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Fitzquake Mark V
I wasn't planning on doing this mini-project, it started as an effort to address some Fitzquake issues, fix them the right way up to Fitzquake standards (i.e. do it right, once and properly versus continual releases) and donate it back.

FitzQuake Mark V Download:

http://quake-1.com/docs/utils/fitzquake_mark_v.zip

Short version: Eliminated most issues in FitzQuake thread, most issues I can even remember hearing of ever and marked every single one clearly with a very minimal implementation.

It may be the case that only metlslime and Quakespasm and engine coders may find this engine upgrade of interest.

Features: 5 button mouse support, single pass video mode, external mdl textures, alpha textures (like RMQ), record demo at any time, rotation support, video capture (bind "capturevideo toggle"), console to clipboard, screenshot to clipboard, entities to clipboard, tool_texturepointer, tool_inspector (change weapons to see different info), clock fix, contrast support, fov does not affect gun, gun displays onscreen, Quakespasm wrong content protection, external ent support, session-to-session history and .. (see readme).
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Mark V - 1.00 Release 
Windows: Open GL | WinQuake (software renderer)
Windows: Direct3D

No new Mac build for now.

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Primary Features
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Mirror support. Worldspawn key "mirroralpha". Textures must be prefixed with "mirror_". Can specify specific texture with r_texprefix_mirror. See the Quake startmap, go to easy hall.

No limit to # of mirrors, provided they cannot see each other (3 in a row on same plane = ok!).

Find command. Type "find sky" or "find speed" and you'll see what I mean. Similar to the DarkPlaces apropros command.

Nehahra Support is complete and fully polished to the absolute maximum. It's like a dream.

Built-In Quake Injector Install now auto-completes 500+ of the best releases. Press CTRL+space to autocomplete or TAB.

Like type "install travail" or "install rapture" in the console, it downloads and installs it. Then type "game travail" and do Single Player->New Game.

"hdfolder" command to specify an optional content replacement folder. Change it in the console.

Zoom key. Bind x +zoom_key -- one size fits all script for sniping scrags across a bridge.

International keyboard support. Needs tested for verification (in_keymap 0 turns it off).

Convenience
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Automatic HUD sizing. See menu. No more using scr_menuscale unless you want to.

Stretching For WinQuake version -- stretching. Play at 320x240 full-screen resolution even if video mode not available.


Co-Op, LAN and Networking Features
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Co-Op ghosting for 5 seconds -- walk through other players/no telefrag for first 5 seconds. No coop spawns? Who cares!

Marcher Fortress can be be played co-operative, engine overrides a Marcher QuakeC oversight.

IPv6 support (from QSS)

connect lan, type that in console and no need to figure out LAN server IP address for playing co-op.

Server browser + single port server. (from Quakespasm Spiked)
"reconnect" -- reconnects to last server connected to.

Multiplayer save game capability. Save a co-op game.


Flexibility
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Different gun positions available including "side-mounted" (r_viewmodel_offset).

Multiple HUD-support (i.e. Quakeworld HUD, .. see menu)

Texture gamma option. Do vid_hardwaregamma 0, and you can adjust gamma via typing "txgamma 0.7" in the console. No cpu/gpu cost.


Server Connectivity
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Disconnecting from a server will discard any aliases the server provided.
Disconnecting form a server will discard any key binds the server sent.
Complete ProQuake support including depot map/model/sound download.


Polishing
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Final Malice bug fixed (for NightFright).
Original Quake centerprinting option. scr_originalquake2d
Ability to disable multisample attempt via cmdline -nomultisample. Same with stencil -nostencil. May make older computers be able to use OpenGL version.
Direct3D version can now do transparent weapon with invisibility ring. So can WinQuake build. (from qbism super 8)
Software renderer supports stretch modes.
Ability to have jerk stairs like original Quake. See menu.
sv_gameplayfix_setmodelrealbox for QRally and other ancient mods.

Source code

[Partial list, some other minor features may be in the thread. Source code link will work later in the day.] 
Bug Report For New Version 
Exe: OpenGL version of Mark_v
Issue: Crashes to desktop
Replication: 100%

How to: Go to options, controls, press return key to bind move forward. 
Visual Anomoly 
Testing the mirrors in gloom keep and I got this -

http://imgur.com/a/2cHyW


Also as the reflections are based on vis you tend to get HOM effects if you look at the mirrors from certain angles. 
Further Bug 
For some reason I can't seem to pull down the console even though it's bound to tilde. I rebound it to z and it works. 
 
i can confirm the console bug. 
 
I think it's about time I reported something that pretty much makes Mark V unusable for me. It exhibits a fairly stable (once per few seconds, with some longer periods of running normally) lag. All three exe files are affected. fitzquake_mark_5.exe dated 2012-07-31 seems to work fine.

I'm using this machine running in a power saving mode due to overheating (maintenance is long overdue). Quakespasm runs fine on it, even when fairly big/complex maps are concerned, but Mark V is stuttering even on start.bsp.

And a minor nitpick: "previous weapon" and "next weapon" commands seem to be swapped, as my autoexec gives me the opposite of what I want. 
 
Well, the GL version still crashes for me on map load even with -nomultisample -nostencil

The auto text sizes have increments that are too large (jumping right form 1 to 2). It needs 1.5 too (which is close to the maximum 1.55 that still allows player names to be positioned beside the "uncentered" DM HUD). It could even be useful to have 1.75 in widescreen resolutions. Hm, it appears that in proquake, a resolution of 640x480 has the equivalent of sizing things to 1, but at a resolution of 800x600 it automatically sets things at a size of 1.25, so the .25 increments can be useful -- perhaps this scale feature needs a slider bar for fine adjustment.

