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Are the Hipnotic and Rogue development kits still available somewhere? (I have the Zerstorer one)
Google isn't turning up anything. In particular I'm after the force field/particle field QuakeC. look for the custents devkit which has both the hip and rogue code stuffs as well as other things
And it occurs to me how doomed Quake would be if we ever lose ftp.sunet.se (the final mirror).
aguiRe, ever thought of adding Tyrann's "remove_skip.exe" code into txQbsp? I can't see someone using a texture named "skip" texture for anything but for a "removed texture". idgames2 mirrors, but I only know of sunet's planetquake subdir, which actually contains a lot of stuff.
No, I haven't thought of putting that feature into qbsp. yeah, this would be nice. Probably should be off by default and activated by command line.
Tyrann's skip removal tool is pretty hacky -- it doesn't remove the surfaces or marksurfaces from the file, it simply shortens the list of marksurfaces for each node. Or something like that, i can't remember exactly. A more robust version (actually removing the faces from the bsp, not allocating lightmaps for them, etc.) would only really be practical if it was handled during the qbsp stage. I've seen lights that are long rectangles
--- | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --- Are they making a ton of individual lights? What technique are they using? Or is there an easy way to take a brush and make it illuminate? Unless you're using surface lighting, you just need to place one or a few lights. Sometimes I go with one, but sometimes two.
If the texture is one of those 32x128 dimension light textures, i recommend making 4-8 light entities along the length of it. that gives a nice and even illumination. Copy / paste is your friend.
Tyrann said he stopped using his skip program cause it causes visual glitches sometimes, I've been using it quite a bit and haven't come across any problems though...
But yeah, a real skip pass during qbsp would be awesome, one of my maps keeps going a bit over markedsurface engine limit, and being able to skip some stuff could probably help. =D Marius was so nice to post this list on quaddicted.com
The following mirrors are all functioning as of Friday, May 27, 2005: ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/pc/games/idgames2/levels/ http://www.au.horde.org/pub/idgames2/levels/ http://www.gamers.org/pub/idgames2/levels/ http://ftp.se.kde.org/pub/pc/games/idgames2/levels/ http://download.au.kde.org/pub/idgames2/levels/ Planetmirror Mirrors http://curl.planetmirror.com/pub/idgames2/levels/ http://python.planetmirror.com/ftp/idgames2/levels/ http://mrtg.planetmirror.com/pub/idgames2/levels/ http://horde.planetmirror.com/pub/idgames2/levels/ http://public.kde.planetmirror.com/pub/idgames2/levels/ The icky, incomplete mirror over at Absolute Gamer http://www.fileaholic.com/idgames.d/quake/levels/ (All the links points to the /levels dir) http://www.quaddicted.com/content/view/130/2/ I have 31499 marksurfaces in my map already. But I still need to make a large hall for final battle. I need to reduce their number. Any ideas?
I have the same problem with my current project: marksurfaces value is around 35000...o_O...and unfortunatly I was not able to solve it :(... and I have to let it as is....
AFAIK, it's not a problem for FitzQuake engine (either equivalent, or better) to manage this too high value: you would only have choppy visual effect ingame with "old PC". And unfortunatly, WinQuake and standard engine should abort during map load. It seems to be a recurent issue for big maps.. :( Hrimfaxi also has this issue with his last map (tris), and he told me he was able to solve it... We also had interesting discussion about this issue (concerning my map).. so maybe you could contact him directly.. though.. make episodes of normal maps, not huge-ass maps. It's nicer to play that way too!
Well sorry, I haven't seen what you're working on... Is this all because of kinn? Some penis measuring contest? If you exceed the marksurfaces limit of 32k, I'd suggest not to worry too much unless you experience obvious problems (typically map crashes).
There seems to be some kind of margin before real problems appear and there are several big maps released (e.g. Menkalinan) that exceed the limit without having any apparent issues. Inside normal engines, bad things will happen immediately when passing 32k, but it might still not cause any harm. Actually, as soon as my map went over the limit (by a few hundred markedsurface), fitzquake became unable to load it (crashes)... That normal? Runs fine now that I'm under again (had to move a part of the map for later use =\ ).
Actually you could try to go on mapping on the map as it is.
While working on my last map Tris, I several times went over the max marksurface count. I found that even if the map chrashed the engine, putting more brushes into the map made the number of marksurfaced drop well below the max again. Sometimes I had to map in two seperate areas of the map to achieve this but it worked! I mapped for 5 weeks where the number raised and dropped all the time. But of course there must be a point where it wont drop anymore, and it may not work in all maps. they're like ants-- you don't know where they come from, but there's a shit load of them.
How come they go up and down? I'd imagine more areas = more markedsurfaces... no?
I guess I'll be the one to ask the obvious question, what exactly are markedsurfaces? There are posts earlier in this thread starting here: http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=4&start=1727
including an explanation from metl and several empirical observations that might help.
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