I could imagine some indie game actually making an art style out of the grainy rendering by intentionally limiting it. Before hardware catches up, that is. 

GPUs aren't designed to handle raytracing. The GPU can be used to supplement the CPU, but there aren't any 'acceleration' features in place.

There are some custom 'RPUs' that have been made, but obviously they are not common consumer hardware.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Processing_Unit 

http://dev.datatragedy.com/projects/moabd/


slightly different but.. 

in units / second? Does anyone know? 

21:59:34 | <onetruepurple> 320
21:59:51 | <onetruepurple> voreballs are 240, except for skill 3 where they're 340 and will outrun the player 

Scampie: Yeah but... there's already GPU raytracing stuff all over the place? Might be technical stuff I don't get. 

I could imagine some indie game actually making an art style out of the grainy rendering by intentionally limiting it. Before hardware catches up, that is.

I sometimes wonder what if we had all the gpu power we have today but were stuck on 640*480 monitors. You could play some kid that lost his glasses, haha. 

Has to be the best resolution evar.

To me it will always be 'hi-res'.

The moment when games were nolonger blocky as a mutherfucker. 

Is there a way to play the installed custom maps in random order, without knowing in advance which one will load ?

Suppose you're ending a first map. Then Quake loads a random map in your collection, etc, even if it wasn't coded in the previous map.

Is there a mod to do this ? 

*hides* 

i don't think that is possible with qc. 

And what about playing all the maps, in order, without having to enter the map name in the console ? 

you could call a random map from a list in QC if you encode all the maps in changelevel_touch, like

local float r;
r = floor(random()*(number of maps));
if (r == 0)
{nextmap = e1m2}
if (r == 1)
{nextmap = e1m2}



etc 

oh hmmmm yeah, what you could do is just do a dump of your map folder:
dir /b *.bsp > maps.txt
get rid of some of the random text and such, and then script up a little thing to assign each map to an integer number like slapmap is saying. 

Open Broadcaster just updated to 0.5 beta and has got some nice features added and bugs fixed. If you wanted to get into streaming but didn't want to pay for Xsplit then this is exactly what you need.

http://obsproject.com/index 

Could probably be hacked into the engine pretty easily. 

also, Spike pointed to the DP_QC_FS_SEARCH extension, search_begin and friends.

Another way is a bash script to start a randomly selected bsp file, and kill the engine after each map. 

easiest would be to modify "map" or "changelevel" command in the engine to ignore the mapname and load a random one instead. This could be cvar controlled. 

In Ovo by Jaromir Bergmann
http://taw.duke4.net/2013/04/quake/in-ovo/ 

 

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

Learned a lot in an hour and a half. WAAAAY more than I learned at college today :/ 

.....aaaand I realised that it is identical to Hammers clip tool. 

Quake mdl into and out of Blender? 

I wrote a script to export mdl out of blender several versions ago, but I couldn't be bothered to keep it up to date with the plugin API changes (the interface was not very stable in those days). I'd recommend the export to MDL via MD3 or FBX routes, since I can provide a converter from either of those formats to MDL. 

Never heard of Noesis before but it seems cool.

Then I exported to Wavefront .obj WETF that is.

That loaded into Blender just fine! No skin though, though it could be there. I dont know enough about Blender [yet]....