I've got to put together a CD that will be sent out to a load of people that went to a conference, and the CD is supposed to contain a load of .pdfs (abstracts for papers) that can be viewed through an interactive menu by Title/Author/how-boring-it-is/etc. Also it might be nice to have a search function in it.

What's the best way of doing this? It needs to run on macs and windows... Macromedia Director sprung to mind, but I researched it a bit and it doesn't look too hot. Someone said you could actually do it in flash, is that really true? I'm basically looking for the easy way out! Cheers for your help again. 

I have seen similar stuff done in Flash. Now that it is a part of the Adobe family, it should be a cinch. 

you can make a title pdf and link from that to the rest, though I don't know how to auto-open it on insertion. (Could you add a "start title.pdf" to autorun.inf and include acrobat reader / foxit / gpdf whatever exist for diff platforms? I dunno.) 

Dont web browsers support pdf? Use Frames!!! 

 

 

Yeah I have. I should probably back up the back ups tho. 

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omg, he IS in my imagination only. 

I expect map releases when I return :) 

We expect you never to return.

I think we'll both be disappointed. 

so even with the "recommended" drivers 7.6 there are still hard crashes, i.e. on maps with corrupted brush entities, where the engine would normally just abort. Time for a nVidia I guess. 

Try the modified ATI/Nvidia drivers from http://www.ngohq.com

The lastest one is based on Catalyst 7.3. I'm positively suprised about the difference in performance: Before, I couldn't get Gothic3 and Stalker to run properly with my new card and all standard drivers I tested. They were unplayable - stuttering like hell, even on the lowest possible setting. With the NGO drivers, however, they run smoothly on max settings with no apparent problems so far. 

Thanks, I�ll give those drivers a go. 

Spd, voodoo, Zwiffle. Is it going to happen? Theme? 

I heard about the compo was that spd said vondur suggested a "pyramid/ziggurat" theme.

Don't think anything's set in stone atm. 

if you're curious where that 10 worst maps thread went, when i realized it wasn't posted by ijed, i killed it. It turns out ijed isn't a skinny art goth afterall. 

 

Metslime: ?

Scampie: Yeah, it was pretty bad. The maps it mentioned were ok. 

My histroy tells it was "planetjed". Fair enough. 

was a former quake 2 mapper and used to review for cranky steve's haunted whorehouse on somethingawful. at least i'm pretty sure it's the same one; the obnoxious tone in his writing style is pretty recognisable 

This one was female.

I remember Jed's Q2 map Light for the Awakening mod; that was a great ikbase map. 

I wouldnt really want to put this in one of the other threads, but why wont Darkplaces show my doors!!?!?! Most of them are 8 units thick. Works fine in FitzQuake. 

if we're still mulling this, might I suggest "combine two disparate texture sets," with the corollary that a map that's half id/ikbase be deemed a cop-out because otherwise that's what everyone will do. 

 

I think we had a speedmap session reminiscent of that theme, which I thought was a lot of fun. I wouldn't mind doing something like that hybrid-theme map. I also remember doing an egypt-tech map, half egypt and half base. That was fun too.

I would prefer Quoth 2 as a requirement, since it's so awesome and stuff. But Kellcros would have to weigh in on that I think.