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Fitzquake Mark V
Posted by Baker on 2012/06/29 11:38:17
I wasn't planning on doing this mini-project, it started as an effort to address some Fitzquake issues, fix them the right way up to Fitzquake standards (i.e. do it right, once and properly versus continual releases) and donate it back.
FitzQuake Mark V Download:
Short version: Eliminated most issues in FitzQuake thread, most issues I can even remember hearing of ever and marked every single one clearly with a very minimal implementation.
It may be the case that only metlslime and Quakespasm and engine coders may find this engine upgrade of interest.
Features: 5 button mouse support, single pass video mode, external mdl textures, alpha textures (like RMQ), record demo at any time, rotation support, video capture (bind "capturevideo toggle"), console to clipboard, screenshot to clipboard, entities to clipboard, tool_texturepointer, tool_inspector (change weapons to see different info), clock fix, contrast support, fov does not affect gun, gun displays onscreen, Quakespasm wrong content protection, external ent support, session-to-session history and
.. (see readme).
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#897 posted by Baker on 2015/05/25 23:21:19
Type load and the press a and then TAB.
You'll see a0.sav, a1.sav and a2.sav
(I need to give them better names but initially I didn't call them auto_save because some single player releases with autosave tend to use a name like auto_save.)
#898 posted by Baker on 2015/05/25 23:24:37
a0 = newest, a1 a few minutes older, 2 a few minutes older than that.
#899 posted by
on 2015/05/25 23:36:15
should probably load the latest autosave... Or the last autosave should show up in the load menu. Either/or will do.
MarkV Vs Quakespasm
#900 posted by adib on 2015/06/29 20:29:59
The last Quakespasm update at Quaddicted says Baker ported a MarkV feature into Quakespasm. I know he's involved in both projects. So, what are the differences between them?
MarkV Vs Quakespasm
#901 posted by NightFright on 2015/06/30 16:51:06
I am sure Baker can tell you all the differences instantly. For me, the most important difference is actually that Mk V can run Nehahra. And that's amazing.
Hoping that Baker eventually gets back to working on the new version. Still waiting for the Shrak/Malice fixes. ^^
#902 posted by
on 2015/07/03 12:35:18
Yah , Nehara is good.
MarkV is a windows project, with more experimental/fancy features. QS is multiplatform and, perhaps, more solid.
#903 posted by Yhe1 on 2015/07/05 06:32:21
Is the fog problem in Neh2m5 fixed?
#904 posted by
on 2015/08/08 17:36:26
Is there any way to limit the game fps to 72 without syncing to the monitor refresh rate? My monitor only does 60 Hz. Also, with vsync on, there's some weird lag going on.
DirectQ has this feature, but unfortunately, it also has an annoying issue where the player will start sinking into the floor after some time of playing.
#905 posted by
on 2015/08/08 21:50:05
Host_maxfps should do it
#906 posted by
on 2015/08/09 13:12:33
Thanks, that's it! Still unplayable with it set to 72 though; quite jerky. I guess I won't be playing e3m2 with this engine. Everything else seems fine though!
WinQuake Mark V
#907 posted by Woolie Wool on 2015/09/04 04:51:43
The software stuff is really exciting because it's the only software port besides super8 that can load big maps and it's much more faithful than super8. Do you plan on adding the interface scaling from regular Mark V/QuakeSpasm? The HUD is unreadable at 1920x1080.
Come to think of it, if you could implement colored lighting, interface scaling, and fog into the WinQuake Mark V executable, it would instantly make super8 obsolete and it would make me very happy indeed.
#908 posted by NightFright on 2015/09/08 11:22:52
Any news about a new build, btw? I am still waiting for those Shrak/Malice fixes (see #826 and #855). :P
Weapon Model And (colored) Lights
#909 posted by
on 2015/10/12 00:49:59
How does the engine define the intensity and color for weapon model to apply? It seems to me that is checks the
value only without checking
values of the light entity. So if I have a light source with high light value but with delay and wait adjusted so that it's bright only near the source my weapon shines although the walls are dark.
This screenshot shows the problem: there's a orange light source with 800 light value underneath (the floor is func_door, so it doesn't block the lighting) but delay and wait (and other) values make it barely noticeable at this distance. While my weapon model thinks that there's a light with plain light 800 that affects it.
Is it possible to fix this?
#910 posted by
on 2015/10/12 01:19:03
I think that's the just Quake's simplistic lighting for mdl's. AFAIK, the engine traces a line downward from the entity until it hits a floor surface in the world model, then it samples the lightmap on that surface. So the engine doesn't ever look at the light entities or their light/delay/wait values, just what's baked into the lightmap.
#911 posted by
on 2015/10/12 01:35:14
from what I see light value affects mdl lighting. Here's the screenshot of the same place but with 300 light value:
weapon doesn't shine that bright.
That's why I think it might be possible to fix.
btw that's surface light.
#912 posted by
on 2015/10/12 01:44:07
quake uses the light on the (worldmodel) floor straight downwards from the model to determine lighting -- even if that floor is quite far below the model. if the floor below you is bright red, that explains it.
#913 posted by
on 2015/10/12 02:33:26
that makes sense. any brush entity floor breaks it =(
#914 posted by Spike on 2015/10/12 03:15:30
That screenshot makes me want to add a lightgrid to
.lit2, and to revive
#915 posted by Baker on 2015/10/12 03:31:30
Ironically, I had a "fix" for that that was in very early Mark V versions, which I removed.
But that would be a lighting change and I'm sure random obscure map X, Y or Z might have a spot where the lighting would be different than expected.
#916 posted by
on 2015/10/12 03:50:06
I wonder if it is possible to make it switchable via console command. So the default value is classic light behaviour but a mapper can add a note in readme that recommended settings for his map are the following (including this new command). Or he can place it in quake.rc
#917 posted by
on 2015/10/12 04:00:03
Your problem is caused by what metlslime says.
You have the opposite of the "black scrags against a bright sky" error, where people place scrags out at a distance but do not light the floor below them because it isn't visible to the player.
The scrags appear solid black even though the sky is full bright and the area up where they are may be well lit. This is because the floor far below is in darkness.
Any floor which is an entity, such as func_wall or door/plat, is not used for lighting models. The engine keeps going down until it finds solid geometry.
#918 posted by
on 2015/10/12 05:04:23
adding lightgrid (or something like it) to lit2 seems like a good idea, because any fix that uses the normal bsp or lit lighting will break expected behavior of old maps. But no old maps use lit2, so it's a fresh start.
#919 posted by Baker on 2015/10/12 09:23:41
I guess but I couldn't promise a time to do that.
To change the light point, I had to change the entire lighting collision section so that it would also collide with brush models.
It's very messy having 2 different ways in the code, especially for collisions.
I bet DarkPlaces does the collision with the brush models as the normal way to do things.
As an alternative, you could poke around
and maybe one of these has it:
#920 posted by Baker on 2015/10/12 09:25:43
Yeah, changing the lighting --- even a subtle change like that one --- can make scrags in the shadows bright --- or make scrags that you are supposed to see obscured in darkness.
Probably doesn't happen on id maps often as they didn't do anything crazy, but custom maps like void maps and such
Can't Believe It!
#921 posted by
on 2015/11/19 17:25:17
I don't know how I managed to miss the last couple of builds!
The WinQuake Mark V is virtually perfect. Being able to play Nehahra on a modern engine in software with MP3 and controller (after a couple of tweaks) support is just brilliant. My netbook says thank you!
Now, when are you going to add 5.1 surround sound? :P
#922 posted by Baker on 2015/11/19 18:43:08
Interesting to know the joystick support works.
I re-added it, but have no joystick to test.
Now, when are you going to add 5.1 surround sound?
Probably never. Honest question, honest answer.
Mp3 Music
#923 posted by
on 2015/11/19 18:48:16
doesn't work for me. MP3s are placed in id1/music, external music is on but no music, no warnings. what did I miss?
#924 posted by
on 2015/11/19 20:45:35
Oh well. Thanks for being honest. :)
Yeah, I've got a DualShock 4 running under DS4Windows as an X-Input device. It works great. Two of the axes are switched from WinQuake and, of course, the z axis triggers aren't recognised but other than that it's fine.
Should I upload my config for other? Can I do that here?
#925 posted by Baker on 2015/11/19 21:50:11
You could paste relevant portion here. At some future point I could investigate. I don't see Mark V being updated for a while.
#926 posted by Baker on 2015/11/19 23:20:27
It should say something like "Playing id1/music/track001.mp3" or "Track id1/music/track01.mp3" not found.
Which does it say? If it says "Playing
..." and it isn't working, check both the music volume slider and the volume slider. If it still isn't playing, then I don't know --- Fifth had some issue like that and then he did something and it worked.
#927 posted by
on 2015/11/19 23:54:49
It should say something like "Playing id1/music/track001.mp3" or "Track id1/music/track01.mp3" not found.
That's the problem. I searched for my problem through this thread and everyone mentioned that it should had been a warning about that. While I don't get any warnings at all. Is there any console command to switch on/off music or anything else I have missed? External music is enabled in options, sound and music volume sliders don't make any changes.
I'm confused.
#928 posted by
on 2015/11/20 00:14:26
Music has worked for me since one of the newer builds. I just assumed that you had figured out the issue and fixed it... directory structure and file naming is
#929 posted by Baker on 2015/11/20 00:31:38
1. I created a new folder "Quake"
2. I created a Quake\id1 folder
3. and copied pak0.pak and pak1.pak in there.
4. I created a Quake\id1\music
5. Copied an mp3 as Quake\id1\track04.mp3
Using this latest Mark V beta for Windows (
I have no config and there is no command line. I start Mark V and do single player new game so I am on the Introduction and it says
Using protocol 666
Current music track: music/track04.mp3"
And the music plays.
So no config, no command line, current
.exe that's what it says with a valid mp3 in Quake\id1\music\track04.mp3 on the "start" map. For me.
#930 posted by Baker on 2015/11/20 00:32:44
correction ---> quake\id1\music\track04.mp3
(I typed it wrong the first time)
#931 posted by
on 2015/11/20 01:10:16
I repeated all these steps with new quake folder etc (btw I've discovered that I've been using previous build (from 20150426) while having the latest one downloaded).
After all I got:
Using protocol 666"
And no music.
That's with clean quake and the latest mark v.
#932 posted by Baker on 2015/11/20 02:22:35
Are you using a command line that has something like -nocd or -nocdaudio or -nosound or something?
It either prints that
A) it found the track
B) it didn't find the track
It seems you have the music disabled somehow.
Missing/incompatible DLL/codec Perhaps?
#933 posted by
on 2015/11/20 06:01:26
#934 posted by Baker on 2015/11/20 10:51:19
It doesn't say something like "ERROR - Could not initialize COM library" if you scroll up in the console does it? (Seems unlikely)
Also: Type "developer 1" in the console and then type "map start" and it will print out "too much detail" but might give you a clue and will print music messages like if it found the file.
About all I can say.
I'm Having A Similar Problem With Music In Mark V
#935 posted by
on 2015/11/20 18:29:42
and the tracks play just fine in quakespasm. In mark v, the message about "current music track" displays for me as well, but no mp3 is playing.
Controller Config
#936 posted by
on 2015/11/20 20:36:17
To anyone who's interested here's the controller configuration I use.
Just copy the text below and paste it into a new text file. Save it as "controller.cfg".
Then just add the line: "exec controller.cfg" to your autoexec.cfg in your "Quake\id1" folder.
Copy text from here:
joystick 1
joyname "Controller"
joyadvanced 1
joyadvaxisx 2
joyadvaxisy 1
joyadvaxisr 4
joyadvaxisu 3
joyforwardsensitivity -1.0
joysidesensitivity 1.0
joypitchsensitivity 1.0
joyyawsensitivity -1.0
joyforwardthreshold 0.15
joysidethreshold 0.15
joyyawthreshold 0.15
joypitchthreshold 0.15
// JOY1 = "A" Button
bind joy1 "+speed"
// JOY2 = "B" Button
bind joy2 "impulse 1"
// JOY3 = "X" Button
bind joy3 "impulse 12"
// JOY4 = "Y" Button
bind joy4 "impulse 10"
// AUX5 = "Left Shoulder" Button
bind aux5 "+jump"
// AUX6 = "Right Shoulder" Button
bind aux6 "+attack"
// AUX7 = "Back" Button
bind aux7 "+showscores"
// AUX8 = "Start" Button
bind aux8 "pause"
// AUX9 = "Middle Left Stick" Button
bind aux9 ""
// AUX10 = "Middle Right Stick" Button
bind aux10 ""
// AUX29 = D-Pad Up
bind aux29 ""
// AUX30 = D-Dad Right
bind aux30 ""
// AUX31 = D-Pad Down
bind aux31 ""
// AUX32 = D-Pad Left
bind aux32 ""
To the line above!
PS: I realise most of you will know what to do with the above text. I just thought it prudent to add some simple instructions for those not familiar with such things. :)
Consistent Crash In Abyss Of Pandemonium?
#937 posted by
on 2015/11/20 20:39:32
The game loads fine but crashes every time I pick up and shoot the incendiary grenade launcher at the Death Knight as found in the first secret area in the first map.
I'm using the latest build from above (20150508) on Windows 7 Pro 64 bit.
#938 posted by Baker on 2015/11/21 04:01:52
Mark V uses DirectShow to play MP3 using hardware acceleration. Because DirectShow is part of Windows, there are buried settings in the control panel audio settings or even sometimes Windows Media Player (volume per file type) that might affect it.
Your Abyss of Pandemonium issue might be related to Shrak invalid skin bug. Whenever in the future I do an update to Mark V I'll take a look at it.
Shot In The Dark..
#939 posted by
on 2015/11/21 04:07:27
Given that it's DirectShow, it might be worth running that DirectX Web installer (from Microsoft.. don't have a link handy.)
A while ago, I was getting a missing d3dx DLL error when running DirectQ on a fresh Windows 10 install, and running that web installer fixed it.
AoP Follow Up
#940 posted by
on 2015/11/21 11:15:51
I tried AoP with the OGL version of Mark V and it works fine. It only happens in the WinQuake build.
I tried Erics suggestion in the hope that it was indeed just a glitch in the matrix but the issue's still there.
Anyway, just thought I'd let you know. :)
#941 posted by
on 2015/11/22 21:31:54
In developer 1 mode I get this (map start):
Using protocol 666
CDaudio: Bad track number 4"
I get a feeling that it doesn't even try to find mp3s.
I've inserted an audio cd and checked. With external music off I get no "CDaudio: Bad track number n" warning but cd music doesn't play either. Though that cd plays well in windows media player.
I need to investigate in on my pc at work.
#942 posted by Baker on 2015/11/24 07:58:15
Since I've very much enjoyed some of your past maps like Menk, I tried to think of some solutions outside the box.
But the problem you are having is "outlier".
(i.e. the particulars of the problem you are having don't match anything anyone else has had in a thread over 3 years old.)
So I don't know and I can't think of any helpful advice.
#943 posted by Baker on 2015/11/24 08:00:17
Well, hold on ----
In Mark V, a CD track > mp3
It assumes if you have a CD in the player, you intend to use it.
CD supercedes MP3.
Answer: Don't have a CD in.
#944 posted by
on 2015/11/24 08:59:46
That makes sense. I think the cause of the problem is that I have a virtual drive, that has a letter prior to the physical cd drive. So Mark V thinks that I always have a cd in my drive.
Music plays fine on my pc on work where I don't have any virtual cds.
Thanks for such investigation.
#945 posted by
on 2015/11/24 09:05:46
Then what does "external music" option do? Description says that you can choose what to play, cd music or mp3, while actually CD always supercedes MP3.
#946 posted by Baker on 2015/11/24 09:23:24
external_music 1 or 0. Determines if a music track (CD or MP3) will attempt to play.
#947 posted by Baker on 2015/11/24 10:27:44
The info that the your AOP problem is specific to the software renderer (WinQuake) is helpful information.
WinQuake and GLQuake have different little problems with non-conforming maps, models, textures.
There is some map Madfox made with Q3 skeletons and on the bridge there are some non-conforming textures, for instance, that look ok in Open GL but break the Quake texture spec so bad that in WinQuake they are totally wrong. Nehahra on the 3rd, 4th or 5th map has a BSP with a severe bsp/sky texture irregularity that affects both WinQuake and GLQuake and somehow not DarkPlaces. Probably used what would be considered by Func_Msgboard a very non-compliant map compiler.
Fortunately, these problems are very rare.
It Works!
#948 posted by
on 2015/11/24 21:04:47
I changed the letter of the virtual drive so that physical cd drive is the first one and mark v started to play music after this.
Thanks for guiding me towards the right direction.
Sock Tries Mark V WinQuake
#950 posted by Baker on 2016/01/04 19:16:16
Sock tries Mark V WinQuake. Mind blown!
"OMG! WinQuake how could I forget you! MarkV Winquake from Baker, #quake pixel heaven!"
Sock, if you read this, I used Zendar and Metal Monstrocity as the primary testing targets for the WinQuake version of Mark V.
#951 posted by
on 2016/01/05 00:29:04
Sock has taste. But I knew that already.
@Sleepwalker/Mac Version Re:Twitter Link
#952 posted by Baker on 2016/01/05 00:53:54
I just wish it ran on Mac...
There is Mac version of Mark V WinQuake.
Mark V GL | WinQuake Mac
And both of them play Nehahra --- on the Mac.
(I've just never had the time to wrap up Mark V to get to where I want it to be a for 1.00 release. NightFright pointed out an obscure bug in Shrak for Quake and I have some other Q and A I wanted to do
... who knows when I'll have the time though
#953 posted by
Johnny Law
on 2016/01/05 19:45:56
dooooo iiiiiiit
#954 posted by
on 2016/01/05 22:00:53
#955 posted by
on 2016/01/05 22:29:42
Lunix would be a Lunaran distro?
#956 posted by Baker on 2016/01/05 23:33:14
There is a Linux build on my hard drive but just of the GL build.
I wanted to convert over the software renderer version too, wasn't sure of a right approach to do it fast, and somewhere around that time, I didn't have the time to work on it any longer.
I Can't Seem To Get Mark V Winquake To Work.
#957 posted by
on 2016/01/31 04:38:49
It just crashes on startup. Is there something I'm missing?
#958 posted by
on 2016/01/31 06:01:31
check vid_width / vid_height in your config.cfg, maybe they're set too high for winquake? try a clean config maybe
Quick Question
#959 posted by
on 2016/01/31 12:44:51
Are fence textures on
.mdl possible?
#960 posted by
on 2016/01/31 14:27:13
I suspect you probably could make palette entry 255 a mask.
I assume this would come with its own problems, you can see through the other side of the model completely (as it wouldnt have a back-face) and would limit what you can do with it. Some models might use this colour as its a skin-toned colour. My guess is that the flame textures use it. So you'd probably have to redo some of the textures for certain models.
Maybe the engine would be able to recognise models that should be masked, perhaps using some kind of naming convention on the model? Is it possible that external textures could be compatible with models? You could create a number effects this way.
#961 posted by
on 2016/01/31 15:08:16
No luck, still crashes on startup, I've got quakespasm already installed, do I need to download Mark V from the link on the OP?
#962 posted by
on 2016/01/31 15:11:48
I'm thinking vegetation.
Imagine a modelled tree with branches, and a bunch of quads plastered on it with "fence" leafy bits and whatnot.
Also cross-quad grass billboards. That sort of bojangles.
#963 posted by
on 2016/01/31 15:13:43
sounds like what you're actually looking for is lit sprites.
can we have lit sprites? only problem with that one is that most sprites are supposed to be fullbright, but sprites used for foliage and such need to be identified in some way to let the engine know to apply lighting levels to them.
#964 posted by
on 2016/01/31 15:17:46
sounds like what you're actually looking for is lit sprites.
no, not really.
I'd rather have one entity to represent a big bush (hehehe) made of many quads all in one
.mdl, than add 50 separate sprite entities - one for each quad.
#965 posted by
on 2016/01/31 19:04:30
oh ok, when you said billboard, i figured you were just going to create a bunch of 2 tri models with a transparent texture on it. :P
but yeah, now that max edicts is 32k... doing leaves with sprites is doable.
whether or not it should be done is another question, but it might be work trying?
you could use qc to generate the leaves on certain parts of the model; would make it so trees look slightly different?
#966 posted by
on 2016/01/31 19:18:14
It's an interesting idea but even if it is technically possible given a high enough max_edicts, the sheer principle of using one edict per vegetation
makes my eye twitch. It just seems like we should be looking at more sensible/efficient ways of doing it.
Doing it with unlit sprites would suck anyway.
#967 posted by
on 2016/01/31 19:49:08
actually, while we're dreaming... if we could get a bump up on the max number of static entities, we could make each foliage static and make it not use edicts at all!
#968 posted by
on 2016/01/31 20:10:04
I guess to be fair the only way these sorts of feature requests get any traction is if there's already a bunch of well-made assets ready to go that a lot of people would use.
Making a bunch of quakesque vegetation models has been on my list for a while, so I might as well just start making them and then bully the engine coders into supporting alpha on them afterwards :}
#969 posted by mh on 2016/01/31 20:57:57
if we could get a bump up on the max number of static entities
It's actually quite silly for an engine to have a fixed-size maximum for these in 2016. Static entities can be just allocated on the hunk until memory runs out; don't need to come from a separate array at all. Likewise with efrags.
Alpha-tested Models
#970 posted by Spike on 2016/01/31 21:14:55
hexen2 supports it. There's some model flag you can set that enables it (but tools may not provide you with that option, and might necessitate using some hex-editor).
afaik FTE is the only quake engine that supports it at this point in time, although if you're targetting DP, you can use shaders with some 'alphatest gt128' line or something, along with an external texture (iiuc an external texture alone will enable alpha blending, which will look a little ugly if they overlap).
#define MFH2_HOLEY (1u<<14) // Solid model with color 0
so byte 0x4E should be set to 0x40, assuming I counted correctly.
clientside limits on static entities are kinda silly (and implies wasted memory).
serverside limits on them due to the signon buffer size are harder to remove, although not impossible.
#971 posted by Baker on 2016/02/01 01:28:05
Trying deleting your config.cfg. Are you using an old version of Windows like XP or something?
I made a couple of tough choices in very recent version that may affect old, old Windows versions.
#972 posted by Baker on 2016/02/01 01:41:08
@Kinn - I think your ideas are interesting but at least for 2016 ericw/Quakespasm are where your best chances lie.
That being said,
Check this out:
That modified FitzQuake engine already has that feature, it's color 255.
#973 posted by Baker on 2016/02/01 01:42:22
@Kinn: It's the trees with alpha masked textures.
Mod screenshot
@Kinn - 3 Of 3
#974 posted by Baker on 2016/02/01 01:51:02
Kinn I guess what I'm saying: If you make a model with alpha masked textures and it works in that FitzKurok engine that I posted (you should be able to play with the model in that engine),
My recollection is the modification is not that difficult, but in the engine code for that model, the alpha masked model names are HARDCODED. i.e. look through the game data pak file and find the alpha model name (is it bush.mdl? tree.mdl? but whatever it is, use that name and there may be several).
The key thing is I would obviously not have the model name be hardcoded, so how to indicate a alpha masked texture? The quick and dirty version would be something similar to r_noshadow_list, r_nolerp_list or whatever those cvars are called and make a r_alphamaskedmodels_list or whatever would be a good name.
#975 posted by
on 2016/02/01 01:51:28
a bunch of well-made assets ready to go that a lot of people would use
Sock has some really nice ones:
#976 posted by
on 2016/02/01 01:59:27
Baker - thanks very much for that! Looks interesting, I'll have a play with that :)
adib - sock's foliage assets are great for Q3, but I would want to be making stuff that fits in with quake's established chunky-pixel aesthetic.
@Baker: I'm Using Windows 7
#977 posted by
on 2016/02/01 02:51:29
I might try deleting the config.
#978 posted by Baker on 2016/02/01 13:09:11
Checking to see changes involved:
Engine modification requires:
1) Creating a color table for alpha masked textures (probably already exists since QS/Mark V both support this for the
2) A method for specifying if a model's texture should be an alpha masked. (Sadly, since some rare models do use color 255 in them
...). Options cvar list var, external file, model name, somehow adding more model flags to a
.mdl (like blood trail). Default option is probably creating a cvar with model names like the existing r_nolerp_list.
3) Checking such a model's texture for actual palette index 255 alpha masking, and if not disabling it.
4) Turning on alpha test during draw for specified models, then turning it off. Since GLQuake model lighting and FitzQuake overbrighting is just a color modification, no other drawing consequences.
5) Permitting external textures to have an alpha channel for models where alpha masking is indicated.
#979 posted by
on 2016/02/01 14:11:09
Cheers, sounds reasonably doable ;}
2) I guess a list cvar fits in with the existing list stuff. To ensure that everyone gets the list in my mod even if quake.rc doesn't run (e.g. if someone loads the mod from the console), would it work if I did a stuffcmd from the QuakeC?
#980 posted by Baker on 2016/02/01 14:29:20
I'd rather Spike suggest a better solution than the cvar list thing. ;-)
I hate the cvar list thing. Consider it an ugly placeholder until someone comes up with a better idea or a standard.
So consider the cvar list as a temporary placeholder until someone comes up with a great idea.
#981 posted by Baker on 2016/02/01 14:42:29
Spike says something about a model flag that Hexen 2 uses above. Hmmm.
#982 posted by
on 2016/02/01 14:46:39
I'd personally be down for using a new flag (like blood trail).
However that requires tools that would support it. It personally doesn't bother me in the slightest as I bang out
.mdls from blender using a script that I can easily edit.
#983 posted by Baker on 2016/02/01 15:55:08
For existing tools (QME) to conveniently work, I would personally opt for checking BOTH a rocket trail and grenade trail (selecting multiple trails is non-sensical in the engine, it only uses the first trail flag).
In model.c in model load, engine authors can just add a
if (model->flags & (EF_ROCKET | EF_GRENADE) == EF_ROCKET | EF_GRENADE ) model->flags ~= EF_ROCKET | EF_GRENADE, model->flags |= EF_ALPHA_MASKED;
A non-supported engine it's going to render horribly wrong anyway with pink everywhere.
This would allow QME to be able to edit the flag, instead of putting terrible burdens on mappers.
/One thought
... Spike said only FTE has a mechanism currently.
#984 posted by
on 2016/02/01 16:15:10
QME lets you set any flag I think, not just the ones in use...
So, using an unused flag might be ok, even for people who for some masochistic reason use QME to make mdls.
#985 posted by Baker on 2016/02/01 17:06:39
Awesome, did not know that!
Methinks Spike may not have known that, I didn't like the "must use Hex Editor idea".
Looking Through Spike's Source Code
#986 posted by Baker on 2016/02/01 17:15:17
and reading his above comment,
looks like 0x4000 (16384 decimal) is the flag that would be most compatible with FTE.
#987 posted by Baker on 2016/02/01 17:28:02
Sometime in the next 24 hours I'll grab bush1.mdl and palmleav.mdl (a palm tree) from Kurok, edit the model flag in QME and post a Windows OpenGL
.exe Mark V with the implementation.
Holy Mother Of
#988 posted by
on 2016/02/01 17:31:12
I'd better get my modelling trousers on
#989 posted by
on 2016/02/01 19:59:53
Another possible way to specify that the model should be alpha masked is making the skin name start with "{". Hexen2's TEX_HOLEY model flag (16384) seems OK though. Are hexen 2 and quake mdl's the same format, aside from extra flags used by h2?
I was reading the uhexen2 source, it looks like both palette index 0 and 255 are transparent for TEX_HOLEY, at least in uhexen2. But we would just use 255 since that's what is used elsewhere in quake.
Last thing: it might be worth comparing this with a different approach: trying obj2map's new UV/texturing import feature, and then either compile the foliage maps to bsp (disadvantage: lighting would be static) or even try using itendswithtens's new map instance inserter tool to automate pasting prefabs in your map (?). My light tool can even raytrace through the fence textures properly, giving natural shadows under trees. This route is likely more of a pain to set up, but it would have the advantage of working in all the engines that already support "{" textures.
#990 posted by
on 2016/02/01 20:22:19
Quake loads up a hexen2
.mdl fine. Other than that, I don't know how the formats differ.
I'm thinking of making the foliage move in some cases, so bsp wouldn't be great for that.
Also I just don't think bsp feels right for the sort of geometry I have in mind.
Also: plant monsters.
#991 posted by
on 2016/02/01 20:49:25
killer hedges / vines.. looking forward to seeing this!
#992 posted by
on 2016/02/02 02:06:46
Alphamasked MDL texture support has existed in Makaqu for ages, and Super8 inherited it.
I've also implemented it in the x86 ASM version of the MDL drawing code, for fast performance.
#993 posted by
on 2016/02/02 02:28:15
So far, I've deleted the Config, and It still crashes on startup. Is it not compatible with Windows 7?
@kinn - Alpha Models Build
#994 posted by Baker on 2016/02/02 03:57:29
Experimental Windows GL Build with alpha texture support for models
(with changed source files)
Palette 255 is transparent color, model must have flag 0x4000 set in the
.mdl QME 3.1.
A test mod is supplied. Type in console:
"game alphamaskmodeltexture; map start"
and watch the lavaball in the HARD hallway which has been replaced with palm leave
And looks like this:
@ Breezeep_
#995 posted by Baker on 2016/02/02 04:03:06
I develop on Windows 7. I don't know why you are having the problem, somewhere around 100 ppl have used Mark V WinQuake.
If you are committed to helping me identify the nature of the problem, I might be able to get it running for you if you are willing to post logs and such. I think in another thread Skiffy said he had a problem like yours.
Let me know.
@ericw, @mk
#996 posted by Baker on 2016/02/02 04:04:53
@ericw - agreed, heh.
@mk - that's awesome that Makaqu has that feature already. Even more awesome that you have asm for it.
#997 posted by
on 2016/02/02 13:09:37
Wow, that's perfect. Thanks so much for this!
I'm going to be making a lot of assets that showcase this in my mod. Might even be ready for the 20th anniversary expo!
#998 posted by
on 2016/02/02 14:21:50
ok, i'm sold. that looks terrific!
#999 posted by Baker on 2016/02/02 20:26:34
@necros -- updated the above download raising max static entities from 512 to 8192.
Client-side entities are very small and just keep track a couple of dozen numbers/positions/times and the static limit was just an array of client-side entities and nothing more.
(MH and Spike point out other limiting factors.)
#1000 posted by mh on 2016/02/02 21:25:01
@necros -- updated the above download raising max static entities from 512 to 8192.
One would hope that at some point you'll drop the array and just Hunk_Alloc each entity_t as each static entity comes in.
#1001 posted by Baker on 2016/02/03 04:17:36
I know how to do it, but until classic-like Quake engines implement "add static entities at any time" for dead monsters and gibs and the like, static entities is basically just a fixed array that happens during connection to the map.
Compounded by: what if a monster died on a lift or temporary floor -- since static entities don't move? And then if you fix that, you break standard Quake physics.
And the entity_t struct stores a ton of lerp data and other things that don't apply to static entities --- which never move. I killed the grunt on the opening bridge in Metal Monstrocity and then shot the bridge release and then was slightly distressed that his body just floated in the air, but in DarkPlaces he'd fall into the pit when the bridge is gone.
Optimization and Quake can be a paradox or at best a rabbit-hole with no known end. Proof that Quake was made by an HP Lovecraft monster and somewhere Cthulu is laughing
#1002 posted by
on 2016/02/03 04:39:11
wait, what? monsters don't get made static when they die.
monster corpses float in the air only because the fl_onground flag doesn't get cleared so the engine ignores it when doing physics updates. Darkplaces probably just fixes that behaviour.
#1003 posted by
on 2016/02/03 04:40:01
actually wait... if a corpse floats in the air when a lift goes down, that's some kind of bug because corpses DO go down with lifts and such. maybe a corner was on the ledge?
#1004 posted by Baker on 2016/02/03 04:55:39
Monsters don't get made static when they die.
I was arguing that in some ways, they should.
If standard QuakeC exposed the ability to make create new static entities at any time like DarkPlaces permits.
Then QuakeC doesn't waste time performing physics or sending network traffic on dead monster bodies.
(Then I mention the problem with this is that if you make dead monster bodies static entities --- they don't experience physics and some places they should).
#1005 posted by Spike on 2016/02/03 09:02:52
attachments could be used on static ents so that corpses could move with the platform.
which would work fine until the platform is killtargetted and then spawned as something else... yay corpses riding your nails!...
might be fun.
#1006 posted by mh on 2016/02/03 12:34:52
...until classic-like Quake engines implement "add static entities at any time" for dead monsters and gibs and the like, static entities is basically just a fixed array that happens during connection to the map
Hmmm - I'm not sure how this is potentially a blocker.
To be clear, the suggestion to just Hunk_Alloc each static ent as it comes in is nothing to do with being able to makestatic at any time.
It's to do with (1) removing the limit on static entities so you don't get in an arms race with mods, and (2) saving memory while doing so.
Both of which are IMO useful and essential things to have in any engine, irrespective of presence or absence of other features.
#1007 posted by Baker on 2016/02/03 13:16:07
sizeof(entity_t) = 336 bytes on 32-bit (pretty small size). 336 bytes x 8192 statics = 2.7 MB.
You are correct in engine design and philosophy.
But if I rewired it to do as you suggest, Mr. end user won't know even know he saved around 2.7 MB in RAM on all but the most unusual maps.
I mean, I raised the default zone allocation to 8 MB. That's probably 6 MB more than the most rare situation would actually need.
And both Mark V and Quakespasm default to 256 MB -heapsize. Which is about double the memory any map actually requires.
/At least those are my thoughts
#1008 posted by
on 2016/02/03 13:25:05
What's the drive to optimize for memory usage in Quake engines these days?
Is it programmer pride, or is there a solid tech reason?
#1009 posted by Baker on 2016/02/03 13:54:38
MH wrote DirectQ and RMQ engine (first BSP2 engine, MH designed BSP2) --- it has some slick memory management. FTE and DarkPlaces do as well, but I've only ever really looked at MH's stuff in relation to the memory management.
(Because MH writes really great code. Time permitting, I try to code in his clean style.)
Almost acquired the entirety of RMQ's dynamic memory management into Mark V in 2014.
I have unusually ambitious backwards compatibility goals because of another engine called ProQuake and realized that if I implemented full dynamic that non-dynamic memory engines (ProQuake, Qrack, Quakespasm, WinQuake, FitzQuake, etc.) wouldn't reliably be able to either connect (coop or over the internet) or playback demos with certainty.
To address that, would have to have a mechanism to set a hard limit. Ends up being a lot of work to be back where you started.
[So both Mark V and Quakespasm use 8192 entities as the limit by default.]
I Think That Means
#1010 posted by
on 2016/02/03 14:41:54
'Why make maps better than id1?' :>
I think the other reason is the megamap format. Some things just don't work very well, like flickering lights.
#1011 posted by
on 2016/02/03 14:51:34
What's the drive to optimize for memory usage
"so modders/mappers can push the engine more" would be my initial thought, although I don't know much about engine coding.
#1012 posted by
on 2016/02/03 15:02:35
"'Why make maps better than id1?' :> "
No, no
... it means, "My machine has a kojillian gigs of RAM in it. Why stress about a few hundred bytes?"
#1013 posted by
on 2016/02/03 15:03:27
Why stress about a few hundred bytes?
Because it's not.
#1014 posted by
on 2016/02/03 16:02:10
I think it would be daft to take a bloatware approach to engine mods to a 1996 game, even if computers in 2016 can handle it. A lot of people will want to run this on older PCs. The original was coded efficiently and there's no reason not continue in the same philosophy.
#1015 posted by Spike on 2016/02/03 16:16:15
What's the drive to optimize for memory usage
Dynamic limits for stuff means that it'll not crash due to the limit being too low (note: you typically still need a sanity limit).
Fixed limits are a constant battle between sanity and actual use. Any time anyone makes a slightly bigger map, the engine needs twice as much memory. Essentually, the program eventually ends up allocating memory right up to the edge of sanity. Which then causes it to crash because its BSS section clogs its virtual memory pool.
Okay, maybe I'm exagurating a little, while 1 fixed limit can be ignored, by the time you have enough such limits things do start to hit the fan. Its just good to make all limits dynamic early, before it gets too problematic.
Baker, so you want MarkV to have limited static entity counts because someone *might* record a demo and then play that demo in an even more crippled engine?
Really you're just ensuring that maps won't work in either engine, spreading the crippleware.
#1016 posted by
on 2016/02/03 17:11:36
"The original was coded efficiently and there's no reason not continue in the same philosophy."
Well, it would eliminate the now routine conversation that takes place when any new mod or large map gets released about which engine it works in, which limits need to be raised, etc.
And there's nothing inefficient about a dynamic array. Software around the world uses them every day. :)
Playing Quake
#1017 posted by
on 2016/02/03 18:28:10
Well, it'd be nice if Quake was more accessible to people who don't know what the console is, or simply don't want to mess around with heapsize and the like.
But the onus there is on the mappers to set up their rc or autoexec properly.
Which engine is more difficult, although Quakespasm has become the standardised engine of choice for many.
#1018 posted by
on 2016/02/03 18:33:02
Well, it'd be nice if Quake was more accessible to people who don't know what the console is
Absolutely. I dream of an engine where a noob can just start it, and load a mod/map through an ingame menu and literally not need to worry about anything else.
