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Dark ambient music certainly suits Quake when playing the game, but it is sleep inducing when watching a video. Need a beat, something lively to keep the viewer going. The Epic music is certainly not Quake style, but the map is not really a Quake theme either with the ghost knight.
Did you do any specific map editing or QC coding for this video? I have added a new impulse command to cycle the intermission cameras and a couple of extra spawnflags. Most of the functionality showed in these videos is already present in AD 1.42 source. And the combat one works better than the flythrough I think. The original monsters have lots of popping in their animation which doesn't stand up to video scrutiny.
The idea is I am trying to tell a story, a journey through the map, with unique camera angles and directional pans and zooms. Probably best described as a raw/crude like Quake cinematography!
An old mod that spawned a coop player as a camera which followed you around, snapping to cool angles depending on where you were fighting, sometimes resorting to first person if it went somewhere bad.
AguirRe had a copy of it... not sure where it ended up. I like Sock's videos in that they're not focusing on the action, but on the atmosphere. It's like they're telling a story about the map before the player gets in.
The HD pack for Eric�s "The Underearth" can be downloaded here:
http://quakeone.com/forums/quake-mod-releases/works-progress/11588-hd-textures-sp-maps-38.html#post165743 Cheers The seas around R'lyeh are full of tentacle stingers!
From RMQ project, a model by Madfox and re-skined by me weapon models for AD by the MODdb Quake community!
It is nifty to see sock and Romero trading kudos on twitter.
https://twitter.com/romero/status/739942174138245120 There are two reasons I used impulse 130 for the entirety of the mod. The first is obvious: not having any hitscan weapons is unusual. I think I'd get used to it with time. The second reason is that it looks really messy. I suspect it was the main problem for me. Looking at the skins, I'm not sure if giving the pellets a bunch of bright colors was intentional, but the source still claims that they're supposed to be dark grey. In any case, swapping "16 + random()*7" with "4 + random()*4" makes them look much more natural.
Since I'm already leaving my feedback, I'd also comment on the new sounds. Shotguns are once again the main annoyance for me. First, it's strange to have different sounds for hitscan and projectile modes, especially considering that not all sounds are different. Second, Doom shotgun sound fused into the stock one feels hacky. Quake 3 shotgun sound used for much faster weapons also doesn't seem to be a very good idea. If I was to change these things (for my own modification, for example), I'd leave the original SG and SSG sounds for both modes, and gave the Widowmaker the Doom SSG sound. Some smaller issues: the title of the base map is misspelled in the hub map. One of the big maps in the mod (forgot the title) lacks colored lighting, which is an inconsistency. Oh, and it has those rather bad lava drain pipe animations, but solving texture problems was always hard with Quake 1. Fullbright pixels are all over the place whenever the fake lava glow is involved, but I'm tired of criticizing this issue. At least model skins seem to be devoid of it, unlike some of the skins in Quoth. To finish on a positive note, thank you for renewing my interest in Quake. It's a great mod, and I'm looking forward to seeing new maps made for it. I usually only nitpick when I care. Lightning gun draws blood (that falls up). It's supposed to set enemies on fire. Dark orange hues may be misleading in the original game, but the particles were never red.
Stone hell knights are using regular knights' sounds. I'm not sure if giving the pellets a bunch of bright colors was intentional, but the source still claims that they're supposed to be dark grey
It was intentional, they started as dark grey and then I changed them so it was more obvious to see the projectiles pellets traveling. This also applies to pellets fired at the player from soldiers. it's strange to have different sounds for hitscan and projectile modes The idea is that projectile shotguns are more powerful (they do slightly more damage) so the sounds are more meaty. If someone is switching back to the original shotgun setup (via impulse 130) they are likely wanting everything how it was before which is why the sounds change. One of the big maps in the mod (forgot the title) lacks colored lighting, which is an inconsistency Lavatombs does have coloured lighting, its probably hard to see because most of the textures are white! Lightning gun draws blood (that falls up). It's supposed to set enemies on fire. Dark orange hues may be misleading in the original game, but the particles were never red. Original Quake has particles that flow up and there is no fire effect either. LG is pretty much vanilla Quake, except it can now gib monsters like using a hot butter knife! Stone hell knights are using regular knights' sounds. Rogue only replaced stone death, hurt, idle and sight. They are all included in AD and switched around when something is setup as stone. Some smaller issues: the title of the base map is misspelled in the hub map.
This suggests you're not running the latest patched version of AD... >> Original Quake has particles that flow up and there is no fire effect either. LG is pretty much vanilla Quake, except it can now gib monsters like using a hot butter knife!
The particles are supposed to represent fire, because they're orange instead of red. They're red in AD. It's just strange to have blood that floats up, or a bloody red fire, but okay. I thought up was just the default direction when particles were created and no angle specified.
Should probably have a gander at the qc, but why bother for this. Blood uses color 73, lightning damage uses color 225, so either it's a mistake or they didn't want it to be blood.
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