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New Q1SP MOD - Arcane Dimensions
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Readme! It's in the damn download zip obvz

Screenshots! It looks fucking amazing what do you expect?

Latest Patch! Here

The MOD is designed to work with QuakeSpasm 0.91.0 (Must use this version or higher). Download here: http://quakespasm.sourceforge.net/download.htm

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Please note that there is extra console commands being set in quake.rc, you cannot run this MOD using the game command! Always create/use a shortcut!
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Sound Mashup 
When you wake-up a monster by damaging it, the monster's pain sound and wake-up sound often both get played together.
This is hidden in the original Quake because lots of different sound events use the same sound channel. The engine will always clear any previous sound and then play the new one. AD splits this out into different channels and this is where the problem is happening. I need to set the QC to let other functions know what sounds are active.

I often gib a monster but it plays its normal death sound on top of the gibbed sound
Yeah this is a bad bug, can you remember if this happens on specific monsters or all of them? It is certainly something I can add to my ongoing bug list. 
 
I have to be honest, I was expecting some of the knight and ogre variants from AD. But then again that would create a lot of extra rebalancing work, I considered doing this with a few of my own maps and I even started doing it but it's tedious horrible work. 
 
I was expecting some of the knight and ogre variants from AD
This new version was driven by visuals, I think the gameplay is really solid already and does not need to be changed. This is why I disabled the Z aware monster function so that I could use the new models but without the new AD functions.

it's tedious horrible work
Yes totally agree, I don't think many people will appreciate the time or effort that goes into updating a map for AD. It really is a low reward compared to time involved. 
But...making New Maps 
I'd be up for an AD map jam. Updating existing maps wouldn't be so fun, but creating a new small AD map that uses at least 3 new elements would be fun. Especially in the vibe of exploration. 
AD Jam 
I also would be up for a jam with AD as the theme. I have been working on maps using AD. Quite frankly, the extra tools it provides just makes mapping a much more pleasant experience! I have some cool ideas that can be partially or fully realized via the expanded tool set. 
 
https://www.twitch.tv/gogcom is streaming ad right now 
 
Neat! They had about 80 viewers when I checked. 
Trigger_itemrespawnupd Missing From FGD? 
It appears to be absent from the FGD file but present in the ad_quake.def file. Just throwing that out there! 
Trigger_itemrespawnupd 
Its a very unique entity, something setup for arena fights so that items stop auto spawning when everything is dead. It was something I added at the very last minute (literally 2 days before release) and forget to duplicate around documentation. I never used the FGD file (I am a radiant mapper), I just maintained it for others! :D

There is also the ghost knight (monster_dknightghost) stuff missing from the FGD as well because its really something unique for my mountain map and not for anything else.

I will include all the extra stuff in the web documentation so everyone can add it to their FGD/DEF files if they want. 
Thanks Sock 
Just thought I'd share so your fancy pants document is as complete as possible! I was studying Test map 10 from the AD test maps to learn how to use trigger_itemrespawnupd and needless to say I was confused when I couldn't find it on my FGD defined map!

I simply added it to the FGD file and all is well. I'll be sure to poke in if I see other things missing. I had no idea about the missing ghost knight definition and this saves time should I ever decide to use it in some shape or form.

Cheers 
HD Pack For Sock�s "Ogre Bastille" (ad_e2m2) 
Quakers,

the HD pack for Sock's "Ogre Bastille" (ad_e2m2) can be downloaded here:

http://quakeone.com/forums/quake-mod-releases/works-progress/11588-hd-textures-sp-maps-30.html#post164598

have fun ! 
Thanks 
Thank you all for making Arcane Dimensions, the mod and the maps. I have enjoyed it a lot.

I'm sorry not to have demos for you, but I was feeling a bit stressed when trying to play the maps and record decent demos at the same time. The secrets in these maps are *hard* to find, and with me dying a few times here and there even on Normal the whole demo business became too distracting to manage properly. (Or in other words, I screwed some of them up and got annoyed at myself.)

I am still in fact playing and exploring some of the maps. There's so much stuff in them and much of is the non-vanilla monsters, items and features AD brings in, so I am having great time.

