Moody green ambiance is one of my favorites! 

In both ways ;) 

Here are two wood textures I made. I think I probably wasted a Saturday morning because I don't like them much. Better than wizwood1_8 maybe but they don't look enough like wood to me. The closer you are, the worse they look.


http://quaketastic.com/files/screen_shots/wish_rk_wood1.jpg

(gamma corrected but forgot to rescale before uploading, sorry) 

Looks ok Rick. I think it may be a good idea to work at a higher res than 64x64. Try 128x128 and add some more variance here and there. 

Well, those are 128x256 actually. I may go ahead and use them. For some reason though, they really look bad on steps. Maybe a separate version with narrower planks would look better, 8 pixels instead of 16 pixels.

After looking through a lot of texture wads I've decided that most wood textures depend heavily on context (how they are used). If not for the seams that divide them into planks and a bit of curviness to the pixels, most could pass for metal.

There are many variations of wood in the RTCW and Kingpin wads. 

nice texture, maybe adding more variance as fifth said might make it nicer.

Maybe try making each board a different length so it's no perfectly symmetrical. Perhaps add more woodgrain to reinforce the idea that it's wood and not metal or stone.

I did a texture test similar to this a few weeks ago, this is my result. Not great, but a step in the right direction. Maybe it will give you some ideas. 

32-bit mipmaps, 8-bit alpha and external glow textures
No gamma correction yet. 

When can we download this awesome kripquake or mankuake build of yours mankrip, whatever it is you call it? ;) 

I've modified the stippling patterns for 8-bit alpha, so they combine better with dithered filtering: screenshot.

The previous screenshots of this scene were taken with r_fullbright 1, by the way.


Qmaster: I have no idea, there's a lot to do. Also, right now I'm only doing some work in this engine because I'm recovering from some injuries, but my current priority is to solve some real life problems. 

...and good luck with the RL stuff. 

Just waiting for moderator approval.

http://www.quaketastic.com/files/Jam7/mapjam7.jpg 

Loving those dark blue atmospheric lights. What's the theme of MJ7? 

 

Yeah, I noticed the post about the release right after asking that question... Thanks anyway, Shambler. Not too fond of base theme but that doesn't mean the maps can't be great: Crucial Error is the perfect example, and the pictures look very nice indeed. 

Hi.

Here is direct link to current test version:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwxYkKdSD855TUFHRTVTRHZRd3c

Requires quoth mod, yet better to replace the ones that are in, if that is possible (I'm not familiar with this stuff yet).

Jam7:
http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=61347&start=44
or Quoth:
https://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/quoth.html


I tweaked balancing, ammunition (feeding player more), and fixing trigger_counter mistake I made - now easy mode works, but it would be great to hear from others too. You can record or just tell how does it feels now. I have to say, because there is only 3 main skill levels I want to satisfy even skillful players. So I'm not quite sure am I giving too much ammunition or not, so let me know and I will try my best.

Also if the map is still too dark, just let me know. As long as the darkness doesn't make the map unplayable - I intended my map to be dark that player can't see everything and enemies can hide in darkness (sometimes). 

Fixed one flickering light I placed in place, doors don't block lights, and light comes through on ground level if you know what I mean. So it that bothers here is same test version without that flickering light thing:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwxYkKdSD855TWJ2cV9nYUdiRDA/view?usp=sharing 

Just played your new version. Lighting looks great! I'm seeing so more much detail in your brush work that I missed before. There are a lot of Mega Healths out in the open on Normal difficulty I'd replace those with just regular health. Loved the new ambushes. 

Screenshot - This method has near zero impact on the framerate. Still needs some tweaking.

And I've been really missing out on the newest releases. The Back To Base jam looks sweet. 

That is really cool man! Nice job! 

Mankrip's engine looks better and better every month. He teases us to no end. 

how different is this going to be from super8? and linux binaries / source? (I may have asked the latter question before) 

Super8 will still have a more diverse feature set � fisheye lenses, AVI video recording, switchable palettes, support for most maps and mods, and so on.

I'm focusing Retroquad strictly on what I consider to be "must have" improvements. For example, the water rendering is almost feature-complete now; the only major addition I'm still going to implement for it is gamma-corrected blending � but that's something that actually belongs to Retroquad's color management system. I'm not going to implement stuff like refraction, reflection, bumpmapping, caustics and underwater fog, because although they would make liquids look even better, they're not needed for visual consistency or level design flexibility, and would slow down the renderer some more.

Ports to other systems will only be made after the whole engine is feature-complete. 

are you going to support limit breaking maps? 

Some, yes. But I can't promise anything specific.