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Hello all, been a while. I've been going through old files and found the bits of my Quake projects that survived my harddrive crash years ago (which stopped me mapping because I had most of an episode blocked out and playable and lost 90% of it because backups are for sensible people).
http://i.imgur.com/8BODDCt.png http://i.imgur.com/uHYsQV3.png http://i.imgur.com/aK9o69N.png http://i.imgur.com/xpGuzmh.png http://i.imgur.com/qW5cHOd.png http://i.imgur.com/xUfzoNx.png http://i.imgur.com/0hNvIIH.png http://i.imgur.com/Iakz4nj.png Gameplay is a little different from normal Quake. Bits of it are a little Half-Life inspired with scripted silliness and a linear layout, and it's got a fair number of arena fights too. It is playable from start to finish, if you want to try it: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fdpeclsqdowij7m/ZqfLostColony.zip?dl=0 Start on zqfarrivalintro Monsters: 247/291/490 Secrets: 11 Notes: > Requires Quoth 2 and limit removing engine blah blah blah > There's a bit early on where some geometry doesn't have any collision for some reason. You need to jump/noclip onto a ladder. > Lighting is awful, sorry. Feel free to throw the lit file in a bin and set it on fire. > Hard difficult is brutal and assumes you know Quoth monsters already. Easy/medium introduces them more slowly, and gates you less aggressively. > Map will auto save to 'zqfcheckpoint'. Probably something to ditch. > It's full of little filler moments where two monsters attack you when a door opens. Somehow I didn't notice just how many times it does that. > Negke, you've played this version already so feel free to ignore it :p Now I'm going to see if I can get Worldcraft working again. Do I remember correctly that the map source was lost? Crazy idea if it's the case: plug the missing bits and polish the barren/unfinished parts by (ab)using Quoth's external brush models feature; it works with -onlyents.
Do any map editors support the viewing of
Thankfully I have the source for the two maps I've shared here. It's right at the vertex limit and I was having difficult with external brush models (hense the no collision bug early on) but if bsp2 is a thing now that shouldn't be a problem and gives me a lot more freedom to rebuild some dodgy parts. If anyone feels like giving me a hand with the lighting sometime that would be cool.
Quark can open BSP29 and you can copy some stuff from it into a fresh
Like Stupid QuArK features.. (runs for cover...) https://imgur.com/gallery/AQkfi
It's obviously unlit. The greatest achievement is that I finally found some textures I feel comfortable with. And I wasted my life constructing a circular staircase. It could take months until I release it. Looking good brassbite! Lots of fun having ogres bounce grenades down a staircase like that! ;)
Looks like you'd constantly bump your head when running down the stairs. Be sure to leave enough vertical space for players and monsters to move.
If a Shambler doesn't fit then neither will an Ogre or a Fiend, they share the same bounding box size.
There are two bounding box sizes in Quake: 32*32*64 and 64*64*96 - there needs to be enough room for the whole box to fit plus a couple of units leeway. So in order for a monster to be able to walk the stairs, there must be enough room above and in front of it. To examplify, make a brush of the same size and try to move it down the stairs without it touching or intersecting anything.
Try r_showbboxes 1 to get an idea how it looks in game. Giftmacher in da house:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8Wql_dXkAAZOFT.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8WqqdJXgAAT04t.jpg
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