Welcome back [Kona], look forward to your new maps.

Site redesign looks pretty nice. 

Nice site design, though it's just weird to have images for heading text just so you can use some font you like. But then again, many sites do it.

Are you going to start reviewing again? 

Gosh this thread took off. Thanks for the recommendations. That Quaddicted wads page is awesome, I'll download all those.

Those Speedy textures look good too. Some awesome industrial levels could come from those.

Cheers for the website compliments :)

Metlslime: i'd love to still do reviews if there was 48 hours in a day :P Sometimes I wish I didn't have to bloody eat & sleep, it's such a waste of time.

Nonentity: I don't know who you are, or what you've made for the community, but this thread is about discussing the latest textures or textures that haven't been used much and players want to see. Sure it'll benefit me, but it can benefit many others aswell (which is what I intended). If I named it "Textures Discussion" would you be complaining still? I don't see any other texture discussion threads, and I'm sure one is more beneficial to Quake level development than 'drunk thread' which has over 300 posts. Anyway, it's just a thread. Who really cares?

Now admit it nonentity, I'm your personal jeebus too. Hail to me :P 

 

Nonentity
#7 posted by Lardarse [62.31.165.111] on 2008/08/19 16:57:32
I think any legendary mapper (or near legendary... I'm not sure what the difference is around here) returning to mapping would be threadworthy. Would you really complain if it was someone like ELEK?
Hmm
#8 posted by nonentity [87.194.146.225] on 2008/08/19 18:09:53
Yes. Yes I would. Same goes for any old mapper returning (with the possible exception of headshot deciding to make a new map).

Er.... OK you loose. Who's headshot anyway?

If he turns out to be a dead mapper then I appologise 

Who's headshot anyway? 

forgive the rookie

my point I think you understand is clear:

If not one mapper then why another? All of a sudden you've sent yourself from talking about the the ethics of posting on forums to which mapper is the most legendary? 

He made some stuff. Did some website malarky too. Liked stuff shaped like A. 

co-created 'dapak' for quakeworld, a collection of multiplayer maps of a quality sufficient to help birth the quake community and deserving of the 'legendary' term this thread's flinging around.

he also created the qboard, the first discussion board for quake mappers to hang out together and actually talk about the craft. the term 'general abuse', the style of thread organization, and part of the look of func_msgboard are all based on the original community page.

he closed every thread on qboard one day after he felt the discussion there had become so frivolous and off-topic there wasn't any reason to keep it open. 

so celebrated as to having taken on the nature of a legend; "the legendary exploits of the arctic trailblazers"

shut up everyone. 

So what happened to Headshot? 

and then disappeared, much like ztn (yes I realise he made q3 stuff too but still). 

is if this means Kona will do a speedmap. I'm sure it would be good practice/excercise! 

 

he closed every thread on qboard one day after he felt the discussion there had become so frivolous and off-topic there wasn't any reason to keep it open.

Some could argue that things haven't really changed since.

[Kona], welcome back, and return to #terrafusion, please. 

Thanks mate. Yeah might load up to old mirc sometime and check out #tf. 

Er.... OK you loose. Who's headshot anyway?

I BANISH THEE for one trivial but particularly annoying fail followed by one of epic proportions! 

well if Headshot did that (I hardly remember Qboard), it's a good thing Metlslime is much more tolerant :) 

he also created the qboard, the first discussion board for quake mappers to hang out together and actually talk about the craft.

Definitely the first one that actually mattered... but not the first ;)

Headshot was also a great gentleman and he was a great inspiration to me (one of the main reasons I started mapping was his levels showed me that user maps could be not only as good as, but better than, the levels that shipped with the game).

I believe he didn't have any interest in a game industry job though, and created his own advertising company... SleepwalkR can probably tell you more. He still drops in from time to time, though very rarely. 

The only entity more powerful than Headshot is Frib and Peej put together, or Shambler and Pauk arguing on IRC. 

Hi! :D

You need to use Aguire's tools - though you may want a copy of Q1Rad lying around in case you want to experiment with that too.

To use anything else is bordering on foolish, because there's so much added functionality and coolness provided by those tools that you'd be silly to ignore them.

As for editors, I'd recommend GtkRadiant 1.2 or 1.4, though it's a right royal pain to set up if you don't have good instructions. If you've used Worldcraft in the past then I guess the most sensible thing to do is get the most recent version of WC/Hammer than you can persuade to edit Q1 maps and go with that. 

What's with all the pissing and moaning? Someone created a discussion thread to promote... discussion? Unless I missed something, this is good, right?

If I can create completely fucking stupid threads and nobody even bats an eyelid, I don't see what's wrong with this thread.

I particularly don't like it when newcomers get slapped down for creating minor threads (not that that applies here), especially when as has been acknowledged many times, that's how most other forums work. And let's face it, it's not like they're interrupting the intense flurry of in-depth discussion by bumping off the "Frib is an asshat" thread. 

Headshot was also a great gentleman and he was a great inspiration to me

But not a great inspiration for you being a great gentleman?? ;) 

Ofc not. Frib's a true lady. 

Clearly not!