

What's going on? I'm the only person there?
Is this some sort of huge netsplit? 

Obviously the internet doesn't like you.

I'm in there and everything looks normal. Stupid question, but you are on the right network aren't you? 

Hehe, maybe it's a very small netsplit involving only one victim: you :) 

can I please request mp3/ogg whatever support for quake music? My cd is not going to last much longer I think. 

... implement it in the same fashion as Darkplaces so players wont have to deal with different ways of custom cd tracks. 

noted.

(already on my list, actually) 

how did the hdd recovery go by the way? just curious because I'm hoping rubicon 2 will resurface one day... You also mentioned that your fq source after 0.8 was lost, so that's why I remembered. 

saw the screenies over at qexpo, maps look great. 

So...

1) Where do all the cool half life 2 mappers hang out these days?

2) What are the HL2 maps that are considered the pinacle of user made shiznat atm (dm & sp, but sp for preference)?


And no this isn't a betrayal of my roots to map for the current trendy games, oh no, it's... it's... oh god, I'm sorry, please forgive me mummy ;) 

Seconding nonentity's questions. Tried Coastline to Atmosphere, was at best average, Minerva doesn't work, and the rest that are posted here don't seem worth playing. 

There are NO cool HL2 mappers. But, czg idles #tf. Blitz idles #tf too (on more than one server.) Other than those two, I dunno. 

I thought Minerva was really nice, didn't have any trouble getting it to work.
Haven't tried any other HL2 sp stuff, as I haven't heard of any other good maps... 

Anyone here going to Fragapalooza? 

I thought the question was about where to find good maps, not people who made terrible maps. 

It was about where the queers are at anyway... 

Minerva : metastasis 1 & 2 are the best releases so far, I also enjoyed "das roboss" a 3 level pack which had some great combat and decent visuals plus you get to pilot a mech at the end :D

tbh thats all thats worth checking out atm, kinda sucks eh. Sorry dont have dl links :( 

A new page at my website, i added a Q1SP Hall of Fame 2, for more recent maps:

http://underworld.planetquake.gamespy.com/qclassics2.html