http://buckmontgomery.tripod.com/models/index.album?i=1 

Very cool - those are some of the best-looking (and in-theme) Quake 1 models I've seen. Who did the skins? They're great >:D Normally skins on custom monsters suck the big one, but these look very well done. 

i do both the modelling and skinning, its the only way to complete your characters. 

...Spring, would be Autumn for those of us in the antipodes? If so, no problem as I'm using this mapping exercise as a way to learn vis grouping, while I'm waiting for the $ to build up enough for my new sys.

I've got a 1200 brush section all sealed up and am halfway through the next section (of roughly the same size/detail). There'll be four "sections" all together. Yaaay for vis grouping, my machine would've been juddering by now without them.

I'll just potter away, send it through then get back to the other project when the new sys is up.

The more levels the merrier I reckon. 

sounds like this project will be quite large, which does make it merrier for sure. I'm thinking release for around March or April or something like that. 

i dunno... i just can't seem to get the site to load,even with the new url... maybe it's tripod? 

try http:// buckmontgomery/ tripod/ models

try typing it in instead of clicking the link 

Bad Gateway
The following error occurred:
[code=DNS_HOST_NOT_FOUND] The host name was not found during the DNS lookup. Contact your system administrator if the problem is not found by retrying the URL.


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Please contact the administrator.
 

the link works for me, IP = 209.202.240.100 .

Maybe you could try flushing the DNS cache (if there is one) or check the hosts file for blocking. 

what is a DNS cache (temporary internet files folder?)
and what is the hosts file? 

You can have such a thing locally on your machine to speed things up (I have one) not having to make DNS queries to an external server all the time. It's not the TIF folder.

The hosts file is a local text file that also can have fixed DNS relocations (actually it's the first one that is queried). Search for the file and you'll find it. It's commonly used to block out bad sites, ads or other evile things. 

so, search for a file "hosts"?
what should i do with the file?

also, for the DNS cache, how can i find that?

(not at home, so i can try it right now :P) 

Take a look here http://accs-net.com/hosts/index.html

DNS Cache utility: http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/fc.htm

Please note that they both require some regular maintenance to work well.

Also, if you're running W2K/XP, there's a built-in DNS Client service that in my experience causes more trouble than it solves. It can be safely set to manual in most cases. 

I've had problems with that where I'd type in one URL and get an entirely different website, but similiar URL. Clearing the cache helps. 

ive got some new stuff, will update by friday.
a new demon model, almost ready for viewing, and a completely new one, aswell as some new skins for other models ive done etc. ill get some visuals for feedback.right now i am animating some models and making several skins per model, so maybe we can have some variety in the game rather than gunning down the same monster every single time. 

Spring sounds as a good date for release, because I'm currently not available to map, that why I have an unexpected break. But I hope to return my comp in a month or so and continue my map. It's about 1/4 ready atm (1/3 of all planned architecture and no entities so far)

btw when will the compiled progs.dat be ready? 

I've been dropping the ball there, but it'll be more or less ready once:

1. Exploding shells implemented
2. Problems with the slug ammo box are fixed
3. Zer Troglodyte/Nemesant implemented
4. Any compile bugs squashed

I haven't implemented the Ontranto crossbowmen/archers yet.

More to the point, I'm beginning to wonder about restarting Tower of Yoth from scratch. I've been somewhat influenced by the Daedric ruins in Morrowind; all those wack-ass angles would look good, along with a stronger Anonca Base vibe. 

roxors. ;)

seriously, i'm in love with all those sharp angles and viscious edges. :P 

glad someone else digs the Anonca Base levels. 

Excuse me while I do things to textures. Don't expect much in the way of purple though. 

http://buckmontgomery.tripod.com/models/ 

The new fiend is good as a model, the new shambler isn't.

And I don't think either of the originals needed changing as there are two of the most characterful models in Quake.

Can't you put the good style of the new fiend to use as something else?? 

I think the new shambler and fiend are cool.
I have a suggestion also: I think a version of the (CLASSIC) doom "Pinky" demon would be a great enemy for Quake SP (in the style the fiend and shambler are done in). It would fill a gap in the medium-speed, high health melee enemy category (the closest is the fiend, but its lunging and slashing rather than running make it a hugely different enemy). 

Didn't Necros already do a converted fiend for At The Gates Of Midian?

That rocked. The biting fiend I mean. And the level, of course. 

Necros level.