Interesting, cos my terrain map ( getting very long in the tooth and still unreleased - see my QExpo booth for screenshots ) also crashes FQ 0.8
It didn't crash FQ .75 while I was building it though. Could this be a face count issue too? 

doesn't crash on the map, it might print a console warning what's wrong. 

...If you like SPQ, take a stroll to the Quake Travail booth...

I know this map set is going to be good when it's done. 

Very nice shots you've got over there.

Another Qexpo come, another Vigil booth that just says "Under Construction". Awesome.

yes, *cough*

Go see the Travail Booth. Nice shots abound ( i'm even partial to my own ) 

Probably looks cool. BUT I CAN'T SEE JACK SHIT BECAUSE THE SCREENSHOTS ARE TOO FUCKING DARK. 

What did you say about my maps?(possible inside joke about my real first name...)

General question - I checked out the Travail booth at work and the screen shots looked perfect - it's an HP Pentium 4 system and fairly generic for office use with a no-name 17" monitor and nondesript video (can't remember the chipset.)

I come home to my Radeon based system and a decent monitor and I go to the booth and 'THE SCREENIES ARE TOO DARK!!!...) NOOO... I want all visitors to see shots of our fine work.

My question is why the differences? - Could this have something to do with browser settings or desktop colour depth or the video card itself? I ask because my monitor seems fine and nothing else is too dark. Any insight would help as it appears that what is too dark to some (me included) also can look just right (me included too.) 

Check your card settings. On my Nvidia I have a taskbar icon I can right click and switch between gamma profiles whenever I need to. I can set the gamma for just desktop, or everything else (other apps, video etc.). 

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On my Nvidia I have a taskbar icon I can right click and switch between gamma profiles whenever I need to


That is some scary, control freakish shit. I'm very curious whom they contracted to create it and what kind of fascistic minds program software like that.

I use an old ati board now, but for months I wrestled with the settings for a GeForce 4 because NView would force a hidden configuration file to load that was not quite compatable with my WindowsMe and it would screw up everything. Until I found an older copy of the GeForce drivers without the NView .dll's it was a living hell to deal with it. 

 

if you have a standard Nvidia set up, NView should be in there and the taskbar icon is just an extension of it. It may work beautifully with WindowsXP, but when I beta tested the product a few years ago, with the same rig (the one that died two months ago) but with a GeForce 2 MX instead, it was pretty much the same crappy problems I experienced earlier this summer. Only difference being that I was at least getting feedback.

Sorry for the rant, just bad memories. 

Zwiffle posted this in his booth:

The first event will be themed
"The Emerald City" after the Wizard of Oz.

It will take place on
Saturday, August 13th, 2005 at 3:00 PM Central time.

Feel free to map before hand and send it to me if you want, sometimes time-zones don't work out too well.
http://qexpo.quakedev.com/booths.php?tag=Q1+Speedmapping


Today is the first of the two mapping themed days at QExpo, and this is a rare opportunity to show what the mappers here can do.

It would be fantastic to get another huge turn out. The 2003 Expo was the first time I hosted a speedmap, and although it was a spur of the moment thing, we ended up getting over 10 maps!

Maps are getting buried under all the mod news, so help Zwiffle out by heading over to #speedq1 on Quakenet and making 3 maps each! See you there, dudes. 

That makes me smile... 'over 10 maps' :-) 

Another Qexpo come, another Vigil booth that just says "Under Construction". Awesome.

I find it absolutely frightening that you can remember what I wrote in my booth 2 years ago, because I sure as hell can't. 

some screens and a dl of a beta of my map

http://qexpo.quakedev.com/booths.php?tag=inertia 

I'd like to see some more textures worked in, it looks interesting and I like some of the scale - but some parts are bland - like the tele. 

thanks for the feedback and as metlslime suggested, i am working for more texture variation. imho it looks better in game, but that is probably always true. 

I guess it just stuck with me because i was very fond of the preview shots of jjspq4, which never materalized.

Now THAT was a long time ago. 

If you're talking about the shots on my site, I regret to inform you that the level seen in them has most likely disappeared from my harddrive. But it's not really such a bad thing, only the first room was actually decent. The rest, the stuff you didn't see, wasn't nearly as good. 

It was the ones from your site, which blended ID medieval with the Hipnotic white block texture.

Yeah, it did seem like all of the shots were from one room, it would seem like a hard theme to keep consistently good.

So, yeah, post some screens on your booth. 

http://qexpo.quakedev.com/booths.php?tag=Q1+Speedmapping

The new speedmap pack is here, headed by 2 great maps by neg!ke and preach, with follow ups Entar and Zwiffle. Download and play! 

very appealing this summer Zwiffle, and this one coming up makes me want to set some time aside to give it a go. 

Nice shots Hrimfaxi, i look foward to whenever SPQ day is. 

Singleplayer Maps Day 

Special for Qexpo, and especially for you, I released all of my quake and quake 2 map files under GPL. Check them out here: http://qexpo.quakedev.com/booths.php?tag=metlslime