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I must say, the gibs and hit reactions look really nice. Getting things to look good at that level of detail is no simple task.

Starviewer is limited to the Quake2 bounds, and it's in a really large room because I was in a rush to get it done. :) If you want more freedom / a larger universe, you should check out Space Engine. Another not-quake-related thing, but I tried making a quick 2D pixel art animation. Might try my han...

Every day when I visit these forums, I have to re-login. I also have to have the &sid=<some big number> in the url or I'll get logged out as well. Didn't have this problem with the old Inside3D boards.

Likely due to the fact that nobody supports Opera 12 anymore.

Hmm, lots of stuff going on in my life, so I haven't had time to post much, but now I have a bunch of things to post! I put the source for that star viewer program I made in the Q2 engine up on GitHub, if anybody wants to play with it. I also added a (quick and dirty) command to generate skyboxes, t...

Setting stuff up is often a pain. I might have to go with that one, but I think the most annoying task is trying to fix some bug that only happens 1/100 times and makes no sense...

Throwing in a couple cents from what I've learned with multithreading: 1) Don't bother unless there's an obvious benefit. Figuring out multithreading bugs is a whole new level of nightmare. Obvious benefits are things like: responsive UI while establishing HTTP connections or loading files. Squeezin...

Haven't had much free time lately, so still slowly working on bot AI stuff.

Getting natural looking aiming and shooting:

https://vimeo.com/126889898

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfVI0218V4U

(both are the same video, just on different hosting sites).

Once I figured out it was the long filename causing the crash, I switched to a shorter filename and didn't dig into it any further. I just wanted to make sure you knew so it could be fixed.

Interesting -- haven't actually tried superhot, but this concept feels a little strange in Quake. Quake isn't exactly a game where you ever stand still...

do { stuff (); // this works } while (true); do { stuff (); // this doesn't, even though it comes before the conditional check } while (false); And I figured out that the need for ( ) in sizeof is because of pointers, like i = sizeof(cvar_t *) - 1; instead of i = sizeof cvar_t * - 1; do { ... } whi...

Spiney wrote:Guess blueprints give new meaning to 'spagetti code'.

Haha, yeah. The amount you can do with it is pretty cool, but it gets out of hand very quickly (especially when it gets to replicating things).

I was testing my map in KMQuake2, and it crashed on load. I think it might have been because I had the .tga files for the sky, but not the .pcx. I compiled and debugged the engine, and it seemed to have something to do with the precache/CL_RequestNextDownload() code, but I couldn't pinpoint exactly ...

Cool. Can't remember the last time I tried mapping for Quake1. This is for a Quake2 mapping contest, though. Then somebody informed me that ArghRad already had a better way of handling ambient light using "_sun_surface" instead of "_sun_ambient" *sigh* Precious contest time waste...

Never mind. I figured out a way. Apparently you can have a trigger_once that has a targetname and a delay, so I was able to: func_timer->func_timer->target_speaker ^ | | V | trigger_relay | | | V \ trigger_once Edit: Actually, I think the relay is pointless. I can probably just do func_timer<->trigg...

So I'm trying to figure out a way to do this in vanilla Quake2: Timer starts playing a sound ~2 seconds after the match start, then repeats every 30 seconds. The problem is, when start_on is set, it adds the wait time to the initial start, so if I have "delay" set to "2" and &quo...