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from a gravity conductor
I made this model after watching a SF movie.
Some story of a big machine, where judy foster sits in a metal sphere falling in the center of the thing. I was fascinated by it and decided to make a static entity of it. I uploaded it to /quaketastic/models/gyzmo01.zip so you can see it move in quake. Quiet spectaculair, but hard to penetrate when used as an entity. I wondered about the strange habbit of Quark using models. Everytime when I make a model, let's say this gyzmo.mdl which size is 525kb changes after im/exporting in Quark to 125kb. What is changed to the model? This was also the inspiration for other mappers, for example there is a "black hole generator" in one of the quake 2 id maps, and also something similar in mexx10 (maybe hidden in a secret area). I was going to make something like that too but then i saw quake2 and mexx10 and i'm like, "okay, there's enough of these in the world."
Oh yeah, and Dead Space 2 had something similar in one of its puzzle rooms. Had a similar thing as well, but much more ominous - the overdone set design there was still pretty cool.
It also had a retarded script and piss poor direction, so probably best to stick with Contact :) I wondered about the strange habbit of Quark using models. Everytime when I make a model, let's say this gyzmo.mdl which size is 525kb changes after im/exporting in Quark to 125kb.
What is changed to the model? I'd like to find out (my suspicion is that it's collapsing some of the vertices together), but I don't know if I can reproduce it from your description. Can you upload a zip with a model before and after you use QuArK? If I load both of them into qmdl it should be easy to spot the difference. Event Horizon was pretty good, though everything else by that director has been an embarassment afaik. Good cast (Fishburne + Neill), and it was the closest thing to Doom in scifi movies for a while (hell). Contact was like a hippie 2001, where the ultimate revelations about the universe and intelligence have a peaceful, enlightening message. Event Horizon is a good pseudo-Lovecraftian correction to that.
Good theme but a completely disjointed story which resorts to dues ex machina to explain all the loose threads - "because hell!"
well, Sam Neill is pretty good at "because hell!" (In the Mouth of Madness, Jurassic Park, etc), and come to think of it so is Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix, Apocalypse Now). Proper prophets of "you're more fucked than you can know!"
But yeah it doesn't really have a story. But it's still a better Doom: The Movie than the actual Doom: The Movie so many years later. I didn't think hell was supposed to make sense. I guess in a sense knowing you deserve it could make you suffer more, but a total lack of understanding, there's real material for hell. Everytime when I make a model, let's say this gyzmo.mdl which size is 525kb changes after im/exporting in Quark to 125kb.
What is changed to the model? Interesting, Sock and I encountered some similar things while working on the new ogre model. Somehow it would ballon up to 3mb and when I would resave it it would go back down to 700~kb. http://www.snarkpit.net/index.php?s=downloads&game=15&cat=1
http://snarkpit.net/index.php?s=downloads&game=23&cat=1 http://quark.sourceforge.net/userprefabs.php http://www.quakewiki.net/archives/qpp/prefabs.htm https://www.quaddicted.com/webarchive/prefab.planetquake.gamespy.com/quake2/q2doors.shtml Here �s the Bender beta model, compared before and after I used it in Quark47.
They both have 952 tris and 1770 verts, have no difference in appearance, but the first one is 2.475kb and the other 498kb. Everytime when I make a model, let's say this gyzmo.mdl which size is 525kb changes after im/exporting in Quark to 125kb.
What is changed to the model? I was getting this problem with Qme, I updated an ogre model several times (properties/skins) and the file size grew to 1.3Mb! No idea why but it was strange. tough call.
Great shots. I'm very excited about the possibility of playing through that setting, and I'm very glad you're embracing a somewhat chunkier, more I'm not sure I'm completely sold on the rock/ground textures, as the level of detail feels somewhat incommensurate with that of the stock textures. But other than that its a god damn cream dream, which looks like it will appeal to all my specific quake fetishes. This is probably the most exciting Sock release yet, something with mine-carts even!
To me, outdoor shots are always the most exciting, but that aside the last shot with the mine cart seems especially epic. Looking forward to playing this. I am also going to hold an investment banker at gunpoint and force him to hire you (at a rate of your choosing since money is just an imaginary number to such people), to create a "Quake as Romero Might Have Intended, If He Was As Badass As Sock." Then after all the right documents are signed, I'm going to shoot him in the sack because he's an investment banker. The larger model contains all the extra information that QME uses to track objects and more accurate vertices. This information isn't used by Quake, but helps to preserve the model's quality when it's repeatedly edited. You can spot the difference by opening both models in QME. Notice how the first one has 29 objects, and the second only has 1. QME 3.1 does away with this and has it's own model format called "mdo" for storing the models in high quality.
QuArK doesn't read this data, and wouldn't know what to do with it if it did. So when it saves the model again it gets stripped out. I wondered where all the data was gone.
Not that it is that important to me, but it's a rather big chunk for a model to loose 2Mb weight for the same 500kb. Qml30 shows all objects, even the small one. For now I reached my beta state for Bender. I like to add the runattack pose, as the laughing act when the player dies. Wow, I produced three models last week! must start mapping again to add them.
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