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I've seen way too many sob stories where something is closed source for all the wrong reasons and
1) Someone leaves the "scene" 2) Something dumb happens involving a computer or a hard drive 3) Something else happens There are so few QuakeC modders I'd bet $10 no one would ever be modding Quoth and bet $20 within 5 years the authors wouldn't even care or if someone did. But that's not my point. No one is omniscient. Unforeseen bad things happen. Unforeseen good things happen. If the source is available, the bad ones can't happen and the good ones can happen. I cannot name a single closed source mod over 3 years old that is actively developed for Quake and I think. Quake will be around a very long time. and to elaborate a bit more, that means that once the authors abandon the project, due to whatever reasons, nobody will be able to bugfix/maintain, perhaps even run/compile (less likely with QuakeC than normal C) it anymore.
It's not a question relevant today, but it may be one time. Such binaries become like black boxes, frozen in time. On the other hand, QuakeC isn't C, the tools aren't developed much, it is cross platform (one of Quake's big pluses compared to Quake2 - a progs is a progs, on any system, while a Windows dll is just that and often contains MS specific extensions), and even though engines move along, we can be pretty sure that most Quake engines will run any progs.dat even 50 years from now. So it's probably not as problematic as a DLL would be. In principle though, Baker is right. Quoth maps are tied to Quoth the progs.dat, among other things. Because of this, anyone making maps for Quoth (its intended use) can rightfully be concerned about them working and keeping working. This is where Quoth does owe the mappers a tiny bit. The mappers tie their work to the mod. id1 is open source, which is a tiny advantage from a technical point of view. Not for modding purposes, but to ensure its survival. Right now, it's a hypothetical problem though. (Still, it could be nasty when it becomes a real one.) Kell and co. could opensource the QC but stamp it "you may not use this code as a base for your own mod". People would borrow some code then, but add it to their mod instead of adding their mod to Quoth. I admit that the open source / survival thing is a big enough point for me to consider switching my maps in progress away from Quoth. Didn't add too much Quoth stuff to my episode yet, just some smaller maps. There are open source mapping toolkits like extras or whatever that one was called. I'm mainly interested in non-monster entities anyway. Another point is that you've still got to combine Quoth with QuakeC hacks for a number of things, like triggerable triggers, triggerable or silent teleporters, etc. So since I need to go to hacks half the time already, why not go to an opensource mod and hack it to my needs. That means that, while we don't see any Quoth variants, we see a lot of maps with their own progs anyway, ie a lot of id1/extras etc variants, which NO ONE COMPLAINS ABOUT! ^^ And some of them would perhaps use a Quoth variant (Quoth + some hacks) if they could, with the result being a higher acceptance of Quoth (more maps using it.) I know this for a fact. I subscribe to the theory that sharing makes stuff better, not worse by the way. Often the best user hacks can be returned to the official code, meaning the users de facto work for you, not against you. It follows that open source would be beneficial, not detrimental, to the acceptance, development and survival of Quoth. Just thinking out loud. Notice I didn't demand anything. "Quake will be around a very long time."
i drink to that!!! ;) i will keep mapping, less but i will keep and no more base maps ;) and i promiss more quality! Who says that when Quoth is "finished" or "taken as far as the developers are willing to take it" that they wont release the source?
Who says that Kell hasn't backed it up onto a disc or memory stick (?!) They didn't release the source to Quake, Armagon etc etc until long after they were finished!! And also Case in point, that one RickyT23 map in December that was awesome and then didn't work with Quoth2. If I remember correctly Preach acknowledged the problem straight away, and quickly promised a HOTFIX which has just been released. I mean I could understand all of this worry (Baker) and animosity (others, Trinca) if they had abandoned the project and dissappeared, but they havent!! They are doing their thing! What a thing to argue about. Trinca - you have chopped off your own nose to "spite your face". hehehe RickyT23 are you release pissed? or u joking like i�m? :p
roulf nitin i will not even map for Quoth ;) i dont give a shit i just put my point of view :) and i�m pretty sure that if depends of kell and preach maby the story was other... I mean I could understand all of this worry (Baker) and animosity (others, Trinca) if they had abandoned the project and dissappeared
You mean you could understand the worry after the shit hit the fan? How about making sure it doesn't while you're still at it. @ Too few coders: Most mappers are hack***coders, too. /shrug <--- final comment I just dont like hearing people taking a bashing. I fail to see how they have done anything wrong. I think it's unfair to stand there and tell everyone what a buch of useless wankers they are when really they are the opposite!
They have done a lot of good work for the SP Quake community. They aren't prepared to get into bed with everyone, they just want to do what they have been doing for their own creative bedevilment. Which is the only good reason to create anything like this. Everybody gets pissed off cause they want these guys to do things for them, and they have simply said "no" to everything which wasn't on their own agenda. Which is the only fair way of doing it. Everybody has been sooo demanding, mean, nasty, said lots of terrible things about them, and Quoth. Why?!?! If you make a map and people get pissed off cause you didnt make it the way they wanted it, and you wont give them the mapsource so they can fuck with it.... Its so, sort of selfish and ungrateful. So its easy for me to sit here and type about how I feel like they deserve a little more respect. Needless to say I fully agree with you: if players do not like what moders are providing, either just don't use it, or make your own mod... As well for mappers...
Quoth is for sure the best Quake mod ever, and even if some few people think it is not perfect, I think it is possible to live with it, as it is today.. damned it does not mean I don't want to see a Quoth3 soon ;) ! Kell / Preach, your mod rock, don't listen to them !! is also derespect ignore people emails...
and it was done from then... during base map pack... and i didn�t ask for any fucking update... just came up was inertia fault!!! and he didn�t even map... going to catch the fucking plain to put a fuclking bomb in US :p Just flapping your mouths.
The Quoth gang may or may not release their source, it's their baby. I've got my own opinions about all this. I'll just say that there already have been a couple of modified Quoth releases, and nobody complained about them. No one is omniscient. Unforeseen bad things happen. Unforeseen good things happen. If the source is available, the bad ones can't happen and the good ones can happen.
I cannot name a single closed source mod over 3 years old that is actively developed for Quake Quake will be around a very long time. --- Is Baker right? Are there no closed source mods that are still alive? The project wont die (ie source lost in the rift of time forever). Plus what Ijed was hinting at....
Hmmm. I think Baker has a valid point though. There's no harm in covering their backs, so to speak.... how many people actually intend doing something with the source code?
/me raises his hand weakly, having more or less stopped giving a shit at this point I already have 2 daughters: no way to try again for a new baby! I'm very reluctant to have another girl at home (I'm also unlucky I think...), it is already enough complicated as it is :P
.. yeah, but it is also impossible, I would not let my daughters with Trinca's sons... if hissons are as pervert as he is...
hehe :)
latins are all pervert they dont have many choises... only if they find some faget in another not latin country :p
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