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Oh yes, please do explain me. You think I don't understand that some support alpha channel (tga), some compress very well loseless (png), some compress very well but with information loss (jpg), etc ?

I understand that there's the need for "a few" formats. But when you have BMP, DIB, JPG, GIF, ICO, ICB, PCX, PCD, PSP, PBM, PGM, PSD, PPM, PSG, PNG, VST, VDA, EMF, WMF, TIF, TIFF, WBMP, RLE, SGI, and many, many other formats it doesn't make any sense.

Ankh : thanks, I'll try them, they should solve the problem on my system, but I work on many computers (and at work I have hundreds of virtual machine, I barely managed to install Total Commander on most of them, I don't have time to install plugins everywhere : ) 

Hey raverx, now you are ranting just for the sake of it. 

I mean, there's loads of reasons why all those formats exist, what's the problem?

Proprietary formats for editors are inevitable, obviously. BMP isn't useless, it's extremely easy to operate on (and actually compresses well with a .zip :P). Some formats are legacy, because, you know, things change as time passes. Some formats are patent-free, some aren't. Some as OS/device specific. ICO can contain a lot of sizes, GIFs animate....

I suppose maybe there are cases where someone developed a new format when there was something out there that fit their needs exactly, and there weren't any licensing issues, but it's probably not that common. 

 

Proprietary formats are just a symptom of the wonderful world of the free market. /irony

Hence, there is no Volksformat. 

i use jpg, gif, png, tiff, psd, ico. I need them all. It would be useful if gifs or pngs could be used instead of ico's, but the others are all needed - gif and jpg for their different types of compression and tiff for no compression. all the other formats, like bmp, i find pointless. 

That's cute. 

I keep hoping someone put up a screenshot. 

some random stuff that isn't being worked on atm.

http://necros.slipgateconstruct.com/temp/qep2.jpg
http://necros.slipgateconstruct.com/temp/qep4.jpg
http://necros.slipgateconstruct.com/temp/blackrock1.jpg 

you are a sweet, precious angel.

excellent format choice also.

(1st jpeg = fav though all look super interesting) 

necros, winter challenge: aim for a turtle map. You know, what we discussed, small/medium size with short construction time, medium fanciness at most. 

Trim TRIM TRIM!!!!!!

It looks like it's just painted on. The rivetted metal should be an actual....thing....with depth. Not just a 2-d thing painted on the edge.

Why oh WHY do people still do this in 2011??!?!!!!!!

(p.s. looks good otherwise) 

1st screen: tantalising, took me a while to realise it's not a new map per se (even considering the filename).

2nd: great skybox choice, the chimneys are amusing.

3rd: um, that rock texture might need some fullbright removal? Or was it intended to go along with the red theme? Otherwise cool.

Seconding the sweet, precious angel statement. 

1st shot: really good old Quakish style. Love it !

2nd shot: Well, looks to be a re-hash of a Quake map I can't remember the name.. though.. not my cup of tea...

3rd shot: So far the best one. Give me the impression that is part of Hell Doom3 level. I love the architecture and the red effect (lava or blood?) This is so cool !

Good job ! 

1st its remake of e2m3 i assume?
and 2nd the nameless city remake/remix 

fuck yeah on all 3 counts. what's that in the distance in shot 1? is it... another level from e2? awesome if so. awesome either way.

I need to go map. 

what's that in the distance in shot 1? is it... another level from e2?

Looks like E2M2 to me! (Or so the misaligned wiz1_4 suggests..) 

aim for a turtle map. You know, what we discussed, small/medium size with short construction time, medium fanciness at most.

i know... i felt like such a dick after i said all that stuff about medium maps. i just find it much harder to stop mapping at medium size than to just keep going until i hit a map limit.
by the time your map is medium sized, that's when all the awesome shit starts to come to you. you just hit on some great idea and then you start to feel that it'd be such a waste not to fully explore the theme, you know? 

Now czg can maried with scampie! 

Would be a wonderful wedding. Handsome groom, the bride in radiant white, the ominous hum from the death cathedral of C'thesdht'Cdutthhhth filling the air.

The fiend might get over excited when handing over the ring though :( 

http://www.quaddicted.com/quake/advertisement 

Wow now I want a sweater with the Q logo on it. 

hahaha, those are incredibly lame. :D
mind you, more creative than today's game ads. :P