have some original concept art, including the fiend, up on his site. I checked before posting, but the site was coming up. 

sheesh 

and very sketchy too:
http://www.planetquake.com/underworld/fiend3.jpg 

 

http://www.planetquake.com/underworld/fiend2.jpg 

that's not fan art? 

 

I was thinking of -- but I thought UWF had some information in a caption regarding its origins. 

about fiends being based on 'ghasts' of lovecraft writings. This again is only opinion and after reading up on these 'ghasts' there are some similarities in the descriptions, but then there are some other discrepancies so I'm inclined to throw out this theory all together. Also just because ghasts have eyes, does not mean a creature based on them will have them as well.

actually if we were to take the rest of the description of a 'ghast' and apply it to a fiend there is more evidence that says they are different, such as being venomous, being hooved, and having an almost human like face.

scrags, yeh, totally, ex-humans they happen to have eyes left over (but again being demonic, they have no use for them) ^_^ 

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CHAIN_SAW_BORDER?SITE=FLROC&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Although this is a Canadian guy. 

fiends and scrags both have eyes 

don't mention that chainsaw oil... looks a lot like blood. (red and thick)
very likely this was part of his story at the border. 

He looks to be totally sane, someone whom you would have no hesitation in letting into your home. 

Site
http://outofhell.net/

Downloads 152MB
http://www.fileplanet.com/154287/150000/fileinfo/UT2004---Out-of-Hell-Demo

For the Fileplanet Challenged
http://files.filefront.com/UT2004_Out_of_Hell_Demo/;3871399;;/fileinfo.html

I was looking forward to this, however as Unreal ended up making me feel nauseous when ever I seen it in any of it's incarnations, [causing me to throw everything I owned pertaining to Unreal in the bin some months back], I won't be able to check it unless I go out and buy another copy of UT2004.

However it may or may not be of interest to some of you, so there it is. 

fuck all those stupid javascript / all images kiddies 

the css isnt even working correctly with opera.. 

Annoying. Works with IE6 but even so, why?

Doesn't encourage me to find more info, and thus try the download. 

I decided to make a small 1v1 just to find out about the Nexuiz engine. The result is Central Processing (kaznexdm1), and, in addition to the generic name, it sports some pretty textures and nifty lighting. Go out and get it!

Download: http://www.infosprite.com/members/Kaziganthe/kaznexdm1.zip


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Sigh, every such news update must contain screenshots. Kaziganthe, please re-submit news with screenshots links... 

the Nexuiz engine

DarkPlaces for Quake, yes? Or has there been some customisations? 

Nexuiuiuz contains over 400% more light bloom than DarkPlaces. In fact, if you stare at a health pack long enough, it actually results in minor optical corrective surgery. 

In this shot, rendered in wireframe:
http://www.phait-accompli.com/crap/hm/hm1_1.jpg

You'll see in the upper left and right corner a rectangle, with red squares in it. What is actually there in normal mode is text and HUD graphics.

Now, I don't know TOO much about graphics, but I am curious why the HUD elements seem to be one-in-the-same as everything else. I would think they would be a seperate layer of images and a font. From this shot I get the impression they are polys or somesuch. Make any sense? The crosshair is this way too. 

Easier to just render two extra tris per character/image while you're at it, instead of after you've rendered the world, you get the screenbuffer and perform some weird 2d drawing on that. 

Polygons will occupy the same screenspace regardless of resolution changes, whereas fonts change size. So the HUD is drawn on billboards for consistency.

Quake 3 does exactly the same thing. 

and yes, that's pretty standard. All 3D games that i am aware of draw text and HUD elements using the 3D API. 

Allright, this time I'm sure that the file is nowhere to be found on the internet.

It's Juha Koiste's Dark Ages for the original Quake - as reviewed by Sefton on SPQ Level Heaven.

http://www.planetquake.com/spq2/quake1/d_f.htm

The filename is "darkages.zip" and it's 416kb's in size. If anybody out there has this map on his HDD -and I'm sure somebody has-, an upload will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the help.