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attn: necros - please to be receiving source code for quoth and/or chapters, should it be available :)
just stumbled onto this:
http://www.minastirith-project.com/ it's a recreation of minas tirith from the movie as a 3d realtime thing... you can walk around and it looks to me that about 50% of the structures have been finished (most of the major ones are done like the throne room and stuff). you can even hop off the tip of that ledge like poor ol denethor... whee.... i think there's something wrong with my drivers though, because i go from 80fps to 1fps on and off... or just a buggy engine.. who knows. :P still it's fun. Cheers necros. Is the same available for the quoth extras? Wanted to look at those new base baddies for *cough* *cough* a project.
*cough* the original idea was to release the source code for the previous version, everytime a new version was made... but we kind of stopped, so... yeah. :P
qexpo's coming up though... i should really go through the code and clean it up and put a few comments here and there, but i'm so caught up in d3 atm. :S it's funny too, because originally i thought that making maps in a 3d app and importing it into the game was kind of dumb (prefering far "superior" brush construction) but i never relized just how powerful doing meshes out of the editor can be... I just tried it and it was less then impressive IMHO. I have a 2,45 Ghz AMD Opteron system with 1 GB ram and a 6600GT and it ran slow as hell even at 800x600. Seems horribly unoptimised, because as soon as you look at something even slightly more detailed than just box walls, the FPS goes all the way to 1-5. Not to mention the whole thing uses a total of like 3 textures.
Fun idea, horrible implementation. i didn't know if it was jsut me.
the engine must be really busted then, because i will sometimes get about 50fps @ ~400k tris, and sometimes it drops to 1fps @ 100k tris... the drop in performance is obviously not directly connected to the # of tris being displayed, but something broke in the engine. and yeah, it's not textured yet-- like i said, it's not done. still, the geometry is pretty nice in a few places. Correction: In previous Level of the Week reviews, Contract Revoked was omitted on various occasions. This has been corrected in the latest review.
http://planetquake.gamespy.com/View.php?view=LOTW.Detail&id=414 I actually made two -
www.lunaran.com/maps.php?map=dow-coriolis www.lunaran.com/maps.php?map=dow-tarsis - and would like to do a few more. but don't tell anyone! on the new comp on Ultra settings.
All I can say is quote Keanu. Whoa! I've installed some other fine looking games in Far Cry, Fear and COD2, but this is something else. couldnt spot it in the readme, and dont have my level CD handy to check, does oyur quake engine support
I've yet to see a Q1 map that looks better with coloured lighting than without. But quite a few engines support it, e.g. Fitz, Joe and DP.
nitin: yeah, it's quite impressive.
When the d3 engine is used to its best with all modelled environments it is quite stunning. I know a lot of you went to college, and probably the rest of you have had roommates at one point or another, so share your stories of pain and dumbfoundedness. Here's mine:
One of my roommates is in a fraternity. He's in a band, too, but that's another story. Anyway, drunken fraternity brothers are common place here. I normally have class in the morning, so I go to bed at midnight. At 3:00 in the morning, my roommate came home with his bandmates and a few fraternity brothers. They went to the backyard and drank quite a bit; but since they drank outside, they didn't wake me up except for 2 or 3 times when they came inside to use the toilet or get more beer. 7:00 this morning. A frat boy came inside again, waking me up, and bumped into my bedroom door, all while a girl periodically giggled in the background. I got out of bed, and I was about to open the door and break his face on my knuckles, when I heard liquid hitting door and wall, and I saw a puddle of urine begin to seep under the door, and I heard him repeatedly mumble, "I'm going to kill you." I live at home, but our old neighbors would usually have a party a month, so it was kind of annoying waking up at 2:00 am to a backyard of guys shouting in unison "SHOW US YOUR BOOBS" over and over or having them come out drunk as fuck one Monday morning in winter talking as loud as they could on their phone "Dude you know you totally wanted to fuck her in her fuckin ass dude" when you have an exam in three hours.
I live on my own in a flat, and I think it's fair to say that pretty much all my neighbours are mongoloid fuckwits.
Let's see - there's "Mr Scrapey" living below me who seems to have a fetish for playing musical chairs at six in the morning, continuously dragging what sounds like wooden furniture across a wooden floor unrelentingly until he decides to fuck off to whatever shit job funds his rent/drug habit/furniture repair bills. And let's not forget the "Bhangra Boys", a household of delightful young Asian gentlemen, whose enthusiasm to celebrate the customs of their cultural homeland is matched only by their ability to play that fucking horrible music at full volume whenever they fucking feel like it. I could go on, but I'll only make myself more angry >:{ But...
So far my place has been great. I live literally 10 ft from a pond filled with ducks and a gazebo to take it all in. My neighbors are quiet and friendly, and there are a lot of hot college age women who seem to enjoy doing laundry in the shortest of shorts just as I am walking out the door in the morning. Also it's been about 80 degrees every day.
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