Is it possible to play background music with the current Linux build? Can't get it to work. 

no.
it only supports cd audio on windows, and directsound is of course windows-only and artificially limited to just mp3. 

Yeah, the joystick code in Mark V is not quite correct.

If you dig deep in the OLD Mark V thread (Google up FitzQuake Mark V), a user with a joystick kindly posted instructions on how to make it work well.

I don't have a joystick, so I messed something up when I was trying to be "cool" or something.

/Mark V supports mp3 music on Windows and the Mac (and in my private experimental build, on the iPhone as well), but not Linux mostly because I didn't have time to get that up and running when I was making the Linux version. 

Someone should donate a cheap dual-analog usb gamepad to Baker so he can test this stuff.... You can get them for like $5-$10 on ebay.

Or if you wanna get more fancy, get a Logitech F310 gamepad ($10-$15), which has a switch on the back that lets it change between using XInput/DirectInput, for thorough testing.

Currently Mark V reports that it detects when a joystick is connected, but can't seem to detect any input from the gamepad, using either input method. 

of winquake_gl? the latest packages don't contain it. Is there an archive somewhere? 

just found the archive

sorry

sorry 

Within the next week, I expect to release a new version.

1) Optional Mouse driven menu video. The video doesn't do it justice how convenient it is.

When you have mouse driven menu, you use the menu about 8 or 9 times faster and it becomes far more convenient. You just click away.

The menu looks like the Quake menu is 100% the same keyboard menu, it just is mouse capable also.

2) Fix tool inspector glitch, the save game glitch Pritchard pointed out.

Time has not been one of those things in much supply lately. 

I'm very excited to try this new version out. Looks very cool and I LOVE that Levels menu. +1 GG and all that. 

what's the lowdown on glwinquake? is the most recent winquake gl and not labeled as such? was it discontinued? 

Just wondering if controller support will be re-implemented in the upcoming release. :) 

I think sv_aim belongs in the preferences 

It's a subtle distinction, but sv_aim is a server-side cvar whereas the options menu is client-side.

What that means is that a nonlocal server could override if it was set from the options menu.

What it also means is that a client may not actually have permission to change it.

So on that basis I disagree; it shouldn't be in the options menu. 

I love the new lightning-bolt effect in Mark V, but i also love the classic particles in the other weapons.

Is there a console command that changes only the lightning-bolt effect? :/ 

OGG support please! (For reasons I mentioned above in #1767.)

And this would apparently be a really simple fix, since Mark V already plays OGG format -- it just doesn't bother to look for OGG files ? 

Does MarkV play ad_sepulcher?

How about adding lit support for the Winquake port? 

Direct X 9 - Mark V 1050 - Windows | Source

* Fully mouse-driven menu yet it is the classic menu.
* Tool_inspector works again. (Pritchard)
* Load game + death bug fixed. (Pritchard)
* Numerous other small enhancements/tweaks.

Special thanks to Pritchard in particular for bug reports and so it took this long for some of them. And probably Gunter when he isn't annoying or ticking off MH. Thanks to all other providing feedback, bug reports, suggestions, criticisms. And perpetual thanks of course to MH, Spike, ericw and metlslime.

I had hoped to get this out a day or 2 ago, but I wanted to get the mouse-driven menu tuned to exacting specifications.

Also mouse-driven was very, very, very hard to do. The Quake menu code is some of the ugliest in existence.

@killpixel, c0burn - I expended all my energy getting this across the finish line. It was harder to wrap up than I expected. @ Tribal - yes, and maybe Gunter will make himself useful and tell you how (type "find qmb" in the console and it tells you different cvars to turn stuff off) -- because I'm a bit sapped.

(mh note: scr_sbaralpha doesn't work with DX9 -- tried some tweaks/hacks but still failed -- and is the sole deficiency to what otherwise should be a rock-solid release. If some time in the future you had some time to check it out at a time of your convenience, that would be cool. No rush ;-) And thanks for your contributions!). 

btw, thanks!

@1830 unnamed guy - "I think sv_aim belongs in the preferences"

Well, it is in preferences!! Haha. 

Thank you!

You're awesome =D 

"And probably Gunter when he isn't annoying or ticking off MH."

I don't think that ever doesn't happen.


It looks like the previous issue has been fixed where you could see "the sky" through entities. It doesn't seem to happen any more. (#1665)

You can still see shadows though entities but only if you have set r_shadows 3 (I know those are experimental shadows though).


I have a transparent fake player guy inserted by the ent file, and he is only transparent if I set gl_fullbrights 0. If I set it to 1, he's solid. I'm sure I've mentioned this before. Ah yeah, looks like it has to do with fullbright textures (#1082, #977). That probably wouldn't be the same issue with the scr_sbaralpha.

gl_overbright_models 1 can also allow weapon models to be properly transparent when you have the ring, but not the transparent entity guy. 

@ Tribal

Yeah, as Baker said, you can use "FIND QMB" to see all the QMB effects. If you really wanted only the lighting effect, you'd have to have "QMB_ACTIVE 1" and "QMB_LIGHTINING 1" but have all the others manually set to 0!

I would suggest doing "FIND QMB" then type "COPY" to copy all those variables to the clipboard, then paste them into a text file and edit the file to remove unnecessary text and change the values of everything to 0 except the things you want. Save it as a cfg file then you can just exec it. 

Gunter +1. He might know the engine better than myself, haha. 

Let's man up. Besides I am feeling the code rage ...

March 9th. New feature.

I shock your world. SUBMIT! 

whoa. 

@Gunter

Thank you!

It works like a charm =D

Tho only thing weird is when I set the command "qmb_blood" to 0 it doesn't change the blood to particles, it mixes red particles with blood sprites o_O 

Hey, you're right. "QMB_BLOOD 0" doesn't deactivate the QMB blood.

You found a bug for Baker to fix!

You're an honorary Junior Grade Gunter now!

Find about 500 more bugs and you can almost reach my level ;D