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Even if other people have already backed everything up, in early May I'll back up quakery stuff (qwiki) and qexpo stuff, if I can remember the passwords... I don't know if icculus does mysql, but if so qwiki can return there.

Did you know that one of the Quake zombie sounds is made by a cat in Men in Black.

Also have heard those teleport sounds everywhere.

And the ogre is from the same source as Duke3D pigcops.

The gib sounds are probably 80% voice, maybe just Trent Reznor making weird noises into a mic?

You should go for a slight brownish tint to the grey, instead of bluish!

Urrr, but it does support multiple meshes in a model. Which might just be a different way of saying what you wanted.

It sounds like whatever project file you're using is out of date. The u8_* functions are defined in utf8lib.c. If you're using MSVC6, that project file probably isn't kept up to date very zealously. And what do you mean when you say "starting fresh again"? You mean with a clean svn checkout?

I was 17 when Quake came out, so............................. when I was 8 I was playing Vette, driving around virtual San Fran rather than racing. DUDE! I used to play ColorVette all the time in the years before we got a pc! I love bashing into the paperthin motorcycles when going really fast, and...

Argh. I was 90% finished implementing lightgrid into hmap2 and darkplaces a few years ago, but never finished it. (They were stored in an external file.) It all worked except I didn't quite figure out the best algorithm for calculating the light position of a cell, especially if it straddles a wall ...

If you're going for crossplatform stability you probably shouldn't do that. I think some processors don't allow access of unaligned memory at all... (they crash). Someone else might be able to tell you more about this. The safest thing is not to do that pragma thing, but to load the header byte by b...

Actually it seems to me like a good feature to point out invalid skin index.

Anyway, you should set self.skin=0 only when the monster is gibbed. Otherwise set self.skin=1 as in Nahuel's code, so dead guards always have the pain skin.

Just a guess.. do you have painskins in your mod? When gibbed I think a monster entity actually turns into the head instead of spawning a new entity for it. Maybe .skin is still set to 1, and maybe FitzQuake shows blue for invalid skins.

The fields in the TGA file are packed tightly, not padded for data alignment (like C structs are). You'll have to load it byte by byte.

1. What engine are you using? 2. Are you saving alpha channel properly? The best solution by the way isn't to create new sprite frames, it's to use the .alpha QuakeC field, which works on both sprites and models, but doesn't exist in the vanilla Quake engines, only in modified engines like DarkPlaces.

The "blinking" (including when shooting) is probably your own shadow is getting in the way. It sort of looks like your code is supposed to handle that, but what you posted obviously isn't the exact code you're using because it won't even compile. makevectors (self.owner.v_angle) traceline ...

Indeed! I forgot about palette shifts.