#1019 posted by
on 2016/02/03 19:39:13
I think the ideal situation is dynamic arrays when possible, with some sanity check hard limit, and also "xxx exceeds standard limit of yyy" messages when "developer 1" is set.
- still runs as well on old computers / vanilla maps as an engine with vanilla limits would
- mappers can check how high over vanilla limits they are.
- eliminates frustration for players running huge maps
In practice there can be challenges doing this for each different limit.
Looks like QS and MarkV both MAX_STATIC_ENTITIES at 512. Hunk_Allocing the static entities as they arrive sounds like a good solution, as long you can be sure things added to the hunk during CL_ParseServerMessage will stay around until the client is restarted.
#1020 posted by
on 2016/02/03 19:47:28
map viewer
Mark V has a map browser already... maybe it could do with a mod browser. To be honest is it necessary? Most maps come with a readme txt with instructions.
#1021 posted by
on 2016/02/03 19:48:59
To be honest is it necessary? Most maps come with a readme txt with instructions
I once tried getting some people at work into Quake. The short answer? Yes.
#1022 posted by
on 2016/02/03 20:21:49
Doesn't something like QuakeInjector solve the noob issue?
#1023 posted by
on 2016/02/03 20:27:41
I didn't know about that thing. I guess I'm the noob :}
#1024 posted by mh on 2016/02/03 20:53:48
The original was coded efficiently and there's no reason not continue in the same philosophy.
It actually wasn't. The original was coded for an 8 MB MS-DOS machine with no multitasking and no virtual memory, so (1) it could freely grab all of the memory in a machine without worrying about having to play nice with other programs, and (2) if it ran out of physical memory it would explode.
There's vestiges of this all through the original memory management system. Zone memory is one example; the whole LRU/MRU/flush/evict thing in cache memory is another.
When doing any analysis of Quake's memory subsystem you absolutely have to bear in mind that it was coded for an OS and for constraints that no longer exist.
And of course, with specific reference to static entities (and a few other things), there is always this:
#1025 posted by OctopusFan on 2016/02/04 01:58:10
The quake engine was coded for efficiency in the use of memory and stability. For one, the so-called modern engines typically have bugs which are not detectable because of the slack memory handling in a modern OS, whereas the popular DOS extenders were strict. This enables detection of memory related bugs and stable code.
The majority of modified winquake engines seem to be enthusiast projects to show off the latest visual feature. This is worthwhile for working on experimental features, but much less so for the mappers and gamers. They should have to debug the maps and OS issues and not have a common source of bugs in the engine, too. This is why quakespasm is favored, even though it is missing the original software engine.
#1026 posted by Baker on 2016/02/04 02:52:52
Perhaps what you have to say would be more interesting if you provided some specific examples with some specific engine names.
Everyone likes a good rant, but that's muddy as hell with no specifics.
#1027 posted by
on 2016/02/04 03:19:25
They should have to debug the maps and OS issues and not have a common source of bugs in the engine, too. This is why quakespasm is favored, even though it is missing the original software engine.
It's not that simple. Quakespasm, FitzQuake and so on are also favored because they operate in 32-bit color. They have 32-bit colored lights, 32-bit colored fog, 32-bit alpha blending, 32-bit color skyboxes and so on.
Software renderers can't compete with that. Even less so if 32-bit color filtering for 8-bit textures is also taken into account. There's no way to make a 24-bit software renderer fast enough to do all those true color effects at a playable speed. No way.
I was happy enough to figure out how to do color-corrected 8-bit alpha blending in real time, because the alternative color system I was developing would be slower and overcomplicated. It's hard to create precomputed 16-bit or 24-bit color transformation tables that fits in the CPU caches and are fast (using a single access for each RGB color instead of doing the R, G & B transformations separately).
The smooth, smooth colors of hardware rendering are something that really sets both worlds apart, even if texture filtering is disabled. Software rendering feels just poor in comparison.
That's why there's no market for it. Texture filtering gets disabled because it distorts the texture resolution, and software rendering is not used because it distorts the texture's colors.
Any software renderer with 8-bit colored lights, 8-bit colored fog, 8-bit alpha blending, 8-bit color skyboxes and so on is doomed to be just a trifle, just a novelty. There's no reason for anyone to put them above what the hardware renderers can do.
All this may sound weird coming from me, but I'm just thinking objectively.
#1028 posted by mh on 2016/02/04 06:38:19
Looks like QS and MarkV both MAX_STATIC_ENTITIES at 512. Hunk_Allocing the static entities as they arrive sounds like a good solution, as long you can be sure things added to the hunk during CL_ParseServerMessage will stay around until the client is restarted.
We can be absolutely certain this is the case for static entities.
The client-side code (where the Hunk_Alloc would be done) adds efrags as the last part of setting up a static entity, and efrags depend on the world existing. The world is loaded into the hunk. Therefore the hunk must be valid otherwise the world itself wouldn't be valid.
Server-side static entities depend on the progs.dat to have been loaded first, and the progs.dat is also loaded into the hunk. So the same applies - if the hunk were somehow invalid then the progs.dat would also be invalid.
So both client-side and server-side we can conclusively prove that there are absolutely no circumstances in which it's not valid to use the hunk by the time static entities are loaded.
#1029 posted by OctopusFan on 2016/02/04 06:38:43
Quake 1 and its artwork was designed around 8-bit color and the software renderer. By comparison, the opengl renderer has a "washed out" appearance as described earlier by the Winquake community and in a summary of Quake engine differences at Quaddicted. I agree that the opengl engine is superior in maps specifically designed for that engine, however, the remakes of Quake maps (ExMx) look better to me in the software renderer. These maps aren't designed around high resolution skyboxes and transparent textures.
I agree that the software renderer can't compete with the opengl renderer where it performs best. However, the software renderer has its strengths, such as portability (and performance) on non-gl systems, suitability to represent the original artwork and derivatives, (and better compatibility with past mods in the case of Winquake projects).
If there was a Winquake client with Quakespasm like software development practices, then it would be easier for developers to offer secondary compatibility to the software renderer, such as Sock and others have done.
#1030 posted by Baker on 2016/02/04 09:54:02
Maybe someone should code a very conservative WinQuake client that doesn't focus on effects and instead is essentially a WinQuake clone of FitzQuake/Quakespasm.
Would you agree with that statement?
#1031 posted by Baker on 2016/02/04 10:15:03
Fine! Next update I'll change static ents to array of pointers. And in cl_parse.c
Change this to Hunk_Alloc size(entity_y) ent = &cl.static_entities[i];
I guess it's a 2 liner anyway.
#1032 posted by Baker on 2016/02/04 10:16:54
3 liner. I'll have to zero fill the pointer array on CL_NewMap.
#1033 posted by mh on 2016/02/04 10:54:59
Next update I'll change static ents to array of pointers. And in cl_parse.c
Nope, that's not what we're talking about.
What we're talking about is getting rid of MAX_STATIC_ENTITIES, getting rid of cl_static_entities and getting rid of cl.num_statics - delete them, altogether.
Then the code in cl_parse.c gets rid of this block:
i = cl.num_statics;
if (i >= MAX_STATIC_ENTITIES)
Host_Error ("Too many static entities");
ent = &cl_static_entities[i];
And replaces it all with this:
ent = Hunk_Alloc (sizeof (entity_t));
The thing is - there is atually no need to track static entities in an array; whether that be an array of entity_t or of entity_t * is irrelevant; it's not needed and can be gotten rid of.
No Limit Static Entities
#1034 posted by Baker on 2016/02/04 10:55:02
Beta Windows GL Build - Feb 4 2016
* no limit to static entities
* alpha masked models (0x4000 flag in QME 3.1)
* (with changed source files provided)
#1035 posted by Baker on 2016/02/04 10:57:05
Although obviously I didn't read your post since it was literally 3 seconds before I clicked submit, I did remove the array.
However, I do keep the count for the compatibility warning vs. original Quake. ;-)
#1036 posted by
on 2016/02/04 10:59:07
I dunno, wasn't the original Unreal software renderer 32-bit? 24 at least... And it ran pretty well.
#1037 posted by
on 2016/02/04 10:59:38
Maybe I'm wrong
... it's too early in the morning.
#1038 posted by mh on 2016/02/04 11:18:06
I think you're actually making two arguments here, one of which is valid but the other of which is bogus, and unfortunately you're using the valid argument as justification for the bogus one.
The valid argument is that there is a pixel-art aesthetic in Quake, with lots of pixel-level detail in it's textures that the default linear filtering used by GLQuake ruins.
However, that should not be extended to try argue that a lot of the rest of Quake's original grunginess is either deliberate, or finely crafted, or efficiently coded, or whatever.
You see, the evidence is there in the code itself, in comments in the code, in sources like interviews,
.plan files, Michael Abrash's Black Book, the Masters of Doom book, and so on. The thing is: id Software were very open about discussing Quake and it's development and none of this is a secret.
Take Quake's colormap for example; you absolutely positively
try to argue that it's in any way finely crafted, because it's not, and we have the proof. It's just a brute-force nearest-colour match:
.MDL files: you cannot claim that the reduction of position vertices to 8-bit is anything other than a crude scale and bias, with type conversion, because once again the evidence is there in the modelgen.c source code.
If you look at the code and other sources you'll see lots of "fixme" comments, you'll see Carmack's "I hate our model format!" remark, and more. It's a matter of public record that Quake's development was one year of experimentation followed by 6 months of an insane rush to get it finished and released. So please don't try to claim that there's much in the way of deliberate craft there.
The majority of modified winquake engines seem to be enthusiast projects to show off the latest visual feature. This is worthwhile for working on experimental features, but much less so for the mappers and gamers.
If you were talking about Quake clients back in 2002 or 2003, you'd be right because that's the way the majority of Quake clients actually were developed back then. I was there, I remember it. Making such a claim about an engine such as Fitzquake, which has an
goal of remedying the areas where GLQuake is inferior to software Quake, just shows that you haven't been paying attention.
I Was Saying Boo-urns
#1039 posted by
on 2016/02/04 12:26:37
I am one of the people who loves the look of software quake, because of the hue shifts in different light levels, which imo gives it a more appealing and painterly look. If this is not intentional, as mh implies, it doesn't matter to me, I still like the way it looks. I also love the way the light is banded and not smooth. It's a proper retro look and has its own charm.
You lose the subtle shift of hues with GL engines, but obviously you get better preservation of the texture art, coloured lighting, fog and all the other cool stuff.
#1040 posted by
on 2016/02/04 17:09:44
The UT renderer is 16-bit, IIRC. However, it doesn't feature all the effects of its hardware counterpart, so it still fits my description. Combining all of those different effects together requires a lot of work.
I was going to use a 16-bit indexed color palette, with textures using only 256 colors from that, so most color transformations could be done with a single ( (texel << 16) | pixel) operation. But all tables together would consume lots of memory, and reducing their sizes to fit into the L3 cache would kill the smoothness I was trying to achieve. I even thought of an approach using a special texture format, but that would require creating special tools and extra work steps for the asset creation, not to mention that Quake compatibility would go out of the window.
#1041 posted by
on 2016/02/04 17:14:07
Ahh OK
... I love software rendering. It just has a character that hardware doesn't seem to retain.
#1042 posted by
on 2016/02/05 06:44:28
mh, thanks for the explanation of safety of Hunk_Alloc'ing static ents, helps me visualize things :)
#1043 posted by Baker on 2016/02/05 10:16:39
A 10 minute experiment on Mark V WinQuake. Some success
... but spans must be clipping each other so incomplete.
WinQuake screenshot:
Attempt 2
#1044 posted by Baker on 2016/02/05 19:06:58
2nd - 10 minute experiment
.. WinQuake alpha masked models. Part 2.
It works! Rather surprised in a way, nothing is ever easy with the internals of the software renderer. But this particular time, not so hard.
#1045 posted by
on 2016/02/05 23:15:41
Which method did you use? Doing a whole pass for each surface is easy, but not optimal.
#1046 posted by Baker on 2016/02/05 23:53:08
It was a 2 liner. Here's how it worked:
if ((lzi >> 16) >= *lpz)
byte bsrc = ((byte *)acolormap)[*lptex + (llight & 0xFF00)];
if (bsrc != 255) { // Baker: masked theory.
*lpdest = bsrc;
*lpz = lzi >> 16;
I feel like a complete jerk as result.
#1047 posted by
on 2016/02/06 00:10:53
Oh, that's a MDL. I thought it was a BSP.
#1048 posted by
on 2016/02/06 01:01:36
#1049 posted by
on 2016/02/06 04:33:02
wow baker, this is great! thanks for taking a chance on the alpha textures on models!
#1050 posted by mh on 2016/02/06 11:12:03
Surely it should be "if (*lptex != 255)" - I don't know if palette index 255 can ever come out of the lighting calculation, but that aside, alpha should come from the base texture anyway.
#1051 posted by Baker on 2016/02/06 11:56:45
You are right. I only spent a few minutes, tried a quick experiment and it worked. I think the above happens to work because 255 is a fullbright.
Feb 7 2016 - Beta Build
#1052 posted by Baker on 2016/02/08 02:43:19
Windows Open GL + WinQuake
Windows Direct X Version
* Alpha masked models support (set
.mdl's QME 3.1 0x4000 flag)
* Alpha masked models for WinQuake version too
* No limit static entities
* RCON remote console support (ProQuake compatible) + full NAT fix.
* sv_map_rotation "dm3 dm6 dm4 dm6" --- map rotation via cvar - repeated names fine, it won't get confused.
* May have (all?) obscure mod bug-fixes that NightFright pointed out.
* Install from Quaddicted. Type "install travail" for instance. Type "uninstall travail" to uninstall.
* No dependencies at all. Just single
. Maybe next time will update Mac build.
#1053 posted by
on 2016/02/08 03:30:56
#1054 posted by
on 2016/02/08 11:53:14
will this play orl's new map set?
#1055 posted by Baker on 2016/02/08 15:00:57
ericw did a very kind thing by making a scrappy custom Quakespasm executable with "protocol 999" support for orl's map so more people might try it.
As I understand it, it isn't true protocol 999 and wouldn't be able to play, for instance, RemakeQuake like the RemakeQuake Engine can
So it's not a real protocol -- it's just something kind that ericw did for ORL.
Protocol 999
#1056 posted by mh on 2016/02/08 15:18:15
It's been a while but IIRC protocol 999 was deliberately designed to be modular; if I've got this right, a standard protocol 666 data flow is also a valid protocol 999 data flow with the exception of the protocol version number and an extra int which is used to specify what optional features are used.
Again working from memory, clients and servers then use that extra int to negotiate what set of these optional features they both have in common, and from there features are enabled or disabled.
So in theory even a "scrappy protocol 999" is therefore also a valid protocol 999.
But like I said, this is all from memory. The last released version (which was not supposed to be final) may or may not support all of this, but what I've just described is certainly what the intention was.
#1057 posted by
on 2016/02/08 15:54:55
This interests me. It's one of the goals of my protocol experiments.
Got more detailed info on this?
#1058 posted by Spike on 2016/02/08 16:57:13
scrappy = perfectly adequete.
possible host_errors is better than unconditional host_errors, imho.
partial is better than none.
unless baker wishes to propose a different solution for large maps or jerky rotations? :P
#1059 posted by Spike on 2016/02/08 17:24:45
// protocol flags
#define PRFL_SHORTANGLE (1 << 1)
#define PRFL_FLOATANGLE (1 << 2)
#define PRFL_24BITCOORD (1 << 3)
#define PRFL_FLOATCOORD (1 << 4)
#define PRFL_EDICTSCALE (1 << 5)
#define PRFL_ALPHASANITY (1 << 6) // cleanup insanity with alpha
#define PRFL_INT32COORD (1 << 7)
#define PRFL_MOREFLAGS (1 << 31) // to do - support this...
if its protocol 999, then read a 32bit integer interpreted as the above flags. those flags define how it differs from 666.
If there's a bit set that you don't understand, error out or something.
there is no handshake/negotiation in rmqe, the server dictates and clients are expected to fall in line.
rmqe uses PRFL_INT32COORD| PRFL_SHORTANGLE| PRFL_EDICTSCALE
qs-oms3 uses PRFL_INT32COORD| PRFL_SHORTANGLE
fte uses PRFL_FLOATCOORD| PRFL_SHORTANGLE (which matches dpp5+ and fte clients, as well as avoids extra inprecision...).
ericw missed te 255 apparently (but so does fte, so whatever).
He also missed U_SCALE (which might come back to bite him with illegible server messages on rmqe servers).
QS should probably also warn if any protocol flags are set that his client doesn't support, again to avoid any bewildering illegible server messages.
personally I'd recommend against having the client distinguish between 666 and 999 other than to parse the flags. its simpler to treat them identically except with 666 having flags 0, but that's just my opinion because I hate lots of OR expressions all over the place.
#1060 posted by Baker on 2016/02/08 18:26:10
Obviously I want smooth rotation. Would ideas behind this protocol permit the following to evolve in it:
1) Prediction
2) Baseline compression/ack frames.
3) EF_FOLLOW, EF_NODRAW and other flags like DarkPlaces, view weapons
4) Possibly connectionless connections.
5) Team scores in multiplayer?
#1061 posted by Baker on 2016/02/08 18:29:33
"alpha insanity" -- that appears several times in the RMQ engine source code. Could you explain what that means? Is that how
.alpha in FitzQuake 0.85 if 0 for a new entity should actually be --- I think 255 is full alpha, but I haven't looked.
#1062 posted by mh on 2016/02/08 19:11:06
It's slightly, and amusingly, ironic that one aspect of Quake that RMQ
successfully recreated was the somewhat fucked-up development.
personally I'd recommend against having the client distinguish between 666 and 999 other than to parse the flags. its simpler to treat them identically except with 666 having flags 0, but that's just my opinion because I hate lots of OR expressions all over the place.
I'd agree with this recommendation; I can't remember what way I did it originally, but like I said - the intention was for 999 to be identical to 666 but for the flags, so this approach would work and be cleanest.
Got more detailed info on this?
There's not really much more to say aside from what Spike and myself have said. Protocol 999 was designed in a rush to meet a very specific requirement (a large map going beyond regular bounds) and was left unfinished. Despite that the intention was for it to be easily adoptable and extensible, so bit of forethought was put into how to achieve that. Hence the fact that you'll see that there's a "moreflags" bit already reserved, which signals to send another int (and IIRC the intention was also that bit 31 of this other int would in turn signify even more flags, and so on, so it should in theory be infinitely extensible).
"alpha insanity" -- that appears several times in the RMQ engine source code. Could you explain what that means?
this is in reference to the FitzQuake standard of having an alpha of 0 signifying full opaque. I understand why this was done (so a memset-0 would set a good default) but I remember being annoyed by it at the time. Probably unnecessarily annoyed too, I must add: juggling multiple things, 75% of which aren't even working and all of which are needed
for content does tend to stress one out a little.
#1063 posted by Baker on 2016/02/08 19:41:19
Kinn managed to get me excited about alpha textures on
.mdl --- resulting in a couple of updates. I couldn't resist!
I guess I'll be meditating on the protocol 999 thing. My destination of choice is full, no compromises coop support in a way that would meet Spike's approval.
If protocol 999 is a pitstop on that road or not, I still can't tell although perhaps Spike can tell me.
re: the alpha insanity, I hear you ;-)
(I think I'll use the Pitfall logo for this post, I don't think I ever used that one before
... heh)
#1064 posted by Spike on 2016/02/08 20:06:34
in fitzquake, 0 means wateralpha for turb surfaces. other values ignore wateralpha entirely, thus it does make a distinction between 0 and 255.
the problem with extending protocol 999 is a case of who defines the flags.
my own extensions have a chained style, ultimately terminating in the protocol version that they're meant to be extending.
note that fte also has a handshake mechanism (but falls back to stuffcmds for nq).
see also: PEXT2_REPLACEMENTDELTAS|PEXT2_PREDINFO|PEXT2_VOICECHAT, if you're bored.
my personal fear is that everyone defines their own extensions and then I end up feeling like I have to implement 5 different variations of the same extension, each with a different svc or different order of flags etc. each subtly different that I can't share code despite them all fundamentally doing the same damn thing.
unfortunately there is no real authority when it comes to extensions.
#1065 posted by anonymous user on 2016/02/08 20:23:05
in fitzquake, 0 means wateralpha for turb surfaces. other values ignore wateralpha entirely, thus it does make a distinction between 0 and 255.
I was thinking more in terms of entity alpha and FitzQuake's ENTALPHA_* macros, with the memset-0 happening in ED_ClearEdict.
#1066 posted by
on 2016/02/08 20:24:33
My most ideal thing would be split-screen support with controller support. No idea how that would work but I would be overjoyed with that.
#1067 posted by Spike on 2016/02/08 20:48:16
baker, I don't really do approval, ever...
not sure why you're looking at me specifically about coop.
all I can really say is that coop without some easy way to punch holes through NATs is somewhat futile nowadays, from a usability perspective.
my xmpp thing used an XMPP server for ICE stuff, but needing people to create accounts etc is a significant issue, and even using existing acounts like gmail addresses is filled with far too many nightmares.
I keep meaning to use an irc server or something for it, but I can never find the motivation to try.
You could also run your own specialised server for it, but gah, infrastructure.
#1068 posted by Baker on 2016/02/08 21:20:26
I mean your "school of thought" on the efficiency of a network protocol. No I don't mean your explicit approval, per se.
(And maybe with luck I may have a real block of time later this year. Otherwise it's 2017 -- and such is the way of things in this world
#1069 posted by
on 2016/02/08 21:30:47
Thanks for the code review :) Mankrip:
here is the diff to QS
. I was meaning to test it more, like test connecting between my implementation and FTE/DirectQ/RMQEngine and demo compatibility, but didn't get around to it yet.
I will look at implementing PRFL_EDICTSCALE.
One thing I need to look more closely at is the "roughround" flag in RMQEngine, in MSG_WriteShortAngle:
// -1 and -2 are legal values with special meaning so handle them
// the same way as ID Quake did; other values can use rounding
if ((f == -1 || f == -2) && roughround)
// encode to byte, decode back to float to get the same behaviour as ID Quake
sang = (int) (f * 256.0 / 360.0) & 255;
f = (float) sang * (360.0 / 256);
I'm not sure what the purpose of that is.
Also, I am tempted to switch QS to use the 24-bit position to save space. I noticed that with 32-bit positions, QS overflows the signon buffer when loading telefragged.bsp (this map requires something like 48KB with protocol 666..)
My thought on the protocol flags: it's useful if a demo recorded with protocol 999 is playable in any engine that supports 999. This implies freezing the set of flags, because otherwise an old 999 client won't be able to play a demo (or connect to a server) running a new 999 version with new flags.
General thoughts: I'm still sort of meditating on this as well, and it's not merged into the main QS repo. Larger than +-4096 map support only really happens for users/mappers if 999 is enabled by default, you can't expect users to know whether a map requires >+-4096 support and set the sv_protocol cvar accordingly. I even forgot to set it myself while testing oms3_2.bsp and had to restart the level, lol.
#1070 posted by Baker on 2016/02/08 21:46:30
My to do list --- whenever the time comes and it does not feel soon ---
1) ipv6 + what I have been discussion above + automatic background high-speed LAN/non-LAN propogation of current mod running for coop via TCP.
2) Enhanced graphical integration with Quaddicted.
3) Mirrors + security cameras.
4) Linux software renderer build and polish up unreleased OpenGL version which regretably uses SDL because X Windows is a cluster-mess and seems like it was designed by a basement nerd who never used an operating system with a decent GUI --- and even then SDL doesn't cover all the bases, but hats off the SDL guys because it does cover 90% of the way and SDL 2.0 is exceptionally nice and forward thinking.
5) Inter-map travel with single file saves.
6) Absorb remaining ProQuake features. Absorb 1 or 2 remaining JoeQuake features. Mark V already plays
.dz demos on any platform with no dependencies, the Mac build for instance. ProQuake will then become just a different build of Mark V.
7) sv_gameplay_fix_qrally_is_a_crappy_mod_dot_com 1
8) Probably add rotation back in.
9) I think I needed to touch up Nehahra in 2 places.
10) Possibly multiplayer save games.
11) Take another look at WinQuake and what I wanted to do but didn't. It wasn't too much, but I can think of a 2-3 things.
12) Would need to check list, I'm sure something else is on there.
@ericw +1
#1071 posted by Baker on 2016/02/08 21:49:51
re: not knowing if a map requires large map coordinates.
#1072 posted by mh on 2016/02/08 22:07:06
I'm not sure what the purpose of that is.
All discussed here:
Basically the game uses an angle of -1 or -2 to signify special behaviour rather than rotation. With the default rounding these are transmitted to the client as 0 and the entity draws correctly. Using Q_rint (Fitz & a few others) they transmit as non-zero and the entity is incorrectly rotated. So in certain cases it's necessary to revert to the original engine rounding: the linked thread gives one test map and I remember reliably reproing this bug in a number of engines.
#1073 posted by
on 2016/02/08 22:24:37
Quakec resets the yaw to 0 after detecting angle -1 or -2 in the spawn function for those entities that support the special values.
The bug occurs when -1/-2 is added to classes that don't support those special values, such as func_train. In that case, the spawn function doesn't reset yaw to 0.
In maps that have this error, it is invisible to players in stock engines by the way those engines do rounding. (at least -1 is invisible, -2 might still show up as a bug)
#1074 posted by mh on 2016/02/08 22:51:12
Cheers, I suspected my explanation was incomplete.
So it comes down to "do you want to support buggy content" then.
#1075 posted by
on 2016/02/08 23:09:16
i wonder if it's possible to fix the -1 and -2 yaw values without screwing up other entities that are simply spinning in place, like fans. Do func_rotate objects always have a positive yaw? And what about monsters and players that rotate? Do they ever have negative yaws?
#1076 posted by
on 2016/02/08 23:20:28
I believe this is something that Sock tried to fix in AD in the progs but it broke a bunch of func_doors... found that bug fairly quick.
Negative Campaigning
#1077 posted by
on 2016/02/08 23:44:21
Sometimes for a func_rotate_train you might have a negative angle, if e.g. a waypoint has a destination angle of 270 degrees, and you want the train to perform two full rotations on the way there, you could set the starting angle to -450.
Of course, you could easily redesign so that all the angles in that set-up were positive, there's never a necessity to have negative angles. The problem is 1) insisting on positive angles is changing the rules after the game's started and 2) the bug we're fighting is introduced unwittingly by mappers, so giving them more to think about won't really help.
In an ideal world, I'd introduce a very targeted fix. I don't think you need to deal with -2, because that angle should be visible in normal engines and fixed in testing. What I'd want is for the engine to detect when an entity has received a yaw of -1 from the map file, and render that entity as if it has yaw 0 until its angle next changes. It would still have yaw -1 from the QC's point of view, there would just be a temporary disconnect between the visible angle and the QC.
I thought you could just get away with this by sending a fake angle update over the network at the start of the map, then you wouldn't need to a) monitor whether the angle had changed at all or b) keep a flag to remember if the -1 had come from the map load or not. When I thought about it more I realised that you need to send this message each time the object comes into vision, so that wouldn't work. Is there a way to hack this into the protocol?
#1078 posted by Baker on 2016/02/09 00:21:20
Mark V has "sv_fix_func_train_angles" to strip negative angles off a train. Defaults on for APSP1.
(Yeah, yeah, Preach and the theoretical train.)
With true rotation, negative angles never happen, the angles are wrapped 0-359.99999
As It Stands
#1079 posted by NightFright on 2016/02/15 11:15:03
Just as a reminder that I am still checking here, still hoping for a fix for the Nehahra bug in the final boss map at least. Solving the Shrak issue would also be nice, because then all the official and inofficial addons would work with this port, which is still pretty much the best out there if you are aiming for vanilla Quake gameplay with a few nice enhancements.
#1080 posted by Baker on 2016/02/15 15:38:14
According the source code, the Shrak invalid skin number issue should be fixed. Could you confirm whether or not this is still an issue?
#1081 posted by NightFright on 2016/02/16 10:24:55
Testing with the build from May 8, 2015 (if that is the latest one), it seems I can no longer reproduce the issue, at least not when playing the first few Shrak levels and gibbing mobs like crazy with the rocket launcher. We can consider this one fixed, then.
What remains on my personal list is the Malice issue from #855, the game messing around with FOV until it crashes.
Update On Malice Issue With Latest Mk V Build
#1082 posted by NightFright on 2016/02/16 10:46:23
I just saw there is a build from Feb 8, 2016. Used that one and tried Malice d16 again. Unfortunately, the
Host_error: Bad fov: 180.000000
problem still occurs when the boss pulls you towards him. Also tried by loading the map directly, skipping usage of savegames from earlier builds.
#1083 posted by Baker on 2016/02/16 11:14:28
Possibly fixed for Malice.
Mark V with Malice FOV fix
Let me know if that fixes the issue.
Pause Problem With Playing Demos
#1084 posted by
on 2016/02/16 11:31:43
Latest mark v seems to have problem with playing demo with pauses. If the client pauses the demo ingame while recording, it doesn't seem to unpause anymore when playing it. It can be seen in Vondur's demo of my latest map. Quakespasm plays it without problems (unpauses right after pause).
Mk V Feb 16 Build Feedback
#1085 posted by NightFright on 2016/02/16 12:03:25
Baker, your latest build fixed the FOV issue in Malice... kinda. Good news is the crash doesn't occur any longer. That's already a huge progress!
However, if I (quick)save during the fight and (quick)load, the FOV would be totally warped. Checking the config.cfg, I see that the game (still) changes fov to 170. That needs to be prevented.
Then there are two other issues regarding demos/cutscenes, one of them may be related to PuLSaR`s finding above. Cutscenes don't play any more when they are inside of PAK files. I get an error like this at the end of d15 after entering the exit portal:
Playing demo from cut8.dem.
ERROR: couldn't open
If I extract the file from the PAK, it works. Same with any other cutscene, e.g. from the beginning of the game.
The other thing is rather minor: The HUD remains visible during the cutscenes. I don't know if that can be changed, though.
Crashes On Laptop
#1087 posted by John on 2016/06/06 20:49:25
Hi, for me the last build still crashes on my toshiba laptop with win xp sp3 and trident blade xp integrated video. The directx build runs fine and both original fitzquake and quakespasm, the latter very slow though.
#1088 posted by Baker on 2016/06/07 00:21:08
Thanks for the info. I don't expect to have time to do further updates for a while (next year probably). But I read all the feedback and always use it when the time comes.
#1089 posted by
on 2016/06/07 00:32:06
According to
that card doesn't support OpenGL, so QS is probably using the windows software renderer.
If you don't mind, try launching QS with "-condebug +gl_info", then quit, and upload the qconsole.log file from quake directory. Possibly MarkV crashes when only the windows software renderer is available? (the software OpenGL implementation in Windows is unusably slow, anyway)
#1090 posted by Baker on 2016/06/07 01:55:02
Interesting. Well, at least there is the Direct 3D API for him to use.
#1091 posted by John on 2016/06/07 15:01:11
Thanks. The card had opengl 1.2 support and could run even quake 3 engine games. Mark V changes video mode, 640x480, and then back to desktop resolution and exits cleanly.
#1092 posted by mh on 2016/06/07 17:30:22
Mark V changes video mode, 640x480, and then back to desktop resolution and exits cleanly
That sounds like an error that happens at some stage during video startup. I would also suggest that you try running it with -window. This is just to test it's behaviour, as it may be able to pop up an actual meaningful error message if the failure occurs in windowed mode.
#1093 posted by John on 2016/06/07 19:44:28
I've tried windowed mode and still no error message, a black window appears and then dissapears. I'm running from a network drive with write access but i don't think that matters. Here's the condebug output:
UDP Initialized: 192.168.0.4
Exe: 19:58:01 Feb 7 2016
256.0 megabyte heap
FOUND: ARB_multitexture
Warning: texture_env_combine not supported
Warning: texture_env_add not supported
Warning: texture_non_power_of_two not supported
Warning: texture_filter_anisotropic not supported
Warning: Swap control not available
Hardware gamma enabled
joystick not found -- no valid joysticks (a5)
Input initialized
#1094 posted by Baker on 2016/06/07 20:13:11
Even if you did get it work, it looks like you have virtually no opengl extensions and it wouldn't be very nice at all.
I coded and tested assuming the worst possible hardware was an old Intel GMA and if it ran fine on that well --- that's the baseline and a very low bar.
You have something with Open GL drivers that doesn't even meet the very low bar of old Intel GMA.
Even if it did run, it would terrible and probably not render correctly in all circumstances.
The Direct X version does virtually everything the OpenGL version does.
#1095 posted by mh on 2016/06/07 21:01:27
FOUND: ARB_multitexture
Does Mark V have -nomtex? IIRC the Direct3D versions doesn't have multitexture, so it might be worth testing with -nomtex to see if that's your problem.
Otherwise I suspect that the best way to figure what's happening would be to single-step video startup in a debugger on the hardware in question.
#1096 posted by John on 2016/06/07 21:35:03
Ok but i've tried with both gldirect and the software opengl driver and the same thing happens. Moreover original fitzquake only runs in 640x400x16: if i select another resolution it starts at 640x400x16, goes to desktop and then i get a black screen with sound when it goes back into the game. That's why i was interested in Mark V, may be it's the 32 bit rendering why it doesn't run? The card supports 32 bits however.
#1097 posted by Baker on 2016/06/07 21:44:05
@MH -- my Direct3D version has up to 8x multi-texture because I made some changes/enhancements.
Otherwise I suspect that the best way to figure what's happening would be to single-step video startup in a debugger
Well, I have no absolutely no intention --- I mean 0.00000000000 -- of trying to support a 2002 era oddball graphics card.
I'm not into that.
#1098 posted by Baker on 2016/06/07 21:54:38
Very well could be. Mark V does 32 bit color. Doesn't even have the option for 16 bit color since even the most worst/terrible/horrible computer I could find for testing would do 32 bit color just fine.
#1099 posted by
on 2016/06/07 22:14:04
Things that can help performance on old cards with fitz-style engines:
+gl_flashblend 1
+r_oldwater 1
+r_dynamic 0
Those defaults change from original FitzQuake to QuakeSpasm/MarkV (I think) to better-quality options, which could explain why QS is slower than FitzQuake for you. QS has a "-bpp 16" command line option as well, though from a brief look MarkV always uses 24bpp.
#1100 posted by Baker on 2016/06/07 23:08:27
For $6.50 + free shipping, the graphics card could be upgraded to 16 million colors
#1101 posted by mh on 2016/06/08 06:57:58
toshiba laptop
It's worse than that, he's dead Jim.
#1102 posted by Baker on 2016/06/08 07:43:53
I made the Direct3D version so people with oddball video cards with terrible opengl drivers could enjoy a nice recent engine.
And the Direct3D version runs with flying colors with 99.9% features on even some very horrible machines that no one else's engine will run on.
/And does it with style and a robust feature set and stability
#1103 posted by mh on 2016/06/08 09:17:12
True, but my point was that a graphics card upgrade is not an option in this case, because it's a laptop and the Trident is an integrated part.
#1104 posted by Baker on 2016/06/08 11:03:50
Usually I am telling that to Spike or someone else in a conversation.
How did I end up on this side of the argument?
Somewhere, someone screwed up this conversation and made it work out weird.
Probably ericw's fault since his username has a extra consonant appended to his name, which is very distracting at times --- especially because a "w" can sometimes be considered a conosant and other times it can be a vowel.
Any News...
#1105 posted by NightFright on 2016/06/29 11:55:41
... about the issues I had reported in #1085?
#1106 posted by Baker on 2016/06/29 22:08:42
Mark V isn't going to see an update until sometime in 2017.
Well.... That's Crashy
#1107 posted by Gunter on 2016/09/12 04:27:56
I'm just updating my Mark V after a long time (in preparation for some FvF :P), and I find all these new versions crash directly after the console says "3 demos in loop."
(the newer winquake versions worked fine though)
Yeah, I am on an older netbook running WinXP... because that's what I had Quake installed on.
I went back and kept trying older versions to see which is the last one that works (in case this might apply to anyone else), and it is:
But at least I can tell that the MP3-playing bug that I had in my previous old versions of Fitzquake has been fixed (i.e., it wouldn't play MP3 tracks unless it detected a real or virtual CD drive) -- I can hear the music playing now with no problem.
I guess it wouldn't do much good for me to report any bugs I find in this old version of Mark V.... I might at some point move Quake over to my Win7 device.
Baker, you really really need some kind of actual project page with just the downloads and notes about the versions, heh. It's difficult scrolling through all this discussion (though I eventually just went to the index of the files).
Hey Gunter.
#1108 posted by Baker on 2016/09/12 04:51:01
It's difficult scrolling through all this discussion
It's supposed to be difficult to find the right download and keep up with the thread. ;-)
It deters uninterested parties from using the engine. What little development time I may end up having has to be catered towards experienced and knowledgeable beta-testers (like yourself).
The casual player should be using Quakespasm.
NightFright, Pulsar, spy, Fifth and others have provided the feedback I need through extensive testing. It's almost completely polished but there are some things I'd like to improve and features I want to complete.
I just don't have the time to do any more work on it right now --- and sometimes I wonder when or even "if" that time may come.
