looks like prey. isn't this basically the same thing that was done there? 

Before, after. 

might be better put in the help wanted thread, but whatever things seem pretty slow around here lately... is there anyone lurking around here who is pretty good with 2d graphics design programs, and would be interested in doing me a favour, namely designing or helping to design the cover of a book? my email's djg164@mail.usask.ca, oh and I should finally be returning to Quake stuff soon, which means ne_ruins will finally be reviewed on Quaddicted and some slight progress on maps should start happening. 

what are the eye candy engines these days?

i only know of darkplaces... tenebrae isn't being developed anymore i think? 

darkplaces.

though the rmq engine is getting great features of a different class (oriented sprites, yeah!). 

i was talking about like really eye candy stuff like realtime lighting and shaders.

so darkplaces is the only one then?

also, oriented sprites were already in software quake. do you mean the high res sprites? 

has this not been posted yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4drucg1A6Xk 

Darkplaces and FTE. Both support realtime world lighting and the other stuff.

mh is going crazy with rmqe though, I've heard that the switch to "all shaders" might enable some of what mh calls "shiny specular crap", too. ;-) 

didn't know about fte.

i hope the two are similar though... o.o 

... not always. You might want to find Spike on IRC and just talk to him. 

been messing about with fte a bit but it looks very much like a client engine, as in, the effect are all engine based with no real control over them. and even though the web page talks about shader support, i couldn't get the ones i've made for DP to load in it.
the only thing it seems like you can do as a mapper is use bump mapping and spec, which i'm not interested in at all.

anyway, DP's pretty popular, so i don't think it's unreasonable to require FQ or DP. 

I agree, it's your choice which engine you require. Fitz or DP is a fair requirement, too. 

well, with DP, i figure, if you're gonna support fancy shit, may as well go whole hog. :P

tbh, i was actually a little disappointed with the shader system in DP. it's basically Q3 but with quite a few missing shader script commands.

otoh, it's not really fair for DP since i broke my teeth on D3 shaders which are far more powerful.

/shrug

i'll probably only end up using it for water and such anyway. probably needless worrying on my end. 

Could be the answer to immortality:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfberry 

what happened to negke? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Jp9cisyMU


or maybe he got a life. 

http://ru.fishki.net/picsw/082011/17/post/dom/dom-001.jpg

Is that real?!?!?! 

Of course it is. 

System cameras have pretty good video quality nowadays and are a lot cheaper than old movie cameras.

Couple good large sensors with large aperture lenses and you can shoot in a dark abandoned subway tunnel with good results if you will.

Any of the artistic souls here tried their hand at it?

This is not really a movie in that sense since it's timelapse photography but shows what can be done, it's very nice in itself in my view:
http://vimeo.com/8951807 

I came across an awesome mod for hl2 that uses your webcam to track your face and translate it into in-game leaning and looking.

You don't need any special software, just a webcam and a copy of the mod. Made a video to show it :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTJd20c3tOs 

As of yesterday, Germany�s Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons (Bundesprufstelle) has removed Doom � and Doom II � from its list of �controlled� games, following an appeal by id�s owners Bethesda. Their reasoning? Because the Bundesprufstelle thinks Doom is �now only of artistic and scientific interest and will not appeal to youngsters�, according to the BBC.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/09/01/doom-germany/ 

the german video game laws seem like way over kill to me... :\
i mean, i can get where they came from, but still. 

I can't. Censorship just doesn't work unless done at a family level. ie. parents controlling what their children read, watch, listen to or play.

Governments doing such was an epic fail back in the days when comic books were banned in the states, or video nasties in England.

Now there's this thing called the internet. 

Remember when I was at school in the 90s and a friend was involved in a student exchange. German kid would have been something like 14. We were playing around and decided to fire up Doom to show it to him. He immediately entered cheat codes and zoomed off to find all the secrets.

Gave us all a good giggle. 

After thirtheen years the Dutch version of "MAD" is available again.