It generally lets you replace/override any file that would be loaded from a folder.

In practice IMO there's two general reasons to want to be able to activate multiple mod folders.

* To play a map that goes with a mod (but was released separately from the mod).

* To override/replace media from a mod, like textures or sounds.

Of course you can do these things by dumping files into the original mod folder, but it can be a lot cleaner in various ways if you put the "new stuff" in its own separate folder rather than polluting the original mod folder.

For example this is why it is nice and easy to deal with Quoth maps these days (in Quake 1), since any modern/maintained singleplayer Quake engine supports the dedicated "-quoth" argument that lets you activate the quoth folder along with whatever other folder you want (that has a map release in it).

If you want to do this generally for any set of mod folders though, then you can't keep adding specialized hardcoded arguments like "-quoth". Quake engines like QSS, vkQuake, FTE, and DarkPlaces give you a generic way to activate a set of folders. And KMQ2 does as well, although using a different syntax. 

Fascinating watch: https://youtu.be/xBodLDT_yrg 

http://www.moddb.com/games/quake-2/addons/mission-64released

KMQ2 is requried (and included) for this one though. 

That link didn’t work for me. 

https://www.moddb.com/games/quake-2/addons/mission-64 

Messing around with some Ogre skins and it dawned on me that in the Rogue version the second skin for h_ogre.mdl has a nose ring. The second body skin has no nose ring.

I wonder if anyone made an edited skin or knows the story behind this quirk? 

I think that goes back to the first screenshots of the Q1Test Ogre. On the scrambled screenshots it looks as if it had a quirky nose.
The discussion ended like... do vomits have eyes? 

I hope everyone is having a good time despite everything. Even though it was a shit year overall, you lot kept the scene going and released a record number of maps. I‘m happy to be a part of this community and to be contributing a small part to keeping it going. Let‘s all hope that 2021 will be a better year, especially for those who were hit the hardest. 

I just came in to say, yesterday was the 18th birthday of func. And also, merry Christmas!

Also want to give a big thanks to Sleepwalkr for hosting func in the more recent years plus additional tech support he has provided for the site. 

*<]:^{) 

Big up to metl, sleepl, and everyone who participates :) 

 

Happy new year everyone! 

Has anyone created a progs specifically for speedmaps? Simple things like fixing kill count, Shambler collision and other bugfixes? I'm thinking about doing this.

I know traditionally, dropping maps into id1/maps was the SOP but I always make a mod folder for SM releases. Users could back up the standard progs if they prefer that method. 

There is the "Ultimate Regular Quake Patch" which is supposed to be a good replacement for the id1 progs, fixing things like fish count and megahealth double-rot speed etc, without changing any gameplay.

https://www.quake-info-pool.net/files/addons/ 

Cool. I was aware of this one but it adds quite a bit with bots and skins etc. I'll mess around with it and see if it's a good candidate for speed mapping. 

Anyone know why fimg and Wally refuse to open my gfx.wad?

Fimg returns an "invalid extension" error, Wally attempts to load the thing but all items within are grayed out. 

Might be corupted (?!) Did you check with Quark/new textures/import wad? 

The game wouldn't run if it was corrupted, right? 

No idea about Fimg. Wally may be a missing palette.lmp file perhaps?

Try AdQuedit if you haven't. 

But it shows me the contents of gfx.wad as all black?

I opened it with the quake palette file that was provided and everything.