The current best version is:
But It Looks Good
#1109 posted by Gunter on 2016/09/12 05:46:28
This old version is looking good though....
I'm pleased that you decided to revert to Quake Defaults for most things, with menu options to change them.
Some of the previous minor issues I had seem to have been fixed.
Arrgh, Always So Close....
#1110 posted by Gunter on 2016/09/15 03:26:52
It's always just out of reach, but so close to begin just right.... And Baker never has time to work on it, heh.
I do wish I could use the most recent Mark V, but like I said, everything past mark_v_e just crashes (with one of those Microsoft error reports, if you would like all that mass of information....).
I can use the winquake version of the newest mark v, but of course winquake looks like butt :D (Arrgh, and it's got RCON in it... I so wish the old version that I can use did too!).
It does seem a lot of the old bugs were fixed, but I'm also seeing new issues that didn't exists in my previous old old version, r15.
For example (these issues also exist in the new winquake version):
No particle trail on vore balls. What happened to them?
The FPS display is in the top right... but if you size the screen area down, it does not stay in the top-right -- it just vanishes (or is not being drawn, or is hidden behind the "brown screen border").
Why did the HUD move to the center (single-player style) instead of moving to the left edge (deathmatch/proquake style) like it used to, so you can also display some player names in the extra space....
In the winquake versions only, if I set the screen to an 800 x 600 window (my netbook screen is 1024 x 600) then the HUD gets cut off at the bottom of the screen (pushed down too far, really -- looks like the full-screen console is the same way), by about the same amount of space that the title bar takes up at the top of the screen, maybe.... You might be able to replicate this by setting a window height to the same resolution height of your screen?
Eh, there are other bugs, but it looks like they have been fixed in the newest version (judging by the winquake one).
What are the chances that the GL version will ever be fixed so that it will work on my WinXP Quake netbook again?
... I suppose that's moot, since Baker has no time to work on it anyway, heh....
I tried Quakespasm. Oh my gosh, it runs like ass. I don't know what it is, but some effect it's creating causes the frame rate to be like 10 FPS on my netbook, in the entry area of the Start map, unless I turn and face a wall. Seems like the colored lights or something; it depends on where I'm looking. I promptly deleted it, and will continue to use the old version of Mark V.
Well, it's still better than any other client for me, but it's always just SO CLOSE to just right! D:
#1111 posted by Baker on 2016/09/15 03:42:33
Does the Direct 3D version run?
(Voreball trail is probably a mistake in a last beta build which involved a change regarding model flags, easily fixed. If the DirectX version runs for you, I'll fix bug and post an update.)
I don't normally include the Direct X version because Microsoft --- and only Microsoft out of 53 anti-virus providers --- says it is a trojan or something crazy.
#1112 posted by Gunter on 2016/09/15 18:44:47
Well, Microsoft ended support for WinXP, so I had to uninstall MS Security Essentials, so I definitely won't be getting a security warning! Hey, my netbook still makes a find Quake device! :D
Yep, that DX version works, and looks nice. At first I thought it would not be usable, because I was getting only 10 FPS, but then I switched to full-screen mode and it works fine! I guess DX doesn't like running in a window. I generally prefer to run Quake in a window so I can easily switch around to other things while I'm playing, so I can look at config files and make notes about bugs I find in Fitzquake ;) but I will definitely use this, even if I gotta go full-screen now!
Thanks very much for that!
While you're fixing the voreball particles, here's my quick wishlist for three ProQuake-type features that you might consider adding in (because these should be pretty easy additions), listed in order of assumed simplicity:
Colors 14/15 (just a simple option that gives players more choice)
Proquake style Centerprints -- they appear near the top of the screen (just below the chat area) instead of blocking the view directly in the center of the screen. FvF does use a good amount of centerprints....
Bring back the deathmatch-style HUD... the way it used to be in Fitzquake (and ProQuake), over on the left (with extra player names on the right), instead of centered at the bottom single-player style (with no extra player info), as it is now....
I have another issue that is FvF-related (not really that important, but I will report it). FvF does not allow blank names, and will automatically assign a default name if someone tries to name themselves "". Well, during a game if I go to Multiplayer -> Setup, and try to erase my name to change it to something else, as soon as I erase the final letter of my name, that means my name is "" and FvF instantly assigns me a default name, heh, so I can never fully delete my name in order to change it to something else. I don't think the name should be "set" until the player is done editing everything and "accepts changes." (This didn't happen in old old versions of Fitzquake mark v.)
Anyway, thanks again for the DX version!
Best Quake Client so far, for my needs!
#1113 posted by
on 2016/09/15 19:55:24
I tried Quakespasm. Oh my gosh, it runs like ass.
Only if you're interested,... it would be nice to know why that is the case. If MarkV GL runs well, it's 99% likely just a configuration difference causing the slowdown, since QS may have different defaults(?).
I guess I should add this to an FAQ for QS, the settings to try for a low end laptop: (try each setting in sequence, checking if it increases FPS in start.bsp)
- use fullscreen
- r_oldwater 1
- gl_flashblend 1
- r_dynamic 0
Less likely to help: launch with command-line args:
-bpp 16
Also what is your gfx card / and which driver is reported by "gl_info"?
Sorry for the spam, Baker
#1114 posted by Baker on 2016/09/15 20:32:45
scr_sbarcentered 0
#1115 posted by Baker on 2016/09/15 20:42:02
@ericw --- if someone says GL version low fps or problems and then says the words like Netbook or Windows XP or even hints at "old computer", it's always Open GL drivers.
I just say "DirectX version" and then they say "Works fine. 200 fps. Thanks!" It's 100% problem solver in that department.
#1116 posted by
on 2016/09/15 20:51:53
Agreed, I just thought he mentioned that GL markv was running reasonably while QS was giving super low fps.
#1117 posted by Spike on 2016/09/15 20:55:32
yeah, or they could scrape the internet looking for the right opengl drivers, find lots of 404s, and the resign themselves to buying something that is actually still supported!... stupid laptop manufacturers that refuse to allow the chipset manufacturers to provide generic drivers...
or yeah, they can use d3d.
FTE has a d3d renderer too... :)
#1118 posted by Baker on 2016/09/15 21:09:00
Would you be willing to try Ericw's list of settings in Quakespasm to see if it works --- I bet the -bpp 16 may make a bit difference.
And then do a review of Quakespasm from the perspective of someone who runs a standard ProQuake Quake server (GLQuake compatible, Quake protocol) and plays online?
#1119 posted by
on 2016/09/15 21:53:17
Another cvar to try: r_flatlightstyles 1 -- it removes styled lights without sacrificing dlights the way r_dynamic/gl_flashblend would.
#1120 posted by Gunter on 2016/09/15 22:05:29
Ah, thanks, Baker. scr_sbarcentered 0 is just what I wanted.
ericw, r_oldwater was the culprit. As soon as I turned that off, the FPS smoothed out DRAMATICALLY (running in an 800x600 window, it went from 6 FPS to just over 60, standing in the Start map, looking at the 3 teleporters and lava -- all water surfaces). Oddly, running full screen seems to give me about a 10 FPS decrease....
And gl_info returns:
intel 945GM
1.4.0 - Build 22.214.171.12426
Choppy Fog
#1121 posted by Gunter on 2016/09/15 22:12:10
Oh, and this probably can't be helped (I skimmed over mh's post about fog, above), but the fog in DX Mark V is rather unsmooth compared to the OpenGL Mark V.
It's hard to get a good still image of the effect, but you can tell the lower image is much more "line-y" even in areas that aren't so dark on the wall. It's really noticeable when walking around, because you see the fog lines moving across the walls.... The OpenGL version had a much more subtle effect, and seemed smoother and much less noticeable on most surfaces.
I guess this is just a result of DX not doing fog as well or something? Probably not a setting to smooth that out.... Too bad; I like a little fog. Give a nice sense of depth.
#1122 posted by Baker on 2016/09/15 22:37:37
Are you interested in doing a review of Quakespasm from your perspective?
Most of the feedback Quakespasm receives is from single-player only types.
Diversity of feedback is what makes an engine better and helps developers have a broader point of view.
(re: fog --- Yeah, I have no control over Direct3D differences in fog rendering. Probably midday tomorrow, I'll try to rebuild fixing missing voreball trail. I probably stripped the flag.)
#1123 posted by
on 2016/09/15 22:47:46
that fog banding is interesting, because both shots have the same number of bands, but somehow on the lower shot it's more noticable.
If you look at the darkest parts of the image, like the wood pillar on the left side, it's clear that the lighting ramp is different -- top shot appears more blown out (slightly) -- i wonder if that's why the banding is more noticable in the bottom image, because the lighting is darker so the fog grey color has more higher contrast to the black walls.
Anyway both shots look bad, and this is a good example of why fog is difficult to make look good. You need to avoid solid colored patches of the scene, (such as a pitch black wall) since only the noise of textures and lighting can hide the banding that will always occur.
#1124 posted by
on 2016/09/15 23:12:07
ericw, r_oldwater was the culprit. As soon as I turned that off, the FPS smoothed out DRAMATICALLY (running in an 800x600 window, it went from 6 FPS to just over 60, standing in the Start map, looking at the 3 teleporters and lava -- all water surfaces).
Thanks! Glad that worked.
#1125 posted by mh on 2016/09/15 23:25:28
I guess this is just a result of DX not doing fog as well or something?
GL or DX don't actually "do fog" at all - your GPU does. All that GL or DX do is provide your program with a means of saying "draw this polygon with fog", but your GPU does all the actual drawing.
With everything else being equal, there should be no difference whatsoever between images produced by one API versus images produced by the other, because it's the same GPU that's doing the drawing; all that the API does is send commands to the GPU.
On the other hand, DX does provide a handful of extra fog quality/performance options whereas GL hides them all behind a single glHint (GL_FASTEST/GL_NICEST), and allows the actual result to be implementation-dependent.
One possibility is that one of those extra options, if configured, would resolve it.
Another possibility is that the projection matrix isn't configured correctly in the DX version, causing loss of some depth precision, causing the extra banding.
#1126 posted by Gunter on 2016/09/16 05:03:38
Baker, I'm afraid I just find Quakespasm off-putting for various reasons, but I will try to give it a test drive, since you asked....
So, it seems that now DX Mark V is running fine in a window... I'm not sure what changed (I often delete config files when testing), but most likely it was just me rebooting my netbook after testing no-telling-what last night.... In any case, the DX version is now running just as smoothly as the older OpenGL one, even in a window.
But here come some bug reports! heh
Your default lava color is incorrect!!!!!
Haha, yeah, this is a minor niggle, but your r_lavacolor is "255 80 50 150" and the Quake default should be "255 80 0 150" (search for "lava" here to see
It does alter the color a bit... Of course, the lava intensity needs to be dropped to about 100 for my tastes; in standard Quake, if you were in lava you were dead, so it didn't matter that it was blinding in there. But in Runequake and FvF, there are ways to be in lava and not be dead, so you need to be able to see a little bit... 100 looks good to me (it's still lava, after all!). Normally I'm for keeping the defaults, but in this case, it would benefit from a slight change. Though I'm afraid I don't like the "light" blends in Mark V though -- way too transparent. But as long as it defaults to the defaults, that's fine. And Mark V provides the ability to change them to tastes, so that's fine too.
All other blends look good to me at Quake default, though for some reason the Ring blend looks a bit heavy. Maybe I'm just used to all the Quake clients that made it too light, but is there a variable to adjust the Ring blend? Hm, it does look like the cshift_powerup stuff for invisibility is the highest % on that page I just linked. I guess it's supposed to be that way.
Speaking of invisibility... I really liked that "always draw weapon when invisible" option in the old OpenGL version of Mark V that I was using... It made my weapon transparent. I like little tweaks like that which enhance things without really drastically changing the default Quake feel.
However, in the new DX version, the weapon just stays completely solid, and in the Winquake version, the weapon is completely invisible again... (of course I can't test the newest OpenGL version...). I wouldn't expect the Winquake version to do good transparency, but it seems the option, in that case, should leave the weapon completely solid. Which I actually don't like (laugh)!
#1127 posted by Gunter on 2016/09/16 05:40:28
Ok, so, I find this interesting too, though I am clueless as to the internal stuff.
I cranked the gamma and contrast up to max (for the sliders) and made some more screenshots.
OpenGL (older version of Mark V) is on top, and the newest Mark V DX version is on bottom....
You can see the ugly square of fog over the close wall in the bottom image.... Though it turns out, in the top (OpenGL) image, the fog is actually extending farther toward the "me" in the image -- that's why the left edge of the first image looks lighter. The OpenGL fog still somehow looks better/smoother (even in this forced setup). I'm not changing any other settings -- just switching which client I run.
Here the same angle with fog off, and they are pretty much identical:
You can only tell them apart because of the odd lighter shadow under the grenade launcher in the OpenGL one -- I don't notice that in game, but the screenshot seems to capture it, same as the first image I posted upthread. Uhh... for some reason, imgur may resize the view so the odd lighter shadow is not visible o_O But trust me, it's there in the original image, heh.
Ok, now the most interesting image.... I changed my position to emphasize the fog distance difference:
Now look at that!
The fog does get closer to "me" in OpenGL, but also the bands on the wall are not all straight and parallel, which actually helps them not seem so ugly/uniform/bandy/unnatural.... And especially in the lit areas of the wall, the GL fog looks much better than the DX. This is what is pretty noticeable in play, under more typical lighting conditions.
There's also some difference in the interaction of the fog and the teleport texture.
#1128 posted by mh on 2016/09/16 17:06:10
Image 3 settles it - there's a different fog range calculation being used depending on the API.
That's going to require a code change and a whole bunch of testing to fix up though.
#1129 posted by Gunter on 2016/09/16 17:30:13
While testing Quakespasm, I looked at the fog (looks good - identical to the OpenGL images above), and I noticed what is causing the difference.
The fog is BEHAVING differently... and this would be hard to capture in a non-animated image, and it may be difficult to describe. But you should be able to replicate this yourself if you wanna see it in action. Just ramp up your brightness and contrast in Quake, and go to the entry room for E4M8 and look at the black wall opposite the portal while walking forward very slowly, or even looking left and right a bit. Oh, I also use a very light fog setting 0.03
The GL fog is JUMPING along the wall, in small sections at a time. That's why the bands in the GL screenshot are not perfectly straight lines -- one section of the line will jump forward, then another section. This actually makes it less noticeable on the walls when you are moving around, because you don't see any "movement" -- a line doesn't move across the wall, it just suddenly is there or isn't there, and that's really hard to notice when you're moving around, especially with the lines being not perfectly straight due to them jumping unevenly.
The DX fog is MOVING very smoothly along the wall, in perfectly straight lines. It looks bad because you easily see the movement of straight lines smoothly scrolling across the walls....
Animated Fog
#1130 posted by Gunter on 2016/09/16 18:08:05
Ok... animated images... Keep in mind the colors will be extra ugly for being compressed to a GIF.
Just barely creeping forward you can see how the GL fog jumps in small sections, instantly. There are no missing frames in the fog's positions:
In DX, moving forward a big faster, the fog evenly scrolls across the wall. There are lots of missing frames of fog position in the animation.... I'd describe it as similar to interpolated movement, if that makes sense, because it moves very smoothly across the wall.
Is there any point to doing/discussing this?
Who knows!
I just do the testing. It's up to other people to do anything about it ;)
#1131 posted by Baker on 2016/09/16 19:23:49
Windows Build
Vore trail fixed, "submersion in lava" color slight typo fixed.
/Took a quick look at the DX transparent model with invisibility ring. Oddly discovered it doesn't look like FitzQuake 0.85 ever had a pathway to use model transparency if the driver doesn't support combine (the Direct3D wrapper does not support combine) --- so may not even be possible (didn't expect that). The non-combine rendering pathway does a series of operations that already use blending but it isn't alpha blending -- so that's probably one reason FitzQuake uses combine in the first place. A bit annoying.
I don't have time to do anything of substance on the engine, but the above 2 things were 2 minute fixes.
But in the future when the day comes that I have that time, I always read all the notes.
#1132 posted by
on 2016/09/16 20:32:05
That's interesting, i don't remember whether i added that support or not (but i would have assumed i did.) There is this comment in the readme:
- fullbrights now use additive blending instead of alpha blending. This allows me to support external glowmaps, and entity transparency with fullbrights/glowmaps. In some cases, additive fullbrights are rendered using multitexture, but only if GL_EXT_texture_env_add is available. The command line option -nocombine will disable the use of GL_EXT_texture_env_add.
This implies that without combine, models with fullbright masks are rendered in two passes. It doesn't say that they are rendered correctly with alpha though... hmm.
#1133 posted by Baker on 2016/09/16 20:56:38
It is probably a virtually non-existent situation.
I've not seen an instance of someone using
.alpha on an alias model in a single player release. And there probably aren't any Open GL drivers that don't support combine.
It's just that the Direct3D wrapper doesn't have combine ability written in the code and that Mark V offers a "gun with transparency" option when invisible, instead of Quake not drawing the gun at all.
/But the brush models don't suffer this problem in the Direct 3D + no combine scenario (I tested against back2forwards which uses
.alpha for glass). So at some future date when I have time to chart out the rendering, I should be able to rewire something --- assuming I would do that instead of maybe taking a shot at adding combine to the Direct3D wrapper.
#1134 posted by Baker on 2016/09/16 20:58:25
(Actually, thinking about that --- Nehahra does
.alpha on wraiths and Mark V runs Nehahra.)
#1135 posted by
on 2016/09/16 21:14:33
the sparks in rubicon2 fade out using alpha (they are models)
#1136 posted by Baker on 2016/09/16 21:18:56
Hehehe, never noticed that. I only noticed the laser barrier bars and such used
#1137 posted by
on 2016/09/16 22:07:31
Torch flames in sock's maps usually (always?) have alpha as well. Any maps using Preach's smoke model.
Animated Fog
#1138 posted by mh on 2016/09/17 11:38:49
I did proper animated fog once. It used world position and a function of time to do a lookup in a 3D noise texture which was then used to adjust the opacity. It looked beautiful but the performance hit was just on the wrong side of what I considered acceptable.
Totally irrelevant to the ongoing fog discussion, of course, but it was fun.
Low-Lying Fog
#1139 posted by
on 2016/09/17 15:28:54
While we're mentioning fog, faint transparent water with a more subtle texture could make for neat looking fog, especially if combined with mankrip's shore fading.
#1140 posted by
on 2016/09/17 15:53:55
Contract Revoked used this trick, IIRC.
Contract Revoked
#1141 posted by
on 2016/09/17 15:55:54
Didn't have fog.
#1142 posted by
on 2016/09/17 16:46:04
dwere was probably talking about
. I didn't adjust the translucency and soft depth levels to match Qmaster's suggestion, though.
Quakespasm, Pt. 1
#1143 posted by Gunter on 2016/09/17 19:50:45
Ok, you asked for it Baker, so here is my review of Quakespasm. Much of this will be personal preference, and other stuff will be comparisons to Mark V.
I mentioned that Quakespasm is off-putting to me. This starts with the website (I talked about that long ago, way upthread). I do note the addition of a clear "readme" link on the site, and that's a definite improvement, because when I go to try and download something like this, I want specific information rather than the vague artsy presentation which just gets in the way....
The second off-putting thing to me was all the files Quakespasm wants to drop into my Quake directory.... My goodness, that's a lot of files. 12 DLLs, a PAK file, 3 TXT files and an HTML... along with the 2 EXEs. What a lot of clutter.
The third major hurdle was that r_oldwater defaulting to 0, which caused my frame rate to be like 5-10 on the Start map.
Finally, there's the difficulty in finding what settings are available, such as all the various console variables, like the one above -- there's no good documentation. I would have never known to try that to fix my issue.
So yeah, with all those issues, I was like, "Forget this..." and I'd move on to something else.
But I will say, once past all that, Quakespasm is a really nice engine. It may even run a bit smoother in places as compared to Mark V. Well, I am stuck with the DX version of Mark V now, since the newer GL ones just crash for me... so... that may make a difference. The fog certainly looks better in Quakespasm as compared to DX Mark V (but that's also true of GL Mark V vs DX).
My first point of feedback would be that the r_oldwater setting should really default to 1... since it seems to be such a power-hungry effect to have active (in my case any way). I tried enabling it in Mark V, and got the same result -- baaaaaad FPS. But Mark V has r_oldwater 1 by default.
In the menu, I really like the "Scale" slider. Very nice. I had to set up keys in Mark V to achieve the same effect by altering 3 different console variables. The nice slider seems to adjust everything at once (that's definitely something Mark V should add).
The "instant Quit" upon selecting Quit from the menu. Hm, not sure how I feel abut that. I don't love it but I don't hate it. The new Console background is the same type of thing -- not sure if I like it or not, but FvF has its own console replacement anyway, which still looks close to the original Quake one, so it doesn't matter much.
Hey, the "Always Run" menu option is a definite improvement in the way it functions. In most Quake clients (like Mark V), having "Always Run" on seems to place more emphasis on your forward movement, causing the side-stepping movement to be way too slow (when you gotta side-step to get out of the way of a rocket, you want to sidestep FAST!). The way Quakespasm implemented it seems to instead function just like a run key (+speed), which places emphasis on your side-stepping speed while only slowing your forward speed down a little (there's still an overall speed limit you can't pass when moving "diagonally"). Even better, when "Always Run" is enabled, your usual +speed key acts to slow you back to normal walking speed. That's a nice touch (Baker, Mark V needs all of this! :D ).
Uh, where's the clock ? The usual clock in DM mode is MIA. Is there a console variable to enable it? But watch out that it doesn't overlay the "player squares" that appear where the clock would normally be -- just limit the number of those "squares" that appear there.
Also, there are no pings by the scoreboard when you press tab while playing online. That's a pretty common feature, and pretty much expected these days.
Speaking of the scoreboard (and all other things that are printed in the center of the screen, like centerprints and "loading" images), the ProQuake method of positioning all these things near the top of the screen is the best way to go. Then they don't block your view in the middle of the screen. Every modern Quake client should be imitating Proquake in this respect. EVERY MODERN QUAKE CLIENT, Baker :D
(continued below, because maximum character count is only 5000, haha)
Quakespasm Pt. 2
#1144 posted by Gunter on 2016/09/17 19:51:34
Wow, MP3s load fast! I guess some of those DLLs are doing their job. The MP3s seem to load with no delay at all. My gosh, Mark V takes like 10 seconds to load an MP3 track (all the while your game is frozen). Can we get this in Mark V? Like, seriously. I won't even complain if it will require some extra DLLs!
Though it seems the menu option to enable/disable external sounds does not take effect until level change (Mark V enables/disables the music right away. Well, after the loading delay, that is).
Speaking of those DLLs, I don't suppose they would go into the PAK file to make them more tidy? Probably not, eh? Well, the next best option would be to move all the Quakespasm-related files (DLLs and PAK) into a Quakespasm folder within the Quake folder (this is like how Qrack does it).... Quakespasm would still know where to find them, and they would be out of the way. I think this would be a significant improvement.
Is there a way to toggle high-quality textures on and off? Mark V has external_textures to toggle.... I like to be able to turn them on and off in game, to make comparisons and to test loading time. There doesn't seem to be a way to turn them off at all in Quakespasm?
And... how do I get high-quality monster textures to work? I tried them in Qrack format (png), I tried them in Mark V format (tga), I tried them in various locations (progs folder or textures folder), but they don't show up. Documentation, please!
I do note that the high-quality wall textures load correctly in my modified dm6 (it's got some small extra areas added to the standard DM6 map). For some reason, Mark V does not load the custom textures in it, and reverts back to the standard textures for the map.
Speaking of my modified DM6 and Mark V (and this is really a Mark V bug report, but I'm on a roll), for some weird reason, when I run FvF and go to start a new Single Player game, I am dropped into my DM6 at a DM spawn point (I did add SP spawn points to the map) instead of the Start map! What's up with that? No other engine does that (including Quakespasm or older Fitzquake Mark V or Proquake....). Some weird interaction of Mark V and FvF, or the modified DM6? It's not really important, because FvF doesn't actually have a single player mode... It's just weird.
gl_overbright_models does not look good for me. Makes the Quake solder way too washed out when he's standing in a bright area, especially if he's wearing white. Same in Mark V. I just disable it.
I like that r_wateralpha controls all the liquids by default. In recent Mark V, it seems each setting must be made separately (like r_lavaalpha). This appears to be a result of Quakespasm using defaults of 0 for like r_lavaalpha, and also allowing the r_wateralpha to affect all liquids. That's a much better way of handling it, which still allows fine-tuning of separate liquids if desired. Mark V could benefit from this.
Hey, the "under lava" blend looks perfect, right out of the box in Quakespasm. Has the intensity of it been changed? Quakespasm doesn't seem to have the ability to alter it manually.... Good thing it looks perfect as-is! But I'm curious as to why it does, when it looks so blinding in Mark V at the default Quake values.
Models with missing skins come up as white in Quakespasm. This is old GLquake behavior, but it should really be handled like Winquake does, by using the default texture. For example, if a monster or projectile has multiple skins for a mod (FvF does this a lot), but the client does not have those skins installed -- so the like mod is assigning skin_1 or skin_2 to a model, but if the client doesn't have them he should just see the default skin_0 for that model. Mark V does show the default skin in these cases.
Hm, scr_showfps doesn't stay set for the next time you start Quakespasm.... That seems to be standard behavior for Quake clients, but this seems like one of the settings that should be stuck in the cfg file and saved.
Quakespasm Pt. 3
#1145 posted by Gunter on 2016/09/17 19:52:24
Keeping in mind I'm running on a netbook with a resolution of 1280x600,
If I set Quakespasm to a 800x600 window, the actual space inside the window (game area) is 600 tall, but the title bar and border extend farther.
In Mark V (and Proquake, etc), the entire window (including title bar and border), is 600 tall.
This means that in Quakespam, there would be a tiny portion of the screen cut off at the bottom of my actual screen, because I can't move the top of the window all the way off the top of the screen.
I'm not really saying one way is more correct (though the standard, I think, is that the 800x600 defines the dimensions of the entire window, including borders).
So I end up setting my window to a weird size so it all fits my screen, 750x550 (I've used this with Mark V and Proquake sometimes too), but when I do that, Quakespasm's color depth is locked at 16 bpp and can't be changed in the menu.
If I go back to an 800x600 window, the color depth is again changeable in Quakespasm's settings, though I really can't tell any difference at all in the graphics when I change it (in full-screen or window). My desktop is set at 32 bit color. I don't have any real issues with any of this -- I'm just reporting my findings, heh.
I do have a slight issue that the Contrast slider does not do anything for me (no matter the BPP or full-screen/window settings)... so the Brightness slider is my only option for adjusting things, and that tends to make colors less vibrant. Mark V's Contrast slider works fine for me.
The weapon model is too low. I guess that's the Fitzquake default.... Mark V allows (and defaults to) the Proquake way of showing the weapon, which makes it less hidden at the bottom. Well, normally Quakespasm hides the weapon behind the transparent HUD anyway, but I like to set my HUD to opaque. And I like to see more of my gun.
While on that topic, the Mark V "transparent weapon when invisible" is a nice option Quakespasm could use.
Demos don't load at all upon startup? Is there an option for that?
The r_noshadow_list has same problems as Fitzquake: There is no bolt1.mdl in Quake. That should be bolt.mdl. Baker did add bolt.mdl to Mark V, but he forgot to remove the bolt1.mdl. Also, k_spike.mdl (the Death Knight fireball attack) and lavaball.mdl really should be added to the list, as they are glowing things that should not be casting shadows.
Hm, I miss the stain maps from Mark V....
And I would suggest adding Proquake's RCON function to Quakespasm (as Baker did for Mark V -- thanks!!). It is extremely useful to be able to admin a Proquake server while I'm connected and playing. This is a pretty big criteria for me when selecting a Quake client, though it may not matter at all for most people.
And of course I always suggest adding support for Colors 14/15. Heh, They are in Quake... it's just that the client doesn't allow them to be selected. I think it's an easy thing to modify (later versions of ProQuake have it).
I guess in the end Quakespasm and Mark V are pretty close, with each having pros and cons compared to the other....
#1146 posted by
on 2016/09/17 20:44:57
In most Quake clients (like Mark V), having "Always Run" on seems to place more emphasis on your forward movement, causing the side-stepping movement to be way too slow (when you gotta side-step to get out of the way of a rocket, you want to sidestep FAST!).
Apparently, your mod uses a slow default for cl_sidespeed.
The actual Quake default was always somewhere around the max speed, making strafing very fast regardless of autorun. I don't know why they set it up like this, but my guess is it was an attempt to assist keyboard-only players in dodging.
The result is that the autorun toggler in the menu most likely just ignores cl_sidespeed and only affects cl_forwardspeed and cl_backspeed.
#1147 posted by Baker on 2016/09/17 20:50:59
re: mp3 loading speed slower in Mark V
Quakespasm uses a software library for media playback, Mark V uses Windows hardware accelerated playback. On the computers I have tried Mark V on (probably around 20), it typically loads instantly. I think it stop/pause/restart instantly, but Quakespasm can't.
The software library Quakespasm uses is more reliable because it isn't subject to Windows settings or Windows
.dlls, but uses more CPU.
/Mark V is a "pure client", it doesn't use 3rd libraries (that's why doesn't need
.dlls). Quakespasm uses SDL2. Spike statically linked Quakespasm-Spike, so it doesn't need dlls and the library instructions are rolled into the
Quakespasm contrast not working
Quakespasm contrast not working is probably the result of one the command line options required to make Quakespasm run on your netbook. Try removing one of those command line options and see if it runs.
Quakespasm it uses a shader for brightness/contrast, it only affects the Quake window --- not the entire desktop.
Mark V by default uses the Windows API, but it affects the fullscreen so in windowed mode the rest of the desktop screen is affected by your brightness settings --- but it has no effect on frames per second or cpu usage (it's free).
r_lavaalpha etc
Hehe, ericw/Quakespasm did a push to get different transparent level for different liquids. Hence the feature in Mark V.
Quake defaults
AFAIK, Mark V uses 100% Quake defaults and 100% Quake behaviors with minor exceptions (mouse look defaults on).
I don't like all the defaults, I think ring of shadows hue is too dark.
You might not like how standard Quake "always run" is less than perfect, but I'm seeking to exactly mirror GLQuake/WinQuake/FitzQuake in behavior.
External textures
You must use the DarkPlaces texture naming convention. They must be in
.tga format.
Mark V recognizes
(1) one format --- it's TGA
(2) one folder for things to go -- the DarkPlaces location
(3) one naming format -- the DarkPlaces one
DarkPlaces Examples:
progs/armor.mdl_0.tga // green skin
progs/armor.mdl_1.tga // yellow skin
progs/armor.mdl_2.tga // red skin
I don't care about the Qrack place/name --- DarkPlaces is the engine that people make skins for. Everyone should use the DarkPlaces name/format *and* only the DarkPlaces name/format. The naming convention Qrack uses for skins comes from the FuhQuake Quakeworld client, which provides no naming convention for sprites. The Qrack naming conventon is flawed.
Context On The External Textures
#1148 posted by Baker on 2016/09/17 21:08:03
The FuhQuake texture naming convention not only has a bad naming convention, it stuff like specific folder names for different models. Qrack uses the same, as does ezQuake.
It's insane.
Poor FTE (Spike's engine obv) obviously caters to people familiar with ezQuake and he has check for textures in like 16 different places in some cases. It's slowish and can add to load time (think of a map with 160 textures) and then multiply by supported graphics formats and then how a file can be in a pak or not.
So the rogue FuhQuake/ezQuake/Qrack naming convention is not only slow -- and not only confusing to users --- but the code looks like spaghetti.
The other problem is if you are a user, how are you going to find the texture if it could be in so many different places.
It's crazy
/Mini-rant, but DarkPlaces naming convention injects 2 forms of minimalistic sanity!
Side Stepping
#1149 posted by Gunter on 2016/09/17 21:27:43
No, there's definitely some different behavior when using +speed vs using "Always Run" in default Quake. Try it in most any Quake client, such as Proquake or Mark V.
Default cl_forwardspeed is 200
cl_sidespeed is 350
Setting "Always Run" just sets the cl_forwardspeed to 400, leaving cl_sidespeed at 350
But using this setting, try going to the Easy hall on the Start map. Back up into the corner of the wall and the step (so the health box is behind you), and press Forward + Right. You will barely make it to the "corner" of the wall and the metallic column thing at the end of the hall, before you hit the right wall.
Now disable Always Run and either set +speed in the console, or assign a Run button like Shift, and hold that down.
Repeat the exercise above.... You will easily make it to the right wall in half the time, and if you quickly reverse direction to the Left, you will even hit the left wall before leaving the hall area.
I believe I understand why this happens now!
When you use +speed, all your speeds are doubled, so the values are effectively changed to:
cl_forwardspeed 400
cl_sidespeed 700
Now, 700 is obviously faster than the speed limit, so you expect it to be stopped at 400 by the server, and that's true.
However, that 700 number places EMPHASIS or priority on your side speed over the forward speed -- maybe the server calculates where you WOULD be if you were moving by those values, but only allows you to move a max of 400 toward that point.
Now, if you use "Always Run" that only sets your cl_forwardspeed to 400, leaving cl_sidspeed at 350... which would produce a completely different calculation for where you WOULD be if you could moved at those values.... Further, if you then press the +speed button, it will not affect where you end up because both the numbers would be doubled, to 800 and 700, which would be the same comparative amount of movement in each direction.
However, if you go in and manually set cl_sidespeed to 700, then you're back to moving just like +speed, with fast side movement, even with "Always Run" enabled.
So in short, "Always Run" de-emphasizes your sidestepping speed by not doubling, while +speed increases your sidestepping speed by the same proportion as your forward speed, allowing your sidestepping to remain nice and fast.
The fix: Make "Always Run" also set cl_sidespeed to 700 along with setting cl_forwardspeed (and cl_backspeed) to 400.
Then the movement ratio stays the same.
#1150 posted by Spike on 2016/09/17 21:34:56
Spike statically linked Quakespasm-Spike
No, I didn't. I just didn't include any dlls - the target audience will have them already.
I meant for it to be a patch rather than a fork, so I didn't see the point in making the zip huge.
FTE's texture loading code looks like spagetti because its designed to act like it, and by that I mean it supports both threads and filesystem caching.
This makes it _much_ faster to load stuff than DP.
And that's despite it trying about 125 different paths (ignoring the multiple extra gamedirs) for each individual texure last time I checked (that count doesn't include lumas/gloss/normals/bumps).
But yes, DP is consistent yet strict. Its a good choice as the favoured path to try first - unless of course the texturs in that path were completely flat with the expectation of bumpmaps providing all the depth, in which case they'll look terrible without rtlights.
So yeah, hurrah for fuhquake's naming convention!
#1151 posted by Gunter on 2016/09/17 21:35:15
The above reply was to dwere ^
In regard to what Baker said about it, I don't have a problem with sticking to Quake's default behavior for "Always Run," however in that case you should stick to Quake's default behavior and leave "Always Run" DISABLED by default. Of course, I dislike it and won't use it (for the reasons mentioned above), and can set up my config in an alternate way, but with it defaulted to ON, when I'm setting up new configs, it requires toggling the menu option to disable it -- there's no console command to disable it, right?
#1152 posted by Baker on 2016/09/17 22:10:01
Gunter, I agree intellectually with what you say.
But I do things from the perspective of the standard existing behavior so the users gets what they expect and have always known.
(1) Power users like you know how to edit your config.
(2) Some users who just want to play they game and it be like what they've always known.
They aren't necessarily power users and if you change things on them, they get confused.
@spike -- Interesting stuff. I thought you statically linked it like what imagine do with FTE. I know SDL2 can be statically linked in MinGW.
#1153 posted by
on 2016/09/17 22:27:39
Of course, I dislike it and won't use it (for the reasons mentioned above), and can set up my config in an alternate way, but with it defaulted to ON, when I'm setting up new configs, it requires toggling the menu option to disable it -- there's no console command to disable it, right?
There's no single console command, but a bunch of variables. You can set them however you want, and safely ignore what's written in the menu. The engine wasn't taught to detect your custom settings, so it just assumes one of the two conditions (autorun on/off) based on some of these variables (most likely just one of them).
The variables are:
cl_upspeed (swimming/flying up and down)
cl_movespeedkey (multiplies the above speeds when +speed)
"Always Run"
#1154 posted by Gunter on 2016/09/17 22:32:33
Hm, considering it more, I really think this is an error or oversight in the original Quake code that has gone unfixed for a long time (actually, Quakespasm has fixed it!), and it really should be fixed in modern clients.
An illustration:
Default diagonal walking speed has you to move 2 steps forward and 3.5 steps to the side (200 and 350 are the actual settings).
So imagine a line starting at the lower . and ending at the top right .
Just go ahead and draw a line on your monitor with a marker to connect the dots :D
That shows your line of motion -- the direction you will be traveling.
If you "run" using a Run key (+speed), those steps are both doubled, so you will be trying to take 4 steps forward and 7 steps to the side.
Imagine your line of moment now starting at the lower . and ending at the 7
You can see it is the same line of movement -- it just travels twice as far. Of course, you won't make it that whole distance, because there is an absolute speed limit, but you will still be traveling along the exact same line in the same direction as before until you hit the speed limit.
