Oh btw, GL engines do triangulate the visible geo because that's what you need to feed to the graphics card, but those horrible things shouldn't be spoken of when talking about Quake's original tech. 

The only thing that uses quads in vanilla Quake is the .spr sprite renderer.

Brush faces aren't limited to quads, they can have dozens of edges as long as the resulting shape is convex.

In fact, the only Quake game that uses quads for 3D geometry is the Sega Saturn port of Quake, because the Saturn's GPUs only supported quads and also because that port uses the Slavedriver engine, not the Quake engine. See some videos of that port, and you'll see how distorted its surfaces became due to using quads.

#27418: It's more complicated than that. There are nodes, leafs, vertices, edges, planes, faces and surfaces (similar names, different things).

In objective terms, the BSP format is suited for drawing static geometry with nearly zero overdraw. That's what it was created for. 

Yeah Jackhammer.

Thanks for the advice. I'll switch to TB for the more complicated stuff. 

-treeman hybrid:

http://teamshambler.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/player-was-smashed-by-treeman.html

Been meaning to do this for a decade or so. Minor conversion to get the pose right. Not entirely happy with the blood but it's kinda what I intended. 

Hah, that's great stuff! 

is awesome. I wonder if lightning burns the hands of this treeman when he strikes with it. 

No idea you did that kind of stuff, very impressive! 

Yeah bb, been doing it on and off for, errr, 20 years....quite sporadic but I put some effort in when I do do it. Scroll back thru my blogspot for various recent-ish stuff (and a lot of diablo3 bolllox in the way;)) 

make a map full of trees where you have to battle treeblers? 

Someone retexture the one from OpenQuartz! 

"I have only played all Quake games except for Quake 1 and I really liked them, they were not really horror games unlike Doom 3. Doom 3 had a perfect balance between horror and action." 

Do you mean to say that you browse the internet without a "disable YouTube comments" script? 

Download a chrome plugin called Alientube, shows reddit comments for youtube videos. Far less shitposting, better discussion. 

Thanks for that! 

The difference between the two is becoming less noticeable. I feel like most redditors would prefer a 'show only my comments' option :P 

I never browse Reddit, so I know almost nothing about it. Will take a look. 

I've never been to Reddit either, but I thought they sort of tolerated a lot of horrible shit there (paedo, necro, gore stuff etc.)? Have they changed in recent years from all that? 

I never browse Reddit, so I know almost nothing about it. Will take a look.

eh, you're not missing anything. reddit is nice if you make an account, delete all the default subs and make your own list of subs.

the front page, or r/all, is awful. it is the butthole of the internet.

but I thought they sort of tolerated a lot of horrible shit there (paedo, necro, gore stuff etc.)? Have they changed in recent years from all that?

there are really ugly and dark subs. I don't believe illegal stuff (paedo, necro) is allowed, however. 

Wasn't there a big hoo-hah last year where they apparently had an area dedicated to pictures of female corpses ("attractive" female corpses apparently - they were quite particular about that) 

there are many different subs, and many that are morbid. that sub lasted as long as it did (it may still exist, i don't know) because pics of dead people aren't exactly illegal. 

 

A Twitch plugin which would forward stream chat into Quake chat. 

FTE does IRC. 

that would actually be really useful.