I'm 49 and have a wife, two teenaged kids and a dog. By the time I get off work I have zero fucking mental energy and desire to sit in front of a computer to map. (I sit in front on one all day) I have a metric fuckton of personal things I need to take care of too. My to-do list is exhaustive. It's depressing. Just had my yearly physical yesterday and the doc say I HAVE to lose weight and get more exercise. Big fucking surprise.

I have a great life - I really do have a lot to be thankful for - but man it would be so much better if I had more free time. It bugs me to read this forum and then not have time to do what I really enjoy - which is mapping.

Just venting. Thanks for reading! 

I need to map my ass off before I turn 30. 

Yes. Highly recommended. :) 

Yeah IRL shit is kicking my ass at the moment as well. I havent really mapped since the speed mapping/24 hr jam.

Best of luck! 

I think Quake is a great opportunity to escape reallife, at least for a moment. 

Being exactly one-half good and one-half evil has advantages. When a portal opens to the antimatter universe, my opposite is just me with a goatee.... 

My opposite is just me with a goatse. 

 

I wasted a bunch of time trying to get my video gear to capture successfully at 60fps and threw in the towel last night. Gonna screencap with Bandicam which works really well. A few more steps and we'll have some .dems to share with commentary as well. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cw2gXq83n8 

I might have asked this before so apologies I simply don't recall. I searched the Blue News archive and couldn't find anything but I am looking for the "first" ever custom Quake level. I remember that it was released BEFORE the source code for QuakeEd were released however the source code for the compliers and the maps specs had been released so you could compile a .map - there were just no map editors available! Some guy made a small little rectangular map with wooden beams criss-crossing throughout. This dude made the map using notepad -- no level editor. Insane. Would love to find this and take another look at it.

Anyone recall this map or know the name or other details? 

This reminded me of Matthias Worch:

the first Quake editors where very rudimentary, and we had to get used to 3D in the first place. Quest (my level editor of choice), was a great little tool, except that it had no shaded 3D preview (wireframe only!) and that texture alignment wasn�t supported when I made the early levels � I had to open the .map file in a text editor and type in the texture offsets manually.

Anyway, about the map itself, could Potpourri be it? It's not the oldest in the Quaddicted archive, though.

This comment in the Shaft of the Soulless page is also interesting:
This level was built before there were level editors, before Quake 1 was officially released, using a tedious coordinates script, so yes, it is tiny and boring compared to later levels. Did you try shooting the struts in deathmatch mode? It was a good level for its time..... 

Thanks for the Worch link! I might have footage of him working on Sin. Don't recall if I do or not. I loved Quest. I honestly don't recall how texture alignment was done in Quest. I had to have used a more fleshed out version, because I do recall flat shading in Quest and the levels I still have from those days I was able to align door textures without notepad.

the two levels you linked to are not the first one sadly. :( I will double check Potpourri but I don't think so. 

Yeah Quaddicted lists https://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/bc.html as the first SP.

Mention of "notepad" reminded me of the DM map https://www.quaddicted.com/files/maps/multiplayer/daskull.zip but that's probably not it either, too complicated.

Maybe some other DM map? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqUMlFPzX14 

Yes it was def a tiny DM map. Forgot to mention it. I have some CDs of my old Quake files but I doubt I archived that map. Gonna keep looking. 

https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_26968090.html 

r/stallmanwasright 

Someone already made DUSK mod for Quake. They even share quality of execution: https://youtu.be/pcwowe80MHM?t=11m53s 

the perspective is pretty nice! 

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-ti,4972.html

Man, that's pretty crazy specs. 

I ordered a 1050 Ti the other day when I saw it on sale for under $150. Not the greatest but it'll be way better than what I have now. 

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/293424/Oculus_CTO_John_Carmack_is_suing_Zenimax_for_225M.php 

a lightning somehow fried my vga so i have to buy a new one

i guess a cheapo evga 1060 sc will have to do for me

at least quake runs flawlessly on integrated graphics, i can wait for now 

I can now legally drink beer and wine as I live in Germany!