Now with "Always Run" ONLY modifying your forward speed, you will be taking 4 steps forward and 3.5 steps to the side, which greatly alters your line of travel. Now you are traveling from the lower . to the upper . again
Completely different line of movement, and your sidestep speed suffers greatly.
The total distance you end up moving will be the same (the absolute speed limit) but your position will be different because you are moving along a different line in each case....
I believe the first line of movement is the correct intention for Quake, since it applies to the default walking or running methods.
I think with the "Always Run" menu option, they simply overlooked that it was supposed to also apply to the sidestep speed, which IS supposed to be doubled along with the other speeds when running.
#1155 posted by Baker on 2016/09/17 22:49:27
A menu
is to satisfy the
basic needs
of the average user.
A config
is to satisfy specialized needs, preferences or interests.
#1156 posted by Gunter on 2016/09/17 22:50:50
Getting back to other bug reports, Joystick support seems to be broken in the latest Mark V, though it seems to work fine in my older version mark_v_e.
It says Joystick detected, and joystick 1 is set in the console, but no input is detected.
#1157 posted by Baker on 2016/09/17 23:21:17
Quakespasm has game controller support, you might check that out.
In the future when the day comes that I can work on the engine more, I expect to try to get the joystick control working perfectly. PFL earlier in the thread posted joystick settings that he used. (My response was I'm glad it worked, since I don't have a joystick at the present time).
#1158 posted by Gunter on 2016/09/17 23:27:19
"Quakespasm contrast not working is probably the result of one the command line options required to make Quakespasm run on your netbook. Try removing one of those command line options and see if it runs. "
I'm not using any command line switches (other than setting resolution). I can run Quakespasm just by itself and still no Contrast adjustment (same with the Quakespasm-sdl2.exe). I tried adding the -fitz switch, and that didn't help either (although then the demos play, when they normally don't in Quakespasm).
"I think ring of shadows hue is too dark. "
Yes, I agree. How about a console variable to adjust that?
I cannot get monster skins to work in Quakespasm.... They work fine in Mark V, and all other textures work in Quakespasm, such as walls, items, and weapons. Just not the monsters, no matter where I put the textures, like:
And I even tried the Qrack format ogre_0.png in various locations, just to be sure.
But the ogre stays ugly. Well, I mean... low-resolution ugly as opposed to high-resolution ugly. *shrug* I don't care enough to keep trying to make it work in Quakespasm.
#1159 posted by
on 2016/09/17 23:31:32
And... how do I get high-quality monster textures to work? I tried them in Qrack format (png), I tried them in Mark V format (tga), I tried them in various locations (progs folder or textures folder), but they don't show up. Documentation, please!
Some of legacy GLQuake code in Quakespasm interferes with modern operating systems, preventing users from applying external skins to MDL files. To fix this, you need to go into your C:/Windows directory and delete system32.
#1160 posted by Baker on 2016/09/18 00:42:22
Quakespasm doesn't have external texture support for models. Just maps.
In preferences there is an option to lighten the view blends, the ring of shadows falls in that category. Otherwise you have to play with gl_polyblend or r_polyblend or whatever the name is.
#1161 posted by
on 2016/09/18 00:45:05
The reason the contrast slider wasn't working is it requres GL2.0+, which the intel 945 doesn't support.
Thanks for all the feedback!
#1162 posted by
on 2016/09/18 00:47:15
I didn't adjust the translucency and soft depth levels to match Qmaster's suggestion, though.
It should look even better with translucency, because it's multi-layered.
#1163 posted by Gunter on 2016/09/18 07:40:33
Ah, gl_polyblend is something I can mess with, though I really would like to be able to adjust only the ring blend, and not ALL the blends, because I think the others are ok. If I turn the ringblend down to where I think it looks good, then all the other blends look way too light. I guess I will settle for just toning it down a hair to 0.9, which doesn't lighten anything else too much....
I've also noticed that Mark V allows standard chat behavior during the "level end" scoreboard (i.e., you can still see the chat lines on the screen, and additionally if you are typing as the level transitions, it stays on screen too). Nice touch. This is an old old Quake bug that I hadn't seen anyone else deal with. And we do like to continue chatting in FvF while we dance at the end of a level ;)
On the bad side, I seem to be experiencing a few crashes on level transition both online and offline.... That's gonna be hard to debug on my end unless Mark V can generate error logs. But it seems like it possibly happens more often on certain maps. I'll keep notes on this....
Also, sometimes, when lots of stuff is flying around (especially lightning), I get "warning: 150 tempentities exceeds standard limit of 64." I don't think there's a need for users to see that warning, is there? It's fine as a debug message, but not something the end user needs to see.
And the shadows in DX Mark V are... uh... well, they look like ProQuake shadows where it's like you can see the folds inside the model casting varying intensity shadows -- the shadows don't look solid. In the older GL versions of Mark V, the shadows were a uniform color/transparency.
And just an interesting thing to note: I found out what was causing DX Mark V to run really badly in a window when I first tried it (but fine in fullscreen). I have a little program running that sits in the corner of my screen and shows the network traffic. It's called BitMeter 2. When that is on my screen and DX Mark V is running in a window, my FPS goet to like 6. As soon as I hide the little BitMeter display, my FPS smoooths out dramatically.... It doesn't effect the GL Quake clients I've used, though I have had videos get unsmooth when I try to watch them full screen if I had BitMeter displaying as well.... *shrug*
#1164 posted by
on 2016/09/18 08:44:29
baker: i finally got a chance to look at the fitzquake 085 code, it appears that without texture_env_combine, you still can get alpha blending but what you lose is overbright lighting.
#1165 posted by
on 2016/09/18 20:53:55
Retroquad doesn't support overdraw between surfaces with the same kind of liquid in the same entity, because in most cases that would be just a waste of framerate. In maps with molten mapping enabled and compiled with lit liquids, that would be a framerate killer.
But I agree that multiple layers of translucent surfaces may give a better fog impression. The lava in some AD maps (playing with QuakeSpasm, as my engine can't run it) looks more like plasma to me due to this.
(Sorry for the off-topic, Baker.)
#1166 posted by Baker on 2016/09/18 21:26:12
@gunter: By the way, in Mark V...
* You can paste text into what you type in a "say" message (messagemode2).
* You can paste text anywhere text input is accepted. In fact, if you hold down shift and select text in the console, you can press CTRL-C and copy text.
* You can also type "copy" in the console and copy the contents of the console to the clipboard.
DX wrapper doesn't have stencil, so can't do stencil shadows. Those smooth shadows are stencil shadows. But even those shadows don't clip. DarkPlaces is the only engine that renders player shadows properly on multiple surfaces that clip.
Warnings. Standard FitzQuake 0.85 printing warnings. But I've seen it confuse more than 1 person. Quakespasm made those only print with developer 1.
Its to help mappers know they are making a map that isn't standard Quake compatible (it won't be playable in Quakeworld like ezQuake, nor playable in GLQuake, etc.)
The DOPA release by Machine Games a couple of months ago is an example of a episode that is actually all-Quake compatible.
@metlslime: Didn't have enough time to check the
.bsp code to see what alpha brushes rendered ok. Sounds like you are saying that I would have discovered no overbrighting on those when combine isn't available when I did look. In the future, I probably mimic that path for models with translucency to resolve lack of transparent gun rendering in DX version.
(@mk - it's not off-topic at all. Software renderers matter too!)
More Bugs And Suggestions
#1167 posted by Gunter on 2016/09/22 18:01:24
Hm, so if you can't make stencil shadows in DX, how about making the shadows completely black? Perhaps the r_shadows variable could work like wateralpha, and set the transparency level of the shadow. 0.5 might be the standard setting, but a setting of 1 would be a solid black shadow, which would look better than the weird shadows of varying thickness in DX.
I found that setting "noclip 1" caused the HUD area to turn grey. It sometimes flashes back to the HID when other effects are happening.
I tried playing a demo that someone recorded (I believe in Qrack) and it was constantly spamming the console with everyone's pings. I played the same demo in Proquake and it didn't do that. I played my autodemos from Mark V, and they also did not do that in Mark V. So I tried recording a couple demos in Qrack myself (not sure what version of Qrack I have), and they wouldn't play at all in Mark V, and one of them caused Mark V to crash. I tried the same demos in ProQuake, and it also crashed, but it popped up an error message first, "sv_lightstyle > MAX_LIGHTSTYLES"
A possible suggestion: how about overlaying the standard Quake sky over the skyboxes using the skyalpha to make it mostly transparent? Then you'd still have transparent moving clouds in front of the skybox.... Maybe just the first layer of clouds, and make the second layer completely invisible or something.
#1168 posted by
on 2016/09/22 19:55:09
I'd be curious to see how Gunter's multi-layered sky would look.
#1169 posted by
on 2016/09/22 20:04:31
That would be neat! Best of both worlds. Vanilla skies lack realism and skyboxes are pretty but completely static. Both are slightly annoying in their own way, but if we could mix them... w00t!
Transparent Weapon Model
#1170 posted by Gunter on 2016/09/22 20:28:11
I reported before, the "Invisibility - Draw Weapon" option that makes your weapon model transparent did not seem to work in DX Mark V, leaving the weapon fully solid.
But I just found that if "external_textures 1" is set, it DOES work, and my weapon model is transparent!
#1171 posted by Baker on 2016/09/22 21:10:52
Qrack questions, really you should ask R00k about his engine.
mh calls shadows in a Quake a hack. Go stand on the slime bridge in E1M1 with shadows on
... where is your shadow? Try any non-DarkPlace engine, the shadows aren't there when you walk on an entity. DarkPlaces has nice shadows.
Skybox clouds. I might put that on the list of things to see what it looks like, whenever in the future I have the opportunity to work on the engine again.
Noclip + DX + HUD. Looks like you found a bug with a certain combination of settings in the DX version.
#1172 posted by Baker on 2016/09/22 21:46:21
Setting gl_clear 1 may fix your HUD drawing issue in the DirectX version.
Interesting that activating external textures would cause the alpha transparency to work --- must kick it through a slightly different rendering codepath.
#1173 posted by mh on 2016/09/22 22:36:38
Planar shadows in Quake also poke over edges. You can stand under a bridge that a monster is walking on and see the underside of it's shadow poking over the edge of the bridge.
After 20 years of Quake, how the fuck do people still not notice this kind of stuff? Because once you do see it, you can't un-see it, and no shadows are better than that.
#1174 posted by
on 2016/09/22 22:58:19
Lighting made of hacks and approximations will always have its artifacts. Lightmaps included.
It's just a matter of what's easier for you to ignore. In this case - the lack of character shadows, or their unnatural properties.
#1175 posted by Baker on 2016/09/22 23:05:16
Shadows in Quake are pretty bad
quick screenshot
#1176 posted by Baker on 2016/09/22 23:28:59
Quake disappearing shadows
#1177 posted by Gunter on 2016/09/23 04:34:40
*Shadows* hang over edges?
Big deal!
Look at this! :p
Heh, everybody knows Quake ain't pretty!
We don't play it for it's cutting-edge, hyper-realistic graphics....
Hacky shadows look fine most of the time.
"gl_clear 1" did fix the grey HUD issue above.
I mentioned long ago that the bubble sprite doesn't load in Fitzquake when a high-quality textures is in ID1\progs\s_bubble.spr_0.tga (and the spr_1 animation frame too). If those are in place, and high-quality textures are enabled, the bubble is simply invisible in the game.
However, in Quakespasm with the same setup, it does show the original low-res bubble sprite instead of the hi-res one... Either there's some issue imported from Fitzquake, or maybe there's something wrong with my high-res bubble sprite, and Quakespasm knows that, so defaults to the original bubble ?
But the s_light.spr_0.tga in the same location works fine....
#1178 posted by Baker on 2016/09/23 05:03:54
Replacing a bubble texture with a red one works for me.
Something is likely wrong with your texture.
Quakespasm only supports replacement textures for maps surfaces (technically
.bsp surfaces, like ammo boxes, healthboxes too).
I thought gl_clear would solve the issue, I'm glad it fixed it.
#1179 posted by anonymous user on 2016/09/23 05:13:28
Projection shadow method follows slopes and breaks over edges. quake2vr solved some of the remaining problems on sharp corners.
history per q2vr readme-
beefquake --> kmquake2 --> quake2vr
IIRC qfusion and/or warsow may have also have this.
#1180 posted by Gunter on 2016/09/23 08:15:33
Ah, that's right; I forgot Quakespasm doesn't re-texture anything but maps.
Well. my bubble sprite textures are from the Quake Retexturing Project, "Item textures v.0.73" pack.
Opening them in an image editor, I do see a difference between the bubble sprites and the light sprite; the Alpha mask of the light sprite appears to have it fully opaque, but the Alpha mask of the bubble sprites look like they're trying to make it partially transparent....
So is it a similar issue with partial transparency, maybe? And it's making the bubbles completely transparent and invisible....
Ah, yep... after tinkering around with the alpha channel in the tga, it seems that with a sprite textures, Mark V makes areas fully transparent (invisible) if they are less than 50% visible, and anything over that threshold becomes fully opaque... I think. So that's why my bubbles were fully invisible -- the Quake Retextuing Project has the bubble sprites at about only 25% visibility (75% transparent) or so....
I think Mark V needs a much higher threshold before it makes things completely transparent...
It's better to have the bubbles fully visible.
Assuming Mark V won't be able to correctly make it partially transparent, anyway....
#1181 posted by mh on 2016/09/23 08:48:19
Lighting made of hacks and approximations will always have its artifacts
Shadows in GLQuake are *not* part of it's lighting model.
#1182 posted by
on 2016/09/23 12:50:40
In the real world shadows are related to light. Hence the generalization.
The MP3 Loading
#1183 posted by Gunter on 2016/09/26 21:15:59
"Quakespasm uses a software library for media playback, Mark V uses Windows hardware accelerated playback. On the computers I have tried Mark V on (probably around 20), it typically loads instantly.
The software library Quakespasm uses is more reliable because it isn't subject to Windows settings or Windows
Mark V is a "pure client", it doesn't use 3rd libraries (that's why doesn't need
Is there any way I can troubleshoot this? The delay I'm getting is really awful. If I go to the Start map and toggle the External Music ON in the menu, my game completely freezes for 17 seconds while the MP3 loads (track04.mp3, 3.78 meg).
If I then toggle the External Music OFF and instantly toggle it ON again, my game completely freezes for 17 seconds while the MP3 loads....
Is there any certain Windows setting or dll I should be looking at as the culprit?
I can't remember any other software having such a delay when I'm loading MP3s....
#1184 posted by Baker on 2016/09/26 21:41:07
Sounds like you don't have enough memory. The Windows API probably precaches the whole mp3 (I'm just guessing), Quakespasm's library feeds it to the sound system in chunks.
Either way, I know almost nothing about Windows settings and such, I never change mine. People at superuser.com or Tom's Hardware might know such things.
#1185 posted by Spike on 2016/09/26 21:59:26
quakespasm includes mp3 decoders.
mp3 patents technically violate the gpl and/or patent law.
(another reason for me to not include dependancies with my quakespasm patch).
using the system's mp3 decoders is one way around that issue (avoids distributing it, and system component avoid gpl issues).
markv uses directshow, which is a system component...
but directshow is poo...
that said, even 17 seconds is excessive even for directshow. wth?
the third way is to use windows' 'acm' api, which can provide stream-based mp3 decoding, which is the method that fte uses. this doesn't do anything silly like scanning the entire file, and isn't even aware of the file. yay pk3s.
markv already uses this api! but the other way around (encoding mp3 for avis).
and with it decoding to memory, it can also be used for sound effects too! yay!..
but yeah, directshow sucks.
#1186 posted by Baker on 2016/09/26 22:26:46
According to Google;
the last MP3 decoding patent expired September 2015. (Decoding = playback)
the last MP3 encoding patent expires April, 2017. (Encoding = recording)
Mark V still can play the music from the CD, so you can always put the Quake cd in the CD drive.
Mark V's mp3 playback is plenty fast on the computers I have tried it on and I've not seen anyone else in this thread (1100+ posts) report that it is slow. But I remember Fifth having problems to get it to work on his Surface Pro, then he did a driver update or something and it worked fine.
#1187 posted by Baker on 2016/09/26 22:29:47
I might add that DirectQ always used DirectShow (AFAIK) for mp3 playblack, and I never recalled seeing a "mp3 is slow" thing in a DirectQ thread -- DirectQ got tons of usage too when MH was developing it.
But yeah, I don't know much about Windows settings and drivers and such --- I never change any settings.
You could try playing music from the CD since Mark V still supports that.
#1188 posted by
on 2016/09/26 23:08:39
Was it a driver update? I can't remember now, I thought you had fixed it because I moaned incessantly ;)
#1189 posted by Baker on 2016/09/26 23:19:32
I was going to ask you what you did to fix it.
You posted something like "I reinstalled <XYZ> and now my music is working!"
#1190 posted by Spike on 2016/09/27 00:05:51
try uninstalling+reinstalling windows media player. that'll probably reset whatever is screwed. that or it'll fail completely, but hey, there's always ffmpeg+vlc, right?
#1191 posted by Baker on 2016/09/27 00:16:55
I wasn't aware that the ACM library -- which Mark V already uses for other purposes -- could do mp3 playback, which sounds like unlike DirectShow isn't subject to Windows Media Player settings.
So at some point in the future, I may look through FTE and rewire Mark V to do what Spike does, which is more robust.
/But since I have no time for engine coding, that'd be sometime in 2017
#1192 posted by
on 2016/09/27 01:49:48
Mixing the music and quake sfx in-engine is somewhat tricky (if you want the final result to match vanilla quake running at -sndspeed 11025 + a CD playing / an external music player).
You need to duplicate what happens in the OS mixer, so running the 11025Hz output of the quake mixer through a high-quality resampler to get 44100Hz, then mixing in the music, taking care to reduce the volume of the resampled sfx a bit to avoid clipping. Resampling after sfx mixing is key to keeping it sounding like vanilla quake.
(the above doesn't apply if for those who play with -sndspeed 44100 which I find ear-grating :P)
@ericw, Small Rant
#1193 posted by Spike on 2016/09/27 03:40:21
most modern (cheap) sound cards favour 48khz(dvd quality).
apis like wasapi (that thing that directsound is now a wrapper around) tend to favour floating-point audio too (which incidentilly makes clipping MUCH easier to deal with, also, hurrah for sse).
resampling 11khz to 44khz, crapping over it a bit, then resampling to 48khz via directsound is kinda crazy.
especially when that first resample step *STILL* uses nearest sampling...
so yes, I'm not surprised at you finding it ear-grating.
back in the dos days, the lack of os-level mixing meant that taking actual control of the hardware output rate made sense. with quake spitting out 11khz audio and the sound card outputting analog audio smoothly at the same rate, the hardware would then do linear sampling for you. obviously this varies based upon sound chips.
Or in other words, just fix ResampleSfx to use linear resampling instead of nearest, and have quake output to the OS's native mixer rate, and you'll have audio that sounds as close to vanilla quake as you can realistically get.
There is imho no point in lowpass filters etc, unless you're trying to get underwater effects or whatever... which isn't vanilla quake.
and yes, mp3s played at 11khz sound terrible. so don't do that.
side note: it was recently reported to me that the existing method to get FTE to play internet radio stations sucks.
While I was of course aware of this, I really cba to change anything. We have OSS4 now, the dude should just use a real player, they generally have hotkeys anyway.
#1194 posted by
on 2016/09/27 04:03:20
Hypothesis: Could the weird delay be caused by Windows Media Player searching for covers and metadata through the Internet?
Does the MP3 delay also happen in windowed mode? Does any icon activity or notification message pop up in the Windows taskbar during that time?
Maybe Windows is showing up one of those system pop-up windows asking for you to confirm something before x seconds, but since you're in fullscreen you can't see it and the game has to wait for the background pop-up window countdown to end before playing the track.
Re: Just Use A Real Player
#1195 posted by Baker on 2016/09/27 06:58:56
Real Player? Is that still around?
Oh wait. The dead one is WinAmp
... the one that -- It Really Whips the Llama's Ass.
#1196 posted by Baker on 2016/09/27 07:11:21
My engine instincts are a bit slow and rusty
.. but my reinterpretation would be that ACM provides a mp3 decoder and based on what you said --- and I haven't looked at FTE's code --- it throws it into Quake sound mixer's buffer.
I know with SDL2 you have to use a callback for the sound buffer, but AFAIK not another thread
... but Spike may use another thread.
Hence I used the word "maybe". ;-)
When I use the word "maybe", my spidersense has told me there are 2 or 3 wildcards that once I witness I may not feel like is worth the effort, haha.
@mankrip --- he may be on to something! Even for an old computer, 17 seconds sounds weird.
#1197 posted by Gunter on 2016/09/27 07:23:13
"I might add that DirectQ always used DirectShow (AFAIK) for mp3 playblack"
I gave DirectQ a try... and I get the exact same result: very close to a 17 second delay to load the MP3 on the Start map.
I do run Quake in a window, and there are no Windows notifications happening. I disabled all the "download media info" stuff in Windows Media Player.
I tried uninstalling (rather, rolling back to version 9 is what it does) my Windows Media Player 11, but running either version seems to make no difference, so I re-installed version 11 again.
I tried running on my much older WinXP laptop, and (although it may have other issues running smoothly) the MP3 loading did not experience much of a delay at all....
So I guess it's just my netbook that's the problem, though I've never had a similar issue with MP3s. I mean, yeah, it's a WinXP netbook, but it should certainly be good enough to play Quake and MP3s (ASUS EeePC, Intel Atom CPU N270 @ 1.60 GHz, 0.99 GB RAM).
Let me do some re-encoding of the MP3 and see what results I get....
Using Track04.mp3 (8:20 length) for Start map, I originally ripped it as stereo, 63 kbps, 22050 Hz. With that I get the pretty consistent 17 second delay when I switch on external music.
Well, now I'm using Audacity to convert the MP3 to different formats, and getting significant results.
Simply re-encoding the file at the same 64 kbps, 22050 Hz, the loading delay drops to about 7 seconds.
I believe I used CDex to rip the tracks from the Quake CD a few years back... maybe it used some weird encoder? Or was 63 kbps a weird rate? Actually, Windows reports the original MP3 is 63 kbps, but VLC says it's 64....
If I drop the quality way down to to 16 kbps, 11025 Hz, it drops the loading time to 2 seconds.
Going up to 128 kbps, 44100 Hz, the load delay goes up to about 14 seconds, which is still better than before.
I guess I just need to decide what quality I want to sacrifice for a decent load time. 5-7 seconds is tolerable, especially compared to that 17.
I guess the issue was some weird combination of my WinXP netbook and the encoding of the MP3s.... Though I will still have a delay, but it will be much less.
Anyway, thanks, everyone, for the information and attempted help.
Hm, oddly, it seems that sometimes encoding at the same parameters will produce different results (like a 10 second delay instead of the usual 6-7), which are consistent with that MP3 until I encode again.... Eh, I'll just have to tinker around with it.
Er, just loading my original MP3 in Winamp and stripping out the ID3v2 tag (which only contained "genre: unknown, track: 4") drops the loading time from the 17 to only 10 seconds.... Doing the same thing with the Audacity re-encoded file (that still held the tag info) makes no difference at all in the loading time.
Eh. Computers are weird!
If anyone else would like to try my weird MP3 file to see if you get any weird delay (you probably won't...) here, have at it!
#1198 posted by Baker on 2016/09/27 07:57:47
You might not like this thought but something that occurred to me
Windows Media Player might be trying to connect to a long dead web site (for reasons unknown) and it takes 15 seconds for the load to fail.
If you had some sort of network traffic utility that could identify the theoretical dead web site, you might be able to use Google for a similar problem or uses the hosts file to block the DNS and at least make it fail faster.
One thought, possibly wrong
... sorry you have a pointless stupid problem
#1199 posted by
on 2016/09/27 08:22:08
There's a simpler way to test that � just unplug the network cable and turn off the Wi-Fi device.
After doing so, disabling the antivirus may also help � some antivirus programs does scan any files accessed by supposedly unusual means before allowing the programs to access them.
And lastly, see if there's any music scrobbler (such as Last.FM) installed.
The antivirus is a strong candidate, since encoding methods can make the file harder to go through deep analysis, and antivirus programs usually does some special analysis on ID3 tags to prevent some kinds of exploits (I vaguely remember reading something about security issues with ID3 tags).
Also, players like Winamp and Windows Media Player are likely to be in a list of trusted media players for the antivirus to ignore. Custom Quake engines aren't.
#1200 posted by Baker on 2016/09/27 08:31:30
If this has anything to do with the problem, appears thats Windows Media Player may be trying to find missing meta data using the internet (which probably tries to contact a long dead site
Audio Nerd Tangent..
#1201 posted by
on 2016/09/27 08:32:39
re: resampling algorithms: nearest-neighbour is terrible for audio, but so are linear and cubic. Upsampling 11kHz audio is unforgiving because with the nyquist frequency at 5.5kHz, the distortion let through above 5.5kHz by a poor resampler is right in the sensitive area of human hearing (an ideal upsampler for 11kHz audio is a brickwall lowpass filter at ~5.5kHz).
You got me curious about what kind of filtering vintage cards had, and I turned up this thread:
The SB16 is pretty impressive, it's certainly not just using linear interpolation based on those measurements.
So IMHO something like libspeex-resample (windowed-sinc FIR filter) should be used for any audio resampling unless you specifically want the distortion of a bad resampler.
About fixing ResampleSfx.. I did try making a version using libspeex-resample, and still ran into 2 problems:
- When the mixer is running at 11kHz, quake can get away with cutting off and restarting sounds without fading in/out. The upsampling smooths out the discontinuities, and limits the glitching to be below 5.5kHz which prevents it from being too annoying. If the mixer is running at 44 or 48kHz you lose this safety net. Particularly: holding down fire with the nailgun creates really annoying high-frequency glitches when the nail firing sample is cut off midway through and restarted. This distracts me whenever I use DarkPlaces..
- The other related problem is Quake sfx tends to clip like crazy, especially if there is a lot of action happening. Like the previous point, clipping at 11kHz is no big deal because the upsampling limits the damage to below 5.5kHz, so you almost get a limiter/softclipper for free. Whereas at 44/48kHz clipping sounds awful and must be avoided at all costs.
I tried working around both of those, by making the mixer fade in/out when interrupting samples, and adding a limiter/softclipper, but couldn't get something I was happy with. So, for QS, ended up with a 11kHz->44kHz resampler (FIR filter) after the sfx mixer, before mixing in music.
Upgrading to a resampler that can do 48kHz, supporting float output, and moving to floats internally would be nice improvements for sure.
#1202 posted by
on 2016/09/27 08:47:05
idea: try installing ffdshow, this should add support for many other codecs to DirectShow. It might replace the mp3 decoder and magically fix your issue. Not sure if MarkV will play other formats like OGG/flac if DirectShow is capable of it, but that could be worth a try too.
#1203 posted by Gunter on 2016/09/27 20:50:58
Thanks, those are some good troubleshooting ideas, but...
I disabled the Wifi adapter, no change.
Installed ffdshow, no change.
I have no anti-virus running.
It seems to be an issue with the encoding/decoding.
And I'm getting some really strange results that I can't explain.
I'm using CDex 1.77 (just updated from a slightly older version) to rip directly from the Quake CD with various encoding options.
The default encoder is set to "Lame MP3 Encoder 1.32," and if I leave it on the default settings (a range of 128 - 320 kbps with auto sample rate), it outputs a 256 kbps 44100 Hz, 11 meg file.
Mark V loads that file in 7 seconds...
If I only alter the option to lock the rate to 64 or 56 kbps, the file size drops to about 3.8 meg, but the MP3 then takes 11 seconds to load in Mark V. What's up with that??
Locking the rate at 256 kbsp makes a 15 meg file that only takes 9 seconds to load....
If I allow a variable rate from 48-96, it encodes at 96, but it then takes 16 seconds to load....
If I alter the Hz down to 32000 sometimes I can get it back down to a 7 second load time with other altered settings....
Eh, I just can't come up with any one thing that's affecting it in a predictable way.
Well, I have better luck changing the encoder in CDex to "Windows MP3 Codec" which says it's "Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Layer-3 Codec." It is much more limited, offering a max of 56 kbps, 22050 Hz, but the MP3 comes out at around 3.32 meg and only takes about 4.5 seconds to load.
If I change some things around and encode with the same settings using Lame, the file seems virtually identical at 3.31 meg, but takes 7 seconds to load. There are some other options in the Lame encoder, like "VBR method" which I have no clue about....
I've tried making sure I don't include ID3 tags, and that seems to make no difference.
Well, I think I've hit a wall with my testing. The "Windows MP3 Codec" will have to do, and I don't think I'm going to get a better result without using a drastically lower audio quality.
It's just... weird.
#1204 posted by
on 2016/09/27 21:56:47
Did you check memory usage during the freeze, and whether any disk swapping is happening in Task Manager?
tbh I would just format/reinstall Windows at this point, but I have low patience for troubleshooting and it's not always practical
#1205 posted by Baker on 2016/09/27 22:21:28
Maybe one last idea
... is hardware acceleration on?
Almost all hardware has the ability to decode mp3 (mp3 is part of the MPEG-2 standard).
Even thought the option says "video", audio is part of video.
Worth a last try maybe
#1206 posted by Gunter on 2016/09/28 01:08:37
I tried altering the hardware acceleration settings in WMP, but got no difference (I use the file that causes the 17 second delay for testing, because the delay is very close to 17 seconds every time, like clockwork, though I did also try my newly-encoded file that only causes a 4.5 second delay, but any difference in that one would probably be small).
Watching the tack manager, when I'm just sitting with Quake running in a window, it says Mark V's memory usage is right around 215,920 K. CPU usage hovers around 50% (I get around 0% just watching this web page without Quake running, though it can spike up to 50% when I'm dragging windows around a lot).
When I switch on External Sounds in Mark V, while I'm experiencing the 17-second delay, Mem Usage jumps up to 222,100 or so (and my second processor seems to show slightly less usage on the graph, probably because the video in Quake is frozen).
Then after the 17 seconds, when the music starts playing, the Men Usage goes to around 221,956 K.
Turning the music off again drops me back to the original 215,920 K.
These numbers are pretty consistent.
At any point in the process I can easily switch around to other windows, and it does not feel bogged down or like it's out of memory or anything.... The page file seems to stay pretty constant too. Right now it's around 437 MB while I'm not playing Quake. Running DX Mark V makes it go up to about 888. It goes to around 895 when I enable the music (during and after the 17 second freeze), and right back down to 889 when I disable the music.
Yeahhh, I'm not gonna try to re-install Windows, heh.
And again, only in Mark V do I get this bizarre delay (well, and in DirectQ, which I tried earlier). Using WMP or VLC or Winamp, the MP3 starts up instantly, after the program loads. *shrug*
#1207 posted by Baker on 2016/09/28 11:09:24
DirectShow mp3 playback in Quake engines is not new. Mark V was nowhere near the first engine to use it.
FitzQuake 0.85 + mp3 support --- November 11, 2009
ProQuake with mp3 playback --- July 2010
DirectQ - A post from 2012 where someone is asking about mp3 and MH states that DirectQ has had mp3 playback for "about 3 years".
Engine X - September 2010
Reckless (now known as Revelator) used DirectShow playback for his Realm engine (2010ish?)
And none of these engines were anywhere near the first to use it, probably an ancient MHQuake engine from 2003-2005 was.
#1208 posted by mh on 2016/09/28 12:27:21
I'm pretty sure that I wrote the DirectShow code for DirectQ because I had this idea that I wanted to use DirectX components for everything. Older versions would have used the Windows Media Player SDK. You can also use MCI which is a little cleaner and more "C-like".
Unfortunately I'm in a similar situation to Baker and just don't have the time to put together experimental code to test all of this out.
#1209 posted by Gunter on 2016/09/29 07:41:54
Well I tried Glpro438 just to be thorough, and the MP3 loading delay is the same.
On to other things, I saw the "smooth text" option in DirectQ, and that looked really nice. Mark V could benefit form that.
Also, r_waterripple is neat, but it moves too fast. If the "waves" moved much slower, it would look better.
Uhh, I was trying to make use of the Copy command today, but it failed me... I mean, for some reason, it did not copy the link someone had posted just prior to me issuing the "copy" in order to grab the link. Then I waited a moment and did "copy" again, and it still omitted the link (which was visible in my console), in addition to the thing that was said just prior to the "copy" command again (which was just some chat text).... I can't seem to reproduce it now. I'll mess with it when there are people on the server again....
Here's the section in question. There may have been other things happening in the console farther up, so I don't know if there were any weird characters or what...
Gunter: what the link again?
Sgt-PieFace: cobalt PMed you on the forum
Sgt-PieFace: for this server I think
Copied console to clipboard
Sgt-PieFace: wana stop by RN? me and cobalt are there
There was text in both the blank spaces in my console. I'll try to do more testing.
#1210 posted by Baker on 2016/09/29 10:48:24
1) "copy" copies the context of the console --- like "You've got nails" "Host Error"
... whatever.
Maybe I described what it does poorly.
But if you need some of the text in the console -- it copies the whole thing and you can paste it into notepad.
Fine tuning the copy ability further would be a PITA.
2) Smooth text.
Smooth text is for scenarios that would cause stretching and the make the console look terrible.
ProQuake uses it when the someone is using an odd combination of resolution + "2d resolution".
At some point Mark V will likely have smooth text.
Notice that ProQuake has the very superior "console width" option in the discrete "advanced settings" menu.
Well, that knocks the snot out of every other Quake engine because the
a) setting is easy to use
b) offers a few different choices easily
c) and the text looks good every time
(* DirectQ might have had a similar feature, I can't recall. Even if it did, I wrote my mine first ;) Haha )
But yeah, Mark V doesn't have that option -- solely because there were bigger fish to catch.
3) r_waterripple is neat. I forgot about that feature. It probably is a bit too fast and lacks customization. Mark V has a few experimental things like that which are defaulted off which are like that.
#1211 posted by mh on 2016/09/29 11:24:24
For this kind of thing I always prefer to see it controlled by a fractional value of the cvar rather than adding an extra cvar. So maybe r_waterripple 0.5 for half speed, or would that make more sense for height of the ripple?
r_waterripple really depends on water surfaces being subdivided too (and is sensitive to the value of gl_subdividesize).
#1212 posted by Baker on 2016/09/29 11:28:19
I don't know if you have seen this, but as someone who maintains a QuakeC code base, you may find this interesting
Type "tool_inspector" in the console. Type impulse 9 to give all weapons.
Change the information seen by selecting a different gun.
Examining map issues or QuakeC problems under some circumstances becomes far more convenient.
#1213 posted by Baker on 2016/09/29 11:39:10
And one last thought since you do coop,
Mark V has a
per player coop scoreboard
if Mark V is the server. Defaults on. It's one of the sv_ options.
#1214 posted by Gunter on 2016/09/29 20:08:21
Yeah, I understand how the Copy command works -- I was fine with copying the entire console to be able to also grab the link. The problem was, the Copy command left blank spaces in what it copied, and I didn't get the link....
In regard to that "console width" slider in Proquake, Quakespasm does it better with that nice "scale" slider. It seems to adjust all the things that I am setting manually in Mark V:
scr_sbarscale 1.55
scr_conscale 1.55
scr_menuscale 1.55
But yeah, that tends to make the text a bit jaggedy.
I think we already get the full scoreboard like that in FvF, because it runs in kind of a hybrid Deathmatch+Coop mode (it's kind of like team Deatmatch against the monsters). Well, FvF can be voted into regular Deathmatch mode, but people seem to prefer the Quest mode.
Wow! I like that undocumented tool_inspector thing. I think I will definitely have use for that.
#1215 posted by
on 2016/09/29 21:39:41
i would recommend scale values that are whole numbers like 1,2,3, etc. Much clearer looking text.
#1216 posted by Baker on 2016/09/29 23:12:57
@gunter - A one-factor master scale cannot adequately address a four-factor scaling problem.
It'll just offer a lot of different ways for most of the possible settings to get jaggy text and scrunched 2D graphics.
LordHavoc and R00k were both on a server one time talking about engine development topics and got into a long conversation about 2D scaling challenges. I didn't even know how compile a Quake engine at the time, and stopped playing to listen to their fascinating engine conversations.
The 2D scaling conversation was the conversation that really drew me in -- at one point in the future I took what LordHavoc and R00k said the problems were and drafted up a blueprint to address each bullet point in ProQuake -- I had to rewrite all of the 2D rendering mechanics in ProQuake, the text renders smoothly with any setting.
Co-op scoreboard. I meant for use with things like releases like Travail or Quoth or Arcane Dimensions or the Mission Packs and such.
Coop-oriented mods like FvF or RQuake already have that taken care of. ;-)
Back On Fog
#1217 posted by Gunter on 2016/09/30 03:57:52
Hmm, I have another interesting note about the fog in the DX version. If I turn gl_overbight off, I seem to get 2X the number of fog bands on lighted areas of the wall. This makes it look better because it's a smoother gradient... but it's weird that it does not show up on unlit areas of the wall. He's a screen comparison, again with gamma ramped way up and in an area that makes the fog look extra ugly:
In (my older version of) GL Mark V, I do not see the same thing happen when toggling the setting. Ah hah! That's one reason why the GL version fog looks better -- it ALWAYS has those extra bands on the lit areas of the wall. They are just really hard to see because they make a much smoother gradient... but I see them now that I'm looking for them.
