a base for standalone games. Unlike other ports, it does not aim at being compatible with mods or the base Quake II game. In fact, many features were removed to reduce the complexity of the codebase and make the process of creating new games on top of the engine easier and faster.

And how many standalone games are using it?

the engine limitations exist to make your creativity shine.

Artistic constraints helps creativity.
Engineering constraints harms it.

The software renderer provides the aesthetic that we all love…
Some notable changes include:
Removal of OpenGL

… 

Not that anybody cares, but I've left my house. Will try to rebuild my life at my dead mother's house.

I'm tired of trying to be alive.

On some slightly positive news, maybe I can get around to code more by the end of this semester. Gotta spend months shaking the rust off of my brain first. 

Don't worry about the coding; the most important thing is to get your things sorted out!

I take it your mother just died. :( Do you want to talk about it? Did it come as a surprise? My dad died about 7 years ago relatively young at 65 years old to a cerebral hemorrhage. It was sudden and he died in less than a week. It was quite rough, so I can try to relate to how you're feeling. :( Anything else weighing you down besides your mom's death? 

My mother died 2 years ago. What's happening now is that I've moved out of my house because I'm not safe in there.

This is one of the few places where I could vent, I've lost most of my peace and freedom in the last months. 

I have no idea what's been happening in your life these last months that has taken away your safety, but man, having to move away from your home because of not being safe there, sounds rough! :(

Of course it's not the same as you, but about 1,5 years ago I had to move away from my apartment because of a fire accident (the cause of which I never learned, possibly a short circuit). Lost my two cats and lived at my mom's place while the apartment was being renovated for about six months. From then on, whenever I'd hear news about people losing their homes due to natural disasters or some other causes, I'd feel a lot more empathetic towards them. So I'm sorry for your loss, mankrip. :C I'm all ears, if you need to vent more. 

 

Sorry you are having a rough time. Everyone deserves happiness and a peaceful life. Sometimes it takes bigs steps. I highly suggest venting as much as possible and I will add that talking to a marriage and family therapist saved my life and my marriage after a very dark period. Seek help, there are free or low cost options, especially at universities.

Staying happy is hard work sadly. Take care and good luck. 

I play the PS1 version on an android Emulator but i know you can do certain things to play online cross-platform, like modded OG xbox's can play Quake onljne why PC users in the same server, can i somehow make it so my phone will run system link? Like Xlink and it'll think i'm only connected to one phone.
Help please. 

Icarus made a review of Quake 1.5

For those who don't know what this is, it's a mixture of Arcane Dimensions features, with new weapons, new enemies, new maps, some revamped levels, etc...

looks pretty good. But since is still a beta, i'll wait for a official/bug-free release.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpthf7Kh5N0 

Usually, I avoid this kind of thing (because I don't like DP too much) but after watching ArrrCee play through it I was interested and tried it. It's a fun mod and I am looking forward to playing the newer added levels. I am not a fan of the name of the mod - I think that's the biggest crime but with 4700+ downloads - you cannot deny the appeal.

It's going to be fun reading all the Quakedad hate on this one. <grabbing popcorn> 

Where Do I Find The Weapon Animation Frames For The Reloading? [EDIT]
Posted by kaisersozeh on 2019/01/28 13:58:02
Searched high and low for an answer but can only see the firing animation, not the reload animation - using qme. I'm missing something and the links to the tutorial pages I need are dead.
I want to separate the sequence into two functions - firing on a key down, reloading and ejecting a cartridge/shell/battery on the key up.
tia! 

I gather from the warm and friendly welcome i got that perhaps I wasn't clear enough - to clarify, I can't find the frames used for the subsequent reload/cock animation, at least with qme. I am writing a mod for use with a wii, so it's an actual trigger button - as above I'd like to separate off the later animation and instigate it using the trigger button-off condition. thanks 

Quake does not have reload animations. Which game/mod are you asking us to help you with? 

The shotgun, for example, has an animation that shows the gun firing and the recoil over several frames. Then the gun is recocked, or reloaded, with the barrel appearing in various off angles for a couple of frames, before returning to the original position. it is these frames that do not appear in QME.
I'm not entirely sure what else to call it if not reloading-recock?
thanks for your patience appreciate the reply 

Quake's shotgun model does not have any reload/cock animation.

Are you referring to a new weapon model that you or someone else has created, that we do not know about? 

this is the standard, off the shelf quake shotgun.
I'm not entirely sure the frames are described in the actual mdl.
When you fire your shotgun, there is an animation of the recoil - but then something else happens, in sync with the gun cocking sound towards the end of the shotgun wav file. You could call this cocking or reloading. Several frames where the gun could not be described as in a firing position.
OK. Rocket. You fire your rocket, where are the frames that describe happens between your rocket flying off and you being ready to fire another rocket? 

If anyone has a working link to a tutorial or a bit of info regarding this , i would be much obliged. 

https://i.imgur.com/2g2ehp0.png

quake's shotgun only has 7 frames.

It fires, recoils up and back a bit, then goes back to the rest pose. There is literally nothing in there that would make it appear to cock or reload.

Gonna ask a dumb question here...

Are you talking about a game called "Quake" or are you actually, in fact, talking about a different game, called "Quake 2" ?

Quake 2 has what you describe. 

Does generally suffer from a lack of cock frames. 

i mean, it's not hard to understand what the guy is asking. The weapon resets from a muzzleflash frame back to an idle frame, and the reset takes several frames.

if you look at the quakec, probably weapons.qc, you can see how the frames are sequenced. Aside from those frames, you might also be seeing interpolation if you use an engine with that feature enabled. 

https://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/screenshots/anevilnew.jpg 

As discussed, the frames I am looking for do not appear in the animation via QME. Searching for the rocket animation in QME will also show a similar animation of fire appearing at the end of the weapon and the weapon recoiling. It does not show you the animation reloading the rocket or moving it back into position. Clearly, these frames occur. Specifically, immediately following the firing rocket animation, and preceding the firing position for the next rocket. These are the frames i am looking for.