And by the way, it was I who suggested to Flaose that he should take a look at Arcane Dimensions and perhaps do a stream on the Gogcom channel. He really liked the mod and decided to stream it, and I'm glad he did. AD definitely deserved it. 
Crossing The Streams 
it was I who suggested to Flaose that he should take a look at Arcane Dimensions and perhaps do a stream on the Gogcom channel
That was a really cool moment for me, to see the MOD being played on a high profile account was awesome, thank you for the recommendation! 
Moar Streeemzzz 
HD Pack For FifthElephant's "Place Of Many Deaths" (ad_dm1) 
 
Ha, cool. I think most the textures I used were stock I'd textures :) 
That's Right !! 
this is way this pack is only 20MB.

This make my life easier !!! 
Re: #703 
Looks like cubeface didn't patch his copy of AD. 
 
I've finished ad_lavatomb.

The story is pretty cool, and it's nice that we can beat the whole map first without it getting in the way.

When the ghost knight is walking, if we walk through him and stop inside him the ghost gets trapped in our body and can't move.

The atmosphere is much closer to a Tolkien-ish fantasy universe than to Lovecraft's horror universe. The fog is partially responsible for this, but all the other smaller elements also helps.

The enemies breaking through walls got a bit overused, but after reading the whole story it made more sense.

Thankfully I've saved right before walking through the end-of-level portal, because I didn't think that it was the exit. This allowed me to finish the knight's quest afterwards.

As a map made to tell a story, it's pretty good. The feeling of finding mysterious stuff and only figuring out its meaning afterwards was really nice. And the backtracking was quick to do, which helped to keep the pace of the storytelling.

Despite me finishing the map the wrong way (beating Chthon before finishing the quest), it still felt satisfying at the end. 
Gravity Worldspawn Key 
Does the gravity worldspawn key work as intended?

If you change it to anything but null it will have the Ranger suspended in perma-low G with never being able to land. You can even change the value to 800 (default gravity) and the exact same effect.

Just curious if this was missed or I am missing something!

I can post this kind of stuff in Mapping Help from now on, but it is AD specific I suppose. 
Stuffing 
Does the gravity worldspawn key work as intended?
Its broken! The gravity key on worldspawn is never passed to the map_gravity variable and the console variable sv_gravity is set to 0!

There is an undocumented feature you can use:
* Create a new entity called "info_stuffmd"
* Add the key "message" "sv_gravity 200"
* Add the key "targetname" "start_target"

Find the "info_player_start" entity
* Add the key "target" "start_target"

When the player is spawned into the map the server console command "sv_gravity" will be set. If you are using co-op or multiple starts then you will need to target them all at the info_stuffcmd entity as well.

You can also use this method to change the gravity on a map at anytime because the info_stuffcmd will always work if the client server is active. 
Most Excellent! 
Thank you Sock, that will do nicely. Even cooler that you can change it at anytime using this method.

Appreciate the response...glad I wasn't missing something obvious! 
Reply To Sock, Post 690 
Yeah this is a bad bug, can you remember if this happens on specific monsters or all of them? It is certainly something I can add to my ongoing bug list.

Sorry I can't remember, but I would imagine it will always happen if the death sound is on a different channel to the gib sound, and a gib can occur after death.

May I ask what the reason was for putting "voice" sounds on different channels? 
Low G Woes 
You can also use this method to change the gravity on a map at anytime because the info_stuffcmd will always work if the client server is active.

Hmm, upon map load the gravity will change but I can't make it change to another value later in the map. Furthermore it looks like a quickload also resets the gravity.

Example:

gravity set to 200...changes on map load. Have a trigger_once target a second info_stuffcmd with sv_gravity 800.

What happens upon map load is I get a console message saying the gravity was changed to 200 and then to 800. Furthermore if I just have it at a value of 200 and quicksave/quickload the map then the gravity resets to default it would seem.

I even tried to use entity_state triggers to force them off at first to no avail.

I could be missing something again, but I might just ditch my concept idea I had and go with something else! :) 
 
What if you just have an infinite looping trigger that changes the gravity. Like every 0.1 seconds. 
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