absolutely love that, great job! What C&C game is that? So you took the texture and made the model yourself? 

starbuck... I just googled "c&c vehicles" and someone had the flat texture map, so I converted it to the quake palette (actually zero hassle, most of the colour was retained), and built the thing with brushes.

I haven't made anything proper in a model program since I was in college, I need to learn how to do that stuff at some point. 

ah cool, not a stressful process then! Definitely enjoy the result though. Wonder if there's more stuff from that universe that'd fit in quake, quite a nice look that I we don't normally see :) 

C&C has the right amount of gritty chunky design that can be converted to quake. The tank I made was based on the GDI Predator tank from Generals, although I didn't have any textures to work with on that. It's all brushwork and whatever stock textures that fit.

There's some definite vehicles I want to see. I would love a big blimp, a submarine and some kind of futuristic chinook or jet.

I have some ideas in my head for those. I think it would be nice to utilise AD's extra functions, like a futuristic plane could hover like a harrier jet (this could be done with func_bob quite nice I think). And it would be cool to use them in some kind of set piece, maybe have the tank be used as an objective where you blow a hole in a wall to progress? 

When can I get my filthy hands on Retroquad (alpha, beta...)? 

There's still a lot of work to do, so I can't predict it yet.

I want it to be actually usable, not just a gimmicky engine. And I'm also simultaneously developing a whole game on top of it. 

Cool, you have a solid plan there mankrip? 

There is a solid goal, but the path to it will be a mess.

I have zero experience with developing a whole game (Fightoon doesn't count, it's unfinished) plus zero experience with the commercial side of things, so there will surely be a lot of unpredictable mistakes on the way.

Anyway, at least I won't make the same mistakes as before. It's time for new mistakes. Life is fun! 

No news here, but these CleanCut comparison shots are a good example of an extreme case for color correction on translucency.

First, a 24-bit color mockup. I've done this by getting a screenshot taken with r_wateralpha 1, and applying it with 60% opacity over another screenshot taken with r_wateralpha 0.
http://www.quaketastic.com/files/screen_shots/correction_2_mockup.png

Now, an actual ingame color-corrected screenshot taken with r_wateralpha 0.6. It's not as smooth as Floyd-Steinberg dithering, but it's very close to ordered dithering, surpassing it in some other cases.
http://www.quaketastic.com/files/screen_shots/correction_3_translucent_on.png

And this is how the translucency was without color correction:
http://www.quaketastic.com/files/screen_shots/correction_4_translucent_off.png

The Quake palette is quite poor for translucency, because the game wasn't designed for it. But an interesting side effect of using such a limited palette is that it makes easier to measure the effectiveness of such graphical improvements. With a palette developed with alpha blending in mind, the results will be significantly better. 

Danget gives engine already! This supports colored lights? Be curious to see some shots from the E1M1 Doom remake with this engine. 

Static entity as frame for the alpha glass. 

nice work 

Is that a model or bsp? 

model

It reminds me of the examples of the coloured tifany shadows from darkpaces. I guess it's not possible to simulate coloured glass. 

here and explain me how to obtain coloured glass! 

a palette developed with alpha blending in mind

Do you plan to develop a palette? This is something I'd like to see. 

Skiffy: No colored lights yet. I've got a plan for that but the engine needs some structural changes.

And the engine isn't robust enough, there's a lot of cleanup and bugfixes to do.

Adib: I already have the method to generate an optimal palette, but it needs all textures to be created first. 

Damn, that's cool! 

Are the window bars double sided? Or do you need two models, one for each side?

Colored glass = solid color testure named with * at the beginning. Its water.

*waterglass1
*waterglassred
*waterglassgreen etc etc 

The model has a broader width so it will fit in a glass brush of 4 units.
example

I wonder if I can break the alpha 1 to obtain more colours. 

404? 

I have used the simple glass.bmp with alpha 1.
right link 

I just noted your doom-e1m1 level there, it's funny, cause I saw someone remake e1m1 in UE4 a couple days ago, and it looks so so bad:

http://www.pcgamer.com/the-first-doom-level-has-been-recreated-in-unreal-engine-4/

I told my friend that I can make that shit in Q1 and have it look 10 times better and now I see you did just that =)

The only reason why I shun that remake so much is because it has gotten so much attention around the net and it just strengthens my belief that gen-pop don't understand quality, especially in older games, using old tech.

These Unreal-remakes get's way to much attention, it's not like that Kakariko village level looked any good either, but this guys seems to think so:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SOsQ3288SzI/maxresdefault.jpg


Sorry, 0750-hours, before heading to work in a cold Stockholm, rant =D 

100% Correct. That UE4 level looks utterly fucking awful in the shots and would still look utterly fucking awful if it had been done in UE1 18 years ago.

And yeah Scampie's pisses all over that not least because Scampie understands high map quality.

FFS.