seems i posted quite a fertile question there :)
metlslime: i'd completely fall in love with you, if you could find a way to incorporate alpha in fitz. the functionality i dream of is this: i'd give a (monster) model an alpha (0:1) value via .qc. The engines that don't support alpha shouldn't even notice that field and draw the model opague. The others should draw the model in the given transparency. I for my purposes don't need transparent brushes appart from the usual water, although that feature (glass) would be great, too.
HeadThumb: If nothing works out, I'll do as you say ;)
@all: thanx for thinking. i really hope something will come out of it. 

regarding triangle soup: i'm planning on a monster from scratch, so i have full control over the .mdl and could make it suitable for alpha functionality. would that make it easier in any way? 

not really; the main advantage of world geometry is the bsp structure itself. the mdl format just isn't that helpful. 

the only really impossible to sort situation is when two polygons pass through each other, meaning neither one is truly "in front of" the other. 

By splitting both polygons along the intersection and proceeding from there.

I think most games use pre-chosen sort buckets instead of doing any actual sorting. 

yeah, or i could generate a bsp every frame that includes all polygons in the scene. But I consider that overkill :) 

everythime I try to post a FUCK YOU SHABMLER THREAD i get as sql error. please fix thyigs 

everythime I try to post a FUCK YOU SHABMLER THREAD i get as sql error. please fix thyigs 

i fixed the SQL error. 

knows Shambler can't be fucked. 

http://trinca.planetaclix.pt/70.jpg

shambler is EVIL!!! 

http://trinca.planetaclix.pt/sham-conback.jpg

:) 

and neither vaginas nor buttholes 

vaginas got one eye!!! :p great to bite :p 

You could punch several holes in the shambler's sides, put a bowl of dip on his belly, surround it with chips and make a circle jerk out of it.

Be creative! 

FIX THE FUCKING TROJAN LIVING IN YOUR COMPUTER.

I get a dozen spams w/ attachments from you a day. 

WHAT FUCKING TROJAN

I got some virus mails from you too a while ago 

Can I have some 

is the trojan will scan the infected user's address book, and send messages "from" addresses in the book. So you can't tell who's infected.

I get a lot of messages "from" fingers and sock, and I assume it's just becuase someone they know is infected. At least, that's my theory. 

I get lots of 'your shit is undeliverable' mails about mail I never sent to people I don't know. 

Time has chosen 'internet people' as their 2006 person of the year, maintaining an 81-year tradition of picking total dicks.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6187113.stm 

i love his new emo look! 

I picked up Guitar Hero I and II yesterday (so I have two guitars yay), and I'm saving II for christmas day but I've been playing the first one nearly non-stop since o_O

Holy shit this is fun - I suck having had no guitar experience before and I'm still stuck on some of the later songs on medium difficulty, but I can see myself practising until I kick arse.

I got into it because there's a bit of a Guitar Hero social scene at work with competitions in a local pub - some of the guys have some absolutely insane skills \m/~_^\m/ but I always sucked too hard to compete.

So yeah, um this game rocks. 

I thought those kinds of games were kind of lame until I played Donkey Konga over at a friend's house. Holy moly it was fun, and he said Guitar Hero was 10x better. BTW - Can you like get your own songs on there somehow? Or are you stuck with the stuff it comes with? 

the tracks have all had to be re-recorded just for the game so that the individual elements of the music can be associated with the key presses.

The songs in the game really rock though - it is a very well thought out selection :)