I didnt realize that was actually the name of the map!! 

Tried out DarkPlacesMod last night, with Rygels high quality (2.7Gb) texture pack. It has, er, normal and gloss maps for most textures too.
I wanted to try it out with my new 8800 GTS 512.

Start wouldnt load, neither would E1M1, I think due to a lack of memory. I wasnt using the picmip command.

But The Fistfucking Little Box loaded fine, due to a small amount of textures used for the map. And I must say mod and map together = more eyecandy than I could get my head round. I nearly cried at all of the beauty.

High res bump-mapping (OK, not quite bumpmapping) in Quake - un-necessary indeed, along with the RTLighting, but, well, I thought it looked good! :F 

Normal mapping is like advanced bump mapping. 

I dont really understand it. But it looked cool!
Looks better than the Tenebrae effect, anyway, but I guess thats to do with actual increase in texture resolution.

I quite like the look of just the highres textures in other engines, but Darkplaces *looks* the most impressive with all of the bells and whistles running, in dpmod. Just a shame it wont load big maps that way.

It is silly really! I mean I might as well go and play UT3. 

Wikipedia and look up relief mapping - it's what they used in Quake4 so that a flat surface can occlude itself, interesting reading.

If you're into that sort of thing ;) 

I think I've heard you can knock down Rygel's highest textures to about half size and don't notice about any change in quality.
Don't remember so well anymore. 

Delegate zero says hello. 

I think you use the picmip command. Or you download the small version. 

The latter. Performance will be much better. The looks, a matter of taste, but probably the same. 

Thanks for Fitzhack v2 btw. 

http://www.map-factory.org/portal/all/single-player/quake-1-tribute 

I wonder why the textures look so wretched. I know it's filtering them but GLQuake does that too and it doesn't look THAT bad. 

have they been exported as really bad jpegs or something? Cool novelty anyway. 

is a temperamental fucker at the best of times!

Or maybe its just my inefficient mapping :-P 

...from delivering a ho hum level (by mere seconds...I had the news sub form open), and I'm going to have to rethink skill 2. So, given I'm moving house tomorrow there'll be a slight delay in getting dis_sp6 out the door. Nonetheless, thanks sielwolf! 

 

 

Map is sent!

Thanks to all you guys and testers! 

And here is a demo for you to make waiting for the news post approval shorter.
http://shub-hub.com/files/demos_singleplayer/slave_firstrun_spirit.zip 

wish I had more creative talents here aside from giving wise-ass comments :P 

Photoshop + whiskey =
http://celephais.net/shite/idkfa.jpg 

Photoshop + Fitz's creative ability + whisky

And one day I'll get Quakeopoly printed and laminated . . . 

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But then again, I have been thinking about turning QuakeGuy from Radio Quake (Damn!!) into a ringtone.