My chronological progression of mapping for the Quake-series have raught the point of the next map being for Quake. I started with Quake 3: Arener, then Quake 2, and now it shall be Quake.

Just give me another decade, unless I quit my job... *sigh* 

https://immunant.com/blog/2020/01/quake3/

Apparently there's a tool now that transpiles C into Rust. 

Remilia Scarlet released a new quake map called Xala'noth today on twitter:
https://twitter.com/MistressRemila/status/1216471729003880448

Some screenshots and download link:
http://alexa.partition36.com/games-and-mods/quake/ 

There's a new Arcane Dimensions map by Comrade Beep:
"Includes a custom ambient music track by Matthias Fluor."

https://twitter.com/ComradeBeep/status/1216954477321715718 

Thanks Tribal, i made a news post for the last one.

Future reference, you can and should submit map releases as news. 

"you can and should submit map releases as news"

i know, but i always think "what if the author itself want to make a news post?"

i don't want to step on anyone's toes, that's why i only posted a link to the original tweet :/ 

There's a thread on doomworld about source 'ports', and unlike previous discussions here re: quake engines, the discussion there is primarily based around the physics and behaviour of the engine, whereas here, iirc, mostly it was centered around aesthetics (eg: colour banding from software quake, gamma in GLQuake vs Software, overbrights + fullbrights, etc... i'm sure i'm forgetting a bunch)

But I can't recall, other than the brief time where Quakeworld based clients were being used where there was a real change to the game physics and engine behaviour.

There's some bug fixes like allowing framerates over 72 not bugging out on downward moving lifts and such. But those are (i assume?) widely regarded as true bugs that pose a detriment to the game, whereas things like wall running and other weird collision/physics bugs in Doom are lauded by some. 

Found this link on discord: https://joshua.itch.io/quake-tools

Some example results:
http://www.celephais.net/shite/ant_svg.png
http://www.celephais.net/shite/rub2m1_svg.png
http://www.celephais.net/shite/rub2m2_svg.png
(the SVGs are multiple megabytes, so these are converted to PNGs :)

This makes me think there should be a "name the map from the layout" web quiz. 

 

A new single player map by Chris Holden, with new cool textures by Makkon ( @BenjaminHale7 on twitter)

screenshot:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/v16bnx

download:
http://www.quaketastic.com/files/single_player/maps/ghspch01.zip

original post on twitter:
https://twitter.com/ChrisHoldenDev/status/1218212614599331840 

oh those textures are really cool! 

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

fteqw
modelviewer /progs/player.mdl
error: absolute path in filename /progs/player.mdl_0.skin
have error why? 

Remove '/' before progs.
Also: use TAB to auto-complete. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWRz9uDDWp0 

is hiring, lol.

http://www.zendar.io/software-engineer-positioning.html 

Some ported Quake to the iPodClassic.

https://www.fwei.tk/blog/adieu-quake.html 

*Someone 

Or is there a lot going on in the Quake scene right now? Ter Shib part 2, a steady stream from Muk and other AD mappers. Lot's of new faces etc. And metlslime suggesting new engine features!

This is going to be a great year for Quake!! 

Yeah, the high number of map releases this month is cool to see.

Func is pretty dead though; I think a lot of the activity is happening on discord and twitter. 

I see func as the place for "evergreen" conversations, announcements and historical reference. It is hard to compete with the immediacy and multimedia capabilities of Discord.

But hell, 20k Mapping Help posts is reason enough to keep func around.

For my part, I do link to func quite often on the Quake Mapping Discord and encourage people to make their JAM, SM and map release announcements here first.