Upgraded Quake monster models 

I approve. 

very cool, finally something not broken and not mindlessly "retectured" 

This doesn't work in FitzQuake but it does work in DirectQ? 

I scrutinised them in QME and I'm impressed by how well they cope with the 8-bit vertex issue. Really top notch. 

"Just to clarify, the reason I am working with this fairly low number of polygons is because I feel like there should be a kind of synergy between the world and the characters that inhabit it, this makes the game more compelling for me and helps to make it more immersive."

Fuck YEAH. At last a modder making sense.

I do think the dog's eyes would be nice looking more evile, but all else is spot on. 

Yeah, those are great upgrades. I'm not one for high-res anything in Quake. It just looks out of place... 

that guy nailed it. Can't wait to see more. Hopefully there is more. 

and will work in any engine? 

doesn't seem to work in fitz for me nitin, but they are just standard .mdl files. They seem to work in DirectQ. 

they do work in fitzquake, i assume they would even work in dos quake, they seem to be standard format and within vertex/triangle/skin limits 

did you put the files in id1/progs ?

Cause I did exactly that and for me they default to the standard models... :-/ 

The paks are prioritized over loose files. Put in a mod folder or as pak2.pak. 

i put them in a seperate mod folder for that reason.

Interesting, though, that DirectQ worked for you. Does that imply that its file search order is broken? 

I wish I knew enough about how mods work to tell you! But sadly I only really know how level editing works. :P

Neg, I will probably make a folder as you suggest. :) 

of visiting sock is that he's making me want to spend my entire three month trip to argentina mapping 

http://tommyrefenes.tumblr.com/post/45684087997/apathy-and-refunds-are-more-dangerous-than-piracy 

Man's gotta do what a man's gotta do 

and by that I mean go map 

No screenshot of mapping, no mapping has happened! :P 

That guy hit the nail on the head. I started giving any new game(s) a long hard look regarding DRM several years ago and will base my purchasing decision partly on that. For many games (that I did not purchase but probably would have if the DRM scheme wasn't so odious) that is a lost sale, but of course they can't quantify that either, just like they can't quantify the costs of internet piracy.

What I can say is that even for the games that I legally own I'll usually seek out and use things like no-cd "Fixes" to bypass the DRM crap altogether.

As to SimCity 2013 and their busted game all I can do is laugh at EA\Maxis. I'll be really sure to not buy anything from them in the future without knowing ahead of time that I can 100% bypass their DRM scheme's without losing functionality. 

DRM has never been a barrier for me purchasing a game, but I don't particularly like it either. I have bought games on a couple of occasions that had poor DRM problems, namely Diablo 3 and HL2 both having server trouble on launch.

I'd like to think I have learned my lesson but both games were really hyped, there's no way I'd be able to not drop money on such iconic franchises even with the crappy DRM. 

all I've done is take out all the death pits and ambushes because you play quake like a grandma 

 

I have bought some things on Steam (I think something like 30 premium titles or so) however their DRM is generally acceptable to me because it does have a offline mode that actually works. That's one of my few exceptions to the rule.

I do the no-cd route because I know that over time a CD will eventually wear out over time (scratches and so on) so I would rather that I handled them as little as possible. I do the same with my music CD's, I have a old Samsung tablet that I have hooked up to my stereo just to stream music off of my NAS and have some remote operating software so that it can be controlled from almost anywhere. It has the added benefit of someone else being able to hook up their MP3 player to it and play that instead.

I was referring more towards hard copies (CD\DVD) of software in general. Speaking of "General" one of the reasons that I took this route was because I lost the CD key to C&C: Generals and so I have the 2 disks with no key which renders it useless as it's asked for during the install. I should probably go and look for either a hacked copy or a CD key but honestly I'm not all that interested in that game anymore and probably part of that is that I can't play it anymore as it stands.

Meanwhile my copy of Quake 1.0.1 (bought directly from iD in the original cardboard case soon after it launched) works just fine as do the expansion packs. I do understand why some DRM is used but honestly that's only going to stop the "Casual" pirate.