you're over thirty years old, right? Cause I figure you can take Lorelai, and I can take Rory. 

for good luck. 

Give Halo for PC a try, it pretty much locks the FPS at 30. It is playable... barely, but playable.

I couldn't care less about the science and theory behind the differences between high and low FPS and human perception. Bottum line... playing a silky-smooth game of Q2 DM at 200+ compared to a nausea/motin-sickness inducing 30 will always be my prefernce. 

That's a lot of posts on something I cared about until now. 

I'm a vegetable. A happy confident vegetable, who is looking forward to Doom3. Instead of getting his thong in a twist about what FPS it's capped at. 

...as long as it's textured in idbase 

boy, are you in for a dissappointment 

Next time you guys are going to flame eachothers, let me know beforehand. I need time to make the popcorn. 

alright, last week didn't work out sooo... This week we'll try sm55 again! Only this time, the theme will be 'idbase'. This isn't to stir more argument between idbase and runic, but to begin our 4 week long megatheme 'The 4 Seasons of Quake' where we'll be doing 1 texture set each week in order of the Quake episodes (idbase is going to be considered episode 1 seeming as that was the shareware episode and contained the full range of Quake themes).

Timelimit will be 100 mins and the event will be happening tomorrow at 4 pm EST at irc.gamesnet.net in #speedq1. Also, as always, you may email an entry to me at Scampie@spawnpoint.org!

We should have a ton of fun with these themes and if there are enough quality maps for each week, I'll probabally pack the best from the 4 weeks into a pak for release (maybe as Special Editions if the mappers so desire) 

don't let scampie down or we'll be stuck on sm55 for all time. It'll be like Groundhog day, but instead of the morning blast of 'I got you babe' there'll be nothing but the inevitable sounds of dissapointment and failure.

Rise and shine, campers, and don't forget your booties 'cause it's cooooold out there today. It's cold out there every day. What is this, Miami Beach? Not hardly. 

http://www.hfinster.de/StahlArt/index.html 

ELEK, that is sexy. You are my new best buddy.

I'll go link this in the Inspiration/Reference thread. 

nice. I especially like the 'loading point' arches of St. Nicolas. 

Can I get a clarification on the theme for SM56? E2 encapsulates a wide variety of medieval themes; some even border on metal (e2m3 and e2m7 are good examples) while others are more like the E1-style of medieval (such as e2m2 and e2m6). 

http://www.doom3.dk/default.asp?p=viewpost&id=3201 

Episode2 is castles. Every map is a castle or temple of some kind. A good loose definition for textures will be 'stone and wood' but metal is used in some extent for trims and machinery. Gloom Keep (e1m5) is a good example of an episode 2 map (try to keep in mind that Episode 1 is the shareware episode, so it encompasses most of the themes. I'd almost bet it would've been all idbase if Quake hadn't been Shareware). A point of interest for episode 2 is that there is no lava, but slime, water, and bio-suits are heavily featured. Also, being 'The Realm of Black Magic', Quads and Pentagrams in secrets are appearing more frequently.

So the basic theme is 'castles', so as long as they are not 'runic castles' or 'castles of unspeakible elder worldly horror and madness', you'll be fine. 

oh, and we're not going to be nazis about it... whatever you think fits into episode 2 best, map that. 

using colours. I think E2 uses blue and brown *waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay* more than any other colours. occasionally white.

examples... e2m2 (brown and white), e2m3 (blue and gray), e2m4 (blue), e2m5 (bluer!), e2m6 (brown and blue), e2m7 (blue and gray) 

doom3 is vaporware. 

only problem with that is: e4 has the same color scheme. and e3 is mostly blue and grey too. 

oh, and we're not going to be nazis about it... whatever you think fits into episode 2 best, map that

What scampie said. It might be a good idea to even pick a map from E2 and rip the texture scheme off that directly.

I will most likely be hosting the session on Sunday instead of saturday, as I'll be away at the usual time. 

I'll be around and do it at the normal time...

Me and Starbuck are like teh dynamic duo! 

and that's not to say I'm stepping on Starbuck's toes, map whichever day you want, I just want to make sure we don't push away our Saturday regulars :D 

E4? isn't Azure Agony the *only* mostly blue map in E4? I consider E4 mostly brown.
e4m1, base, so NA
e4m2, brown & yellow
e4m3, brown & red(yes there is a blue hallway or 2)
e4m4, red
e4m5, blue, green, gray (but i hate this map, so I don't count it)
e4m6, red, yellow, green, blue
e4m7, all blue
e4m8, brown 

the whole damn game is just brown :)