It reminds me of John Blanche' illustrations:

http://taran.pagesperso-orange.fr/images/4khorne.jpg

Especially those from Sorcery! 

Something I found on polycount today, linked from the low-poly-models thread

http://wiki.polycount.com/SphereTopology

It's a guide on how to save polys on spheres by collapsing edges that don't improve the silhouette of the shape. It's interesting in itself, but also as a starting point for how to optimise curved models generally. 

Okay, it's only a double post.

http://www.btinternet.com/~chapterhonour/quadtrick.zip

Whack it in progs and load a map with a quad.

It's basically a similar trick to the gem, but because I can write the scripts in python now, I can cope with doing directional calculations on normals. This means you can get coherent effects rather than the random ones seen earlier. 

I see the difference. Is it engine dependent?

And yeah, a well presented article.

I'd be interested in one a bit more high level though. How the silhouette is all important and the visual acuity of the ones in Quake is pretty damn good. 

that looks awesome man... :D 

Yes, that looks good!

I just remade the squad.mdl, giving it a flat skinfile.
It doesn't change much to the already excisting,
as if smaller objects get reduced in game.

This scripted print really glows. 

It relies on the normal effects, so it's very hard to see in darkplaces for the reasons mentioned earlier in the thread (back where sock posted the health vials). Fitzquake is recommended because it has motion interpolation without vertex lighting, but it's also worth seeing that it renders in winquake. 

Got it. 

I know I'm recalling the subject again, but now that I have the tessla coil I can't add a sound to its sparkle.

I'm allready glad I can use mh's version of progsref to make the thing go.

But now it seems as if an electric wav is hard to add to a info_notnull as all sounds are precached.

So here is a map with an example, maybe there is a simple solution for it.
Or I'll strip the toppic and read it again.

http://members.home.nl/gimli/tessla.zip 

It seems like the easiest way to play the sound would be to add code that precaches it to info_tessla. You can look at the code for ambient_drone to get you started. The way that ambient_drone works does mean that you can never turn the sound off, so let me know if this is a problem.

The main problem you will have is that the sound file you have does not loop. To make it look you need to:

Download wavosaur from www.wavosaur.com and install it.

Open the wav file in wavosaur

From the tools menu select markers->create marker.

You can then move the marker around, place it at the point where you want the loop to start playing after the sound reaches the end.

Finally, save the file and it should loop in-game. 

Thanks for the headsup about wavosaur... been looking for a good straight forward sound editing program. I can't stand audacity. :P 

Right, Preach.

The sound of the constant tessla is already added with some ambient_fuz.
I ment a sound that wakes at the moment the player gets touched by the tessla.

So I don't need the sound looped, only for the flash of the bold.
Reason why I thought it would fit more in the trigger_multiple from with the lightnihg is excecuted. Or in the info_notnull.

But the sounds there are all precached.
And I wonder as this func is used as teaching old progs new tricks. 

A couple of shots of a work-in-progress computer terminal model in idbase style.
http://www.btinternet.com/~chapterhonour/console1.jpg
http://www.btinternet.com/~chapterhonour/console2.jpg 

Looks good and '96 

How many colours does the quake palette contain? And why does it hurt so much? 

When I start 64, when I'm working 256, and when I stop 625.
Must be the afterimage that hurts.

Do I get John Bean Sunglasses now?

http://members.home.nl/gimli/generator.jpg 

looks like a quake portal gun. :P 

I'm trying to understand the basics of models in qmle, so I'm try turning triangles into cubes without losing skin texture.

The model above is one of the low poly model site I found on the board elsewhere.
Reading the liscense and GNU it is freeware, but it's more a challence to make one of yourself. 

I'd not recommend learning basics from QME because you might end up thinking that things are just hard to do, when in fact they are only hard to to in QME. It's a specialist tool for quake models, general purpose modelling programs like blender or gmax are easier for the basics, despite being more complex overall. 

Blender is to heavy for me, so i asked myself, if there is any other freeware next to gmax which is of good use for quake-modelling. 

The program that I've always found easiest to actually create 3d geometry in is called "Wings 3d". It isn't a full package - you can't do skinmapping or animation in it, but it makes sculpting very intuitive. I also haven't tried to get a version of it for years so I don't know if it's still developed or even easy to find... 

I was chasing the strange object bear pointed in the inspiration thread.

http://members.home.nl/gimli/moeb4.gif 

preach, what causes md3tomdl to ignore the input skin and (auto generate??) an orange/brown striped skin?

I exported a skin from qme into pcx and everything seems fine (model frames are all there as is skin mapping). 

ohhh never mind... i moved my skins into a subfolder but forgot to add thatr in the text file. -_- 

and she's mine.

http://members.home.nl/gimli/bigles3.gif