How can you determine if an external .ent file is for the right .bsp?

Right now, you can't.

But I guess a .ent file could have some information about the expected .ent size or count it should be replacing, perhaps in the worldspawn section or some such thing. 

what about an md5 hash of the bsp file? 

how about... don't use the .ent file if it's lower on the search paths than the .bsp file of the same name?

i.e. id1/maps/e1m1.ent won't override mymod/maps/e1m1.bsp

likewise, a .ent in a pak file won't override a loose bsp in the same game dir. 

how about... don't use the .ent file if it's lower on the search paths than the .bsp file of the same name?

I'm not saying this is something that does happen, but I'd prefer a solution that can handle a case where somebody manages to get e.g a hipnotic start.ent into their ID1 directory.

This is mostly coming from reading various QuakeOne threads and observing the difficulties that people have with even getting the most basic stuff set up right. 

i think my suggestion would handle that by rejecting the start.ent (start.bsp would be later in the search path in that case.)

Hmm...

Actually a pretty good check would be to compare number of submodels in the bsp... since they are referenced in the .ent file right?

That would only fail if the .ent file doesn't use the highest-numbered submodel, which is still a point of failure i suppose. 

@metslime ... I don't think it does even now with Quakespasm's ingenious content protection scheme. 

I think QS already does what metl suggested; here's a comment from gl_model.c:

// use ent file only from the same gamedir as the map
// itself or from a searchpath with higher priority. 

yay, problem solved. 

QS seems to run significantly slower after I die and reload the map. How come? 

Shouldn't happen, I'd like to be able to reproduce that. Can you give me a scenario where it happens, like any command-line flags (heapsize), mod/map. Assuming the win32 0.90 exe? You're just pressing space to restart when dead, not loading a save? Can you see an increase in the frame times reported by r_speeds? 

what console command disables the screenflashes when grabbing powerups? 

gl_polyblend 0 

the powerup flash is built in and can't be disabled.

although, amusingly, if you type 'bf' into the console, it will play it. 

i forgot, but it's not actually 'built in', but is part of the progs.dat.
The code actually sends a 'bf' console command when you pick up items. In theory, you could make a mod to disable it. 

You could also create a modified engine that makes "bf" a command that does nothing - or have a cvar that introduces that change. I read ranger's post as looking for such a cvar, dunno if it's an existing feature in quakespasm or elsewhere... 

This one is a really minor issue. It's about as non-urgent as they come, since working around it merely requires typing in the console commands separately.

I noticed that you cannot autocomplete map names when joining multiple console commands using a semicolon. The following happens to me on QS 0.90 using the Quoth mod as an example. Any collection of Quake maps will do.

I start the engine and enter the command "game quoth". There are now maps titled breakable, e1m1quoth etc. available to launch from the console. If I type "map " (including the space), I can press tab to autocomplete them. This works as intended.

Let's say I want to play on Hard. I type "skill 2; map " and try to autocomplete the maps now. It doesn't work. It only offers to autocomplete commands instead of map names, which isn't right in this context. If I type in a proper map name, the commands still work, as you'd expect.

Presumably the autocomplete logic considers the whole console command line and not the part after the last semicolon. This would be a nice little thing to fix if you revamp the autocompletion feature some day. 

SQ saves unneeded levelshots TGAs in the game's maps folder.
These image are never seen ingame and the files take up space, so QS should not generate these files anymore 

texture coords on a brush were:
16777740 1584.00 832

don�t ask...

FitzMKV crashed too. 

 

I was wondering if anyone with AMD/ATI cards could try this build for me (I've tested some intel and nvidia cards already, but if you have those you're welcome to try it too):

http://quakespasm.ericwa.com/job/quakespasm-alias6/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/quakespasm/quakespasm-rbe2d155ae59744afad9faf79e5d9b82e1f54430e.zip

It has the alias model speedup I've been working on (only requirement to get the speedup is opengl 2.0+), so a good map to test is jam3_tronyn from map jam 3, with its 120k epoly. A good commandline would be:

"-heapsize 256000 -game jam3 +map jam3_tronyn"

then check the first number of the r_speeds when looking at the demon face. If it's not too much trouble, checking the r_speeds with QS 0.90.0 for comparison would be great too. With any luck, the frame time should be half of what it was in 0.90.0. Thanks! 

mac build of the above:
http://quakespasm.ericwa.com/job/quakespasm-alias6-osx-sdl2/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/quakespasm/quakespasm-rbe2d155ae59744afad9faf79e5d9b82e1f54430e-osx.zip

source of the above:
https://github.com/ericwa/Quakespasm/archive/be2d155ae59744afad9faf79e5d9b82e1f54430e.zip 

I guess you mean the start of jam3_tronyn. On my HD 6750 it improves from (some version of 0.90) ~ 13 ms to under 5 ms.

Havent played that map yet. Third of the way through now... Not bad :) 

in line 505 of vid_glsdl.c, can you please add SDL_WINDOW_BORDERLESS to flags? Makes it possible to run without window decorations in window mode, useful for dual-head setups when playing on non-primary monitor (for SDL2, i built it with USE_SDL2=1). 

@stevenaaus, thanks for testing - that looks like a good speedup!
@LeopolD, sounds like a good idea, we maybe could have a vid_borderless cvar. 

That would be even better:)