I may have to give that a try. It's a bit more complex than I thought it would be, but it could prove to be useful. Thanks for the explanation.

As far as moving brushes in the .map file to reduce marksurfaces, I've never tried that. However, my usual trick is to copy a large group of brushes that are near each other, delete them, save the map, then paste the brushes back in. I've always assumed that this is also moving the brushes around in the .map file. At any rate, it will often reduce the marksurfaces by several hundred.

I only do this when BSP goes crazy and ups the marksurfaces by a huge amount when some insignificant change was made. I don't worry about it when the change in marksurfaces seems reasonably proportionate the whatever change I've made in the map. 

That was cool. It's also the kind of thing "external model" support in Quoth is meant to help with. Currently having an actual external file is a bit cumbersome to install (and to delete when the map is finished though), so it's a bit of a hard sell to get working.

One potential solution could be to create an "internaliser" tool, which would operate on your base bsp file. It would look for all your entities which reference an external bsp file, load that external file, and bake them into the bsp as an internal model. In effect, it's formalising negke's entity hack above, but in a way that doesn't require fiddling with brush order to get it working. Plus because you created the external model independently, you've got the freedom to light it without the rest of the map interfering, and easily set the rotation centre.

There is a second solution to the loose file difficulty, but I'm afraid I'm not yet at liberty to say...Or I'd just really like to see the internaliser become reality so I've got to sell it to someone with the bsp know-how. 

Bsp referencing compartmentalised sections of itself... 

Was just idle experimentation really. Whilst I tip my hat to those who struggle to colour within the lines of bsp1 limits, I decided not to bother with it.

The internalizer you mention in fact sounds something like the skip utility, which moved brush face around so they wouldn't be visible. 

Thank you! 

<@Bal> http://www.born-robotic.net/content/maps/balostepisode.zip
<@sock> someone should re-work them into maps with vanilla gameplay 

Too bad there aren't much monsters to fight, in these giant maps.

I guess I'll have to play them with the DMSP mod. 

Oh lord these maps look great. I can't believe these are sitting around unfinished. None of my scrap levels are anywhere near this kind of quality or completion (I usually rough out a couple of rooms, you seem to make entire maps!) 

Those superb maps doesn't do anything with the DMSP mod. WTF !?

Why, O why Lord !? The b1blue, b1office and b1rocks are so cool, why not finish'em ?? 

There are no info_player_deathmatch entities... 

There are no deathmatch starts in those maps, which is why they won't work with dmsp. The map files are there though, so I guess it'd be fairly quick to throw some in and -onlyents compile. 

Extending Daikatana mainmenu graphics for widescreen support. Fun!

http://spiney.me/files/etc/back0.png 

If there's one thing I loved about Daikatana it was the texture-work. So rich and detailed. 

Can somebody do a hack of Daikatana to make those two side kicks Invulnerable? 

City Blocks 

but those yellow windows, i don�t know. 

I like it, very quaint. Almost thief-like in some respects.

Not everything has to be some outrageous structure. 

I'm kind of surprised since I usually love the yellow windows, but I agree with mfx. They don't look bad but maybe a more toned down intensity or different colour would be better? Might be worth tinkering with.

Such a minor thing, but of course it's hard to find serious flaws with your shots. 

Aliens!! 

Better click here! 

 

I love it btw, very nice. 

2014, year of the rubicon. 

I don't think the windows are too yellow, I think they are lit too brightly.

I can see a shadow on the ground, which gives me a light source, and the walls around the windows are lit but it cannot be coming from that same light source.

So if it were me, but it's not, I would either reduce the Light or move the light closer to the window so there is less 'overspill'.

Other than that, very pretty.