In summary:
GL version has 2X the number of fog bands on lit areas of the wall, always.
DX version only has 2X the number of fog bands on lit areas of the wall if gl_overbright 0.
gl_overbright 1 removes the extra bands and makes the fog extra ugly due to a less gradual gradient.
Copy Command
#1218 posted by Gunter on 2016/09/30 08:11:04
Confirmed that it's the weird Quake characters that cause blank places in the COPY'ed text.
Didn't test all the various characters, but if you use the one that kind of looks like the left side of a bar, like this for your name (imagine the (= =) are the weird characters):
Then anything appearing on that line after the S would be blank in the COPY'ed text.
#1219 posted by Baker on 2016/09/30 08:56:06
... Great bug report. Shouldn't happen.
Using this can you hover your mouse over the appropriate character and tell me the number.
I need to know the character code. My caveman-like brain can't quite imagine which specific one you refer to.
#1220 posted by Gunter on 2016/09/30 19:12:19
128 is the character in question which will blank the rest of the line after it appears.
Additionally (you didn't think I would neglect to test everything else, did you? heh), the following characters will insert a newline in the COPY text:
Also, when you get around to fixing that, please stop it from actually committing the name change every time you change one character, because my console looks like this just from using backspace and typing characters in the name field:
Gunter's name12 renamed to Gunter's name1
Gunter's name1 renamed to Gunter's name
Gunter's name renamed to Gunter's nam
Gunter's nam renamed to Gunter's na
Gunter's na renamed to Gunter's n
Gunter's n renamed to Gunter's
Gunter's renamed to Gunter's 1
Gunter's 1 renamed to Gunter's 12
Gunter's 12 renamed to Gunter's 12n
Gunter's 12n renamed to Gunter's 12na
Gunter's 12na renamed to Gunter's 12nam
Gunter's 12nam renamed to Gunter's 12name
#1221 posted by Baker on 2016/09/30 22:50:13
I did say you were a quality beta-tester. ;-)
At some point in the future I will refine the namemaker to commit the change "all at once", but it is better than the old system of committing the name "all at once" and having to choose "Accept" and accidentally hitting ESC and losing the name you spent a few minutes making. It's always been on the todo list to make that less spammy.
#1222 posted by Gunter on 2016/10/01 06:47:12
I don't suppose you could give me some kind of test build that would spit out some error messages when it crashes (or save it to a file)? Because it crashes a lot! Well, tonight it seemed that way.... But sometimes it goes for quite a while without crashing, seeming to run just fine. It seems to like to crash right when a map first loads, after exiting the previous map. Perhaps some maps seem to trigger it more than others, like e3m2 seems mighty prone to crashing.
Sometimes it just exits, and other times I'll get a Windows error box asking if I want to report it... and I can check more details about that, but it's mostly incomprehensible gobbeldygook.
It'd also be nice to figure out why the GL version crashes right away too...
#1223 posted by Baker on 2016/10/01 07:22:03
Well, we have back to the old catch-22.
I don't have time to commit to engine development now (engine development is extremely time consuming), nor will I have that kind of time in the near future either.
Maybe some time in the 2nd half of 2017 I will.
This engine is in beta, and is not being actively developed at the present time.
It's not the first big gap of non-development of the engine either.
Quakespasm is a stable release. There's also Qrack and such as options.
You might try FTE, it's pretty damn nice.
You can tell Spike that "nqconnect quake.shmack.net" isn't working in this build I linked :(
On 2nd thought, nevermind. I forgot you have an Intel 845, FTE is pretty big on the shaders and such, althought it does have a Direct3D version too.
What would Spike say? "Your mileage may vary" ;-)
Kinda Offtopic
#1224 posted by Spike on 2016/10/01 07:40:27
You can tell Spike that "nqconnect quake.shmack.net" isn't working in this build I linked :(
What would Spike say? "Your mileage may vary" ;-)
I would also say 'works for me'...
(I actually bothered to test that just now!)
(also, you can drop the 'nq' from 'nqconnect' if you want to explicitly specify the port, hurrah for nq+qw using different default ports! or just use the server browser, but whatever)
(also that first build contains both gl+d3d9 renderers, you can switch between them in the menus, and yes with basic settings it should still work without glsl, but certain features obviously will not).
See -- Spike Is On The Ball!
#1225 posted by Baker on 2016/10/01 07:52:30
Sorry, I have 10 copies of FTE in my Quake folder. I blew it, the "fteqw.exe" in my folder is out of date and quite old.
@gunter: FTE supports external textures and if you like options, compared to FTE, Qrack doesn't even have any options.
The number of features FTE has is off the charts.
And should have almost every possible feature you have ever seen.
#1226 posted by Gunter on 2016/10/01 20:15:47
Oh my... yes, FTE certainly does seem to have a ton of options. And the GL version runs just fine for me.
At the "nice" preset, I get 70 FPS, but at the "real-time" one I get like 4 FPS -- it may be one of the effects like that oldwater thing like in Quakespasm, but I don't know the setting to toggle it in FTE.
Is there lots of documentation about all the console variables so I can test stuff? Or I guess I'll have to go in and see what all the menu settings do....
The MP3 music seems to start up without delay... though it doesn't seem like it's playing the same tracks. hmm.
I will play around with this and see if I can get it set up how I like. I could sure use some exhaustive documentation! *searches around FTE site*
#1227 posted by Baker on 2016/10/01 20:50:38
There's a wiki for it that has some information.
#1228 posted by Gunter on 2016/10/12 03:35:58
Setting my Contrast really high makes most things look really good -- the colors are vibrant and the walls aren't all bland. And it allows me to use a lower Gamma setting.
However, any fullbright textures become completely crunched and actually lose their contrast -- they just appear as one (way too bright) color, mostly, except for in the most contrasting areas (for example, torches).
gl_fullbrights 0 fixes the problem, making the torches (and any other fulbrights) again look nice even with high contrast, but of course that turns off the neat fullbright effect.
I already have both gl_overbright settings at 0
So, to keep the fullbrights from looking nasty, I have to crank the Gamma up higher to make things bright enough, but that tends to make things look a bit washed out and bland...
I saw above you said, "at some point I'll try to implement a sneaky tactic of shoving gamma+contrast into the textures (and hope it looks right). But that's for the future. "
Was that implemented? If so, the easy fix would seem to be to NOT have contrast affect any fullbright textures. Then everything would look good. I don't know if it would otherwise be possible to have "contrast" not affect fullbright textures if contrast is being controlled by hardware....
Also, just a thought (for potential future fixing): sure, the shadows are a hack, but a tweak that would improve them is to make sure they are not drawn at all if the distance to the model is greater than a certain amount. This would stop them from dancing around on surfaces way below where the model is actually standing (this is one of the common issues with the hacked shadows).
#1229 posted by Baker on 2016/10/12 04:47:47
I'll keep that in mind for future consideration.
Spike has caused the need for a Mark V update with ipv6 and (likely) ProQuake with ipv6, by making the code easily available and saving me a lot of time.
It'll need tested and one main concern I have is Windows XP.
Not sure when it will happen, but I expect it to be soon.
Because metlslime pointed out a quick way to solve your DirectX + model transparency thing, seems likely I can put that in there.
And if I am lucky, your clipboard interfering evil characters fix/scrub because that should be a 2 minute fix (probably a char codes 128-160 dequaked (-128) to control chars issues).
Can't say exactly when. I don't really have any time, but I've been sizing it up.
Ipv6 Maybe Sooner Than I Thought
#1230 posted by Baker on 2016/10/12 05:11:12
Maybe sooner than I thought.
I just used Mark V to connect to "Quakespasm Spiked" R4 via ipv4 and then ipv6.
#1231 posted by Spike on 2016/10/12 05:44:33
ipv6 ain't hard to support, its just a different/bigger sockaddr structure with corresponding different address family value.
name resolution is a little more involved (in part because colons are used in ipv6 numeric addresses, which necessitates square-brackets where ports were normally specified with colons).
operating systems have annoying hybrid socket support defaults, so you need to be explicit about that in order to not conflict with ipv4 sockets (and xp doesn't support hybrid sockets at all, so I went with dual sockets with qss).
broadcast doesn't work with ipv6, its all multicast, so instead of flagging a socket as able to send broadcasts, you have to flag a socket as willing to receive multicast packets to various addresses.
that's about it, really. the rest is just datatypes and glue.
really though, right now ipv6 only gets you support for public addresses when servers are behind ipv4 cgnats (but with their own globally routable ipv6 address).
mobile phone versions of quake may need ipv6 (iiuc, apple mandate that ios apps support ipv6).
other than that, no non-mobile isp would dream of skipping ipv4 yet, making ipv6 support nice but in no way necessary.
single-socket-servers on the other hand...
360 Controller Support
#1232 posted by
on 2016/10/12 11:37:59
was added to quakespasm and it is a very good implementation, could this also be added to mark_v?
360 Controller Is Dead
#1233 posted by Baker on 2016/10/12 22:00:06
Anything is possible in the 2nd half of 2017, but Mark V is not SDL based like Quakespasm, it isn't like it could use the existing code in any shape or form.
re: 360 controller
They don't make those anymore -- the xbox 360 controller died when the xbox 360 died.
They'll never manufacture them again.
#1234 posted by
on 2016/10/12 22:28:30
I'm sure you can get a second hand one. Personally when I need a gamepad on PC, I use a Dual Shock 2 with a Madrics Superbox 3 Pro - yeah, fancy name for a little plastic thing. Works good and I prefer the shape of PlayStation pads.
360 Controller
#1235 posted by
on 2016/10/12 22:39:09
Just another way of saying xinput support. That's the standard controller library that's replaced directinput on windows for the past few years, you'd be hard pressed to find a PC-compatible gamepad that didn't use it. Supporting the 360 pad is supporting gamepads in general, at least on Windows.
Biased Opinion
#1236 posted by
on 2016/10/12 22:40:28
90% of the work in implementing QS's controller support was stuff that is independent of the SDL2 gamepad api - Subjective stuff like deadzones, easing functions, choosing good defaults and playtesting them. Also making the menus usable with the controller. So this code could still be useful if you like how I did it.
SDL2's gamepad API was, I believe, largely a clone of whatever the modern windows API for gamepads is (Xinput?)
re: 360 controllers dead
true but I don't think this affects software much if at all.
#1237 posted by Gunter on 2016/10/12 22:40:42
It would be great if you could include some kind of error logging in a new release, so that we could get some idea of why the GL version crashes instantly as soon as I try to load a map (it runs fine up top that point... in the console and menus).
And maybe also see why the DX version crashes intermittently....
Quakespasm, FTE, Qrack, etc., all work fine in GL for me. I really hope Mark V can be fixed to work in GL for me too.
Xbox 360 Controller
#1238 posted by
on 2016/10/12 22:43:16
They have them at Newegg. I was just looking at it the other day. It's on sale for $30 with "free shipping".
#1239 posted by Baker on 2016/10/13 00:09:56
@ericw - I think your code is pretty tight and well written. Mark V doesn't do DirectInput or XInput, so would be hella lot of work for Mark V support. Definitely not part of a group of 4 small updates, each that don't take too much time.
@gunter - I don't have much time, we'll see. I private suspect your graphics card can't do anything except 16-bit color, are you actually able to use, say, Qrack or Quakespasm in 32 bit mode?
@others - All I am saying is that my interest in a discontinued controller limited to pawn shops, ebay, second hand sales is "meh".
If someone knows of a worthy controller that actually has a future
#1240 posted by
Johnny Law
on 2016/10/13 00:26:32
xinput is the future (for now). The specific type/brand of controller using xinput shouldn't matter much.
Strange Vitriol For A Pad
#1241 posted by
on 2016/10/13 00:34:24
I don't understand, seems like un-needed hostility? Maybe I'm misinterpreting your tone though.
You can still get 360 pads brand new here in Europe, they're marketed as a 360/PC controller.
They're pretty much THE standard controller for playing games on PC, even more than the xbone, PS4 or any number of PC-Specific pad.
You could have just said "it's too much work, sorry" or "it's not a priority".
#1242 posted by
on 2016/10/13 00:34:38
Supporting xinput, as far as I know, will allow you to support basically every logitech controller for the past few years, the Xbox One controllers, and the generally established hacks for the DS4. So, basically all the controllers.
Speaking of hacks; aside from the tricks people are pulling to get the DS4 to work on PC, there are also plenty of wrappers out there that will make a DirectInput controller work like an xinput one for most purposes, so there's not much need to support an (actually dead) second system of controller.
Honestly though... how necessary is controller support? Does anyone here, or anyone that someone here knows, actually use it in QS? I certainly don't, and I can't say I see the appeal either...
Not Discontinued
#1243 posted by
on 2016/10/13 01:10:49
Isn't it pretty much the standard for PC controllers because of support built into Windows?
#1244 posted by Gunter on 2016/10/13 01:15:44
The only Quake engine that seems to report the BPP in the console is Quakespasm, and it tells me "24-bit" when I try set it to 32 bpp (either in the menu or by command line).
Of course it reports "16-bit" when I change to that....
How would I verify that any other engine is running in any certain bpp?
Well, I can do more than 16 bpp in any case... (what is it, the stone age? :)
I Sometimes Play With A Pad
#1245 posted by
on 2016/10/13 01:19:35
when I just want to sit in front of the TV playing games I whack on some Quake.
I know KB+M is the best way to play but I originally used to play the game keyboard only when I first got the game... :P
#1246 posted by Baker on 2016/10/13 02:17:28
@gunter - that clears up possible causes of the issue.
@fifth/@rick - I'm not against gamepad support.
As long as the controller support code works with current/future devices (@johhny).
It Does/will
#1247 posted by
on 2016/10/13 03:57:37
#1248 posted by Baker on 2016/10/13 04:08:09
I don't claim to keep up with consoles
Does the Quakespasm controller support work with an XBox One Controller?
#1249 posted by
on 2016/10/13 05:21:10
According to
this reddit post
the xbox one controller should work with any game that uses XInput, which SDL2 is wrapping, so it should work in QS. I don't know if anyone has tested it though.
Anything listed
should work out of the box with qs, there is also a
community mapping file
for more support.
#1250 posted by Baker on 2016/10/13 05:41:36
Ok, that clears up things quite a bit -- it supports a wide array of devices.
When I hear "xbox 360 controller" immediately I think "But the XBox One came out back in 2013?"
#1251 posted by Baker on 2016/10/13 06:33:44
@gunter -- you may discover the Dopa maps surprising automatically download now for supporting clients.
/Inside joke, gunter will understand.
#1252 posted by Gunter on 2016/10/13 22:13:20
Uhhh... does that mean Polarite updated the server so it will do that now? Hm, yesterday Trans did say he thought he saw Darkplaces download something.... Neat. We'll have to test this more.
We do indeed have the DOPA maps installed on fvf.servequake.com and they work (almost*) perfectly for FvF Quest mode. So everyone should come give it a try! You can use the VOTE menu to activate the custom maps.
* One thing mappers often neglect to do is add Co-op spawn points. DOPA has this oversight... so all the players try to spawn on the one Single-Player spawn point, resulting in undesirable things happening, like people getting pushed into the floor. That can be really bad when there's a lava pit below the floor, heh.
Another "gotcha" you gotta watch out for are trap rooms that lock behind someone when they enter, and if the person dies in there, there's no way for anyone else to get in, so progress is blocked on the map. DOPA contains 2 areas like this, but I work around them with QuakeC code by actually relocating buttons and altering properties of doors on the map, so that the roadblock is moved out of the way or opened from the outside.
But yeah, everyone should come play FvF. The server is almost always in Quest (co-op) mode, so it's newb-friendly.
(Heck, while I'm self-promoting, here is also a link to find out about my Pogo Piggle games for Android, which everyone should also play :D )
#1253 posted by Gunter on 2016/10/14 18:22:00
Hm, well... we tested today and maps did not automatically download to Darkplaces.
I guess you may be talking about something that has not yet been implemented...?
*scratches head*
#1254 posted by Baker on 2016/10/22 06:23:44
All the old methods of stopping Demos from playing at start up no longer work
It's in the menu so anyone can do that. The cvar is host_startdemos 0 (default 1).
#1255 posted by Gunter on 2016/10/22 19:12:46
Wow, that's a really old issue I reported back in 2014, Baker, heh. I think that's been fixed for a long time.... I did find that menu option (that's probably the newer addition). It's very handy.
Probably my main hope for a soon release would be Proquake-positioned Centerprint and "Rankings" scoreboard, so they don't obscure your view right in the middle of the screen.
Actually, I'm not sure exactly how ProQuake's Centerprint positioning works... It seems like if your centerprint message has more than 3 lines or so, it is placed up high, well out of the way of your view. But if your Centerprint message only has 1 or 2 or 3 lines (using \n) it places it down lower near the center of the screen... but still not right in the middle of your view. Maybe it checks to avoid that specifically rather than just moving EVERYTHING up to a certain point (though even the menus are positioned higher). In any case, it's much preferable to having stuff printed right over your crosshair position.
#1256 posted by Baker on 2016/10/22 21:12:59
Can you do a screenshot demonstrating the centerprint issue you are having? My imagination isn't working.
#1257 posted by Gunter on 2016/10/23 05:40:27
(Small screenshots just to illustrate the positioning of Centerprints)
First comparison is the standard FvF Vote Menu. You can see Proquake keeps it up high, not blocking the center of the player's view. Obviously most players aren't going to be running around shooting things with the Vote menu up, but there are other centerprints that happen in the game which have the same issue -- notably, all the FvF splash text stuff when a level first starts... and sometimes there are monster attacking you when the level first starts, so you need to be able to aim :D
Second comparison is me pressing the TAB key to show the scoreboard while the vote menu is still active. I just noticed that Mark V hides any centerprints when you are viewing the scoreboard.... I'm not sure I like that behavior (is there a setting?). A player might miss a centerprint message when doing that.... Well, Proquake shows both things at the same time; yeah, that can end up with overlapping stuff, but a player can easily release TAB when he sees a centerprint pop up.
Anyway, you can see that again Proquake moves the scoreboard up near the top (probably a bit too far in this case, because that can block the second and lower chat line -- there's still room at the very top for one chat line). If there were 4 or 5 players in the server, the Mark V position (which is most likely the standard for Quake) would again block the center of the view, where the crosshair is.
The final comparison shows that the position remains the same when it's a short centerprint with only a few lines (the crosshair positioning may be off a bit, so the relative text position may be exactly the same... or it may be slightly different... not sure). Either way it doesn't block the view, so that's fine.
I'm not sure exactly how Proquake decides where to position stuff, but it seems like if there are 4 or more lines in a centerprint, it puts it way up at the top, but 3 or fewer lines are shown back at the standard location.
These issues become worse if the text size is increased by scr_conscale (I shrunk my text in Mark V to match Proquake, but I usually have it larger, so centerprints sometimes go well below crosshair level).
The "Fine-Tuning" Problem
#1258 posted by Baker on 2016/10/23 11:07:13
@gunter -- re: centerprint position
I connected to your server and tried some of the menus. I thought it looked pretty good with the default settings in both Mark V and ProQuake. If I mess with settings in either engine, I can make it not look good in either of them.
Centerprint consistency has always sucked as tool available to the QuakeC modder, even with GLQuake. If you use a big resolution, the text stops being where it was supposed to be and might even be in annoying place.
If I loaded up Quake with the intended resolution of 320x240, your FVF centerprint will be all over the crosshair. "Gunter? Why u hate DOSQuake so much! Is only real QUAKE! Quake CD comes with DOSQuake, is no GLQuake on Quake CD! GLQuake is a lie!!"
Mark V centerprint starting position is pretty consistent across all video resolutions, but just like original GLQuake if you start changing settings or resolutions it affects the placement (but at least Mark V calculates it the same regardless of any settings/resolutions you can pick).
The centerprint position also relates to the finale printing. I worked long and hard with NightFright to get that all positioned properly and independently even for single player releases like The Rapture that prints incredible gobs of finale text (it's like a mini-thesis, it's that long) --- while also taking into consideration multiplayer mods.
That's called the "fine tuning problem". If you "fix it for one" (combination of settings) then you just "break it for another".
@gunter - Re:scoreboard
#1259 posted by Baker on 2016/10/23 11:24:48
FitzQuake is pretty much geared to display the multiplayer scoreboard in the center of the screen, as you've noticed. Just like how the menu is very center of the screen in FitzQuake.
A ton of centerprint like a centerprint-based menu on, say, a RuneQuake server, clashes with the FitzQuake multiplayer scoreboard worse than original Quake.
Pretty much makes the scoreboard unreadable.
I tried the Qrack draw a background behind the scoreboard (didn't look Quakey) and a few other thoughts to avoid the problem before realizing no good answer was possible -- so not drawing the text was the only option.
But notice it still does print the chat messages with the scoreboard up! ;-)
I know those are important so I salvaged what I could.
#1260 posted by Gunter on 2016/10/23 21:09:48
"Centerprint consistency has always sucked as tool available to the QuakeC modder"
Yep, that's pretty much it.
I can move centerprints DOWN out of the way by padding it with nnnn, but I have to be careful with that, because I could move it right off the bottom of the screen depending on resolution and text size settings of the client....
But there's no way to move it UP out of the way... which is why I greatly prefer them to be placed high on the screen by default, like Proquake does. There's no danger that they will be TOO HIGH, no matter what the client settings.
Since I can move things down but not up, I think it would be great if all centerprints were positioned like 4 text lines down from the top of the screen, no matter what (even for one-line centerprints). There's really no reason for them to be centered vertically anyway.... As I have said, it can block part of what you are trying to look at, leaving all that all that unused free space (resolution and text size permitting) near the top of the screen which could be used instead.
Of course, not all clients do it that way, but Proquake was "the standard" for many years, and that's how it works (I would suspect for the reason I mentioned, as Proquake is supposed to have enhancements for deathmatch play, and not having your view blocked by text is good when in deathmatches).
But yeah, not all clients do it like that....
All these variations in different clients is also a reason why I name Mark V as the "officially recommended" client for FvF -- if I get the majority of players using the same client to play FvF, then I know they are seeing the same thing that I see.
Anyway, my main point would be: There is really no reason centerprints need to be vertically centered. It has potential negative impact, whereas putting it higher on the screen (like at a set position of "4 text lines from the top") has no negative impact.
#1261 posted by mh on 2016/10/24 01:58:37
There actually is a reason, it's in the Quake manual:
Certain messages appear inconveniently in the middle of your view. These are always important, and you do not want to ignore them!
#1262 posted by
on 2016/10/24 02:05:42
And ironically, the manual also states that messages that appear on the top of the screen are non-critical, ignore them if you please. That includes chat.
#1263 posted by Gunter on 2016/10/24 07:40:30
*goes and finds Quake manual to check*
Well, I'll be damned... it does say those things.
Funny that id intentionally made centerprints "inconveniently" located to make sure the noobs read them, heh. But I think at this point they are no longer "always important," sooo.... they don't really need to be inconveniently in the middle of your view anymore :D
#1264 posted by mh on 2016/10/24 18:27:22
I'm not certain that I agree with this way of thinking about it.
What you're basically doing is taking a default feature of Quake, using it for a purpose for which it's not intended, then asking for it's default behaviour to be changed in a way that would suit that unintended purpose but at the expense of it's actual intended purpose.
That's the kind of thinking that led to the horrific collections of hacks that polluted Quake engines and mods years ago, and which culminated in Nehahra. It would be a lot more productive to open a dialog about creating a new message type that would suit your requirement. It's 2016, we understand things better now, and we don't have to rely on ugly hacks to get stuff done any more.
I'm Inclined To Agree With MH,
#1265 posted by
on 2016/10/24 20:00:19
not particularly for the reasons he mentioned, though they're perfectly valid, but because there are still Quake n00bs who might still need centerprints to pop up in their faces. Just a couple days ago there was this guy at QuakeOne asking how to open the megahealth door in the water section of E1M1...
#1266 posted by mh on 2016/10/24 20:47:26
Even for non-noobs, don't underestimate the extent to which one's muscle memory can be trained.
I speak from bitter experience here: For every 1 person who thinks it's good there will be 10 who want it back the way it was.
#1267 posted by
on 2016/10/24 22:35:43
there will be 10 who want it back the way it was.
Good point. I know very well the flak Darkplaces or HD textures can get around here... because "it's not Quake, hurr".
#1268 posted by
on 2016/10/24 22:48:44
I think you should learn to properly parse people's arguments against the things you like, instead of simply disregarding them as "something stupid, hurr".
#1269 posted by
on 2016/10/24 23:03:34
I heard their arguments. I don't agree with them and I don't dismiss their tastes either, unlike the other way around. Anyway, that's not the point. The point is the Fitz family of engines is more geared towards conservative Quakers. Therefore, changing things too much might not be a good idea.
#1270 posted by mh on 2016/10/25 00:06:26
I think you should learn to properly parse people's arguments against the things you like, instead of simply disregarding them as "something stupid, hurr".
Nope, way to miss the point.
Whether one likes it or not is irrelevant. I've been here before. You do a nice particle system and the first thing people will ask you is "how do I get the old one back?" You do a nice HUD and the first thing people will ask you is "how do I get the old one back?"
This is something that really does happen.
#1271 posted by
on 2016/10/25 00:34:19
Uh-huh, except in this particular case we were talking about a very specific conversation where people actually managed to make sound arguments when they weren't too busy throwing insults around.
#1272 posted by Baker on 2016/10/25 00:36:10
My discussion with Gunter wasn't a philosophical one. It's an aesthetic one. When I was looking to solve the centerprint issue, I experimented with several different ways and loaded up about every engine including DarkPlaces to assess options.
Centerprint in the ProQuake position makes it so
1) it looks really silly when you go to the menu and have white text sitting above the menu.
2) looks silly when you press TAB to see the multiplayer scoreboard and have white center print above the scoreboard.
So to avoid that I'd have to move
1) The menu
2) The scoreboard
3) Other stuff
And it would no longer look like FitzQuake.
#1273 posted by Baker on 2016/10/25 00:50:04
I am sympathetic to the issue of centerprinting positioning, by the way.
I've worked on mods that have used centerprinting (RQuake, xCTF, Team DM) and centerprinting positioning has always been a thorny thing.
And there are some classic single player mods that use a lot of centerprinting (see Quake Terminus mod list or Frika's Q-Pacman).
I went out of my way to get Mark V to handle centerprinting consistently and tested a lot of different stuff to make sure it looked great, even with mods that have centerprint menus.
But the ProQuake position for a FitzQuake engine is a case where the cure is worse than the disease.
/Maybe at some point some sort idea for a viable solution will emerge.
#1274 posted by
on 2016/10/25 01:24:24
Couldn't you solve the overlap issues by hiding centerprints when one of the conflicting menus is visible? They do show up in the console as well if I'm not mistaken so if a player missed one it wouldn't be the end of the world.
#1275 posted by mh on 2016/10/25 11:12:09
Stock GLQuake doesn't draw centerprints if the menus are visible; look in SCR_CheckDrawCenterString for a check for (key_dest != key_game); engines that change this are also changing the behaviour from stock GLQuake.
So overlap issues are actually not something that occurs unless someone has explicitly modified the engine code to make them occur.
#1276 posted by Gunter on 2016/10/26 01:06:49
Ah, so it's the other engines (rather than original GLquake) that do it differently in regard to hiding centerprints when menus are open. I'm mostly fine with that functionality; my only concern was that a centerprint may go unnoticed if someone is staring at the scoreboard. But still, I don't hate that behavior.
My main concern is the positioning of centerprint on the screen. So to address things people said in regard to that (assuming that's what they're talking about):
"What you're basically doing is taking a default feature of Quake, using it for a purpose for which it's not intended, "
What? The purpose of centerprint is to deliver information to the player. That's it. And that's what all Quake mods use it for.... Maybe the information is above and beyond what id originally thought of (like an underwater air meter, for example), but it's still just delivering information to the player. Indeed, centerprint is heavily used in every Quake mod I can think of to deliver information to the players (it's pretty much THE tool we have to do so -- console prints are very quickly swallowed up if a lot of things are happening). But it can have negative issues, as I've mentioned.
Yes, the original resolution of Quake was tiny, so there really was practically no choice but to have centerprints right in the middle of the screen, but now we can run Quake in all kinds of resolutions, and we have MUCH more screen space available, so there is no reason it still needs to be in an area that blocks potentially important areas of the view.
It's not as if text popping up closer the top of the screen is going to go unnoticed by noobs -- UNLESS they are in the middle of a battle, in which case, again, it it detrimental to have text blocking their view when they are trying to aim!
This has nothing to do with muscle memory (I guess you didn't mean that literally...), and it doesn't make any radical changes like a new HUD or particle system -- it's just more optimal positioning of text in the available screen space. Yes, if you make changes that cause things to "not look like Quake" then people will complain. However, I wager NOT A SINGLE PERSON has ever complained about ProQuake's better (IMO) centerprint positioning, and ProQuake was "the standard" for many years....
Perhaps the most ideal solution would be a setting that would control centerprint positioning -- placing it either centered in the screen, or just sticking it about 4 lines from the top of the screen. But I really doubt anyone would prefer to potentially have it blocking their aiming rather than up near the top, out of the way....
Again, I'm not sure everyone is talking about the same issue (hiding centerprints when the scoreboard is up is fine) -- I'm only referring to the vertical positioning of the centerprint text on the screen. This really does not reach the same level of new HUDs or particle systems that alter the look and feel of Quake substantially.
Of course, I do like "rounded" particles rather than the giant square pixels in old software Quake, heh.
#1277 posted by Gunter on 2016/10/26 01:58:09
Hahaha... ok... REVELATIONS.
I decided to go and look for myself in the original (that's DOS Quake.exe 1.08 and original GlQuake whatever version it was) executables to see for myself....
So you can basically forget all my well-thought-out and valid arguments for why ProQuake's centerprint positioning should be used. My new argument is:
"You've changed Quake's default behavior!! I don't like it!! Change it back right now!! Too many changes are a bad thing!!!!!1"
Yep, that's right, original Quake's centerprint positioning is IDENTICAL to ProQuake's!
...as you can see in this screenshot of original DOS Quake in all its pixely glory at maximum resolution of 800x600:
It's also identical in that if the centerprint is 3 lines or fewer, it starts more toward the center of the screen, but if it's more lines than that, it appears up near the top of the screen.
Also, you can see that the scoreboard is stuck up near the top of the screen, just like those ProQuake screenshots I provided earlier (and the centerprint text is still visible when scoreboard is up, but not when the Menu is up -- is that what people were talking about?)
Actually, again, I don't hate that centerprints are hidden when the scoreboard is up, but I don't love it either....
And don't actually forget all my previous arguments, heh; they are still completely valid! I still would prefer ALL centerprints, even those of 3 lines or fewer, to be positioned closer to the top of the screen... But I think I can perhaps force that to happen by padding the bottom with empty lines... hm, I'll have to test that.
But yeah, scoreboard and centerprint positions should be just like in ProQuake, which is just like in original Quake, because:
1. It is more optimal for all the reasons I have mentioned about obscuring the important part of the view,
2. OMG, you changed Quake's default behavir and I don't like it and youneed to fix it right nao!!!1!!
#1278 posted by
on 2016/10/26 02:53:33
Has Gunter won the centerprint wars?
Tune in later to find out!
#1279 posted by Baker on 2016/10/26 03:58:01
A new version is going to be out in the 24-48 hours. 15 changes. Includes DarkPlaces/FTE-like "apropos" ability, which every engine should have.
/Wish had time to fix NightFright's Malice "knockback effect" issue, since he did so much mod compatability testing/bug resolution verification. AAA+++ beta tester.
/So is Gunter/Fifth/Spy/OTP/Pulsar and so many others. Gunter may argue too hard at times, but he sure tests stuff great ;-)
#1280 posted by Gunter on 2016/10/26 06:12:32
I argue hard, I bug-test hard!
Nice! New update.
What is "apropos" stuff?
Here's a quickie "bug" I just encountered. I was trying to type "%complete" and it came out as "100omplete" because apparently %c is a macro for my remaining Cells.... And I guess there are many more such macros. There should be a much more rare macro indicator, like %% instead of just %, perhaps.
I'm preparing a 50-page powerpoint presentation to support my position on this.... I'll post it later!
Apropos Xxxxx
#1281 posted by
on 2016/10/26 06:30:39
is a console command that lists all cvars containing xxxxx.
ex: apropos particles
I Lied
#1282 posted by Baker on 2016/10/26 08:38:06
Malice is fixed too.
Apropos Apropos
#1283 posted by
on 2016/10/26 08:52:51
As some of you may know, I'm French and "� propos" means "about" in french. Why not have settled on an About command instead? I mean usually, all command names are in english...
#1284 posted by Baker on 2016/10/26 09:18:41
Hahaha, you're on to me. You are ruining everything!
Hyar Hyar Hyar!!
#1285 posted by
on 2016/10/26 09:50:37
But seriously, it was a genuine question. Was someone French on the team of the first engine that implemented this command or something?
#1286 posted by
on 2016/10/26 14:30:43
I think Apropos is just one of those words that the Folks Across The Channel nicked off with a while back and started using for themselves.
Interestingly, Google's dictionary functionality suggests that Apropos doesn't
mean "About", at least not in English. It says "with reference to; concerning.", which is still appropriate to some degree but perhaps not the best choice of words.
#1287 posted by Gunter on 2016/10/26 19:32:14
Ah, "find" looks like it could be useful.
Uh, it does appear that centerprints are being shown when the Menu is active. Standard Quake doesn't do that (and it does look bad).
Also, I think maybe %c% would be a better format for the macros. That ensures that they only occur when someone intentionally wants them to.
Bug. Try this: take any map, rename it dm6.bsp and put it in like quake\test\maps\dm6.bsp
Now run Mark V -game test
Go to start a new single player game through the menus.
It will dump you onto that "dm6" map instead of the Start map. I saw this happen with another test map too, which was named like fvf_hallo.bsp
Actually, I'm not sure the name of the map is important. It seems to do this no matter what the name.... I've seen (and mentioned) this happening before, but I haven't give it a thorough testing. But it should be reproducible.
But perhaps this may have something to do with the "autocomplete" feature that looks for map names automatically?
#1288 posted by Baker on 2016/10/26 21:45:30
Loc support -- Mark V has nothing to do with it nor how it works. Load up DarkPlaces, ProQuake, Qrack, FTE or ezQuake type "say %h" in the console and see what happens. As I understand it, id Software wrote the spec.
Automatic start map support -- if you use -game and that gamedir has maps, Mark V is going start those instead if you are using a gamedir when you do single player new game. Mark V is oriented towards single player releases. So if you have a gamedir and it has maps named ruinsstart.bsp, ruins1, ruin2 it is going to load ruinsstart.bsp. If it only finds 1 map, it will load that one.
Automatic Start Map Support
#1289 posted by mh on 2016/10/26 22:29:45
It's worth noting that this was discussed around the community some years ago, and the described behaviour was a community consensus decision.
#1290 posted by Gunter on 2016/10/26 23:58:08
Hm, I see.
Well, "the community" was WRONG about this :D
Where did this discussion take place? Got a link? I'd like to read over it and see how this "consensus" was arrived at....
This is bad behavior, altered from standard Quake, and uncontrollable by the user (specifically, I don't WANT to go to a custom map when I go to start a new single-player game -- and if I do want to, I will change to the specific map myself). If I have several maps in my mod folder, it just picks one seemingly at random? Or does it work by alphabetical order? I don't know, but you can almost guarantee that it's not going to pick the specific custom map I might want to play, meaning that I'll have to change it manually anyway. In a folder full of maps, it's not likely to select the correct starting map for a custom episode either.
Testing that.... Yep. Looks like it's just grabbing the first map in alphabetical order... that is, unless there is any map that contains the word "start" in the name, in which case it prefers that. If you have 2 or more maps that contain the word "start" then it favors the one that's first alphabetically....
Of course, if there is a custom map named "start.bsp" for a custom episode (like with DOPA), then that will start automatically anyway.... that's standard Quake behavior.
All that this functionality does is ensure that one single map -- whichever has the preferred name in your folder full of maps -- will the the one that starts up every time you go to start a new single-player game. So unless the end user is wanting to play the same map every time, there is no benefit, because he'll still have to change maps manually after starting up.
The standard Start map is the starting map for various reasons, such as being small, without a lot of entities, so it loads up fast. This functionality could result in a larger map being selected as your single-player start map, which could take longer to load (ok, probably a barely noticeable delay in most cases, but still undesirable behavior).
If I'm going to have to rename maps so that the the one I want will load up, that's no different than the standard behavior of having a custom "start.bsp" in your maps folder.
Well, this isn't exactly a CRITICAL issue, but I will say that I absolutely hate it :D
And this isn't just "in theory" --
It has been happening to me for a while, every time I want to do some testing, when I start up a single-player game, and I had no idea why it was happening, and it forced me to have to manually switch back to the Start map....
Now let's hear from all the people who are actually making use of this feature often, without any issues of having to change maps manually anyway, because it selects the correct map they want to play every time :D
All I would really ask is an option to ENABLE this feature for those who might want it. Of course, I feel it should be DISABLED by default -- this is a pretty drastic change from standard Quake behavior. And it's a solution for a problem which doesn't exist -- you can already name a map start.bsp if you want that one to start by default.
