I sended you an email because I thought it was your case. I first had it on func_msgboard but I had the feeling that wasn't the place for it.

I won't ask your opinion again about revieuws. As your email explained not much more than your statement on keeping it so.

I can send you a nailgun if it helps the discussion here, but stay on toppic. You ask for contribution, you get it, but don't be so rude to lay it aside and ask me to remind you.
I don't mind, I don't want a flame war on this.
I thought I could be of help in some way. All I receive is someone who after months suddenly starts working on his site and decides he wants a decent overvieuw. Don't blame me on my bad language, change the arguement of the missing links of the maps to a link of the homesite. You want your site with quake maps being shortly reviewed, alright... I send you a telegram.

There is only one statement that stays very clear for me, as it is written as discription of grunt grenedin:

it's more about quantity than quality.

and that hurts, because it is the same statement you append to the whole shubhub site.
I won't mind, go ahead...same reason why I'll never make a speedmap, you name it. 

After the first Vore turn right (don't go up the stairs) and go into the dark, you can hear the secret. There is a transporter in the corner under the stairs. Go through, push the button and raise the bars. 

it's really annoying guys 

...you should put some ice on that. There's this guy ELEK, he might be able to help you with it... 

I got bit by mosquitos 7 times on my left calf muscle, 5 times on my right one, once on my right elbow, once on my right pinky, 3 times on my left arm and twice on my neck.

Take it like a man. 

How was it? Not that I need to ask because Tim went but I may as well. :) 

Mosquitos are practically begging for a xenocide.

If I had a choice between getting hit in the balls with a mallet or being bit by a mosquito, well, I would have to take the mosquito bite, only because I'm not that stupid. Otherwise, it would be a toss up. 

I went to visit delirious grandparents and a crack-headed uncle. Oh yeah, and my mom was taking care of them all summer, so we went and kidnapped her and brought her back home.

I wish Gencon. :( 

I always like looking at siggraph papers each year. They do cool stuff. Here's a cool video from one of this year's presentations:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-SSu3tJ3ns 

That's brilliant, wish I could do that in photoshop, would be really useful sometimes. 

wouldn't be that hard to program!

Really cool technology there... especially the erasure o_O 

since they've explained the basic concept pretty well, the main effort would be tuning the algorithm that determines which is the "line of least important pixels." 

I now have Sock's mapping desk, Sock's mapping chair, and Spirit's quake rune.

I'm not in a living position yet to equip them both at once to see if they provide any set item bonuses, but if they do, I'd be curious what other relics exist out there. KungFuSquirrel tells me the the case that contained the computer that he made his Natural Selection maps with is still with him ... 

should definitly be exterminated.

lun, I think you need 3 items from the same bearer to get set item bonuses. See if sock has anything else. 

...a couple of the original studies for his egypt texz set should do it. 

Or at least be muted. Nothing worse than lying in bed and hearing their buzzing near one's head. 

So true neg|ke. But the worst I have ever seen is while camping in sweden/norway, during summer near a lake, it�s like the end scene of �300�, only with mosquitos instead of arrows :( 

That's what you get for camping! 

to add to death match, stay in one area
for more then five seconds mosquitoes buzz around you and nip hit points. 

In well-designed maps, camping is discouraged just by the fact that it is an inferior strategy. If camping is a good strat on a map, then it probably needs worked on :o 

does anyone know/remember how this was done in doom?

was it only pure wall following code, or did monsters actually search through sectors to work out paths? 

it was sector based. Google "nodes," "ssegs," and "reject" with regards to doom wads, there's probably a good explanation.

This explains it cursorily:
http://www.gamers.org/dhs/helpdocs/dmsp1666.html 

you're right though, it doesn't really go into much detail about it. but thanks all the same. :) 

it always just looked like they walked towards to the player and that was about it to me.

If you run through a level with noclip mode (idspispopd in doom or idclip in doom 2) and then look at the automap with all objects displayed (iddt - type multiple times on automap screen until monsters are visible) then you will notice the monsters just seem to walk towards the wall closest to the player and stumble around a little bit. A monster far away will pretty much never find the player unless a straight corridor exists that connects the monster's location to that of the player. It doesn't seem any different to Quake in that regard. 

i'm actually more curious to know how pathfinding works in quake, tbh. in doom, lines and sectors were put down as part of the map file, in quake, none of that exists, and all quake has to work with is a giant, flattened mesh... it's like magic. :(