Inside3D Special Features

Post by **Error** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 8:11 am

We are taking requests for special features for the new site. Anything that would make your life easier as a modder. We already have a few neat things in the works. Things like a QC PasteBin.

Request away

Post by **FrikaC** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:27 pm

my only request is you get it done.

leileilol · Post by **leileilol** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 7:58 pm

special modular mods section including frikbot and venomous stuff

maybe a pjirc java applet for some of the lazy click-to-find-the-ultimate-ease people here

Sajt · Post by **Sajt** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 5:49 am

A pretty hat and no flash

Post by **Error** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 6:45 am

no flash is promised

the site is very fast loading

Frik: we are getting it done

Quake Matt · Post by **Quake Matt** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 1:58 pm

How about a repository for new models and skins? They're always handy if you're no good at making your own.

Post by **Dr. Shadowborg** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 4:55 pm

CheapAlert wrote:special modular mods section including frikbot and venomous stuff

Extremely good idea

Quake Matt wrote:How about a repository for new models and skins? They're always handy if you're no good at making your own.

Also an extremely good idea

Though both would benefit well from people being able to put them up without having to bug an admin overmuch.

Urre · Post by **Urre** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 9:48 pm

I'd like to see more info and accessories gathered to just one spot for easy access, so Cheapy's idea about model and skin repository sounds awesome, sounds and textures wouldn't be half bad either. And I'd like to see the wiki to be integrated with i3d rather than quakesrc. Either that or massive pimpage and linkage to it, since you can never have too much modding info. On the subject of easy access, it's way too common that it's tough to start out in a community where everyone already knows everything, so there are no beginners guides, or they're hard to find and you have to put bits and pieces together from everywhere to understand things, so something like that'd be cool to see too. Even if the wiki is awesome, it's more like a database than a "to start, click here" kind of thing.

leileilol · Post by **leileilol** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:10 am

Yeah I had that idea first, I did execute it on my PlanetGargoyle site but chis broke it so now it doesn't work. damn php

Urre · Post by **Urre** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:13 pm

Whoa, I just now noticed that it was Quake Matt who said that thing about model and skin repository, not Cheapy. The fact that there is (was?) such a thing on Cheapy's site must've confused my tired mind.

* Urre goes to grab some eat-products

leileilol · Post by **leileilol** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 4:48 pm

Oh yeah there definitely was. It used to be a hacked-up phpbb portal.

Quake Matt · Post by **Quake Matt** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 7:12 pm

A beginner's guide? That just about the level I could manage, I think! If nobody's working on one when I've finished some of my current stuff, I could probably give it a go.

Also, I'm sure it's been said before, but a mod database would be nice. I know we've kinda got ModDB, and there's countless FTP sites around, but they always feel diluted, out of date or awkward to use. BeyondUnreal's FileWorks is a great example of how to do it right - any chance of something like that?

Post by **Dr. Shadowborg** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 1:23 am

Quake Matt wrote:Also, I'm sure it's been said before, but a mod database would be nice. I know we've kinda got ModDB, and there's countless FTP sites around, but they always feel diluted, out of date or awkward to use. BeyondUnreal's FileWorks is a great example of how to do it right - any chance of something like that?

I would tend to agree. While we do have ModDB, moddb tends to contain far too much other stuff. We probably should have a mod database for Quake dedicated to Quake exclusively.

Post by **Error** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 3:58 am

I'm not sure we have this thing called "unlimited space" but I'll look into it.

Supa · Post by **Supa** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 4:56 am

Error wrote:I'm not sure we have this thing called "unlimited space" but I'll look into it.

Ask Echon for a file mirror on Quakedev and host the QuakeDB on I3D, perhaps? I'm not sure if he has the space for such a thing but it couldn't hurt to ask..