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Those sort of diagrams are confusing The code is much easier to understand for me...

daemonicky wrote:Game is a model of reality.

Wrong! Though most nowadays game developers would agree with you rather than me...

I'll back up all the stuff I can find a password for. This includes the Quake Wiki and probably one or two expos. And this I will do soon!

Also you should probably add a not before the Q_strncmp calls (!Q_strncmp).

I'm going to attempt a putsch by storming some low-level administration buildings. *rolls some dice*

metlslime wrote:And the pak format only supports 8:3 filenames.

As far as I know the only limit was 56 chars for the entire filename including path of any file in the pak. If there actually is an 8:3 limit (is there?) it must be in the engine, not the pak format...?

Stay on topic... he is targeting vanilla Quake.

By the way, I think that the Quake map compiler subdivides large surfaces. So even you have a simple map, if it's really big you are probably already close to getting "greyflashes"... so I guess the answer is to make fairly small, fairly low detail ...

It might work, but it'll probably end up being retardedly inefficient.

I've clutching at old memories here, but you might be able to hold down the mouse button to cycle through different brushes that are under the mouse cursor.

You should probably avoid complex geometry, especially surfaces at unusual angles. Keep the amount of brushes and details low. Use as many axis-aligned brush faces as possible, as well as other simple angles like 45 degrees. Small detailed objects should be func_wall. You don't want to have tons of ...

It seems like it would be really annoying to write a doom->quake map converter, since doom maps use subtractive sectors and quake maps use additive brushes. You would have to generate really thin walls around all the doom sectors, and hope they don't intersect other walls, I think. Two-sided ...

Good luck finding 13 people who want to keep quakedev as much as you do. You might be the only one. There are perfectly good alternatives that don't require spending money to keep quakedev alive in some perpetual, fragile near-death state.

And we aren't the ones bitching about it. Kudos for Echon ...

It won't be accurate because an envmap is generated from a single point... (and because regenerating it every frame is kind of dumb, especially if there are multiple mirrors in the scene)

This idea is probably only really feasible with raytracing, at least if you want the mirror-surface to be ...

Centerprint tetris was pretty cool. Especially considering the QC acrobatics you need to do with no real stringhandling functions.

Well you have to explicitly enable alphatesting, which involves using a q3-style shader. I had to do this once, I just did what LH told me to. I don't know anything about these shaders.

scripts/filename_doesnt_matter.shader:

progs/bones.mdl_0
{
cull disable
{
map progs/bones.tga
alphafunc ...