SLADE already can open Quake WADs and other game formats, sadly it can't save Quake WAD back. At the moment you can export textures to png, remap palette etc.

Supported Data Formats

It would be awesome if some smart dude could add Quake WAD save option.
SLADE has many useful tools, and opens many other formats, so it would be super easy to convert textures from other games.
Of course it has many tools we don't need, like Doom Editor, but Texture management is very good. 

That is actively developed with updates this month.

Ask the author. Offer to beta test and offer up a couple of other beta tests plus volunteer to spread the news around Quake sites including mentioning it.

If you actually want that, that is the proper way to do it. 

Ok, good point. 

Asked and this is the answer:

it's probably possible I guess
just not a priority as SLADE is primarily a doom engine editor

...I expected this answer ;)
"Yeah it's possible but I don't have time for this shit."

Welp I'm not surprised, guy is doing tool for Doom, so he doesn't care about Quake. 

I play Quake 2 at 120 fps and have no issues so far.

I am aware of the physics limitations meaning I can jump through lasers if my speed is high enough (only takes a few strafejumps in rapid succession), but this hasn't had any other gamebreaking issues for me so far. One really odd thing that happened was that I managed to get stuck in the roof of lab above the acid pit when I managed to slide off and decided to quad boost myself out of the acid again. It's the only time it's happened, though. I had to noclip my way out. I wish I had recorded it but every time I reload the map the .dm2-recording gets rewritten...

I think the best way to futerproof the Quakes is to not stop playing them. :3 

A hamburger isn't really made out of ham.

Quake 2 isn't really made out of ... 

Welp I'm not surprised, guy is doing tool for Doom, so he doesn't care about Quake.

SLADE is GPL 2 so if you can convince anybody else that (1) it's a good tool to use, and (2) it's a worthwhile change, they can freely make the change themselves, in either a forked version of it or to contribute back to the original. 

We're all aware of your love for Quake 2 and I certainly want you to feel welcome here. But unlike reddit and QuakeOne, when a specific post refers to Quake - we are only talking about the original Quake. Not the "Quakes."

No harm done but just a heads up if you feel some hostility here and there. IMO it's good form to keep the two games separated by specific posts. 

 

 

Hrmm. Weird, I've been playing Quake (using Quakespasm of course) for the longest time with 144hz and host_maxfps set to 144. I haven't noticed any issues. I believe I have seen weird glitches and shit with unlimited FPS though.

I'll have to look at the demo and see if I can recreate the issue sometime this weekend. 

It's kinda far into the demo but you can't miss it. It's on the first big indoor lift (I think.) At the top of the lift are floating bookshelves. watch out for the Ogre's on either side of the lift exit. 

A glitch at 144 fps isn't surprising or unexpected.

I wouldn't worry about what a non-engine developer says because their entire body of feedback chain is own experience and awareness.

An engine developer has gotten feedback from hundreds and tends to also keep an eye on feedback other engines receive as well.

To the best of my knowledge the most sentitive standard Quake map is E3M3 and multiple players have said you can easily miss the trigger in the beginning of the map with a higher fps cap. 

Tried this. Impressive overall but the audio is super annoying for me compared to QS. It sounds too crisp and artifact-y. I'll have to keep experimenting to get it right. I didn't know it was updated so regularly. 

try disabling OpenAL (ie: pick a dsound device in the menus), unfortunately its enabled by default. 

I loaded up jam9 in a recent build of FTE-Quake (July?) and there were missing skyboxes and other weird issues. Most prominently in Ionous' map but others as well.

I figured out the sound issue. I am so used to 11k audio when the sample rate is raised it sounds too crispy for my taste. There are quite a few things I do like about FTE - I will keep fiddling but shouldn't skyboxes and the like "just work" out of the box? 

Can't wait for the "fte is too advanced for your pleb maps" response from Spike. 

 

 

@dumptruck_ds
jam9_ionous's skybox works fine for me - but only if I actually remember to use the -quoth argument/gamedir.
jam9_otp is a pleb map that specifies a skybox which isn't valid. FTE responds by giving a fallback skybox (ask for one, get one - even if the textures arn't installed).
FTE is too advanced for such pleb maps... :P

I'll see what I can do about disabling skybox forcing on missing textures, it'll probably hurt load times though :(
/me ignores otp's intro area on account of its zfighting in other engines also. 

So you're saying it's impossible in FTE for the mapper to willingly switch from a static skybox to the default scrolling skybox and FTE will instead impose its own "solution".

Congratulations, I don't think even DarkPlaces is this retarded. 

My stance is that if you do something retarded like using a skybox that doesn't exist then you shouldn't be surprised when you get a retarded response.

In other news:
save skybreaker; load skybreaker
and the sky is indeed broken.
Dynamically switching skyboxes is flawed regardless of engine - at least FTE provides the possibility of custom shaders which avoids the whole saved game/closed-source mod issue.
Whereas at best QS gives error messages and saved games with the wrong skies, but for some reason you're okay with those retarded things. :( 

Loathe as I am to agree with OTP, I always thought the expected behaviour was loadsky with an invalid name would drop you back to the old style scrolling sky. 

I direct you to post #31. 

Well with Quake 2 any decent client nowadays separates physics and rendering framerate since Quakeulf mentioned it. Quakeworld client like EZquake are the same as far as I know and you just need Quakespasm to do the same.