And it further seems unneeded, because I see that you have added the really NICE functionality of the console command "maps" to see a list of your custom maps, and "map XXX[tab]" to auto-complete a map name. Now that's some fine, elegant, helpful, non-intrusive functionality right there. Love stuff like that. ;)
I suppose the ideal thing might be a map browser of some kind where you could scroll up and down the list and select the one you want.
And quickly checking my old Quake.exe... nope, no macros in original Quake or GlQuake (they print literally "%c" instead of your cells value), but it is in Proquake. So it's just one of those things someone came up with, and everyone imitated. But it could be more optimal in various ways.
Eh, not a major issue, but I don't care for it, since I don't use it. And the rare situation arises where it interferes with something I try to say.
#1291 posted by mh on 2016/10/27 00:21:13
I find this particularly ironic.
You want a change from default Quake behaviour when that change suits you.
You hate a change from default Quake behaviour when that change doesn't suit you.
At this stage it's looking like you just want what suits you and to hell with anything else.
#1292 posted by Baker on 2016/10/27 00:27:57
loc support
- How it works and how it was defined has nothing to do with me; is not subject to my whims. You used ProQuake for 10 years, it was always there. Nothing to discuss, move along
single player default map
- This engine is oriented towards playing single player custom map releases just like func_msgboard! And it will be tomorrow and every day after that.
map browser
- Actually already has one. single player --> levels. Voila!
#1293 posted by
on 2016/10/27 00:28:18
And it's a solution for a problem which doesn't exist -- you can already name a map start.bsp if you want that one to start by default.
Except many modders are weirdos who like to name the start map of their mapset anything but start.bsp, even though their mod has its own directory.
This feature is for players, not developers. It allows to launch such weird map packs without using the console. If you like to test on start.bsp - you're probably knowledgeable enough to organize it without using the new game menu.
Dwere +5
#1294 posted by Baker on 2016/10/27 00:56:57
Yeah, Gunter please read dwere's comment. It is a real problem in single player.
#1295 posted by
on 2016/10/27 03:47:04
Except many modders are weirdos who like to name the start map of their mapset anything but start.bsp
Naming your start map "startsomething.bsp" is useful to avoid problems when you have a custom start.ent in \id1\maps. Otherwise you have to manually save the
.ent file of the mod whose start map is simply named start.bsp
#1296 posted by Baker on 2016/10/27 04:29:46
A problem that DarkPlaces can have -- but neither Quakespasm nor Mark V can ever have that problem.
The Quakespasm content protection system prevents
.ent files or
.lit files from upstream directories being used on models in downstream directories.
id1 (start.ent) -> arcane dimensions (start.bsp)
^^ NO, that start.ent cannot know about model in gamedir
Once I urged LordHavoc to add that system (I call it the "Quakespasm content protection system") to DarkPlaces. He didn't think that was a good idea.
So DarkPlaces suffers greatly from that problem even today.
#1297 posted by Gunter on 2016/10/27 04:32:15
mh, What specific issue are you talking about that I want to change from Quake's default behavior only because it suits me? That centerprint thing we were just discussing is a case where I WANT Quake's default behavior ;) And in that case it was you who was disagreeing when you thought it would be a change from Quake's default behavior, heh... soooo... aren't you doing the thing you accused me of?
What's ironic is that when people thought I was asking for a change to Quake's default, they seemed against it (ONLY for the reason that it was a "change"), but it turns out it was Quake's default all along (I only knew it was in ProQuake, which does stay pretty faithful to original Quake), and someone had changed it....
I'll quote Mugwump above, who said, "The point is the Fitz family of engines is more geared towards conservative Quakers. Therefore, changing things too much might not be a good idea."
That nails the point PRECISELY, and that's the position I approach from.
That doesn't mean NOTHING should be changed (certainly bugs should be fixed) -- and something like a more optimal positioning of centerprint is such an insignificant thing, and yeah, I would have advocated for that regardless of whether or not it was Quake's default. But I would NEVER push for something like, "centerprints should be in bright yellow text because I like it that way and it's more noticeable."
Do you see the difference there? One thing is just a minor optimization of text position which doesn't change the look or behavior of Quake, while the other thing is a major change from Quake's default look based on my own preference.
MINOR improvements and Behind-the-scenes-changes and options which CAN be enabled are great. FORCED changes from Quake's default, expected behavior are bad, especially when they cannot be disabled.
It's as simple as that.
And yeah, if you make a 4-sentence, pretty baseless attack on me, you get a multi-paragraph response fully describing my actual position ;)
By the way, what is your position on the centerprint thing now? It should use Quake's nice default instead of, as you said, "ugly hacks," right? :D
Come on people, don't be so serious. Then again, we're Quakers, and sometimes we just need to fire rocket launchers at each other ;)
You Fire Rocket Launchers?
#1298 posted by
on 2016/10/27 04:46:15
I just fire rockets...
@Baker We should petition LH to implement that protection system into DP. Let's show him how unnecessary it is!
#1299 posted by Gunter on 2016/10/27 06:41:13
I get that the engine is geared toward single-player maps, but this feature is not good toward that end, except in limited situations. Yes, mappers use weird names, but if it's an actual "mod has its own directory" then there will already be a progs to send you to the right map. If that's not the case, there's no guarantee the intended map will be correctly named for this to find it.
"Weird map names" is a reason this function will often fail to do as intended.
I'm not speaking hypothetically -- this is happening to me. I have the IIKKA and Terra map packs. They aren't "mods," just maps, so I have them all in the same folder, without their start maps (unneeded). I also have a modified DM6.
So when I go to start a Single Player game I get put on DM6 because that's first by alphabet. There is seriously no reason this should ever happen when I try to start a single player game...
Ok, so I don't have the IKstart or TerraStart maps, but even if I did, there would still be a problem -- I would always go to IKstart regardless of what I want, because it's first alphabetically and contains the word "start." I will never begin on the terra or orl start maps if I have those in there too, or any other map.
How does this help me if I want to play single-player map episodes other than IIKKA? How does it ever help me if I want to play a selection of standalone maps? It would only work if I put one map at a time into my maps folder, otherwise I'm always starting on the same map.
Seems most of the time this function is not helpful, unless you're using a lot of separate folders, and it even becomes a hindrance in some situations.
Sure, it will work as intended if you only have one map, or only one map pack, assuming their is an auspiciously-named start map included. But that's the end of it -- if you add other maps, it breaks down and you gain nothing.
What is the solution? It's already there! An excellent Map Browser! Now THAT is nice. I may have seen that before, but forgot about it.... But since we have that, and we can easily select whichever single map or starting map we actually want to play, why then do we even need an automatic forcing of a potentially unwanted map, especially if we are expecting a single-player game (of a mod) to put us on the standard Start map?
So yeah, Map Browser: Beautiful, non-intrusive, allowing full player control.
Forced Alphabetical Staring Map: Drastic change from Quake default behavior which is not controllable by the player.
Options in order of preference:
1. Remove it! Heh, It just seems more negative than positive, and the user-controlled (important!) Map Browser is the IDEAL way to do this. Seriously. Love that.
2. Disable it by default, as it is far removed from Quake's default behavior. Allow it to be turned on if someone really wants it...
3. Even if it's left on as the default (*shudder*), give me a setting to disable it. Then you won't hear me mention it again, because it will stop annoying me, heh.
4. Have it be more selective and ONLY function if there IS a map that contains the word "start." TerraStart, IIKKAstart, ORLstart, whatever. At least you KNOW those are actually meant as starting maps. This wouldn't fix the problems I mentioned above (with many maps in the same folder you'd still be starting on the same map every time, regardless of what you want), but it would stop it from happening for those who don't want it by allowing some user control -- just make sure to remove maps with "start" in the name from the maps folder, and it stops sending you to some map (like DM6!) just based on alphabet.
Heck, ya know what might be more useful than allowing the whims of the alphabet to select your starting map? Allow the user to select any map as the default starting map from within the map browser. "Press 'D' to set this as the default starting map."
Throw me a bone and give me SOMETHING to allow me to make it stop happening! :D
Don't get discouraged, Baker, heh. Even though I hate this feature, I still love the engine as a whole. But just because you CAN do something, and just because someone asks for it (... who asked for it anyway? was the idea really well-thought-out?) that doesn't necessarily mean it SHOULD be done. There should always be someone asking if there are truly good reasons to make changes, and pointing out the negative issues that can happen if those changes are implemented.
Yeah, that includes any changes I might ask for. But I support my suggestions with solid reasoning, with consequences fully considered, and you'll never see me asking for anything that changes the look, feel, or function of Quake in a drastic way.
It's the job of us modders to do that, not the engine coders ;)
I'm just happy that you're actually making some updates now instead of later in 2017 :D
#1300 posted by Gunter on 2016/10/27 06:43:24
loc file support -- is this not a separate issue from the macro format? I mean, it's not as if your hands are tied when you import something from another engine (just checked -- original Fitzquake didn't have this). Sure, maybe ProQuake chose to use %c as the macro, but you could choose to make it something like %c% instead (I mean, you changed "apropos" to "find" ;) ) It's just a matter of the user formatting their binds for the engine to access the loc files. But I guess all the other custom engines are using the %c format, so that's what players expect.... And anyway, this is a very minor thing, as I mentioned, which I don't care all that much about. But there's no reason to not talk about ways it might be improved....
#1301 posted by mh on 2016/10/28 09:16:25
No no no no no.
The centerprint positioning you want is not more optimal in the general case.
It's more optimal for your mod. It's more optimal for what you want to do. And that's leading you to downplay the importance of it's actual intended purpose.
A useful rule of thumb in cases like this is to ask yourself "what if two mods did this?"
So please, try to look beyond your own requirement and think about what would happen if two mods had different centerprint positioning needs.
That's why we have defaults and that's why defaults sometimes don't suit individual mods.
There is a useful dialog to be had about making centerprint positioning more flexible - maybe keep the default but stuff some control characters to the start of the string to override. But right now you're being just as inflexible about it yourself.
#1302 posted by Baker on 2016/10/28 09:33:43
Next version: Coop players spawn partially transparent, get less transparent each second.
While transparent, they may walk through each other/cannot be telefragged.
Maps without coop spawn points will be drastically less annoying for coop. Pure engine modification.
#1303 posted by Baker on 2016/10/28 09:51:54
Also in next version, Nehahra support is perfected and polished.
Includes fog support (yhe1, I think kept bringing it up) via non-standard commands that Nehahra uses and full fmod support.
Mark V starts up fmod if you activate Nehahra, shuts it back down if you change the gamedir back to id1. Also during the fmod startup, it adds the Nehahra special commands in and then removes them on shutdown.
/It has been discussed before that Nehahra tries hard and heavy to screw with your settings (fov, wateralpha, crosshair, viewsize, and on and on and on
... sheesh). The engine lies to Nehahra, pretending those things happened.
Hate To Triple Post ...
#1304 posted by Baker on 2016/10/28 10:09:02
Next version: The built-in install single player releases from Quaddicted via typing "install" in the console has been enhanced some.
The install command will autocompete 538 Quaddicted single player releases. It can install the ones that don't auto-complete, but I didn't want the lower rated releases to autocomplete.
And this subset is searchable similar to the "find" command, but I haven't been able to figure out a good name for it.
Misc stuff: the OpenGL build may be able to work for, say, Gunter or Jonathan with touchy OpenGL drivers. Added -nomultisample (<-- I think this is the villain) and -nostencil command line params, hopefully one of those will solve the issue, particular for Gunter who can run Quakespasm ok with r_oldwater 0. Also bind 3 three keys in menu in customize controls.
Shooting for a couple more things (and intentionally keeping something rather unusual a surprise)
... I've been wanting to get this engine completely polished up for over 2 years now.
Probably will have international keyboard support. I've procrastinated on that because of more serious issues, but modern ProQuake has had international keyboard support for ages and ages (I worked with Vegetous and rudl as beta testers back at the time.). Also want it to be able to be turned off on a whim, like ProQuake does.
#1305 posted by
on 2016/10/28 11:12:28
I'm a bit confused about this centerprint argument right now. Gunter wants it to be returned to how the original engines and some custom ones do it, mostly because it serves his needs better (the argument can be made that it's also good to be more like the "real deal" anyway...), but mh doesn't want that because it's considered worse for a lot of
mods/use cases.
If i've summed it up well enough, I can't see where this discussion can go from here. And I mean, it hasn't really been going anywhere regardless.
Actually No
#1306 posted by mh on 2016/10/28 17:29:56
There are two elements to it.
Part one is that the original engine suppressed centerprints when the menus were up. Some engines changed this behaviour to retain centerprints. This should be reverted.
Part one is not in dispute.
Part two is that the default positioning of centerprints should be changed to suit Gunter's mod and that the original intended purpose of centerprints is not as important as Gunter's mod.
Part two, and only part two, is in dispute.
#1307 posted by
on 2016/10/28 18:57:28
Now I don't know whether to use Mark V or QSS. I know it's too much to ask to make them a joint effort. This engine has x awesome feature and that engine has y awesome feature. And poor player doesn't know whether to get the camaro or the mustang, especially not when yall keep turbocharging them and adding cool features. To think I used my old beater WinQuake for so many years up until a couple years ago. Had to ditch DP since it didn't twist water right, plus it leaked oil all over my config file.
I'm tempted to compile a comparison chart so people can better pick the best engine. It'd be hard to keep up though.
#1308 posted by Gunter on 2016/10/28 19:32:55
You have it right, Pritchard. mh is confused.... Maybe he didn't fully digest the post I made where I showed that the positioning I want is actually the default positioning of original Quake.
See for yourself. Start a single-player game in original Quake, GL, or Proquake (which uses the same positioning). As you walk through a hall you will get the one-line message about "this hall selects whatever skill." Note the position above your crosshair. Now enter the first episode area, and you get the 4-line message about the dimension of the doomed. Note that it still starts at the same place, but is still fully above your crosshair position (assuming you aren't in a tiny resolution). All good. Now enter the second episode area where there is a FIVE-line message about the realm of black magic... but look where it is positioned! It's way up near the top (again, resolution dependent)! Why? Probably for the same reasons I talk about: so that it doesn't actually start to extend to the crosshair area and block that important area of your view, when instead you can move it upward because you have all that extra screen space where it could go instead.
This is NOT a case where I want to change the positioning JUST to suit my mod -- this positioning would be better for ANY mod that uses centerprints, and even for original Quake. So yeah, it IS more optimal for the general case.
id, in all their wisdom, chose this positioning for good reasons. I, in all my wisdom, wanted this positioning too, for good reasons, before I actually realized it was the original positioning, haha. I didn't know at first that this positioning was from original Quake (I've been away from Quake for a couple years :p ) -- I just knew that it had changed from what I was used to in ProQuake, and the change had made things less optimal, and it ended up obscuring my view in an unpleasant way.
So it turns out you actually agree with me, right mh? You think the default Quake behavior should be used, correct? Good, glad we have that settled.
Or are you focusing too much on the idea that I am wanting to change the PURPOSE of centerprint messages, from when I said, "But I think at this point they are no longer 'always important,' sooo.... they don't really need to be inconveniently in the middle of your view anymore :D"
Much like id's original statement, I was not being completely serious. id's original statement was a small joke (I thought it was funny anyway) -- it's simply not true that every centerprint in Quake is 'always important,' and they aren't even always inconveniently in the middle of your view, as I demonstrated above.
Sure, I did talk about even changing it a bit beyond the original positioning, but that's the kind of ideas that should get thrown around in threads lie this. After some testing, I have found that I actually have a great deal of control with id's original centerprint positioning.
If I want it to appear closer to the center of the view, I just make it 4 lines or fewer (that is the actual limit, now that I've checked for sure).
If I want it to appear near the top (it's "7 lines" from the top), I just make sure to pad it with extra lines ("one line\\n\\n\\n\\n" will appear at the top).
I can even move it below the crosshair area if I stuff in a bunch of extra lines above what I want to print....
I have lost this level of control in Mark V, so yeah, I would like it reverted to Quake's default behavior.
And apparently you agree with me, right mh? You seem to pretty strongly advocate for using "defaults..." So we are in total agreement here!
Now let me consider some of these other juicy changes Baker is adding in....
#1309 posted by
Johnny Law
on 2016/10/28 19:42:07
Yeah that's difficult since a lot of stuff is not well-documented, plus there's an avalanche of little things that someone may or may not care about.
One could try to do a chart comparing engine support for widescreen, rendering API, palettized rendering output, texture filtering, QW multiplayer, QW listen server, singleplayer, colored lighting, soundtrack music files (and in what formats), bsp2, map texture replacement, model texture replacement, alpha-masked textures, various fog behaviors,
.ent files,
.loc files, QC extensions, clientside QC, XInput controllers
... you could really keep going and going and even then never get to things like "centerprint behavior" :-) or corrected weapon-viewmodel-height or whether the demos play on startup. Which some folks really care about!
It might be a good thing to try to set up as a shared Google-docs spreadsheet that a few engine experts/aficionados would be interested in keeping up-to-date. I dunno. There's a chance it would just get dozens of feature-columns added for minor things which only apply to one specific Quake engine.
#1310 posted by
Johnny Law
on 2016/10/28 19:42:31
was replying to Qmaster there
#1311 posted by Gunter on 2016/10/28 19:45:26
"Coop players spawn partially transparent
... cannot be telefragged"
Brilliant! We do have that problem in FvF! Unfortunately, I don't think this is going to help me, heh. That would be a server thing, right? Polarite runs some linux proquake for the server.... Further, FvF doesn't actually run in coop mode -- it runs in a special deathmatch mode (coop 0, deathmatch 3), so all the doors are already open and we don't have to go around collecting keys and things most of the time. We just get to killing the monsters.
But this certainly give me the idea to try this change in the mod, instead of the standard 3-second spawn protection pent (which prevents telefragging, but causes people to sometimes be pushed into the floor). Hm, but what happens if the players are standing on top of each other when they became fully opaque?
I'm hopeful about the gl issue workarounds....
#1312 posted by
on 2016/10/28 20:31:40
That is pretty weird behaviour in WINQUAKE.EXE: set the res to 1024x768, walk up to the episode 2 entrance in start.bsp, and the 5-line message is near the top of the screen. The episode 4 message (4 lines) is just above the crosshair.
This feels like something where the code is fudged in a way that looks good at 320x240. (another is the weird left-aligned deathmatch hud)
Episode Messages
#1313 posted by
on 2016/10/28 22:26:04
The episode ending messages use WriteString, not centerprint and that is why they are at the upper portion of the screen.
@Johnny Law: Might do...sounds tedious but I do like that sort of thing.
#1314 posted by Gunter on 2016/10/28 23:54:51
Last night I was using chase_active 1 too look at some splashing water effect I'm trying, and I thought it would be nice if the crosshair was still accurate even in chase cam.
I used the autocomplete and found the chase_active setting which I had forgotten about, and toggled it on, and found that my crosshair was accurate in chase mode! Ok, that's nice.
However, chase_mode does not act in an intuitive manner -- I reported this as a bug in the past because I did not know what was happening. It seems that chase_mode cycles through 8 different modes (and most all of them are going to be completely non-useful, I think) without letting you know it's doing that. I did find that I can do "chase_mode 1" to specify I want that first mode with the accurate crosshair.
Perhaps the cycling of chase_mode should be followed by a notification, like "chase_mode is 4" or whatever.
And I guess this would throw everything off with crosshair accuracy, but it would really be nice if I could re-position the chase cam so that it was like right above my shoulder, as in many 3rd person shooter games (chase_right just doesn't work in chase_mode 1, etc).
Maybe one of the default chase_modes could be a view like that....
I can't tell what the difference is between chase_mode 1 and chase_mode 2. Chase_mode 3 and higher are rather crazy.
Quake has had chase cam for a long time; it's just never been that useful. Having an accurate crosshair even in chase mode is a big improvement. I just need to be able to move the cam to the right a bit so my guy isn't blocking my aim....
#1315 posted by Baker on 2016/10/29 00:35:21
Chase_mode is a "for fun" feature.
Gives different camera perspectives, possibly for making a "movie"/.avi/Youtube video.
Games with sophisticated camera control have massive C++ libraries created by paid game professionals, sometimes involving camera hint entities and such in the maps.
Like shadows, chase_active 1 is just a hack. I gave some extra flexibility for making a Quake vid and
... gave it an MH tune up where MH made the chase camera collide with the wall far more accurately. Used to be something mh and I talked about a ton, haha.
But once I saw the massive C++ camera code in commericial class engines, yeah
... sadly it's a lost cause.
Won't be altering chase_mode for the foreseable future. Have more important issues.
I'm just one person.
#1316 posted by Baker on 2016/10/29 00:58:05
I'll probably be making at least some light documentation since it looks like the engine will finally be out of beta testing stage -- a place its been living due a lack of time.
Window Switching Gamma
#1317 posted by Gunter on 2016/10/29 18:53:27
I don't know how fixable this would be, but I'll mention it.
I have an altered gamma profile on my netbook, to brighten the screen a bit -- the default is too dark. It loads up automatically in windows once I set it in the graphics properties.
Mark V uses hardware gamma, as you have mentioned, and it looks good in the game.
If I run Mark V in a window, I can see that my other windows are even brighter than usual, but when I switch away from Mark V (or when I exit Mark V) it returns my netbook to the default setting instead of my altered gamma profile (switching back to Mark V changes it again to the gamma settings I made in Mark V -- of course, this all still applies when I run in fullscreen too; it's just easier to notice when I run in a window).
It's not a huge problem, since I have a taskbar icon I can use to set my gamma profile, but ideally it would return my gamma profile to what was selected before I started Mark V, rather than the default (which is "no adjustment").
#1318 posted by Baker on 2016/10/29 19:07:56
You can do vid_hardwaregamma 0 in Mark V and only get contrast correction (no gamma). Only other option.
#1319 posted by Baker on 2016/10/29 19:11:34
Next version: Marcher is fully coopable; engine overrides bad keys behaviors in coop.
#1320 posted by Baker on 2016/10/29 19:20:22
I might add a texture gamma option into the (it won't be very flexible though) next one. I want to see what texture gamma would look like (it might look nice, it might look "wrong" -- only one way to find out).
Mark V already can apply gamma/contrast, it does it to screenshots when hardware gamma is used so the screenshots look like what you see on the screen -- I just don't have it setup to do that when loading textures.
#1321 posted by Gunter on 2016/10/30 00:09:31
Ah. Well, as I reported a while back, the Contrast adjustment makes everything look really good, except fullbright textures, which it makes look pretty bad (really washed out, losing a lot of the variations in color). So I ended up turning contrast all the way down.
If there was a way to have contrast not affect fullbright things (like wall torches), that would be great.
Interestingly, when the Menu is up and the rest of the screen is kind of "darkened" then the fullbright textures look good again, and you can see the fine variations in color in them.
Also, I think I saw this in FTE, but it's really nice how, when you have selected gamma or contrast in the menu, that "darkened" effect goes away, so that you are actually seeing what the game is going to look like while you are adjusting the colors.
Here, visual aid:
I really like the way contrast makes everything else look (colors are vibrant, especially the screen text, which becomes much easier to read); it just crunches the heck out of fullbrights.
#1322 posted by Gunter on 2016/10/30 02:48:54
Could something be done about the visual glitch commonly known as "z-fighting?"
It's what you see when two surfaces are at exactly the same location, and the engine seems to draw them both, producing really ugly, flickery/flashy results...
One of the best (worst?) examples of this is the large platform in the water on e2m2, which must be raised to get to the exit area. When it's lowered, it's at exactly the same level as the water surface, and it looks reaaaaly bad (this issue only occurs in 3D engines -- not software renderers such as Mark V Winquake).
And it's not always a z-axis issue -- the same thing can be seen on e4m5 where the secret door opens at the start.
I suppose the engine should favor drawing any map brushes over door entities to address this.
I use an ugly hack in FvF and move every door and wall entity on every map by a tiny amount (less than one unit) just so they never appear at exactly the same position as a brush! It eliminates the z-fighting (or x or y-fighting), but it causes tiny cracks to appear near many doors, if you look really closely, heh. But that's a much less ugly thing than the z-fighting.
#1323 posted by Baker on 2016/10/30 02:17:16
gl_zfix 1. It is off by default.
Z fix fighting fixes in engines are evil.
On some graphics cards due to different calculations, they will reveal secret doors.
On other graphics cards the z fighting calculation may not fix z fighting the same.
There is no such thing as a z fighting fix, just a way to try to cover up problems where the solution may yield different problems (hidden doors being exposed).
#1324 posted by
on 2016/10/30 04:01:57
The way I always understood it, z fighting was a mapping error. As in, don't let two valid surfaces occupy the same place, doors exactly the same thickness as the wall they slide into and that sort of thing.
#1325 posted by Gunter on 2016/10/30 04:30:32
Ah, thanks. gl_zfix 1 is a definite improvement, but not perfect for me (as you said).
It works better the closer I am to a surface. If I'm right up on something, it looks fine, but the farther away I move, the more it z-fights.
#1326 posted by Baker on 2016/10/30 04:35:45
In a perfect world, an OpenGL engine could use what WinQuake uses which as I understand it, clips away at doors and platforms where they occupy the same space as the world. Would be complicated and probably CPU expensive.
A different alternative would be someone making external
.ent files to correct maps by nudging the entities on a case-by-case basis. But this isn't always possible. Mark V does this for a couple of maps internally (E1M1, E1M2,
..). quakespasm.pak has a few
.ent files using this process. Plenty of instances where that cannot fix the issue, though.
#1327 posted by Baker on 2016/10/30 04:40:05
... yeah z-fighting fixes suffer from the "fine tuning" problem
"Hey, this looks right on this map, where I am currently standing, with my specific video card, at this angle, if I don't go around and look at any more entities in the current map,
#1328 posted by Baker on 2016/10/30 08:38:20
(pesky stuff) in next one:
1) Zoom: One-size fits all solution that handles specific sensitivity, fov, r_viewmodel_fov values according. dwere brought this up.
2) scr_showspeed - On-screen speed indicator, so someone wanting to speedrun a map or see how fast they can strafe jump doesn't miss JoeQuake.
2) renamed warppos to setpos for consistency with Quakespasm
3) scr_showpos -- for consistency with Quakepsasm r_pos will suggest this command. This is an on-screen indicator, not a console print one.
4) skyfog, wateralpha, slimealpha (etc) worldspawn keys ericw proposed as a standard
5) Curb stomps a couple of things in default.cfg overriding certain horrible Quake default keys, using a WASD setup for the keyboard. Only does this for default.cfg in id1/pak0.pak, does not interfere with mods that override that.
#1329 posted by Gunter on 2016/10/30 17:26:25
I wonder if anyone has made a list of all instances of z-fighting in standard Quake?
There aren't all that many "major" places where it happens. It's actually pretty easy fix in QuakeC, heh, just by giving the appropriate entity a different value for either start position or end position when the map is first loaded. It's certainly easier to do it that way than to edit all the maps (one modified progs.dat as opposed to a bunch of modified maps)....
#1330 posted by mh on 2016/10/30 17:34:30
All of this happened years ago, none of this is anything new.
#1331 posted by Baker on 2016/10/30 23:02:29
It's certainly easier to do it that way than to edit all the maps (one modified progs.dat as opposed to a bunch of modified maps)....
Depends on your tools. External
.ent files doesn't need QuakeC, it's like doing -onlyents map recompile.
In Mark V do this:
1) "copy ents"
... copies the entire map entity string to the clipboard.
2) Save that as c:/quake/id1/maps/e3m3.ent
3) With the map in Mark V, type tool_inspector 1
4) Press 3 for the graphical display to show the edict #.
5) In the console type "edict 55" if the edict # is 55.
You can just find the map entity in the
.ent and change numbers.
I'm only pointing out what you can do with tool_inspector in Mark V.
#1332 posted by Gunter on 2016/10/31 03:39:18
Ah, that is pretty cool. Yeah, tool_inspector is a great feature -- I've found that very useful.
I didn't know about "copy ents," or really ent files in general. That seems like it would be a nice solution for engines that support it... but in practice it doesn't seem to work.
Looks like the ent information doesn't really contain ALL the information for the ent, and I can't seem to change an origin of a door using the ent file, even if I add a line for it. I know setting an origin can be tricky....
Hm, it looks like "copy ent" loads the information directly from the bsp (ignoring any changes I've made from the progs), and the ent file stuff is only applied if there's a difference between it and what's in the original bsp. And that happens after any progs changes have been applied (overriding any changes I make with QuakeC).
Also, having a blank ent file (as I first crated when testing) will prevent you from loading a level, heh, because "Host_Error: SV_ModelIndex: model progs/player.mdl not precached"
#1333 posted by Baker on 2016/10/31 04:07:11
.ent file is just to replace the entity text in a
.bsp (without recompiling the
.bsp without doing -onlyents, which would replace that text).
Open a
.bsp in a text editor, go to very near the bottom, that's the entity information.
It won't exactly match the output of the "edicts" or "edict x" command because some of the edict entity information is filled in at run-time.
An example is modelindex. The
.bsp (the map) has no idea what that will be, because a map have idea what progs.dat will be running, etc., etc.
But some fields will be exactly the same much of the time, like "spawnflags". A monster's origin if stationary, door information, etc.
#1334 posted by Baker on 2016/11/02 21:41:47
Next will have:
1) Texture gamma option, change it on-the-fly. Uses no cpu/gpu. Should work on gunter's old video card. The no cpu usage/cpu usage thing was the appeal.
2) Gun positioning cvar r_viewmodel_scale. Similar to ezQuake/FuhQuake Can move the gun forward and more prominent.
3) Automatic 2D console/status bar scaling -- Small | Medium | Large or off and use the different FitzQuake cvars.
Change resolution and it will use the best non-jaggies combination of settings based on your preference.
#1335 posted by Baker on 2016/11/03 12:38:01
And "ProQuake" centerprint option --- which is just the same place that original Quake did centerprint. scr_winquake 1 to turn it on. Also sets the scoreboard at the top of the screen.
Mostly doing this because next update could be the last one for a very long time.
#1336 posted by Baker on 2016/11/03 12:55:13
Might add:
if (scr_center_lines <= 4)
..... y = vid.height * 0.35;
.. else
..... y = 48;
Is the original Quake code. And quite terrible, really.
So if less than 4 lines of text, sort of center it on the screen (sort of). If more than 4 lines, do it way up near the top.
So if the resolution gets really high, that discrepancy in positioning will get very large between the positioning of a 4-line centerprint vs. a 1-liner.
It is what it is.
I basically prefer the FitzQuake way provided the text is ensured to be above the crosshair.
/But then you have compatibility
... and I get that too. Hence, upcoming option I don't entirely like to begin with.
#1337 posted by mh on 2016/11/03 17:14:20
What seems obvious is that the intention of that code is to fit a 320x200 display. Original releases of GLQuake scaled the menus, console, sbar, etc to 320x200 via glOrtho.
What seems deeply fucking odd is that the very same code survived through software Quake, GLQuake, QuakeWorld, Quake 2 and presumably Hexen 2 although I don't have a copy of it's source handy for cross-checking.
I stand by saying that the stated intention of centerprints is for important messages that the player needs to be pay attention to and that obstructing your view is the correct and desired behaviour.
Something like y = (vid.height * 0.35) - (scr_center_lines * 4) seems a better compromise to me.
#1338 posted by Baker on 2016/11/03 19:39:29
@mh - Mark V uses a formula not too different than that.
#1339 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/04 01:11:32
It's really not as terrible as one might first think. It actually provides a great deal of control over the positioning of the centerprint (as I previously mentioned).
Also, it does seem worse when you use standard winquake or glquake (or proquake) in very large resolutions where the text gets teeny tiny, so the positioning is affected quite a bit, BUT this is not a problem with the centerprint positioning -- it's a problem with the text size, and Mark V lets us scale the text size up regardless of screen resolution, so the weirdness of positioning of teeny tiny text is really not an issue -- at least not for anyone who scales the text size up to something more reasonable/standard-looking.
Speaking of teeny-tiny text, I tried out the tool_texturepointer thing, and it does not scale the text up along with my other text, so it remains teeny tiny and hard to read in large resolutions.
Anyway, thanks so much for providing the option to use Quake's standard centerprint positioning. This ensures compatibility so that the text will appear as the modders intended (as they saw it in Quake), with pretty much every Quake mod (and standard Quake itself) -- assuming the user's text size is also scaled to a more "normal-looking" setting for Quake
Ya know, I don't think id designed Quake to only run in 320 x 200 -- that's just the minimum supported resolution. And text size is pretty unwieldy at that resolution (not to mention the console is too large); you can hardly tell the difference in the position of 4 or 5 line centerprints when in 320x200. I highly doubt they never tested it in the higher resolutions; they didn't just accidentally position the centerprints the way they did because they neglected to test in anything but 320x200....
#1340 posted by mh on 2016/11/04 01:38:17
I'm pretty certain that it wasn't exclusively designed around 320x200... Although conback.lmp is 320x200 so you sure can't make assumptions.....
Nonetheless, I'm also pretty sure that there are huge chunks of the engine that were designed around hardware constraints of the time. The whole zone/cache/hunk thing in the memory manager, for example, is so obviously designed around "must run in 8mb memory".
#1341 posted by Baker on 2016/11/05 14:40:04
Just found this on my hard drive. Dated 2 minutes ago. It is an interesting screen shot.
4-player split screen
Holy Snaps
#1342 posted by
on 2016/11/05 14:53:11
Need tbh. Gonna play some DM with my buddies!
Will it have multi pad support somehow?
#1343 posted by Baker on 2016/11/05 14:59:55
I don't at the moment have a plan for input, that's the hitch.
Maybe within the next week or two after thinking things over, I can come up with a plan for input.
#1344 posted by Baker on 2016/11/05 15:15:04
Boring stuff: next version will clear any aliases send via stuffcmd to the client upon disconnect.
Posting a 2nd screen shot of 4-player:
4-Player Shot #2
#1345 posted by
on 2016/11/05 15:19:23
cool stuff! did it require a lot of code changes?
#1346 posted by
on 2016/11/05 16:11:25
You could do like Blaster Disaster and support two people on the keyboard, one person on a multi-button mouse, and one person on a joystick/gamepad.
Downsides: keyboard players would be stuck with oldschool no mouselook. All players would probably only be able to change weapons via cycling up or down except for maybe one of the keyboard players. Mouse player might need to steel a couple keys for strafing (laptop users would definitely be crowded).
#1347 posted by Baker on 2016/11/05 16:15:04
Boring stuff: sv_gameplayfix_setmodelrealbox for Quake Rally or other old mods that need original Quake bugged setmodel.
I've got a video of the four-player uploading now. Sadly, the video is 1 GB and it says 1 hour, 17 minutes remaining on the YouTube upload.
@ericw -- I went full retard. Never go full retard. I literally posted the screenshot 2 minutes after I got the prototype working.
With any luck, the new version will out today or tomorrow.
#1348 posted by
on 2016/11/05 16:15:55
Just opened up ol Blaster Disaster and it let you have up to 8 players:3 keyboard, 1 mouse, 4 joysticks.
#1349 posted by Baker on 2016/11/05 17:28:54
@qmaster - I'll solve the input solution with some thought. Spike, R00k and myself have had numerous conversation about FTE split-screen in the past.
#1350 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/05 18:08:03
Wow, that's pretty cool.
I think you will definitely need joystick/gamepad support for that to be usable.
Perhaps the simplest thing to get it working at first, may just be to have one joystick configuration (button 1 = jump, button 2 = fire, etc., however the user sets it up), and just copy that behavior for gamepad 1, 2, 3, and 4, with each gamepad sending its input to player 1, 2, 3, 4.
Otherwise each gamepad will need to be configured separately. Which would probably be ideal in the long run, but just having one configuration for joystick input may be easier just to get it working.
Keyboard input should probably always be for player 1 (the one in control of the computer, which would often be the "server," in effect). Hm, but I hope it be able to connect all the extra players to an online server too....
But I'm already imagining hooking my netbook to the large TV screen and playing couch-coop splitscreen Quake! I have plenty of PS3 gamepads (which are basically just USB gamepads in Windows).
#1351 posted by Baker on 2016/11/05 18:14:34
There's a video I posted in the General Abuse thread. Read the names of the players in the scoreboard.
#1352 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/05 18:35:39
Hah, neat. Reposting that on the fvf forum....
Thinking more about gamepad input, due to the limited number of buttons on a gamepad as compared to a keyboard, you may need to implement a "shift" key functionality.
Pressing Button 1 alone causes you to attack.
Pressing Button 2 does nothing by itself, -- it's a "shift" key.
Pressing Button 1 while holding Button 2 causes some alternate action, like changing your gun.
That's how they did the Playstation port of Diablo.
This could be added into Mark V as a standard feature -- not just for gamepads.
Perhaps something like:
bind ctrl +attack
bind alt @shift
bind @ctrl +jump
Now the ctrl key can be used to attack, or to jump if you are holding down alt at the same time.
Yeah, it doesn't seem as useful when you could just use alt to jump, since there are plenty of other keys on the keyboard, but you could bind lots of other keys or mouse buttons to shift their behavior too, like:
bind mouse2 +moveup
bind @mouse2 +movedown
bind mouse3 (next weapon impulse)
bind @mouse3 (previous weapon impulse)
It would give more options, which would be more useful for a gamepad.
