Remake Quake Demo

[ijed]

This is the first Remake Quake Demo:

Rar:
http://www.4shared.com/file/122288959/a ... eDemo.html

Zip:
http://www.4shared.com/file/122493551/9 ... eDemo.html

It's a pre-alpha with only one map, but supporting the three core game modes.

It's also the full partial conversion in current state, being backwards compatible with id1 and to some degree Nehahra and Quoth.

Screens:

http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files ... qdemo1.jpg
http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files ... qdemo2.jpg
http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files ... qdemo3.jpg
http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files ... qdemo4.jpg
http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files ... qdemo5.jpg
http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files ... qdemo6.jpg

Next up will be a DM orientated demo, in a few months.

[Downsider]

I for one am a fan of this project.

One of the better attempts at making Quake's gameplay a more modern experience, rather than trying to bring back the glory days or making it look more modern.

[avirox]

This is really cool. I haven't played such a refreshing revamp of Quake single player since Dresk's coop mod.

I only have one thing to comment on - the rain is causing a lot of those quake "splash" sounds to spawn and it kills a lot of the ambience of the map for me.

Other than that, top notch! Really loving the style from the cutscenes to the weapon changes. Keep it up!

[ijed]

Thanks for the comments.

We could do a visual upgrade, but not at the same time as such a major overhaul of everything else. There's lots of others working on such stuff as well.

As to the rain, it doesn't actually produce noise, there's just a global sound effect. Could be the volume is too high.

Also, try playing it under some other id1 map releases - the AI and weapon changes still apply

[leileilol]

I don't like it much. It's very bloated (lots of huge uncompressed 2mb+ wav files that end up playing nowhere near their full qualtiy)

I hate the chainsaw. Feels more like a dingsaw.

Rain audio is obnoxious.

No credit to mindgrid for most of your sounds?

[goldenboy]

No credit to mindgrid for most of your sounds?

There is.

Note, if it isn't clear, this pack should be run with -sndspeed 44100 on the command line. 44.1 kHz sounds throughout.

[goldenboy]

Oh, and headphones.

[r00k]

I thought it was cool.

I think the chainsaw's attack rate is too fast. instead of loopin the animation/sound just go thru the animation once and hold and spew blood or sparks...

I noticed that enemies fly when barrels blow up near them, cool! Maybe the rain could be done engine side... or with a particle effect..

Good work!

[ijed]

Thanks. Yeah, we discussed chainsaw swinging - swing and hold on hit sounds much better.

As to the rain, it is an emission, but of a cloud of models. Doing it with one emission per drop would strain most machines, so this is the compromise. To do it with particles is practically impossible - they're very difficult to control with any accuracy.

We're using Gyro physics, so the displacement is in but mostly unused as yet, though you'll notice weapons behave very differently in liquids (careful, don't use shotguns submerged). We have plans for more physics related abilities for the monsters.

[MauveBib]

The skin on the rain model is horribly, horribly inefficient. It's huge!

[ijed]

Ahem - stole it from Nehahra and never got round to changing . . .

[goldenboy]

Wow, good find!

[ijed]

1500*168 pixels across six skins, two of which are the same.

[xaGe]

..I really enjoyed it as long as I turned the sound off... That horrible static sounding rain splash noise is over powering and kills the ambience of the mod.

[ijed]

use -sndspeed 44100 in your commandline setup - all the sound is high quality.