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...all hell breaks loose!
I dont know what to say. Spirit - Your idea for 'testing engines' - you should look at my new map when it comes out later this week. r_speeds are quite high in places, but the map is within all standard limits and runs in software Quake. What we would need is an AguirRe style Kascam demo where somebody crazy (like AguirRe) runs around on god-mode, trying to create packet overflows. Lunaran - Delighted to hear from you again. My comprehension of the technical workings of the Quake pallette is far inferior of yours. I ALMOST know what you mean. Infact I do know what you mean. Surely though, on a 32-bit rendering, a light with a color; (RGB 255 255 220) would not cause much of a detrimental effect, very little "muting". I admit that one must be carefull - especially when using light colours like (255 0 0). I like the idea of using different subtle shades of yellow and blue to represent different types of electric light and sunlight, but without making them TOO yellow or TOO blue. Only slightly coloured lights. I dunno. I've had fun playing, that's all I can say! Where the fuck is Electro? Bouncing around the country, back in Brisbane now. That Mibbit is great, may have to poke around with it at lunchtime, the Telstra guy is coming to connect the phone line in a couple of weeks, then I can start organising getting internet connected. Yay! celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=6035
It's not where its says it is, and because theres no link to a specific file, I cant search the filename... It must be quite a good map, from reading the thread... HELP PLEASE ! Tried out DarkPlacesMod last night, with Rygels high quality (2.7Gb) texture pack. It has, er, normal and gloss maps for most textures too.
I wanted to try it out with my new 8800 GTS 512. Start wouldnt load, neither would E1M1, I think due to a lack of memory. I wasnt using the picmip command. But The Fistfucking Little Box loaded fine, due to a small amount of textures used for the map. And I must say mod and map together = more eyecandy than I could get my head round. I nearly cried at all of the beauty. High res bump-mapping (OK, not quite bumpmapping) in Quake - un-necessary indeed, along with the RTLighting, but, well, I thought it looked good! :F I dont really understand it. But it looked cool!
Looks better than the Tenebrae effect, anyway, but I guess thats to do with actual increase in texture resolution. I quite like the look of just the highres textures in other engines, but Darkplaces *looks* the most impressive with all of the bells and whistles running, in dpmod. Just a shame it wont load big maps that way. It is silly really! I mean I might as well go and play UT3. Wikipedia and look up relief mapping - it's what they used in Quake4 so that a flat surface can occlude itself, interesting reading.
If you're into that sort of thing ;) I think I've heard you can knock down Rygel's highest textures to about half size and don't notice about any change in quality.
Don't remember so well anymore. I wonder why the textures look so wretched. I know it's filtering them but GLQuake does that too and it doesn't look THAT bad.
...from delivering a ho hum level (by mere seconds...I had the news sub form open), and I'm going to have to rethink skill 2. So, given I'm moving house tomorrow there'll be a slight delay in getting dis_sp6 out the door. Nonetheless, thanks sielwolf!
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