You DO read the readme, don't you??? 

it's usually just boring bug reports and such... :P 

Thumpy bows his head sheepishly.

It is so much easier to ask you in the forums, Metlslime than it is to open up a .txt file.

BTW, is the coordinate system extended in Fitz? Okay, okay I'll look it up . . . . 

I DO read the readme...FQ deserves the attention.

metl: I noticed in using one of my custom skyboxes ( darkmatter, incidentally ) in my SP map, set in the worldspawn, that texture errors are produced.
Some of the skybox panels ( I haven't looked closely enough to see which images ) appear on doors and buttons. Haven't see it on any other funcs, but it happens on several different bmodels through the map.
I don't know how aware you are of this error. The skybox has been removed from worldspawn now, but I can reapply, run and detail the error more specifically if you would like. 

I've also noticed that Dark Places & FitzQ align the skyboxes differently. I think DP is 90 deg left compared to FitzQ. I'm not sure if there is a standard on this and whether either are "wrong" but it would be nice if there were. 

I tested my engine to be consistent with Quake 2's sky mapping, since a lot of skies are made for it. I think i also tried a quake3 sky, but i can't remember. Anyway, i think mine is right, but i could be mistaken :)

Kell: which version? Sounds like a texture manager problem. If you have 0.75, and you can reproduce the problem, it might be worth it for me to investigate. But, i'm in extreme pre-E3 crunch mode right now, so it won't happen immediately :P 

fitzquake at e3!? will it have japanese booth babes? 

I like the sounds of that. 

But Fitzquake2 will run at half the speed, add custom weapon switching times (slider between 5 and 20 seconds), and will add switchable colored lighting.

I ain't looking forward to it. 

O_o you mean switchable in game? that would be kind of cool... 

though the thought of custom weapons switching speeds turns my stomach. Same with fog effect controls. The mapper should have complete control over those factors. If the end user wants to customize let them learn it the hard way the way we did. 

metl: yes, 0.75. I can demo and screenshot for you at some stage. I didn't expect a quick fix. It's not a major headache anyway, I just thought you'd want to know.
E3-crunch, eh? I envy you and pity you at the same time :P 

Necros,
Only if it is a mapper controled function then there are some cool ideas you can come up with for its use. I'm usually the most stridently anti-elitist person that I know but mappers work too hard to make their work look good for the end user to just flip a button and make it look like shit. 

you've got it the wrong way! :P

it's when people make crappy coloured lit maps, then you switch it off, and it goes from shit to decent. ;) 

Already on my to-do list :)

And no, it won't be mapper controlled. 

Ohhhh, I was looking at it the wrong way!

Metlslime -- will it be a cvar then? In that case there are still work arounds . . . 

I was thinking more along the lines of strobing randomly selected colors 

http://www.celephais.net/shite/quake53.jpg

Or this? http://www.celephais.net/shite/quake34.jpg

Or this? http://www.celephais.net/shite/quake56.jpg

Surely you don't mean this? http://www.celephais.net/shite/quake68.jpg 

at the same time.

My first one -- Oh my eyes! Run from this heresy.

The second -- hmm, now, how do I incorporate a Disco in a Quake level?

Surely the first response stems from the reptillian, primitive side and the second the more evolved higher end. 

Looks like an old Sierra parser game in 3D. 

That pixelated daydream is either from Coagula or it is an orgy scene from Coligula with the jizm splatter being interperted in multicoloured particle effects. 

...looks like a typical custom engine there :P. 

Those are all screenshots i took during fitzquake development, when things went so catastrophically wrong that i thought it'd be nice to keep a memento. 

WooOOoowww... your screenshots looks like as if I took some drugs... cool... 8))
Does your quake engine works using heroin ??? ;-) 

when things went so catastrophically wrong that i thought it'd be nice to keep a memento.

Sweet.


Coming Soon: ksp2 - The Disco That Time Forgot...