it was Tenebrae I originaly patched it for shortly after the Tenebrae team fixed the demo compatabilaty around the time of Qexpo. 

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http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx 

you know what would be even more cool than simply having the demo function spit out frames to a divx codec like I am attempting here? Hooking Dark Places up to a ray tracer like Yafray http://www.yafray.org/ to render each frame of a demo and then compiling it into a movie format.

*cough, I use that word even after getting 100+ errors in my first compile attempt -- the gall! 

ok... um... let's keep this simple. O_o
yeah, simple. these things are too much to wrap my mind around. 

 

I see you
did not have to point it out 

or has yafray gotten much quicker recently?

That said, if anyone knows how to go .dem -> blender animation, I'm very interested. 

suprised that didn't double post. Its late. I'm going to bed. 

that would be quite a difficult task as well. A .dem file is an index of all of the media elements in the game, storing the placement of all of the players and entities (and gui elements) on a per frame basis. At minimum, you would have to be able to import Quake I .bsp, .mdl, .spr and sound formats and then run the .dem file through an .xml parser that you set via Blender's native Python scripting. 

I have converted .dems to .ls files with lmpc, hacked them in a text editor and gone back, so I have some appreciation for a dem file :)

There exist Python scripts to import (I think) quake 3 .bsps into blender. Maybe .mdls, too, so some of the pieces are there. The task probably isn't that hard in some sense, just fiddly and complicated in a way that makes me not want to be the one to do it :) 

Not exactly. A better description would be that it stores whatever the client recieves from the server each frame. That's why refilming demos in third person is sometimes annoying becuase anything outside of the player's PVS isn't recorded. 

Did you get my email with sm82? 

Yes, I did. Sorry for not responding. I didn't get the e-mail until several hours after you sent it, and I didn't have time to play it then. 

I leaved without getting your reply and was wondering if you received it.

I'm far from comp now, so now it's your turn. Go finish it. 

I'll wait for the alcohol to wear off if you don't mind, though. 

Well, scampie's the only evil one, and czg is evil only maybe half the time. The rest of you are cool. Vondur for globular recognition! 

IIRC, there is/was/used to be an engine called trr-quake that had some form of avi capture, i think it ouput each frame to a screenshot or alternately converted .dem to .avi. something like that, was quite the system hog though :P 

Panquake has an option to output each frame to .avi which you can then render in .avi. 

I was actually trying to get it straight in my own head how it could be done. Sorry if I sounded like a DICK.

Hey, that is two apologies in one evening; damn I'm good at being contrite. 

Everyone here should see this movie. Critics might be saying average things but they're all fat men who wear ties every day. I felt it did an excellent job of establishing a heaven/hell mythology, and all the trappings of water and crosses and catholicism, and then using it to take the movie to places and in directions that you can't predict, but make sense. And it was awesome.

It has the effect of really making you feel you're experiencing something entirely new, both as a story and as a world, to the point that you don't notice when it stops "helping" you with the subtle explanations and continues doing crazy shit. 

looks to clean - bleh 

bring back floyd. 

Since the Site Help thread is where people are talking about how much they like the new logo, I'll keep to the current convention and post my negative feedback here.

The crate: Too clean, colors look weird, not enough detail. It looks like plastic instead of wood. :/

Furthermore, despite how cool I think Floyd is, I agree that he's not the most relevant icon to have in the logo. However, his colors and details certainly fit in better. 

is as relevant as a wooden box.

the whole crate thing is an in-joke to begin with, so why not have something a little bit personal and fun?

anyway, not my board, durr bluh. armchair art directing. 

Floyd always seemed too needy and eager to please with that slinky walk thing he was doing and the 'oh, don't I remind you of 50's Sci-Fi kitsch' vibe just doesn't fo it.

Crate rules!