Here's to more excellent Quake in 2014!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 

 

Someone unban me from tf. Scampie is a twat. 

12 minutes of evaluating Quake without mentioning the guns, multiplayer, level design or enemies.

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

He makes good points in this context. 

Great video, negke, thanks! 

"The days when a mainstream, widely successful shooter could be a mood piece and only a mood piece, died with Quake."

Quake is dead? 

I can't really agree with everything he says since a lot of it is predicated on self-referential data. He obviously likes the game of Doom more than Quake, both as a game and an aesthetic.

Possibly this has caused him to miss out on a lot of the Quake news - ports to Oculus Rift and other devices, the various mods and custom maps that are made and so on.

But interesting to hear his ideas, they're concise and well reasoned. 

As usual I disagree with everything someone thinks of Q1's design... %-) 

... a little bit late, but I am just back from 1 week of ski with wife and kids.. anyway...

I whish you all the best for this new year ;) 

Every year better than the last. 

One question guys...

When I record a demo I make

record mapname mapname

but when I want top record from a load map?

any command? 

Depends on the engine. Quakespasm and reQuiem (and others) supports recording at any time with "record demoname" while the map is running. If you want to record a saved game, go to the console, "disconnect", "record demoname" and then load the savegame. 

Thanks for the reply Spirit

I use Darkplaces for years but guess is time to change! 

The savegame trick works with Darkplaces for sure. I would expect it to support recording at any time too, give it a try! 

Yes, it works perfect

Thanks Spirit! 

here

http://spawnhost.wordpress.com/articles/introduction-to-the-fte-game-engine/

if interested. 

I have FTE but I didn't know it was quite this feature rich. The heightmap thing is especially interesting.

I know a lot of mappers here would love to have heightmaps as a standard quake feature, I know I would. 

Valve Internal Structure 

I am looking for some timelapse imagery to use for a building visualisation (university project). Best would equirectangular, some moving clouds, bonus points if it includes a full sunrise to sunset. Can be generated (not filmed) but should look fairly realistic. I have not been able to find anything like this, at least not for free. I have no budget for this so it better be free (but I would _play_ with a pirated one for fun too).

Eg something like http://hdrmaps.com/freebies/cumulus-fractus-at-late-afternoon but as image sequence over at least some seconds. 

I think it would help to convince the FTE guy to wrap up and designate a more recent "stable" release. 

 

I remember this site, not sure if it's got what you need (seems to have both timelapses and probes, but don't know if probe timelapses)

http://www.openfootage.net/ 

cheers, I looked around that site but it's underwhelming. The more interesting Ines cost money.

I am mostly looking for a full 360/90+ timelapse to fill the background of a rotation around my building.

I will look for some standard slow motion timelapses too though, for static camera scenes. Those should be easier to find.

What does "probe" mean here?


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someone should write a "minimal distance between info_player_start and a crate texture" BSP parser so we can objectively rate maps. 

oh god, I want this for April fool's! objective ratings with eg

number of monsters
weapon arsenal
leafs vs portals ratio (or something like that)
average color
running in dosquake
day of the week of the release date