I have made one and I'm so tired. I didn't even know that he's the author of Rapture - one of my favourite episodes. Downloading all maps at the moment :) 

You are faster than google :)

I have been trying to download the map from fileplanet some days ago but it didn't work. 

Could explain how I can perform an efficient installation (which file unzipped where at least...) 

I just received both of these from amazon yesterday, and thought I would share my thoughts with you guys.

:: Doom 3 - Making of

Paperback book with 192 pages of content. Very well presented and altogether a more rounded "making of" book than "HL2 : Raising the bar". This book includes pretty much every aspect of designing the game, from the story, art, models, game design and technology standpoints. The author has also included interviews with most of the id staff including a very in-depth interview with John-C about the technology and where its going etc.

A very interresting book in all regards, with some great pictures of concept art and in-game images. Very recommended!

:: HL2 - Raising The Bar

Hardback book with 287 pages of content. This book takes a different route to explaining the game creation process as it is more like a giant concept art portfolio from valve which has been annotated by the author and various valve employees. Text blocks are present on most pages and are usually short but to the point, and usually very interresting.

But the star of the show is the artwork, the book includes everything from early concept art all the way through to screenshots from the finished game, and pretty much all of it is spectacular stuff. I would think that this book will be better received by the game art crowd rather than the design crowd. But amazing stuff none the less. Also goes into details about the community surrounding half-lfe (mods etc) and the new Counter-Strike:Source and its creation.


Its easy to recommend both books, the making of doom3 is a much more rounded affair with much more text and insight into the game design process, whereas hl2 : raising the bar prefers to show u the evolution of the game through art rather than text, tho there is enough text in there to explain whats going on. 

I've got nine hours of classes today so I've got nothing to do but log back into func_board every half hour and post in GA.

HI! 

I got HL2 - Raising the bar at Christmas and would certainly agree that it's a great book. Interesting as much to see what they decided to cut just as much as to see how what is in the final game was developed. It's true to say that it's more like a coffee table art book than a book on design though.

Haven't read the Doom 3 one yet. Apparently the Halo one is quite good as well, but I've never actually seen a copy! 

Let me help you out by adding another post for you to read. 

is there another bug in fitzquake 0.75 that resembles the skybox bug in that bits of something else are laid on top of existing textures but that doesn't involve skyboxes?
i've got a map that sometimes exhibits this behaviour, plastering large (about 128x128)blue squares in certain areas and no skybox is in use... thing is, i don't know what the blue is from.
another time, it looked like the image (still blue) being plastered on was the pentagram icon or possibly the loading icon of the pent that appears in the corner of the screen. (it was kind of spooky) 

oh please, read the manual ;) 

yeah, i've got both books too and they're CUTE.

/me hugs these books hard :) 

Try increasing FQ heapsize. 

because that's what i always use when loading it. (i use batch files) 

Sounds sufficient, but there's definitely a texture thrashing problem in FQ 0.75 when heap is low.

In this case, the disk icon in upper right corner flickers madly as well and a massive amount of virtual memory is allocated quickly until either the MAX_GLTEXTURES limit is reached or Windows runs out of VM. 

no disk icon flickering. 

http://www.planetquake.com/necros/temp/busted.jpg 

I've seen a couple posts that make reference to it. I don't see it on my bookmarked FitzQuake site. Does it exist? If so, where do I go? 

[nt] 

I don't recognize anything familiar except possibly some similarity with a lightmap issue I had some time ago. If you wish, you could send me the zipped bsp and I'll take a look at it. Does the problem only appear in FQ? 

only appears in fq, and only at random times. sometimes typing kill or restart in sp makes it go away.
also, the map has changed since then, so it doesn't happen anymore.
it only seems to happen at select times, but this has happened on another map before too. 

it's the correct texture, only the colours are wrong, which seems like some sort of lightmap issue. What happened if you enabled r_fullbright? Were there any warnings when run in my engine? 

buy a copy of my book, when i put it out.
(and a 2nd one for the bathroom reading)

:P 

You don't happen to have a misplaced .lit file in the maps dir? That might explain weird lightmap behaviour. 

no lit files. also, i don't remember exactly but now that you mention it, i think fullbright may have removed the splotches. and nothing was wrong in other engines, not errors in yours... 

if this only occurs when reloading maps with skyboxes, then it probably is just the same old skybox bug. The symptom is just mismatched textures being used when rendering -- sometimes that means lightmaps, sometimes skybox, sometimes something else. 

like i said, no skybox is used on the maps.