Func_Msgboard: RemakeQuake

Posted by ijed on 2008/11/15 04:22:38

This is a thread about a project currently underway to remake Quake one.

It involves upgrading what exists already in order to play and look better or at least differently in all probable situations and enhance what is already there in this great game.

So we're remixing all the maps, monsters, and the player.

A specific engine in order to solve long-standing issues isn't out of the question, the main concerns being cross-OS support for features that should be common, like entity alpha and multiplayer. These things exist in various forms, but there's still no standard, at least today.

There's a great wealth of resource on this board - the one thing that doesn't exist here is apathy.

So, we're fishing for contributors. If you can make a map, animate or code and want to see this monster through to its conception then you're on the team.

Over the next few days I'll post info on what currently exists, and where it's headed.

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Yeah!

#382 posted by madfox on 2009/10/18 20:01:57

Where did he go?
Now I remember his idea of the undead knight.

Lunaran, come back from the moon!
You ran too far!

Yes

#383 posted by Drew on 2009/10/19 23:15:09

The RQ Team Wishes You A Gory, Traumatising Halloween (Mall Cop Style)

#384 posted by oh, that person on 2009/10/31 20:41:04

http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/rqundead.png

CAUSE THIS IS THRILLER, THRILLER NIGHT

So This Is What You Post When I'm Not Looking, Master

#385 posted by gb on 2009/11/28 23:23:53

Cauteriser!

Demo 2 Aka RQTEST

#386 posted by ijed on 2009/12/12 02:25:48

It's about multiplayer.

Download:
http://www.4shared.com/file/170876154/c99be680/rqtest.html

Screens:
http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/screen_shots/rmq_1.jpg
http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/screen_shots/dm2rq.jpg
http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/screen_shots/dm4rq.jpg
http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/screen_shots/rmq_4.jpg
http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/screen_shots/dm7rq.jpg
http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/screen_shots/ctf1rq.jpg

Comments welcome.

More Mirrors

#387 posted by Lardarse on 2009/12/12 08:34:44

http://www.quake-1.com/files/modfiles/RemakeQuakeMPDemo_20091211.zip
http://lardarse.quakedev.com/remake/rqtest.zip

Hmm

#388 posted by nonentity on 2009/12/12 09:23:06

Comments welcome.

rly?

Hmm

#389 posted by nonentity on 2009/12/12 09:25:23

Based purely from the shots, the first shot is nice, good change from the usual themes and the more finished version of the CTF map with the cracked hole is looking very nice.

2nd shot (dm2?) is kinda cheesy tho.

Cool

#390 posted by negke on 2009/12/12 10:47:07

Make this a news post to get more attention.

#391 posted by Spirit on 2009/12/12 10:50:34

what with that autoexec.cfg?
dm2rq: Fullbright pixels, ugh. weird delay after button presses.

Wehl

#392 posted by ijed on 2009/12/12 13:49:55

Comments read at least.

I've always liked the Ogro set used in dm2 personally - there's enough gears in there as well. Not quite gearpr0n . . .

Could be a news post, but it's only a demo, and MP orientated on this SP mapping forum. Guessing those that care will check it anyway.

The autoexec is like that so it works on linux as well.

In Gl Proquake 4 Zeta On Dm2rq

#393 posted by meTch on 2009/12/13 01:04:03

these eyes dont do anything if they are supposed to :? http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/screen_shots/rmqthing1.jpg

the sky is a little wack:
http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/screen_shots/rmqthing2.jpg

#394 posted by ijed on 2009/12/13 01:39:54

I've no idea what those eyes are doing there . . . will check. I can't see them though - can you give me repro conditions?

Where are you stood in that second shot? I know of one point where it's possible to stand on a should be unreachable, but that ones looks much more broken.

And I see the fullbrights in the horizontal skull trim as well.

Ignore The Skybox!

#395 posted by Baker on 2009/12/13 01:58:01

ProQuake 4 currently only supports the "standard" skybox size of 512x512. I haven't had time to make it support any skybox size yet.

For The Eyes

#396 posted by meTch on 2009/12/13 02:04:10

it was sp walk through in proquake4

Actually ...

#397 posted by Baker on 2009/12/13 02:34:39

The sky probably look like that because fog is enabled in dm2rq's worldspawn.

That's not the fault of RemakeQuake, but the fault of ProQuake 4. Right now, any level of fog will make the skybox entirely black.

Skybox and fog support in ProQuake 4 aren't refined yet.

re: the autoexec.cfg thing.

An engine should execute that as part of quake.rc, for example I get this .. (thanks console copy capability!):

DirectSound initialized
Sound sampling rate: 11025 Hz
CDAudio_Init: No CD in player.
CD Audio Initialized
Operating System: Windows Vista
Host Initialized
execing quake.rc
execing default.cfg
execing config.cfg
execing autoexec.cfg
couldn't exec ..\id1\autoexec.cfg
couldn't exec ../id1/autoexec.cfg

The first instance is autoexec.cfg being executed in the gamedir folder. I guess you are wanting the id1 autoexec.cfg to get executed as well.

Why?

Is there a good reason for that? That isn't normal Quake behavior for a mod.

I dunno. Maybe you guys have a reason that isn't immediately known but makes perfect sense.

Add:

#398 posted by Baker on 2009/12/13 02:57:35

Even if you decide you want it to do that (execute the id autoexec.cfg) the filesystem is operating system agnostic.

Doing it the Linux way ...

../id1/autoexec.cfg ...

... will work on every operating system including Windows.

Good Info

#399 posted by ijed on 2009/12/13 03:33:41

The basic reason was so player's don't have to put all their settings back just to test the demo. I did the same in warp as well, just seems a bit of extra user-friendly.

Is it undesired behaviour? I assume savvy types will c+p their own options in, but casual players will probably be irritated to manually reset their config.

Sp walkthrough . . . I'll take a look. Never checked the MP maps in SP, at least the ones I didn't make. The ones I did maybe once or so.

Got It

#400 posted by ijed on 2009/12/13 03:39:51

That's an ambient_ghost. The idea was to make something similar to a moving sound producer.

The code has since been made obsolete by our NPC's and the ghost is apparantly removed in MP - I used the monster AI code.

Basically a scrap that needs to be removed, looks like Aenoch was experimenting and forgot to remove it.

Ah Ok

#401 posted by meTch on 2009/12/13 04:15:49

sweet

Ijed

#402 posted by Spirit on 2009/12/13 10:45:00

If you do not provide a config.cfg the id1 cfgs will be executed. At least as far as I have experienced it.

Wait

#403 posted by Spirit on 2009/12/13 10:45:33

I mean: then the existing keybindings will end up in the new config.

#404 posted by metlslime on 2009/12/13 11:49:16

Don't replace autoexec.cfg or config.cfg in you mod -- replace quake.rc and use it to call a brand new config before or after the lines that call config.cfg and autoexec.cfg. That way it will play nice with users' existing configs.

#405 posted by ijed on 2009/12/13 14:59:29

Quake.rc is the way to do it properly then?

The reason we did it this way was becuase we're all playing from a mod folder 'RemakeQuake' and therefore lost our key bindings etc when id1 was loaded.

Should have thought it through better, but you live and learn.

So Do Y'all Rate The Maps Then Or What?

#406 posted by RickyT33 on 2009/12/13 18:00:40

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