I suppose you could even add more than one "shift" key, so ctrl could be @shift and alt could be #shift or something.
Then you have even more overly-complcated things to bind!
bind ctrl @shift
bind alt #shift
bind mouse1 +attack
bind @mouse1 +jump
bind #mouse1 "say I can do 3 confusing things all with one mouse button!"
Joypad Support In Quakespasm
#1353 posted by
on 2016/11/05 21:04:15
Is pretty damn near perfect btw.
#1354 posted by
on 2016/11/05 21:05:21
I have all the major console controllers to test with
HUD Icons In Official Mission Packs
#1355 posted by zbikey on 2016/11/06 16:07:57
Hello, first of all great job on the engine, it's definitely my favourite.
I'm playing Scourge of Armagon and Dissolution of Eternity for the first time and using the winquake executable of Mark V for the original look. I've noticed that in both expansion packs the hud icons for new weapons are not displayed properly. In Dissolution the weapon in use should have a "lava glow" and in Armagon there should be unique weapon icons. These effects are completely missing. I'm using the GOG version of the games.
Should these icons be working properly in Mark V?
#1356 posted by Baker on 2016/11/06 16:54:46
@ zbikey -- Theory
... make sure you started the command line right
cmdline: -game hipnotic -hipnotic
cmdline: -game rogue -rogue
(The -hipnotic activates the hipnotic HUD)
If you prefer to switch to the gamedir in the console instead, it is basically the same:
In console: game hipnotic -hipnotic
In console: game rogue -rogue
Let me know if that was the issue!
@fifth, when the time comes I'll definitely need your help with the gamepad support.
My first priority is getting out the new release, getting feedback on it to see if there are any outstanding issues to make sure Mark V can finally become non-beta for the first time in a few years.
Then I can confidently proceed to make split-screen a standardized feature and add controller support.
That Did It
#1357 posted by zbikey on 2016/11/06 17:06:11
Everything is working perfectly. Sorry, I should've looked for the solution myself, didn't think there would be a command line for this. Thanks so much!
#1358 posted by Baker on 2016/11/06 17:10:30
It's a common problem.
#1359 posted by
on 2016/11/06 18:39:10
It's a common problem.
The command line or the people who ask without looking first?
Multiplayer Save Games Working.
#1360 posted by Baker on 2016/11/06 23:42:46
Multiplayer save games working.
/Never looked at either DarkPlaces or FTE. I think DarkPlaces might have feature; FTE is known to have feature.
Darkplaces Does Have Saving For Coop
#1361 posted by
on 2016/11/07 19:01:59
#1362 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/08 06:37:00
Hm, this is a bit beyond the type of thing I usually ask for... but is it even possible to allow some kind mod-side support for drawing things transparently? Like, client-side (similar to the way you draw the viewmodel transparent when the player is invisible), even if the server isn't using a protocol that sends alpha information....
I guess the problem would be that the server doesn't send much information to each client other than like the model, location, and frame of another entity, right?
So, for example, you couldn't just draw something transparent based on a
.field of an entity....
It would have to be something like a
r_transparentlist progs/wizard.mdl,progs/bolt.mdl,progs/laser.mdl
Or perhaps somehow allowing only certain frames to be transparent, like progs/wizard.mdl:5-7,
I guess that doesn't give much control with a mod, other than just stuffing the list to the clients when they connect....
What I was hoping to achieve would be transparent observers.... I suppose if I could make one certain frame of the player.mdl designated as transparent, I could just avoid using that frame during any other animation, and have observers only use that frame when they are flying around (that frame being 71, heh)....
Just brainstorming here.....
#1363 posted by Baker on 2016/11/08 13:37:44
It both can and cannot be done.
FitzQuake protocol 666 supports
.alpha on entities.
Do this:
1) Start E1M1
2) Console type: copy ents
3) Open text editor, paste it. Save as c:quakeid1mapse1m1.ent
4) Add this at bottom of e1m1.ent text file, then save again.
"classname" "func_illusionary"
"model" "progs/player.mdl"
"origin" "430 574 24"
"alpha" "0.5"
5) Load E1M1. You will see what I am talking about.
So it can be done automatically with FitzQuake protocol 666.
FitzQuake 0.85 obv, Quakespasm, Mark V, Qrack, Super8, FTE all support FitzQuake 666 protocol.
DarkPlaces doesn't. ProQuake doesn't. Those clients would not be able to connect, but both of those are by far the 2 most likely clients someone connecting to your server would be using.
If you were to run FitzQuake 666 protocol, this would mean you would need to run something different as your server executable (couldn't be ProQuake, no
.alpha support).
In addition, if you were to use something non-ProQuake as the server, if you use qccx hacks to mask ip addresses that stuff would have to be stripped out your QuakeC source because it depends on fixed memory structures/memory addresses that only an adamantly retro-compatible engine like ProQuake can possibly support.
#1364 posted by mh on 2016/11/08 15:31:28
I guess that doesn't give much control with a mod, other than just stuffing the list to the clients when they connect....
Beware - this way lies madness. Or at least recreating Nehahra.
The problem with on-connect stuffing is that it doesn't survive save games. So you stuff every frame instead. And then you've recreated Nehahra.
Better options exist, such as saying "this requires an engine that supports
.alpha", or forking PQ and modifying it to support protocol 666 (which, if sensibly implemented, could potentially end up being taken back into the main branch).
#1365 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/08 17:40:37
.ent files -- could it be made so that having "missing" information in the
.ent file would let it fall back to using the original ent information (from the bsp)? For example, what if I made an ent file for e1m1 that ONLY contained the above line add the func_illusionary, without having all the other ent info in there? I know currently it will just cause an error and fail to load the map, because of all the "missing" ent information.... It seems like it should fall back to the original ent info in that case -- only loading modified or additional stuff from the
.ent file.
And that transparent func_illusionary doesn't seem to work right for me in DX Mark V (may be related to the previous thing I reported about the weapon model not being transparent UNLESS I have HQ textures enabled -- but in this case that doesn't help). It does make the fake player visible, but it's not transparent, and it's drawn strangely, like from back to front (or would that be front to back...); If I look at him from the front, I can see the gun strapped to his back.... If I set his alpha to "1" then it looks normal.
Ok, so what about having an r_transparentlist for the client to play with? It could just set certain things to always be drawn at 50% alpha.
There are quite a few things in Quake that might look better as transparent, like all the sprites (bubble, light ball, and explosion), all the lightning bolts, the large wall flames (though the torches would be problematic, since they have a wooden handle), possibly the lasers, probably the death knight spikes and scrag barbs, and maybe even the scrag itself.
And for my purposes, it would be nice if I could set one specific frame of the player model to be transparent -- maybe only have that effect kick in if the frame lasts longer than a couple tics in the game so that it doesn't occur during normal animations -- but that's just me thinking of possibilities -- I don't actually think you should add features that are only for specific mods, heh. But having some way for the client to control effects like transparency could be useful to everyone.
#1366 posted by
on 2016/11/08 20:05:33
Would a
.tga skin with 8-bit alpha work? I bet some clients already support that.
Fighting Z-fighting
#1367 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/11 23:33:58
"Mark V does this for a couple of maps internally (E1M1, E1M2,
Baker, your anti-z-fighting hack is conflicting with my anti-z-fighting hack, heh.
On e1m1, you seem have have Mark V moving that secret lift down by like 26 units?
That's bad; here's why:
I think this, again, is something you shouldn't change engine-side UNLESS there is a way to turn it off. (Actually, I am all for trying outside-the-box stuff like this, even engine-side, but it's important that the defaults remain the defaults).
Because... I am tweaking things mod-side to eliminate z-fighting by altering door positions VERY slightly (0.15 units, which may just be rounding up to 0.2 units). There are various ways to implement this, with various side effects. The current thing I'm trying moves vertical "doors" (that hidden lift is actually a door that moves up and down) slightly down (and sideways) by 0.15 units. This seems to work great in most cases, but it causes a problem with that lift in e1m1 because you have already adjusted its position by a comparably large amount (you were aiming to make it flush with the ledge it goes up to, right?). So now after I adjust that down by a tiny amount, it's slightly below the ledge it raises up to, which causes the player to be blocked by that tiny lip when he tries to step off the lift!
You really only need to adjust something's position by 0.15 units to avoid the z-fighting.... And any hack like this in the engine needs to be capable of being disabled.
AND, if you're gonna tweak things like this, you should try to fix ALL z-fighting, like I'm doing mod-side, heh. Don't just go half-way!
Currently here's what I'm doing mod-side, just in case you wanna try similar things, heh:
func_plat -- adjust origin UP by 0.15 units. These are visible lifts, so just need to be sure they aren't on the same plane as the floor (e2m3 lift leading to top level).
func_wall -- move their origin perpendicular to their wide side by 0.15 units. Many of these are the "exit" signs that are usually on the same plane as the walls they are near. (e2m2 exit in DM mode, for example). Moving them on their "wide side" makes sure they are offset from those walls. e.g.,:
if (self.size_x > self.size_y) self.origin_y = self.origin_y + 0.15;
else self.origin_x = self.origin_x + 0.15;
fd_secret_use -- fix secret doors just by altering their end position. They already move in 2 directions, so won't be on the same plane as the wall they are on, but their end position may slide their narrow side to be exactly aligned with the wall (start area secret door on e2m3). Fix just by telling the door to not slide quite as far into the wall (the "v_forward * -0.15" is added to this line):
self.dest2 = (v_forward * -0.15) + (self.dest1) + (v_forward * (self.t_length));
Regular doors is where it gets a bit more tricky.
in func_door, just before it sets pos1 and pos2, check if it's a vertical-moving door (like our e1m1 lift), and change its origin by a bit (down, and along its wide side). We can do that safely here because these things don't need to blend into walls, so we won't be making any weird cracks where they shouldn't be:
if (self.movedir == '0 0 -1' || self.movedir == '0 0 1') {
self.origin = self.origin - (v_up * 0.15);
if (self.size_x > self.size_y) self.origin_y = self.origin_y + 0.15;
else if (self.size_x < self.size_y) self.origin_x = self.origin_x - 0.15;
setorigin(self, self.origin);
If there is no "wide side" for most doors, then you probably don't need any sideways adjustment... but otherwise you may need to adjust even for vertical doors, like for the gates blocking the exit on e2m7.
For regular doors you pretty much do the same adjustment as above, but only after the door reaches its open position, in door_hit_top (check to make sure it's NOT a vertical moving door there -- we fixed those above). You don't wanna move a door's origin like we did for the vertical ones, because sliding doors often need to blend in with walls, and moving them can make tiny cracks appear. And only moving the "end" position is safer -- it probably won't cause any weird side-effects.
And I've seen some pretty weird side effect with the various things I've tried tweaking to eliminate z-fighting, heh! But this is my most recent stuff (subject to change/improvement); it seems to work well. The only flaw with the current implementation is that there might be some z-fighting happening WHILE a door is still moving, but it will go away once the door is fully open.
Of course, I don't actually have a full list of all places in Quake where z-fighting occurs so that I can check, but these alterations should theoretically eliminate all of them! It will even prevent z-fighting where it was never occurring in the first place, because it affect ALL the doors, haha! But the idea is to alter them (ALL!) in such a small manner that it won't be noticeable or cause any problems.
#1368 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/13 16:03:30
Eh, I posted my (current) full code and explanation for my anti-z-fighting hack over on the FvF forum (guess I didn't need to clutter this thread with it, heh), if anyone would like to really examine or comment on it:
Yes, I know it's a hack, heh, but it's an effective hack, and easier to implement than many other options (this will work for every client, without having to modify all the individual base maps).
The theoretical potential negative issue is that it's very broad, affecting everything globally to be sure it gets everything it needs to. If I actually had a list of all the instances of z-fighting in Quake, I could probably narrow the focus to make sure I'm only affecting things that need it. But I'm fairly certain it's not causing any significant negative side-effects. And you won't see any (persistent) z-fighting anywhere in FvF! (In theory!)
#1369 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/14 16:28:32
An idea to toss out:
All bronze chat text tends to blend together, making it hard to quickly recognize text from each individual person.
What if chat text were automatically color-coded for each chatter? Like if my pants are blue, my chat text is blue. That might be a bit difficult -- each color would need a different image of all the characters, right? I think that's how Quake does its text (like a bitmapped font).
Alternately, what about just putting a color box of the player's color next to his chat text (like the color boxes appear in the scoreboard, with shirt and pants color behind the score for each player). The color box could either be placed in front of the name of the player who's chatting, or it could replace the space after the : after their name. Imagine the [] is the color box:
[]Gunter: color box shows my shirt and pants color
Gunter:[]so you can easily recognize my chat lines in the console
Gunter[] or maybe just replace the colon itself....
Gunter[:] or just put the color box behind the colon.
At least one of those options might look good, heh.
Way Better Than Glass? ... Unlimited Mirror Support
#1370 posted by Baker on 2016/11/15 19:45:43
Unlimited Mirror Support - YouTube
No limit to the number of mirrors, provided they cannot see each other. You could have 10 mirrors on the same wall since mirrors on the same plane cannot see each other.
Engine scans surfaces for mirrors, generates additional visibility @ map load.
Same concept could be used for security cameras or even portals that preview the teleporter destination.
#1371 posted by
on 2016/11/15 19:49:52
That's quite a nice showing Baker! There are some really creative opportunities when using mirrors in this way.
Thanks for sharing.
Cool Stuff
#1372 posted by
on 2016/11/15 21:18:37
I remember this being a feature of Glide
Re-Texture In Real Time
#1373 posted by Baker on 2016/11/16 12:18:05
Retexturing In Real-Time
Tool Inspector
Added a "hdfolder" folder command to specify a content replacement folder which you can change in the console to switch to a different set.
#1374 posted by
on 2016/11/16 12:25:38
Inspector is a very nice idea!
Awesome Stuff Baker!
#1375 posted by
on 2016/11/16 13:17:55
Mark V - 1.00 Release
#1376 posted by Baker on 2016/11/16 13:42:39
Windows: Open GL | WinQuake (software renderer)
Windows: Direct3D
No new Mac build for now.
Primary Features
Mirror support
. Worldspawn key "mirroralpha". Textures must be prefixed with "mirror_". Can specify specific texture with r_texprefix_mirror. See the Quake startmap, go to easy hall.
No limit to # of mirrors, provided they cannot see each other (3 in a row on same plane = ok!).
Find command
. Type "find sky" or "find speed" and you'll see what I mean. Similar to the DarkPlaces apropros command.
Nehahra Support
is complete and fully polished to the absolute maximum. It's like a dream.
Built-In Quake Injector Install
now auto-completes 500+ of the best releases. Press CTRL+space to autocomplete or TAB.
Like type "install travail" or "install rapture" in the console, it downloads and installs it. Then type "game travail" and do Single Player->New Game.
"hdfolder" command
to specify an optional content replacement folder. Change it in the console.
Zoom key
. Bind x +zoom_key -- one size fits all script for sniping scrags across a bridge.
International keyboard support
. Needs tested for verification (in_keymap 0 turns it off).
Automatic HUD sizing
. See menu. No more using scr_menuscale unless you want to.
Stretching For WinQuake
version -- stretching. Play at 320x240 full-screen resolution even if video mode not available.
Co-Op, LAN and Networking Features
Co-Op ghosting
for 5 seconds -- walk through other players/no telefrag for first 5 seconds. No coop spawns? Who cares!
Marcher Fortress
can be be played co-operative, engine overrides a Marcher QuakeC oversight.
IPv6 support
(from QSS)
connect lan
, type that in console and no need to figure out LAN server IP address for playing co-op.
Server browser + single port server
. (from Quakespasm Spiked)
"reconnect" -- reconnects to last server connected to.
Multiplayer save game capability
. Save a co-op game.
Different gun positions
available including "side-mounted" (r_viewmodel_offset).
Multiple HUD-support
(i.e. Quakeworld HUD,
.. see menu)
Texture gamma option
. Do vid_hardwaregamma 0, and you can adjust gamma via typing "txgamma 0.7" in the console. No cpu/gpu cost.
Server Connectivity
Disconnecting from a server will discard any aliases the server provided.
Disconnecting form a server will discard any key binds the server sent.
Complete ProQuake support including depot map/model/sound download.
Final Malice bug fixed (for NightFright).
Original Quake centerprinting option. scr_originalquake2d
Ability to disable multisample attempt via cmdline -nomultisample. Same with stencil -nostencil. May make older computers be able to use OpenGL version.
Direct3D version can now do transparent weapon with invisibility ring. So can WinQuake build. (from qbism super 8)
Software renderer supports stretch modes.
Ability to have jerk stairs like original Quake. See menu.
sv_gameplayfix_setmodelrealbox for QRally and other ancient mods.
Source code
[Partial list, some other minor features may be in the thread. Source code link will work later in the day.]
Bug Report For New Version
#1377 posted by
on 2016/11/16 14:51:10
Exe: OpenGL version of Mark_v
Issue: Crashes to desktop
Replication: 100%
How to: Go to options, controls, press return key to bind move forward.
Visual Anomoly
#1378 posted by
on 2016/11/16 15:05:17
Testing the mirrors in gloom keep and I got this -
Also as the reflections are based on vis you tend to get HOM effects if you look at the mirrors from certain angles.
Further Bug
#1379 posted by
on 2016/11/16 15:07:27
For some reason I can't seem to pull down the console even though it's bound to tilde. I rebound it to z and it works.
#1380 posted by
on 2016/11/16 15:09:42
i can confirm the console bug.
#1381 posted by
on 2016/11/16 15:35:23
I think it's about time I reported something that pretty much makes Mark V unusable for me. It exhibits a fairly stable (once per few seconds, with some longer periods of running normally) lag. All three exe files are affected. fitzquake_mark_5.exe dated 2012-07-31 seems to work fine.
I'm using
machine running in a power saving mode due to overheating (maintenance is long overdue). Quakespasm runs fine on it, even when fairly big/complex maps are concerned, but Mark V is stuttering even on start.bsp.
And a minor nitpick: "previous weapon" and "next weapon" commands seem to be swapped, as my autoexec gives me the opposite of what I want.
#1382 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/16 18:11:09
Well, the GL version still crashes for me on map load even with -nomultisample -nostencil
The auto text sizes have increments that are too large (jumping right form 1 to 2). It needs 1.5 too (which is close to the maximum 1.55 that still allows player names to be positioned beside the "uncentered" DM HUD). It could even be useful to have 1.75 in widescreen resolutions. Hm, it appears that in proquake, a resolution of 640x480 has the equivalent of sizing things to 1, but at a resolution of 800x600 it automatically sets things at a size of 1.25, so the
.25 increments can be useful -- perhaps this scale feature needs a slider bar for fine adjustment.
Hm, those "high" weapon models are too high, methinks.
Tested an old issue: it still crashes if you toggle external_textures when on maps E1M2 or E2M3.
#1383 posted by
on 2016/11/16 18:31:49
my irc mod had coloured chat text, you could adapt that.
screenshots are here:
the code was pretty hacky, but is functional.
#1384 posted by
on 2016/11/16 18:33:30
that inspector tool seems waaaay handy for info_null entity hacks.
#1385 posted by
on 2016/11/16 18:59:51
The auto text sizes have increments that are too large (jumping right form 1 to 2).
Graphics get rekt a little when you scale them by a fractional number. At least when texture filtering is disabled.
#1386 posted by
Johnny Law
on 2016/11/16 19:45:07
Frickin' cool feature list there. Looking forward to trying out this release!
#1387 posted by
Johnny Law
on 2016/11/16 19:45:50
(Can the original post for this thread be updated?)
#1388 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/16 19:52:50
Going through my usual settings first....
The lavacolor has gone back to the incorrect value of "255 80 50 150"
Default should be "255 80 0 150"
Hm, I don't think "auto small" is a good default setting. It should probably just default to the "controlled with cvar" one. Even "auto medium" might be better for the default, OR get fancy and have "suto adjusted by resolution" so that the sizes will automatically be set based on your resolution so that the screen elements look approximately the same size no matter the resolution.
Things actually look fine for me at the
.25 increments for scaling. Going to weirder values, like 1.55 does cause a bit more distortion, but the
.25 ones look good.
scr_showfps still vanishes when you size the screen down (using the default -/= keys).
mwheeldown triggers mwheelup instead of mwheeldown.... This may be the problem dwere mentioned about "previous weapon/next weapon" not working, since the mouse wheel does those things by default?
Uhh, could still use solid dark black shadows for DX, since it can't do the stencils ones right. And of course, if you're hacking shadows, you should just hack them to not be drawn at all if they are more than like 100 units away from the entity, because that causes weird shadows....
You still have bolt1.mdl in the noshadow list... there is no bolt1.mdl in Quake, heh.
And of course I think k_spike.mdl and lavaball.mdl should be added to the noshadow list....
#1389 posted by
on 2016/11/16 20:01:09
Should just be "bolt.mdl"
#1390 posted by Baker on 2016/11/16 21:14:58
Mark V automatically records demos every game.
Try cl_autodemo 0. I should probably default that to 0.
Might be why. Mandel also said something about that.
Also yeah, I'll fix the mousewheel up/down reversed issue --- the input code encountered a big re-write.
.. I was hoping that was the problem about your XP netbook.
.. yeah the 2 mirrors "can see each other problem". I have to put out a revision due the mousewheel anyway and I have an idea to improve that.
Cool News
#1391 posted by
on 2016/11/16 21:30:42
works fine so far!
#1392 posted by
on 2016/11/16 21:33:54
Thanks, cl_autodemo 0 solved the issue. I never even noticed the new demo files.
#1393 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/16 21:54:26
Disabling auto demos doesn't help in my case.
Hm, I dug up the Dr. Watson log file, and it contains all the usual gobbledygook, but right up near the top it says, "Exception number: c0000094 (divide by zero)"
If you think it would help, I could send you all the error logs and info that my computer spits out when this happens.... It's a lot of gobbledygook!
The mirrors, they are broken in DX. They just look solid (normal texture), but when I set gl_overbright 0 (I do this because it smooths out the fog in DX), then the mirror looks like... um... like the visual glitch when you are outside the map with no gl_clear in old glquake. If I set gl_clear 1, then the mirror turns solid grey.
#1394 posted by Baker on 2016/11/16 22:33:22
@dwere - I wanted to leave it on during beta to see how many people even noticed (very, very few). So shall be off by default in next version.
@qmaster -- the bolts, yeah
.. fixing
@johnny -- I'll think of something, I have something in mind
@pulsar -- I fixed the demo pause thing, I forgot to list that. Thanks for reporting that! I hate stuff like that.
(1) --- that's for reminding me to disable mirrors in DX. In theory, they should work but the Direct3D wrapper has built-in optimizations that mirrors bust.
(2) r_shadows -1 will do what you want in next one, which will be less than an hour.
(3) Could you test download, "disconnect" and clears server aliases/key binds (3 items). Rename your maps folder so Quake can't find them. Connect to your server. Play dopa or terra. I need ProQuake depot auto-download tested. "alias" lists all aliases, "bindlist" lists all keybinds. your impulse 39 tricks for chat should get cleared on disconnect.
Crash To Desktop Bug
#1395 posted by
on 2016/11/16 22:36:49
I'm guessing that my bug where trying to bind a new forward key through the menu is just me?
I get this crash in the winquake version too.
#1396 posted by Baker on 2016/11/16 22:45:28
I'll check that out and fix. If I can't reproduce, might need you to post your config.
@fifth ...
#1397 posted by Baker on 2016/11/16 22:52:16
I've got it ;-) So no need.
#1398 posted by Baker on 2016/11/16 23:09:16
... Start up the open GL version
Post the c:\quake\id1\qconsole.log
Your post about Dr. Watson made me think about something.
Feedbacks And Bugs
#1399 posted by Icaro on 2016/11/16 23:12:25
Baker, thanks a lot for the release!
.. I really appreciate.
... I�m a Mac user, hence I�ve only tested the software under Wine 1.8.5 (https://www.winehq.org).
The hdfolder command works fine but only one way. From "" to hdfoldername for example, but then it is not possible to come back to "", not even by restarting. The only workaround I�ve found is to set hdfolder to "" in the autoexec.cfg.
If the demo files are not present in pak0.pak the software stucks for a while (1 minute) but then it works fine.
In my configuration the software crashes systematically when the delete button is pressed for setting new command keys in the command menu.
Multiplayer works fine with me! � nice job!
#1400 posted by Baker on 2016/11/16 23:14:23
start up with -nomultisample -nostencil -developer when you do the log
#1401 posted by Baker on 2016/11/16 23:20:32
Thanks for the feedback on the hdfolder thing. 24 hours ago that wasn't even an idea.
I'll see if I can identify and correct.
/I'll think about quickly I can do a Mac build. Have to think about it.
#1402 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/16 23:20:58
Resetting server-bound keys works. Good feature.
Hm, server-set aliases are cleared rather than reset to user settings. For example, if I set:
alias colors "say colors!"
Then connect to FvF -- which sets alias colors to an impulse to set your colors (including a hack to force the unsupported colors 14 and 15 to work -- which reminds me, how about support for colors 14 and 15? heh).
Then disconnect from the server. Now the "colors" alias is just cleared. I guess you just do an unalias command?
I don't see this as being much of a problem though....
Downloads work. Now do I turn it off? heh. It downloads loc file, which I have no use for.
It TRIES to download fvf sounds, but fails because those aren't located on Quakeone.
It successfully downloaded terra1.bsp
#1403 posted by Baker on 2016/11/16 23:35:07
Gunter: Type
find loc
in console. Should tell you what to do ;-)
Want to promote the idea that "find" solves a ton of questions instantly.
I'll add the FVF sounds to the primary depot.
#1404 posted by Icaro on 2016/11/17 00:07:40
The hd folder can only be selected during the initialisation process and not afterwards.
If the demos are active, the initialisation console is skipped and no further initialisation commands can be introduced.
Once the demos are running, the hdfolder command only generate the following message "please disconnect first".
For users like me
.. it can be confusing!
#1405 posted by Baker on 2016/11/17 00:12:14
I'll make hdfolder auto-disconnect. I was considering that since "game" already does that.
#1406 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/17 00:26:09
Ah, the sound downloads work now!
I guess it doesn't download "skins" because they are attached to a model... annnd, yeah, that would be tricky since each server might have a different set of skins attached to the standard player model.... Hm, perhaps Mark V could keep a different folder for each server it connects to, and if it does not have the skinned models for that server, it could grab them. But then I guess that would require a different folder on Quakeone for each server.... Yeah, tricky.
But it could work -- you'd just have specific things in a server's folder instead of general things like the maps.
So like, you have a download folder for "fvf.servequake.com" on Quakeone that contains the FvF files, then when a client gets an invalid skin request, it knows to try and download that model for the server it is connected to, and it will create an "fvf.servequake.com" folder in id1 to store those files....
Though I suppose instead of doing it piece by piece like that, if you just have an "fvf.servequake.com" folder at Quakeone, it could just contain the FvF custom pak file to download, and Mark V could automatically grab it when it connects to fvf.servequake.com
Of course... that would take longer... but it would be kind of nice. Though perhaps that would need a user prompt, "automatically download pak file for this server (15 meg)?"
#1407 posted by Baker on 2016/11/17 01:09:24
qconsole.log following instructions posted above?
If you want me to help your old computer use GL, it's literally today or 2018?
#1408 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/17 01:16:03
Today, please!
Command line: [ ]
Log file: C:\Documents and Settings\Aaron\My Documents\Games\Quake1/id1/qconsole.log
Wed Nov 16 18:13:32 2016
Mark V Version 1.00 Windows
Exe: mark_v.exe (1121 kb)
Exe: 06:35:23 Nov 16 2016
Caches: C:/Documents and Settings/Aaron/Application Data/Mark V/caches
UDP4 Initialized: INADDR_ANY, 192.168.254.15
UDP6_OpenSocket: Address family not supported by protocol family
UDP6_Init: Unable to open control socket, UDPv6 disabled
Exe: 06:37:32 Nov 16 2016
256.0 megabyte heap
GL_VENDOR: Intel
GL_RENDERER: Intel 945GM
GL_VERSION: 1.4.0 - Build 184.108.40.20626
GL_EXT_texture_lodWarning: texture_non_power_of_two not supported
Intel Display Adapter detected
Max texture size: 2048
Multitexture: 455190012
Non-Power of 2: 0
Combine: 1
Stencil Bits: 8
Hardware gamma enabled
joystick not found -- no valid joysticks (a5)
Input initialized
Avi capturing module initialized
ACM module initialized
Sound Initialization
Set primary sound buffer format: yes
Using secondary sound buffer
2 channel(s)
16 bits/sample
11025 bytes/sec
DirectSound initialized
Audio: 16 bit, stereo, 11025 Hz
Sound sampling rate: 11025
CDAudio_Init: MCI_OPEN failed (266)
========= Quake Initialized =========
execing quake.rc
execing default.cfg
couldn't exec config.cfg
couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
3 demo(s) in loop
Playing demo from demo1.dem.
the Necropolis
Using protocol 15
#1409 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/17 01:19:44
Wait, were "instructions posted above" adding the -nomultisample -nostencil?
That seems to make no difference, other than adding:
Warning: Stencil disabled at command line
Warning: Multisample disabled at command line
to the log.
Also, I could email this stuff instead of cluttering this thread....
Revision #2
#1410 posted by Baker on 2016/11/17 01:20:20
Everything fixed except
1) Icaro HD folder. (Will be fixed in revision 3)
2) mfx/fifth tidle console. (Will be fixed in revision 3)
@fifth - Made 2 mirrors that can see other, the 2nd mirror becomes "non-mirror" in that frame.
#1411 posted by Baker on 2016/11/17 01:22:20
What are last 5 lines of qconsole.log when crash on your old XP computer? That may be enough for me.
Be sure to you are using -developer in the command line.
#1412 posted by Baker on 2016/11/17 01:34:36
Stab in the dark
.. possible fix.
Let me know!
Make sure you run this
.exe which has a different name. Crosses fingers.
#1413 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/17 01:35:50
Oh, sorry, I missed that small post you made above telling me to use -developer.
I got the new version, and here's what I get as the last lines after crash:
Playing demo from demo1.dem.
Mouse Released
Serverinfo packet received.
Clearing memory
the Necropolis
Using protocol 15
e1m3 loadname
e1m3 cl.modelname
#1414 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/17 01:47:52
huh, and if it matters, if I disable the startup demos and just try to load the Start map, the blank lines that appeared after "clearing memory" above (I deleted them because they just looked blank), instead say:
SpawnServer: start
Clearing memory
Programs occupy 403K.
PR_AllocStringSlots: realloc'ing for 256 slots
Mod appears to support impulse 12
start loadname
maps/start.bsp sv.modelname
#1415 posted by Baker on 2016/11/17 01:48:54
Try the one I just posted that has a possible fix.
#1416 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/17 01:52:44
Sorry again! I missed your "stab in the dark"
... This "forum" page is a bit hard to navigate, heh.
One moment....
Nope, no good. qconsole log seems the same.
#1417 posted by Baker on 2016/11/17 02:05:58
You up for one last try in the next 15 minutes?
I think your video card may not support glMatrixMode(GL_TEXTURE)
#1418 posted by Baker on 2016/11/17 02:12:14
Ok... Gunter.
Do it again, with **zero external textures** in your Quake folder.
If it works when you do that, your video card doesn't support glMatrixMode(GL_TEXTURE)
If it doesn't, it's something else.
#1419 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/17 02:13:04
Yes, I'm ready to test.
The last GL version I COULD run was:
Would that happen to be right before you added glMatrixMode(GL_TEXTURE)?
#1420 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/17 02:15:01
Yeah, I disabled (actually, renamed the folders) all external things for testing already.
Running the DX version to check, there are definitely no textures loading.
#1421 posted by Baker on 2016/11/17 02:20:11
I'm checking between that and 2015 May 2 version
... see if anything obvious
Nothing Dead Obvious And Easy To Reverse, Sorry Gunter ... I Tried
#1422 posted by Baker on 2016/11/17 02:32:25
I gave it my all to try to make your old graphics card work -- all the possible leads I have would require a drastic rewrite (check out Quakespasm's thread to see insanely stupid and possibilities that bad opengl drivers can cause).
Looks like you'll have to use the DX version, but at least you can set shadows -1 and have weapon transparency now.
#1423 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/17 02:48:31
Well, gosh darn it to heck.
#1424 posted by
on 2016/11/17 03:13:31
Solution: update graphics card?
@fifth And/or Mfx (or Anyone With Issue)
#1425 posted by Baker on 2016/11/17 03:19:12
re: International keyboard support
For some reason I can't seem to pull down the console even though it's bound to tilde. I rebound it to z and it works.
What language keyboard + keyboard version are you using?
Like for example, I'm betting mfx uses German Qwertz. I need to know what the keyboard key you expect to toggle the console (and whether or not you are doing shift).
Shift + ESC
should unconditionally toggle the console on any language keyboard as a temp workaround.
In the console, also as a temp measure, typing
in_keymap 0
may make things behave as you expect.
Mostly if you guys can communicate to me how it should work, I should be able to get it right
#1426 posted by Baker on 2016/11/17 03:20:50
It's a laptop
... you need to make Gunter mad enough he throws it in a burst of anger. Haha
#1427 posted by
on 2016/11/17 03:34:47
Ah, I see. Well, maybe NOT fixing it can be a step in this direction... jk
#1428 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/17 04:06:53
Just to be "Gunter-level-of-thorough," I booted up my OLD WinXP laptop (an HP Pavilion ze4101 circa 2002) and tested....
Again, the older mark_v_e.exe GL runs, but the new version crashes.
The error popup actually says:
The exception Interger division by zero,
(0xc0000094) occurred in the application at location 0x0046733d.
And here's the qconsole log, which is similar except the totally different (but even older) graphics card:
Command line: [ -developer ]
Log file: D:GamesQuake/id1/qconsole.log
Mon Oct 31 21:27:44 2016
Mark V Version 1.00 Windows
Exe: mark_v.exe (1122 kb)
Exe: 19:04:52 Nov 16 2016
Caches: C:/Documents and Settings/Aaron/Application Data/Mark V/caches
UDP4 Initialized: INADDR_ANY, 127.0.0.1
UDP6_GetLocalAddress: gethostbyname failed (Authoritative answer: Host not found)
UDP6_OpenSocket: Address family not supported by protocol family
UDP6_Init: Unable to open control socket, UDPv6 disabled
IPv4 address INADDR_ANY
IPv6 address [::]
Exe: 19:04:26 Nov 16 2016
256.0 megabyte heap
Start map determined to be start
GL_VENDOR: ATI Technologies Inc.
GL_RENDERER: RADEON 7000 DDR x86/MMX/3DNow!/SSE
GL_VERSION: 1.3.4273 WinXP Release
FOUND: ARB_multitexture
FOUND: ARB_texture_env_combine
FOUND: ARB_texture_env_add
Warning: texture_non_power_of_two not supported
FOUND: EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic
Swap control enabled
8 bit stencil buffer
Max texture size: 2048
Multitexture: 45407760
Non-Power of 2: 0
Combine: 1
Stencil Bits: 8
completed.Gamma protector set
Windows and context menu key disabled
Hardware gamma enabled
joystick not found -- no valid joysticks (a5)
Accessibility key startup settings saved
Accessibility keys disabled
Mouse Captured
Input initialized
Gamma level 0
Avi capturing module initialized
ACM module initialized
Sound Initialization
Set primary sound buffer format: yes
Using secondary sound buffer
2 channel(s)
16 bits/sample
11025 bytes/sec
DirectSound initialized
Audio: 16 bit, stereo, 11025 Hz
Sound sampling rate: 11025
CDAudio: drive not ready
CDAudio_Init: No CD in player.
CD Audio Initialized
========= Quake Initialized =========
execing quake.rc
execing default.cfg
execing config.cfg
Unknown command "r_viewmodel_always"
Hardware change detected
... Custom Gamma set: contrast = 1
Unknown command "r_viewmodel_winquake"
couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
3 demo(s) in loop
Playing demo from demo1.dem.
Serverinfo packet received.
Clearing memory
the Necropolis
Using protocol 15
e1m3 loadname
e1m3 cl.modelname
#1429 posted by Baker on 2016/11/17 04:36:01
Where's your -nomultisample -nostencil?
I don't see that in your command line.
#1430 posted by Baker on 2016/11/17 04:40:02
You better double check and be double sure you did the command line right
1) The version I provided (special gunter one)
2) The correct
3) -nomultisample -nostencil -developer
It is possible I solved your problem if you didn't use the right command line.
#1431 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/17 04:46:03
It doesn't help, and changes little in the log, other than changing this part:
Swap control enabled
8 bit stencil buffer
Max texture size: 2048
Multitexture: 45407760
Non-Power of 2: 0
Combine: 1
Stencil Bits: 8
completed.Gamma protector set
To this:
Swap control enabled
Warning: Stencil disabled at command line
Warning: Multisample disabled at command line
completed.Gamma protector set
Everything else is identical, including the crash.
