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! 

although I do think the discussion in this thread has been unfair to you (even if I was quite amused by it), why would you be so surprised that a guy who started mapping for Quake 2-3 years ago wouldn't know who headshot is? Lunaran's response was much more helpful; how are people new to the community ever going to find out anything if it's just like OMG YOU DONT KNOW?!
anyway, not condemning you, I'm sure this thread has been enough of a nuisance to you

PS: untried texture combinations that would be cool:

Egyptian (of any type) + Kell
Daikatana E3 + Kell (fmb_bdg was doing this a little)
IKwhite + Heretic 2 

Er.... I give up

How am I supposed to know stuff like that?

Who is allowed to start a thread because they have returned to mapping more - Kona or Headshot?

Well I have never heard of Headshot, but Kona I have. Go figure. Im not a l00tist n33b, or whatever it is you might say.... 

I've actually tried Kell with a bunch of things, including egypt textures as well as idbase. The egypt project was going pretty well too I must say, I should look into finishing it/finding it on my HDD somewhere. 

sounds like an orgy
if I ever started a new from scratch map, I was going to do a whole new map depicting a decrepit Middle Eastern city with ancient Egyptian tombs/ruins throughout - vaguely similar to the style of the "Arabian Nights," but much larger and more detailed, using Rogue/Hexen2/Sock Egypt textures, but with a huge amount of Kell textures, using Quoth2 - and call it "Nyarlathotep"

but I will never have time.

idbase+kell sounds bizarrely cool 

kell made like 10 texture sets, which one are you talking about? 

jebus so kell's done quoth1+2, contract revoked, and like 10 textures sets! i'd say he is quake's saviour of the 2000's. 

knave.wad, kdmtex.wad, apocryphal.wad

basically the classic stone/metal/bookcases look