Quickloading...
Loading game from /home/me/.quakespasm/ad/quick.sav...
ERROR: couldn't open.


I did not pay attention to saving but thought I had saved. The message implies an error reading the file to me but in reality I did not save and the file did not exist. Maybe reword it if the file is not found? 

Hm, "couldn't open" is printed when the fopen() call fails, so it makes programmer sense :P I guess it could check for the specific reason and print a clearer message.

However I'm more concerned about why the saves failed, I guess you are using the patch that adds ~/.quakespasm support.

Is there any way to get fog without banding? nvidia on Linux.

Make sure QS is using a 24/32 bit video mode.
There's a vid_bpp cvar which is archived, but since it gets saved in every mod directory it's safer to launch with "-bpp 32".

(I'm surprised the QS default for that cvar is actually 16bpp, which I never noticed.)

Aside from that, banding will be the least at "gamma 1". There should be the same amount of banding as other engines @ 32bpp. 

No saves failed, I simply did not make any =)

Still some banding but I guess that might be the low dynamic range of the lightmaps. 

But the soon to be released map(s) of mine extends beyond Quake's standard -+4096 boundaries. I understand a new protocol will have to be made in order to accommodate this, but I am unaware of how difficult such a change will be. 

I wouldn't rely on that. It's REALLY unlikely to happen anytime soon. 

what are you currently running them in? 

larger boundaries is basically the point of rmqe's 999 protocol.
servers can fairly trivially use a specific subset (which is what fte does), while clients can probably get away with just short/float coords and byte/short angles. 

RMQ version 0.85.3. It is currently the only publically available engine that plays the map properly without any visual problems. 

Seems when I load a mod using the console (e.g. game x) it doesn't exec that mod's .rc file.

bug? 

'Enter 'exec quake.rc' to load new configs 

i never read that 

Sorry if this has already been discussed, but is there currently or will there be controller support for quakespasm? 360 or otherwise?

I know the majority of players use mouse and keyboard and I agree it is a more proficient way to play. But I currently use a controller for my gaming for various physical reasons.

I wanted to check out quakespasm to play arcane dimensions, but it does not seem to have any controller support that I can figure out. Not even the original quake joystick support. Is there a way to enable controllers or plans to add it in the future? 

I also find console-style controllers much more comfortable than mouse & kb.

Would love 360 controller support in QS. 

I appreciate that the number of people who want to use a controller in QS is probably single-digit.

Legend - have you looked into using some sort of scriptable input emulator? A quick google throws up this: http://andersmalmgren.github.io/FreePIE/ looks like it could be cool if you fancy doing a bit of python. 

but only because I would also love to see split-screen functionality in the game. 

Legend - If you wanna have a look at FreePIE - I found a script for the 360 controller that looks like it could work well.

Note: I haven't tried any of this stuff out yet - but will do as soon as I can.

Also, you can (and should) edit the .py file to change button mappings to what you want.

script here: http://andreasaronsson.com/projects/xboxwasd-in-freepie/ 

There is none currently.. I tried implementing it in QS a while ago; I do have a 360 controller.

What I found frustrating is, the FPS games that have good-feeling controller support (Valve games) are doing some fairly complex easing stuff. Like, if you flick the analog stick all the way to one side, there's a period of time where you turn slowly, then suddenly it accelerates like crazy - so there's some sort of time-based acceleration going on.

I don't actually game with a controller ever, so maybe that stuff is not really desirable, but I'm guessing it is. Anyway I'll try to dust off what I wrote and post a beta here for feedback. 

get that 4 player split-screen support coded in while you're at it ;) 

FTE can do split screen.

http://i.imgur.com/ChTAaTM.jpg 

why are the players christmas lights 

that's cool as hell!

Does it have Pad support though?! 

Didn't make the pic. ;=) 

@fifth -- don't know. If I recall, Spike said it basically needs 2 USB keyboards plugged in. 

@baker
bind w "+p1 forward"
bind uparrow "+p2 forward"
bind lctrl "+p1 attack"
bind rctrl "+p2 attack"
bind 5 "p1 impulse 5"
bind kp_5 "p2 impulse 5"

if you omit the p1 / p2 stuff then yes, the engine uses an internal index of the input device that generated the key events in order to determine which player the event is meant to be controlling.
4-way splitscreen kinda needs a lot of keyboards and binds... you could of course also use csqc for really weird bind setups, which has access to the devid stuff too, but of course this isn't relevant unless you're making a mod.

you don't need two keyboards, just really weird binds.
also, fte is supposed to have support for xinput now, including support for per-player headphones as part of that (I don't actually have one, of course), so that's an alternative way to play splitscreen games.

@kinn
yeah, bloom + fullbrightskins kinda has that effect. quakeworld players might be crazy for wanting fullbright skins, but at least they don't use bloom. only a crazy person would use both at the same time...
also looks like someone disabled rtlight shadows in an attempt to make rtlights look obviously worse than lightmaps. 

what about the direct input joystick support that the original quake had? I know it works with directq and qbism super8. they don't recognize 360/x-input, but work fine with direct input controllers like logitech f310.