I was testing some stuff out, when I loaded E1M1 in both QuakeSpasm and Retroquad and got shocked. For a moment I almost thought I hadn't alt-tabbed properly.

See the comparison: QuakeSpasm & Retroquad

This also shows how faithful to the software renderer QuakeSpasm is. Good work. 

i've been meaning to ask... what is with that weird fuzzy look in your engine? reminds me of software unreal. 

It's the series of dithering filters I'm developing. It's actually superior to the filter in UT99 (though not to the filter in UT2K4, which uses a 16-bit bilinear algorithm instead of dithering). 

Here's a view of a single pattern generated by Retroquad's 3-step dithered lighting: screenshot.

Rendering in Retroquad generates multiple patterns like this, non-overlapped.

And as can be seen, the resulting pixel patterns in Retroquad are more dynamic and complex than the ones in Unreal. 

thats art! 

nice carpet =D 

I decided to go back active in mapping for Quake. Yesterday started a new small
map, which probably will be a bit nonlinear on the walkthrough.

Th map will be for AD mod.

http://i.imgur.com/7hoFPqW.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/oTxNk1z.jpg 

Awesome to see new AD mappers! 

The Windows behind the archways are a nice touch. 

If he is the DOOMer I think he is, then a phrase "everything new is well forgotten old" couldn't be truer. 

absolutely annoying asshole, then yeah, he is. 

 

@Bloughsburgh
Thank you :) And your map too inspired me to make something not under vanilla
Quake or Quoth2, but under AD.mod.

@mankrip
Yes :) But the arches in my opinion look quite just, perhaps they lack the
borders of another material.

@DeeDoubleU
I don't know about what you think DOOMer, in the Q-community were many. I have
no big releases for the first Quake. I have previously participated in several
speedmapping events and made a map for the Jam 1. 

Looks pretty oldschool. 

Yeah, that's why I recognized your nickname. Saw it while going through top rated maps at quaddicted and at quakegate. 

You're not ready for what's in store for you. Many months and money have been poured into this project, codenamed X-tra HOT that will leave even the most skilled of Quakers on their knees pleading for mercy. What is it you ask? Take a look.

Right off the bat, we're talking next generation level design here.
qrf.servequake.com/~orl/misc/af1.jpg

Each map a true work of art, designed by only the most professional of crafters.
qrf.servequake.com/~orl/misc/af2.jpg

Hundreds of traps and dangers just waiting for you to be victim to.
qrf.servequake.com/~orl/misc/af3.jpg

Bizarre worlds and enemies with state of the art gameplay that will leave you on the edge of your seat!
qrf.servequake.com/~orl/misc/af4.jpg

Mini-games like golf to take the pressure off from getting whooped by your adversaries, because everyone needs a little relaxation.
qrf.servequake.com/~orl/misc/af5.jpg

This is no doubt the ultimate in Quake experience, re-defined for next level gaming! Coming soon to ColecoVision, Emerson Arcadia, and the Casio PV-1000! 

I used to use the nickname "Fragger" before realizing how common it was. 

How many weapons will it have? 

Make sure you get some red armor if you sink hole 18! 

Go Map ! 

 

Lit liquids, before and now. 

 

The 10 fps screenshot was taken in my Celeron laptop with Windows Vista, which is the one I use for coding. And there's been some optimizations since then.

But yeah, I'm aiming this renderer at high-end CPUs (for full HD, a Core i5 should be the minimum recommended). 

Here's the skybox l_swampn from Arcane Dimensions: before and now. These shots are from one of the lower corners of the skybox, and skyboxes in Retroquad are (still) rendered without any lighting of fog, just the raw preprocessed textures.

Now all six sides of the skybox are preprocessed as a single image, to smooth out the edges, and I've noticed that this helped to improve the image quality as a whole, getting rid of image artifacts like the pattern on the lower side of this skybox, therefore improving the overall color fidelity.

Right now, skyboxes are the only thing using this image format, but I'm going to port this image preprocessing algorithm into a texture compiler tool, to allow the engine to use 24-bit textures everywhere with fast load times. I'm really curious to see how the combination of this texture color quality with the 4-step dithered lighting will look.

All this has near zero impact on performance, by the way. I'm getting around 60 fps when rendering nothing but the skybox at full HD in my Core i5 laptop. Regular BSP geometry is slower to render due to lighting and their 3D mesh complexity.