Hm, those "high" weapon models are too high, methinks.


Tested an old issue: it still crashes if you toggle external_textures when on maps E1M2 or E2M3. 
Gunter 
my irc mod had coloured chat text, you could adapt that.

screenshots are here: https://qexpo2016.com/quakespasm-with-irc-twitch-chat-support/

the code was pretty hacky, but is functional. 
Baker 
that inspector tool seems waaaay handy for info_null entity hacks. 
 
The auto text sizes have increments that are too large (jumping right form 1 to 2).

Graphics get rekt a little when you scale them by a fractional number. At least when texture filtering is disabled. 
 
Frickin' cool feature list there. Looking forward to trying out this release! 
 
(Can the original post for this thread be updated?) 
 
Going through my usual settings first....


The lavacolor has gone back to the incorrect value of "255 80 50 150"
Default should be "255 80 0 150"


Hm, I don't think "auto small" is a good default setting. It should probably just default to the "controlled with cvar" one. Even "auto medium" might be better for the default, OR get fancy and have "suto adjusted by resolution" so that the sizes will automatically be set based on your resolution so that the screen elements look approximately the same size no matter the resolution.

Things actually look fine for me at the .25 increments for scaling. Going to weirder values, like 1.55 does cause a bit more distortion, but the .25 ones look good.


scr_showfps still vanishes when you size the screen down (using the default -/= keys).


mwheeldown triggers mwheelup instead of mwheeldown.... This may be the problem dwere mentioned about "previous weapon/next weapon" not working, since the mouse wheel does those things by default?

Uhh, could still use solid dark black shadows for DX, since it can't do the stencils ones right. And of course, if you're hacking shadows, you should just hack them to not be drawn at all if they are more than like 100 units away from the entity, because that causes weird shadows....

You still have bolt1.mdl in the noshadow list... there is no bolt1.mdl in Quake, heh.

And of course I think k_spike.mdl and lavaball.mdl should be added to the noshadow list.... 
Ya 
Should just be "bolt.mdl" 
@dwere 
Mark V automatically records demos every game.

Try cl_autodemo 0. I should probably default that to 0.

Might be why. Mandel also said something about that.

Also yeah, I'll fix the mousewheel up/down reversed issue --- the input code encountered a big re-write.

@gunter .. I was hoping that was the problem about your XP netbook.
@fifth .. yeah the 2 mirrors "can see each other problem". I have to put out a revision due the mousewheel anyway and I have an idea to improve that. 
Cool News 
works fine so far! 
 
Thanks, cl_autodemo 0 solved the issue. I never even noticed the new demo files. 
 
Disabling auto demos doesn't help in my case.

Hm, I dug up the Dr. Watson log file, and it contains all the usual gobbledygook, but right up near the top it says, "Exception number: c0000094 (divide by zero)"

If you think it would help, I could send you all the error logs and info that my computer spits out when this happens.... It's a lot of gobbledygook!



The mirrors, they are broken in DX. They just look solid (normal texture), but when I set gl_overbright 0 (I do this because it smooths out the fog in DX), then the mirror looks like... um... like the visual glitch when you are outside the map with no gl_clear in old glquake. If I set gl_clear 1, then the mirror turns solid grey. 
 
@dwere - I wanted to leave it on during beta to see how many people even noticed (very, very few). So shall be off by default in next version.

@qmaster -- the bolts, yeah .. fixing

@johnny -- I'll think of something, I have something in mind ...

@pulsar -- I fixed the demo pause thing, I forgot to list that. Thanks for reporting that! I hate stuff like that.

@gunter
(1) --- that's for reminding me to disable mirrors in DX. In theory, they should work but the Direct3D wrapper has built-in optimizations that mirrors bust.
(2) r_shadows -1 will do what you want in next one, which will be less than an hour.
(3) Could you test download, "disconnect" and clears server aliases/key binds (3 items). Rename your maps folder so Quake can't find them. Connect to your server. Play dopa or terra. I need ProQuake depot auto-download tested. "alias" lists all aliases, "bindlist" lists all keybinds. your impulse 39 tricks for chat should get cleared on disconnect. 
Crash To Desktop Bug 
I'm guessing that my bug where trying to bind a new forward key through the menu is just me?

I get this crash in the winquake version too. 
@fifth 
I'll check that out and fix. If I can't reproduce, might need you to post your config. 
@fifth ... 
I've got it ;-) So no need. 
@gunter 
... Start up the open GL version
Post the c:\quake\id1\qconsole.log
Your post about Dr. Watson made me think about something. 
Feedbacks And Bugs 
Baker, thanks a lot for the release! .. I really appreciate.

second ... I�m a Mac user, hence I�ve only tested the software under Wine 1.8.5 (https://www.winehq.org).

The hdfolder command works fine but only one way. From "" to hdfoldername for example, but then it is not possible to come back to "", not even by restarting. The only workaround I�ve found is to set hdfolder to "" in the autoexec.cfg.

If the demo files are not present in pak0.pak the software stucks for a while (1 minute) but then it works fine.

In my configuration the software crashes systematically when the delete button is pressed for setting new command keys in the command menu.

Multiplayer works fine with me! � nice job! 
@gunter 
start up with -nomultisample -nostencil -developer when you do the log 
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