Gimp is _fundamentally_ different from PS; it is open source software and doesn't cost a thing. It only requires users to code their shit themselves. Is that asking too much? ;-)

Apples and oranges. 

Heh - I know what you mean. Sometimes I wish I was a sixteen year old girl. And nobody would be able to afford me either.

This is for you Spirit:

http://rickyt23.com/assets/images/rickye2m2rq_1.jpg 

sorry, i guess you just did not know that there was a gimp plugin to do this since 2005. http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/thesis

I used it to remove those brushes: http://i.imgur.com/Buprs.jpg (seriously! great huh?)

better example: http://i.imgur.com/4RyXM.jpg


But yeah, only money and patents make sure there is an incentive for progress and there definitely was not a GIMP plugin to do this 5 years ago. 

 

OH SHIT WHERE DID HE GO?? 

If you are talking about the owl, I think I lost him when I moved a load of brushes :( 

If your talking about negke, he posted on the RMQ trac about 5 days ago. 

i'm talking about that kid on the bike! fucker just disappeared. he was looking on his right... maybe there was a bear there or something. 

one at the edge of the road where the boy was, and one a little to the left of there, under the branch.

Same in the photoshop vid, you could see some of the bricks were the same, or very similar. 

Is great, the open world adds a lot to the game play. Coop is nice too. 

http://www.twitch.tv/totalbiscuit

SC2 tourney day 2, starting any time now and going all day :) 

Can't say anything though, it's a s00kr3t :D 

Yeah, it's awesome to be Quake mapping right now. 

I miss the time when I used my head for mapping :\ I'm not a awesome mapper but I did fun little maps :\

The one that I love the most to work, most of the people didn't like it :p

I will have to find some time to make anything :\ 

I guess what the RickyT23 and gb are babbling about is the new "BSP2" format http://mhquake.blogspot.com/2011/09/updates-for-13th-september-2011.html

Not sure what is supposed to be secret about it (it was nothing surprising if you were following MH's posts) nor why they prefer to talk about in this holier-than-thou manner. 

Wait until you see the new Quaddicted omg it is the best Quake website ever! 

Because I didn't make it, but I got excited because now I can make maps even bigger than before, because all the hard limits have been doubled. I nearly came in my pants.

PS - I'm looking forwards to the new Quaddicted, I probably check that page every couple of days or so. 

 

I presume you still have plans for detail brushes but that would be more complex on the map compile side? 

Actually would detail brushes only work with the RMQ mod? 

No, stuff like that would likely not require that mod because we have some guidelines that say "it should be easy to pick up or port".

@ Spirit: Who cares. 

I'm expecting monster maps. 

Extended BSP format with much higher vertex, clipnode etc. limits. Tools include TxQBSP2 (+ included skip and rotation fix), WVisBSP2 (threading support), and LightBSP2 (+ MH's coloured light and threading support). Engine support is in RMQe, documentation exists for engine coders.

The technical side at MH's blog:

http://mhquake.blogspot.com/2011/09/updates-for-13th-september-2011.html

Some comments from the design side by gb:

http://spawnhost.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/holy-shit-mh

I think there will be a release of the tools, engine and documentation, at MH's discretion, once everything has matured a bit, which can happen in a few weeks.

The stuff does not depend on RMQ the mod. It is also open source, of course.

I sincerely hope this will benefit people. 

Holy shit that is gorgeous: http://spawnhost.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/elder1.jpg 

Holy shit, glad you like it.