#1432 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/17 04:54:51
triple-checked the special version, same result, but the error log has all the lines from above:
Swap control enabled
Intel Display Adapter detected
Warning: Stencil disabled at command line
Warning: Multisample disabled at command line
Max texture size: 2048
Multitexture: 452634108
Non-Power of 2: 0
Combine: 1
Stencil Bits: 0
completed.Gamma protector set
Mark V 1.00 - Revision 3
#1433 posted by Baker on 2016/11/17 05:10:37
Windows: Open GL | WinQuake (software renderer)
Windows: Direct3D
Still didn't update the Mac build.
Revision 3:
New Feature:
Multiple hdfolders
. hdfolder "hires" (1 folder) or hdfolder "hires,qrp,plagues_pak" (multiple folders). Changed: paks in a hdfolder are *ignored*.
Outstanding Issue
(only one, unless I skipped something):
International keyboard --> tilde
(mfx/fifth) Need to know what keyboard layout and what physical key is being pressed. For the moment, Shift-ESC will always open console and "in_keymap 0" *might* make it work as expected. Let me know!
2 mirrors in view disables 2nd mirror (fifth re:e1m5), bolt.mdl -> bolt1.mdl (qmaster), lavacolor typo fixed (gunter), cl_autodemo off by default (dwere's computer), r_shadows -1 = full dark (gunter), Direct X version mirrors disabled (gunter), mousewheel up/down (dwere), hdfolder set will disconnect (icaro), menu bind key fix (fifth)
Punt or Non-Issue
: server bind discard clearing existing alias if named same (gunter) = acceptable for now, few people use aliases. scr_showfps + viewsize < 100 doesn't show (gunter) = intended behavior.
.. if you still have any issues with hdfolder or how that works, let me know. You don't need to put it in autoexec. In fact, don't. It is read very, very early.
.. maybe something a thought will come to me on how to solve your video card, but the Direct X build does everything but 2 things. Not too bad.
#1434 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/17 05:33:48
I don't suppose it would be possible for you to build a linux version?
Gulliver uses linux....
#1435 posted by Baker on 2016/11/17 05:39:35
I assessed it, finishing up the Linux port probably take 40 hours of coding. Maybe 2017 some time.
Above Downloads Updated
#1436 posted by Baker on 2016/11/17 07:56:36
To fix it so it works with Gunter's video card, which didn't have texture non-power of two capability which I noticed in the log.
Malice Feedback
#1437 posted by NightFright on 2016/11/17 10:40:46
Unfortunately, I have to say that the issue in map d15 of "Malice" still exists with the latest Mk V build. :/ If you play without saving, the game still returns your FOV to its original state, but as soon as you save and reload or quit and restart the game, FOV is set to 170.
I am also sorry to state that cutscenes still don't work. At the end of the level, game stops with this error:
ERROR: Couldn't open C:/Games/Quake/malice/cuts/cut8.dem
(Note: The first two dashes of the directory are actually inverted, but for some reason, these are not shown in this forum.)
This also wouldn't change if I extract the "cuts" folder from pak2.pak into the Malice installation directory.
Tilde Key
#1438 posted by NightFright on 2016/11/17 11:16:00
Additional note:
On my German keyboard, I have to press "�" (oe) to bring down the console. Used to be the key right on top of "Tab" (to the left of "1").
@johnny Law
#1439 posted by Baker on 2016/11/17 12:30:35
@johnny law -
I guess from now on I'll always have the current version there. It's not complex but does the job.
That page has a link to this thread.
a) Malice cut-scene issue addressed, Mark V doesn't expect demo names with slashes in them.
Go to the above page (which isn't very complex) and it has the current version download.
b) Can you give me a link to the picture of the keyboard layout (if I do Google I get conflicting pictures) ?
If you were in another application and did the keypress, would it do a tidle or do you press shift or a different modifier key?
I'm trying to determine whether I need to use the physical key scan code or what the key press produces.
#1440 posted by
on 2016/11/17 12:54:28
is a Nehahra mapset that is supposed to be installed into its own directory. Therefore, it either requires multiple -game parameters or -nehahra.
The only alternative I can see is splicing nehahra and alk10 into one directory.
Mark V - Revision E
#1441 posted by Baker on 2016/11/17 14:03:36
Current download:
Made the "tilde" position on the keyboard a "holy" key that no matter what keyboard someone is using it toggles the console.
Should bring that to a closure.
Current source is always
@dwere - Interesting problem that will need addressed. I guess no one noticed before because to play Nehahra was a major pain in the arse. Never knew about alk10. I played the Tim Elek add on. And I *think* there may be 1 or 2 more Nehahra maps.
Malice/keyboard Layout
#1442 posted by NightFright on 2016/11/17 14:21:14
With the latest build, the two issues in "Malice" are finally history! Only one (cosmetic) thing remains now: When playing cutscenes, the statusbar is not hidden automatically. Dunno if that's important, though.
Regarding keyboard layout:
A German keyboard looks like this:
I had to edit config.cfg to make Mk V use the correct console key again:
bind "�" "toggleconsole"
(before edit)
bind "/" "toggleconsole"
(after - it's not this dash, but inverted)
Otherwise, console would only open with "�" key (which is probably "�" on English keyboard).
#1443 posted by Baker on 2016/11/17 14:22:39
Updated yet again, allowing the possibility of doing game alk10 -nehahra in the console to run that single player release.
Current download:
#1444 posted by Baker on 2016/11/17 14:27:03
/Malice, yeah it does horrible things
... it runs now
... I think I'm done dealing with it ;-)
The latest recently updated version of Mark V *should* assume on any keyboard that the key in that position (tidle in my case) is the toggle console key.
I need verification, but I think that is history.
I switched my keyboard layout to German and until I hit the "Z" key didn't even realize it when running Mark V.
Keyboard Layout Feedback
#1445 posted by NightFright on 2016/11/17 14:31:13
Console key works as intended now. The only odd thing is that if the game creates a new config.cfg file, the default setting is
in_keymap "1"
. With this, Mark V will print every scancode onscreen whenever a key is pressed. That's kinda annoying.
#1446 posted by
on 2016/11/17 14:46:44
On Quaddicted there's also Invein, Maelstrom, ROTCS and TSD.
#1447 posted by
on 2016/11/17 14:49:47
Previous comment was addressing the
1 or 2 more Nehahra maps
Remaining Wishlist
#1448 posted by NightFright on 2016/11/17 14:55:25
What's left on my wishlist for Mark V right now (just to mention it):
- Ingame menu toggle for texture filtering (switch between
without having to use autoexec.cfg)
- Underwater warp effect like in software Quake (if that's even possible)
Side note:
Does r_mirroralpha work again? I just noticed the stained glass window in the "Easy" hallway of the intro map is reflective again. If you enabled that again recently - neat!
#1449 posted by
on 2016/11/17 15:07:29
Sorry for the long pause, real life issues. The console issue is gone, instead it prints every stroke now, as NightFright described.
Also the ^symbol is added to first new char i press when toggling the console now, QS had similar problems once.
Will look out for further bugs, AD mod loads fine here for now, even the new unreleased version + maps.
#1450 posted by Baker on 2016/11/17 15:07:42
Yeah, mirror support is a major feature in the current version.
I had thought about the texture mode thing but considering it's minor decided against It does autocomplete, press alt+space, but I know what you mean. Underwater warp is out-of-bounds for Mark V, would require GLSL and Mark V doesn't use GLSL.
#1451 posted by Baker on 2016/11/17 15:10:21
Glad to hear that fixes that
.. I'll have to think of a "correct" way of blocking the unwanted extra character. Probably won't be too hard.
Mfx/nightfright Issue Solved
#1452 posted by Baker on 2016/11/17 15:37:57
Mfx/nightfright issue with German keyboard added unwanted character after using the tilde key equivalent is solved.
Current download:
#1453 posted by
on 2016/11/17 15:43:27
mark_v.exe -nehahra -game alk10 +map alk10a works, but the engine crashes with a generic Windows error right after the map starts. This seems to be caused by the level using xm/s3m music, as Nehahra levels that don't use music load fine.
qconsole.log says:
Warning: FMOD module not found ( nehahra/fmod.dll )
I placed FMOD.DLL that comes with Nehahra into the nehahra directory just to see what's gonna happen, and it said that the module can't be initialized instead.
#1454 posted by mh on 2016/11/17 15:44:40
Underwater warp is out-of-bounds for Mark V, would require GLSL
Use glCopyTex(Sub)Image2D then draw a grid (similar to what stock Fitz does for it's render-to-framebuffer warp, you may even be able to recycle the same code). No shaders needed.
Basic Nehahra Support
#1455 posted by
on 2016/11/17 15:45:27
Starting Nehahra (with -nehahra) works fine until the first cutscene: the sound is working, but the screen is black. -game nehahra leads to more broken things. There are error messages, and the first cutscene now lacks sound as well.
#1456 posted by Baker on 2016/11/17 15:45:36
What's file date and time. Mine's 6/30/2004 160786 bytes.
Well Hot Damn
#1457 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/17 15:45:54
New GL version works for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*throws laptop against the wall in celebration*
Oh... nevermind. Don't need it anymore.
Heh, though it is spitting out a lot of "scancode" in the console; I think you left some debug code in. Or was that there for someone to test the international keyboard thing?
Also... how about the joystick support? It used to work (it works in the old mark_v_e.exe), but in the recent versions, it seems to detect the joystick and everything, but it just doesn't respond to any input from the connected usb gamepad.
#1458 posted by Baker on 2016/11/17 15:46:31
The cutscene in Nehahra stays black for annoyingly long time.
Stick with it, haha. It's how it works.
Console Key Fixed
#1459 posted by NightFright on 2016/11/17 15:56:56
Ah yes, invoking the console and having an unwanted character written there right away was quite annoying indeed. Thanks for fixing that one, too!
#1460 posted by
on 2016/11/17 16:03:53
FMOD.DLL in nehahra.zip is 117760 bytes and is dated 2/19/2001.
Nehahra FMOD
#1461 posted by NightFright on 2016/11/17 16:11:37
Your fmod.dll should be dated June 30, 2004, 160.768 Bytes. With that one it works (for me at least).
What Mark V should however do is to ignore the music folder in id1 directory when playing Nehahra. Otherwise, you have the standard Quake soundtrack playing which isn't meant to happen. You could always move your music folder out of the id1 dir temporarly for that purpose, but I am sure it can be avoided.
Fmod.dll Download For Nehahra
#1462 posted by NightFright on 2016/11/17 16:19:12
If you don't know where to get that newer fmod.dll from that I mentioned above, I have uploaded it here.
Fmod.dll from Jun 30, 2004 for Nehahra (149 KB)
I don't remember how I got it, actually.
#1463 posted by
on 2016/11/17 16:28:20
Things work with this dll, thanks.
I'm assuming it can't be included with the engine for legal reasons?
#1464 posted by
on 2016/11/17 16:29:04
@baker the ^ issue when typing any char after console is toggled is still there. Both GL and DX8 versions.
This happens only on a crappy Lenovo ThinkPad with IntelGfx btw. Desktop is fine.
Found a typo when HD folder is set. Message misses a "set" i think.
Testing Mirrors
#1465 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/17 17:17:42
Now that GL works for me, I'm gonna test the heck out of stuff, like mirrors!
On E1M5, at the position of the screenshot FifthElephant posted above (#1378), the mirror just becomes solid for me. I see what's causing this -- if both those windows are onscreen at the same time, the one on the right becomes solid (to prevent the mirrors seeing each other, I assume). If you adjust your view so that only one of the windows is on your screen, it will become correctly transparent.
On the Start map, if I set r_texprefix_mirror tlight07 and go to the E1M1 gate room, the light textures are mirrors, but if both the lights are within my screen area (even if blocked by the slipgate), the one on the left becomes.. garbled, looking just like FifthElephant's screenshot, except it's STILL a mirror and I can see my reflection in it....
What I'm really wanting to see is r_texprefix_mirror *teleport
... but that doesn't seem to work.
And you get some weird effects using +0slip or slip1
cop3_4 (the rune floor stone near the start) looks cool, but does weird things, heh. You can get the other one (past the teleporters) to work, but you have to make sure your screen isn't pointing back at the first one.
city4_6 or city4_7 are fun... Glitchy mirrored floor!
Too bad *water2 doesn't work...
wizwood1_8 looks cool! Mirrored ceiling in center area, though the surface is glitched, and it seems that fullpitch glitches it out (ah, that's what was messing with the rune stone floor square too) -- if you look all the way up or down it flips the mirror weirdly.
wizwood1_5 is really weird... it's the angled ceiling in start area.
Yeah, I know I'm making this do things that were never intended, heh, but it's fun to play with.
How about making it a list, so that we can specify multiple textures to make mirrors?
r_texprefix_mirror_list window02_1,tlight07
Speaking of lists..... bolt1.mdl is still in the noshadow list, heh. Just remove it - it doesn't exist. You already have bolt.mdl in there. And the lavaball and k_spike got added in; that's nice.
#1466 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/17 19:06:10
Running full screen at my netbook's native resolution (1024x600) I noticed some un-smoothness. So I set host_maxfps 60 and things look smoother (that's my netbook's refresh rate), but then I got some tearing. So I set vid_vsync 1 and after restarting, DX looks much better with no noticeable tearing, but the GL version still has tearing... vsync doesn't seem to alter it at all (even after restarting it).
Hm, gl_overbright 1 causes a pretty nasty FPS hit on DX. I was toggling it to test -- I usually keep it off in DX, due to it making fog ugly -- so here's another reason it's bad (at least for me) in DX. It doesn't cause these issues in GL.
^ Issue
#1467 posted by
on 2016/11/17 19:32:36
Baker, this WIN_ResetDeadKeys function I contributed to SDL might help:
If you press the ^ key on a German keyboard (below esc), the next key you press will have an accent (I forget what windows message types it affects, but generally Windows will try to send your program an accented character). Calling WIN_ResetDeadKeys between the ^ and the next key will "undo" pressing the ^ key and make it so no accents are delivered on the next keypress. There's some more info on the blog post mentioned in the comment, which is where I got this method from.
#1468 posted by Baker on 2016/11/17 20:32:36
Thanks! Question:
It looks like this code is meant to be called after a WM_KEYDOWN?
Like you get the scancode, then run that code afterwards
Which would prevent the next character from
happening in this specific circumstance.
#1469 posted by Baker on 2016/11/17 20:34:01
Found a typo when HD folder is set. Message misses a "set" i think.
Could you explain this?
#1470 posted by
on 2016/11/17 20:42:57
Scancode: h 104 ascii 0
Scancode: 0 ascii h 104
Scancode: h 104 ascii 0
Scancode: d 100 ascii 0
Scancode: 0 ascii d 100
Scancode: d 100 ascii 0
Scancode: f 102 ascii 0
Scancode: 0 ascii f 102
Scancode: f 102 ascii 0
Scancode: 9 ascii 0
hdfolder (command)
Scancode: 0 ascii 0
Scancode: 9 ascii 0
Scancode: 13 ascii 0
Scancode: 0 ascii 0
Set high content resolution folder. Set to "" for none.
Current HD folder is to "hd".
Scancode: 13 ascii 0
Scancode: c 99 ascii 0
Scancode: 0 ascii c 99
Scancode: c 99 ascii 0
Scancode: o 111 ascii 0
Scancode: 0 ascii o 111
Scancode: o 111 ascii 0
Scancode: n 110 ascii 0
Scancode: 0 ascii n 110
Scancode: n 110 ascii 0
Scancode: d 100 ascii 0
Scancode: 0 ascii d 100
Scancode: d 100 ascii 0
Scancode: u 117 ascii 0
Scancode: 0 ascii u 117
Scancode: u 117 ascii 0
Scancode: m 109 ascii 0
Scancode: 0 ascii m 109
Scancode: m 109 ascii 0
Scancode: p 112 ascii 0
Scancode: 0 ascii p 112
Scancode: p 112 ascii 0
Scancode: 13 ascii 0
Scancode: 0 ascii 0
#1471 posted by
on 2016/11/17 20:43:21
Current HD folder is to "hd".
should read
Current HD folder is set to "hd". Or..?
#1472 posted by Baker on 2016/11/17 20:45:20
Looks like I need to remove that dprint I used for testing because it spams.
#1473 posted by
on 2016/11/17 21:08:23
Scancode spam annoys a lot
New Version With Ericw's Deadkey Fix
#1474 posted by Baker on 2016/11/17 21:13:01
Current download:
Ericw's deadkey fix, seems to solve this issue!
The spams are gone and touched up the hdfolder print that mfx pointed out.
#1475 posted by
on 2016/11/17 21:13:17
It looks like this code is meant to be called after a WM_KEYDOWN?
Yeah, it should be safe to call it any time, but you probably want to call it after the WM_KEYDOWN that opens the console. In QS we call it when the console is opened / closed, or any time we enter or leave text input mode (for chat.)
The idea in QS is we are listening to WM_CHAR messages when the user is typing in the console / chat, so their keyboard layout is respected (QWERTZ, etc.), but in game we just use WM_KEYDOWN/WM_KEYUP. That WIN_ResetDeadKeys function prevents keys pressed in game mode that happen to be dead keys (e.g. the ^ key) from leaking over into the text input in the console.
MSDN link
describing the messages that are sent when the user presses '^' then 'o' on a German keyboard.
It's all very confusing, hope this makes sense somewhat!
Is Somebody Testing The Mac Version?
#1476 posted by Icaro on 2016/11/17 21:29:05
On my machine it does not find the id1 directory and it can not load the gfx.wad, while the windows versions, installed in the same directory, are running perfectly.
#1477 posted by
on 2016/11/17 21:40:09
Baker, cool, sounds like the deadkey fix worked! I will give it a try later.
In my experience you need to enter "-basedir /full/path/to/quake" in the Mac version launcher.
Could be a problem that only affects newer macOS versions.
#1478 posted by
on 2016/11/17 21:43:35
Baker, ^ fixed. Thx!
#1479 posted by Baker on 2016/11/17 21:44:29
Ok, I implemented that for a change in the intended key input mode (scan code intent vs. character code intent -- console/menu/messagemode). Thanks for your explanation!
Updated again:
Perhaps now the international keyboard support is finally rock solid due to ericw.
@icaro -- the Mac version is about 3 revisions old. That being said, if the Quake folder on your Mac is say /Desktop/Quake and your pak0.pak lives at /Desktop/Quake/id1/pak0.pak then putting the Mac version in /Desktop/Quake should work. It is less polished than the Windows versions in some ways, but still isn't bad. Not sure when I will have the time to update the Mac version. But wanted to make the Mac version at least findable.
@ericw ... Thanks, It Works
#1480 posted by Icaro on 2016/11/17 22:00:34
#1481 posted by Baker on 2016/11/17 23:38:42
Be sure to try this
game undergate
menu Single Player->New Game
#1482 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/17 23:49:02
Hm, Baker, you've changed something about exiting a map in the recent versions....
In FvF, upon exit, I draw a line out from the player and move the intermission point there, so it will point at the player while he dances.
But something weird is happening now and the camera is ending up on the '0 0 0' world spot....
Though if the player is moving, sometimes my safety code kicks for when he leaves the view of the first camera point, and it draws a new line and moves the camera there so that the player is in view.
#1483 posted by Baker on 2016/11/18 00:02:07
This might be a good read:
I don't know if it applies, but both ProQuake and FitzQuake 0.85 separately created the same intermission camera bug. Since JoeQuake uses ProQuake network code, that engine family line too (Qrack, etc.)
I fixed the bug via a solution from Enhanced GLQuake (Ben Jardrup's engine).
If this is the nature of the problem, a GLQuake or WinQuake would have the same issue because FitzQuake/QuakeSpasm/ProQuake/JoeQuake/Qrack all have the camera reversed.
#1484 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/18 00:29:40
Download complete
Couldn't open zip C:\Documents and Settings\Aaron\My
Warning: Couldn't extract gfx/env/morose_bk.tga
It downloaded, but the install didn't work, and I can't locate the file anywhere on my hard drive. There is no _library folder.
Oh, I found the file. it's in c:\Documents and Settings\Aaron\Application Data\Mark V\caches\__tempfiles\undergate.zip
Wait, I'll make an id1\_library folder and try again....
Ok, that seems to have made it work. Now it installed and ran just fine after I manually created the _library folder and did the command again.
#1485 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/18 00:33:46
I checked with the original Quake.exe -- my intermission code works fine in that.
#1486 posted by Baker on 2016/11/18 00:54:56
+1 on install bug.
Could you describe what the QuakeC does very specifically. Like step by step. Are you using "stuffcmd" during that?
It might be fighting against a Mark V defensive feature that prevents Nehahra or Zerstorer from wrecking your settings.
#1487 posted by Baker on 2016/11/18 01:44:31
Updated with "install" command fix.
#1488 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/18 02:05:00
Uhhh... it's complicated.... Plus I wrote it years ago. And I hack code like a crazy mofo, heh.
But I'm pretty sure there's no stuffing at that point.
Um, let's see.... In execute_changelevel, it uses FindIntermission() to pick one of the intermission points (I guess that's standard behavior).
Then I search through the list of classname = "player" to find the person with the highest score, then I do a randomy traceline out from him and setorigin for the selected intermission point to that location, along with setting its model to the bubble sprite (I think I did that so I can give it a velocity sometimes).
Then I set its angles to point at the player, where "org" is the player's origin:
ang = vectoangles (org - cam.origin);
ang_x = 0 - ang_x;
cam.angles = ang;
cam.mangle = ang;
Hm, I'm pretty sure that code is not the problem, because I re-run it every couple seconds to make sure the cam stays pointed at the leader (often he will still have some momentum when the level ends), and then it also checks to be sure the leader is visible to the camera, and if not, it re-runs the positioning of the camera again.
It seems only the first run through of the code is getting the glitch and putting the camera on '0 0 0' with no angle pointing at the player (I think the angle is also '0 0 0'), but if the code runs a second time (due to the player getting out of view of the camera, which is harder to do when the camera is outside the map at '0 0 0' because it can see into the map almost everywhere) -- then it runs through the same function again, but works correctly....
Hm, interesting... when I check the entity information for the intermission camera, it says it's in the correct location, so maybe the issue is at the point when the player's view is set on the intermission camera.
Ok, here's a difference in what I do for each player
msg_entity = other;
WriteByte (MSG_ONE, 5);
WriteEntity (MSG_ONE, pos);
I believe that sets the player's view to that of my intermission camera since it can change angles and I want to keep them seeing through it's "eyes." I guess normally Quake doesn't do that because it has static intermission points with set angles, so it just sets each player to that spot and angle.
I'm guessing this is where the problem occurs... but wait... I never set that again, but as I said, if the code runs through a second time then it sets everything correctly.
So... it seems the player's view being TOLD to be set to the view of the camera, but on first pass, the player's view (and position?) is not correctly updated to reflect that. The cam itself seems to be in the correct position when I check its edict info... Perhaps at the time the player is trying to jump to the cam, the cam's fields are un-readable for some reason... but then... why does it only kick in when I re-position the camera, without any further setting of the player's view... hmm.
This would require some code alteration for me to really test this, but I can't get to that for a couple hours, because I have to watch Supernatural now, heh.
But maybe some of this rambling will help you zero in on the issue with whatever change has been made.
#1489 posted by Baker on 2016/11/18 02:57:01
In FvF, upon exit, I draw a line out from the player and move the intermission point there, so it will point at the player while he dances.
Need some clarity here. Precise clarity.
1) Is this on your ProQuake server with Mark V as a client?
2) This is on your computer. No ProQuake involved.
The difference is crucial.
If this is running on your ProQuake server, Mark V isn't involved with any QuakeC calculations.
B) Are stuffcmds involved at all where it changes a player's settings?
#1490 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/18 04:02:09
The second one -- No Proquake involved. This is what happens when running FvF on Mark V on my own computer. Though previous versions of Mark V didn't do this.
There should be no stuffcmds happening at that point -- they only occur when a level first loads or a client first connects.
#1491 posted by Baker on 2016/11/18 04:30:17
What happens if ProQuake is the server and Mark V is the client running this code?
This will tell you whether or not it is a client or server issue. I'm assuming it is a server issue so a Mark V client connected to ProQuake will not experience the issue.
But there are several differences between a Mark V server and a ProQuake one.
1) Mark V does not support QCCX at all. May cause unpredictable results. If you can compile with fteqcc or frikqcc 2.7, you are fine.
2) Mark V's QuakeC interpreter is for all practical purposes using Quakespasm's QuakeC interpreter. It may generate NaN results (not a number) when GLQuake/WinQuake/ProQuake will not.
This is a highly technical issue that MH and Spike and the 2 original Quakespasm authors talked about --- I didn't fully grasp the conversation at the time. (But I knew far less back then).
Since you say you are getting 0,0,0 I wonder if you are dividing by zero or getting a NaN result.
Maybe write code to check if the result should be 0 and then try to trap an example.
If you have found a bug in the "Quakespasm Virtual Machine" can trap an example, I think all the engine guys would be grateful.
Because it probably means that bug will get fixed. Nehahra spits out "NaN developer errors" in Mark V with developer 1.
Short Version:
#1492 posted by Baker on 2016/11/18 04:57:09
Write something like this:
oldxyz = xyz
(your calculation)
if (newvalue.x == 0 && newvalue.y == 0 && newvalue.z == 0)
... print all the factors of your calculation
Then post it here!
#1493 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/18 05:47:23
Ok, ran proquake dedicated server on my computer, then ran Mark V on same computer to connect to it.
"connect lan" did not work; no servers found.
"connect 192.168.254.blah" did work.
Intermission camera functions as expected.
My compiler is frikqcc 2.6
I don't know what QCCX is, heh.
This issue doesn't occur in the previous version of Mark V which I was using from mark_v_20160915_windows.zip
The thing is, I'm not actually getting '0 0 0' when I check the edict info (everything looks correct there), but the view seems to be stuck at '0 0 0' in the world, like it was not correctly set. But then if the code runs to change the origin of the camera, then the view becomes correct with the camera without me issuing any additional command to set the player view to the camera. It seems like just changing the camera origin makes the view lock back on....
Hm, it seems that my special victory intermission cam that has a velocity also works -- the camera moving seems to cause the view to lock onto it.
#1494 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/18 05:51:37
More testing will have to wait till tomorrow.
Connect Lan Will Find Other Mark V Or Quakespasm Spiked Servers
#1495 posted by Baker on 2016/11/18 06:17:32
Connect lan will find other Mark V or Quakespasm Spiked servers. If I recall correctly, original Quake's TCP/IP broadcasting was broke -- only IPX -- and old networking protocol from the 1980s -- worked.
Spike fixed this in Quakespasm Spiked so that servers do broadcast correctly.
Music Messages On Level Stats Screen
#1496 posted by NightFright on 2016/11/18 11:41:02
When entering the level stats screen, Mark V displays the "Current Music Track" message on top of the screen. This should be hidden (like when entering a new level).
#1497 posted by Baker on 2016/11/18 15:23:06
Version updated:
... updated Mark V to only print those if developer 1. Same with external
.vis files, missing impulse 12 message and lack of fish fix message.
@gunter - Here's a challenge for you.
Test your problem in these 2 engines, be sure to test it exactly the same
Quakespasm Spiked R4 --
(do +sv_protocol 666- +map [map you test on] )
Quakespasm Regular -- (you already got this)
If your problem only appears in Quakespasm Spiked R4, Mark V and not Regular Quakespasm it will tell me that Spike's ever so slight change to the network message read only is involved in your problem.
Mark V acquired this from Quakespasm Spiked R4, but I can't see it making a difference really but maybe in highly specialized cases in can.
#1498 posted by Baker on 2016/11/18 15:40:24
Useful stuff:
.vis files for id1 maps, makes maps have transparent water data without vispatching:
Correct fmod.dll for Nehahra:
To run Nehahra it is game nehahra -nehahra
#1499 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/18 16:26:37
The problem does not occur in Quakespasm or Quakespasm Spiked.
Tested several times in each engine -- I just load the Start map and take the e1m1 exit (but it affects any exit).
It happens consistently in the recent Mark V.
I'm gonna go do some code testing and see if I can narrow it down to the specific code that's causing the issue....
Fix Confirmed / VIS+LIT For Mission Packs
#1500 posted by NightFright on 2016/11/18 16:37:41
Music message fix for level stats screen confirmed.
I am already using pak files with
.vis/.lit files for Quake and all mission packs for a while. If any of you want to use them, here they are:
VIS/LIT files for ID1/Hipnotic/Rogue (.zip, 22.2 MB)
Basically just unzip this into your Quake installation dir. Make sure you don't have other custom pak files there which may get overwritten (ID1: pak2.pak, HIPNOTIC/ROGUE: pak1.pak).
Baker, Ahoi
#1501 posted by
on 2016/11/18 16:58:52
frogbot mod, im trying to change the map, i'm typing map dm4, the game just says something like this "unknown command" "1" unknown command "8"
and i have to type admin 1 0 , all over again, to play the bots, NQ bots,(your version, modified by you and then modified by me)
#1502 posted by Baker on 2016/11/18 17:45:27
... awesome!
.. mirrored as
@spy -- Hmmm. What's up with that? Investigating
#1503 posted by Baker on 2016/11/18 19:18:46
For the moment, use "changelevel dm3" instead of "map dm3"
And you shouldn't encounter issues.
Frogbots is clever and deals from both sides of the deck to save information even beyond "disconnect".
Mark V will flush away server aliases on disconnect, but frogbots went to a lot of trouble to store info across disconnect and then restore it for the player's convenience.
I'm planning a way to address this.
#1504 posted by Baker on 2016/11/18 21:05:38
1) frogbots issue resolved (spy)
(Type: "find frogbot" if you actually care about the setting that controls that. Me neither
2) gunter e1m2 "toggle external_textures" issue resolved. That map has a missing texture, it was causing a problem.
3) hdfolder now only prints a folder not found if the user is actively setting it. By design a missing folder is allowed, it is just ignored
.. made it do a better job of ignoring it.
4) Made a couple more things into develop prints because the user doesn't really need bothered with them.
Should be the end of the queue. Except if the FVF mod problem Gunter is having turns up something.
#1505 posted by
on 2016/11/18 21:23:23
question about the hdfolder
... where does it fit in the priority order for loading content?
#1506 posted by Baker on 2016/11/18 22:13:58
Great question. It's simple, but effective.
We read from it (first), but we never write to it, nor does it ever become gamedir.
Example: hdfolder "hdmymodels,hdtexture_set2"
(.pak files ignored in hdfolder)
The path will be:
hd\\mymodels (first priority)
- hdfolder does not become com_gamedir
- Has no impact on saves, demos, screenshots or server operations.
com_gamedir stays id1, travail, warpspawm -quoth. hdfolder has no effect on that.
Try As I Might To Avoid, It Ate My Slashes
#1507 posted by Baker on 2016/11/18 22:20:11
hdfolder "hd\\mymodels,hd\\texture_set2"
#1508 posted by Spike on 2016/11/18 22:20:16
I think what he's asking is whether it breaks mods, or just not work with them.
use maps/start.ent as an example. :)
#1509 posted by Baker on 2016/11/18 22:21:44
Was supposed to look like this, basically
hdfolder "hd/mymodels,hd/texture_set2"
/messageboard > Baker, owned!
#1510 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/18 22:26:25
Uh, while testing I encountered a weird bug. The first time it happened I thought it was a fluke, but it happened again.
After starting a game, I could not move. My other keys seemed to work (I could jump) but my motion keys like +forward were unresponsive. They were still correctly bound....
This last time it happened I believe it was right after changing "game blah" in the console and starting a new multiplayer game. I think I just re-started a new multiplayer game again and then the keys worked....
Not sure how to reproduce this.
Ok, back to the cam stuff, I compiled a clean progs.dat with just some cam code for you to try out (source included). I narrowed it down to the view not being set unless the cam has a movetype, or upon re-setting the cam's origin.....
Try running this with various engines. The glitch occurs in new versions of Mark V, but not the other engines I've tried. But I haven't tested in a large selection of engines....
#1511 posted by Baker on 2016/11/18 22:28:11
An hdfolder shouldn't have
.ent or
.cfg in it.
It is supposed to have textures,
.mdl and
.bsp replacements.
But if someone does put a
.lit in there, Mark V checks the light data length and if the
.lit file isn't that length * 3, it says Con_Printf "Invalid
.lit (map mismatch)" and merrily continues.
I do intend to put "ignore inappropriate" files blocker in there, I haven't coded it in yet.
Maybe I do that right now.
@spike / Metlslime Part 2
#1512 posted by Baker on 2016/11/18 22:30:22
Part of this was why I asked so many questions about setmodel + setmodelsize.
#1513 posted by Baker on 2016/11/18 22:32:53
Are you saying adding a movetype to the camera fixes your FvF issue?
[I'll check out the file because I'm curious and see what I find.]
@gunter ... Re: Gamedir Change Issue
#1514 posted by Baker on 2016/11/18 22:39:02
Can you reproduce on your computer.
Your FvF mod sends a ton of settings and keybinds to the client. And I don't know what you have in your autoexec. I do care about that problem, but I (probably) need more information. Your setup is so radically different from mine, I don't know that I can recreate it.
#1515 posted by
Johnny Law
on 2016/11/18 22:43:16
Couple of random questions:
- Would you rather that folks call this "Mark V" or "Fitzquake Mark V" now?
- What remaining features are in Proquake but not in this?
#1516 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/18 22:48:01
I can't reproduce it....
I'm not even sure changing the gamedir had anything to do with it.
I'll be watching for it to happen again though. It's a weird one.
#1517 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/18 22:50:44
I think this engine has changed enough so that the "Fitzquake" part can be dropped.
It has become its own thing now.
Plus, it's much easier to just type "Mark V" :D
#1518 posted by Spike on 2016/11/18 22:51:57
that wasn't the question.
try player.mdl with TF.
either your hd dir takes precidence over the mod's player.mdl and you loose the class-specific skins, or the mod's takes precidence making the hd dir unusable for replacing mod content.
is it:
(broken players / maps, unless you're really careful)
(hd dir neutered)
or what?
#1519 posted by Baker on 2016/11/18 22:56:16
.. call it Mark V.
(It was supposed to be a FitzQuake patch and a engine coder bug-fix tutorial --- qbism used it for that a lot --- not a separate engine. Spike may be reliving that with Quakespasm Spiked a little. I wasn't ever looking to usurp the FitzQuake name, I was originally trying to help metlslime locate engine fixes discovered at inside3d in the hopes his unreleased FitzQuake might happen.)
@gunter -- yeah, let me know. I care. And thanks for isolating the intermission cam thing. I'll be checking it out.
#1520 posted by Baker on 2016/11/18 23:03:40
I see your angle, got it.
Originally, I thought of making it compatible with that.
However -- since most replacement content users are Quake experts ---
I stuck with the simple method that allows a user to shoot themselves in the foot -- Over a complex method that is very precise but that could be a little annoying.
Most content replacement users know what they can and cannot do.
What are your thoughts on this? Do you think I should change it? I want this to work in a manner that other engine coders (you, metlslime, Quakespasm, etc) find acceptable.
#1521 posted by Baker on 2016/11/18 23:52:18
Very nice little camera providing illustration.
Yeah, Mark V acquired some movetype enhancements/clip links crash fixes from Quakespasm Spiked.
The World's Most Explosive Bug Report
#1522 posted by
Johnny Law
on 2016/11/19 00:17:33
your website has a typo "frequenrly"
#1523 posted by
on 2016/11/19 00:24:15
#1524 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/19 01:08:23
Oh, it seems I wasn't including the most recent
.qc source code with that demo. I guess that might matter a little if you were trying to follow along in the code to see everything.... I updated it now:
It seems to work for me without the glitch in Quakespasm Spiked, which I downloaded from the link you posted above.
#1525 posted by Baker on 2016/11/19 01:15:07
If you set the movetype it works correctly in Mark V, right?
Either way, I'm still going to look into it because it is a behavior difference (I hate those, no matter how small).
#1526 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/19 01:23:17
Correct, and agreed.
#1527 posted by Baker on 2016/11/19 02:39:22
Cool bug, Gunter! You've caught something that would almost never surface.
Explicitly requires a multiplayer scenario and that reading the code, everything looks great.
#1528 posted by Baker on 2016/11/19 02:40:25
This bug could have gone uncaught for 100 years.
#1529 posted by
on 2016/11/19 03:05:03
Would be awesome if people still played Quake in 2116!
@baker - Gamedirs
#1530 posted by Spike on 2016/11/19 03:48:28
What are your thoughts on this? Do you think I should change it?
My thoughts are that anything that requires setting console variables will suck. Anything that requires the user to be aware of filesystems will similarly be crap.
Make it a menu (like fte's menu_downloads [but more polished] or whatever). Then the filesystem becomes irrelevant and much easier to install high-res stuff (and also get rid of it again without breaking stuff).
Also, configs do kinda need to be part of your replacement content, if only so that you can enable/disable nearest filtering (and other equivelent settings that vary from one engine to the next).
#1531 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/19 03:49:05
Well, I AM an insane code hacker. I live outside the box and push things to their limit -- which is also why I find so many bugs!
There's all kinds of crazy stuff in FvF. More people need to play FvF. The reason I do weird stuff with the intermission camera is so players can DANCE during intermission! Heh. I got that idea from Unreal, where the winner of the match would be shown during the intermission, and he could do taunts like the pelvic thrust. So I added that to FvF (we can vote into Deathmatch mode, though you can dance in Quest mode too). I gave the player 10 different dance moves to perform! Come and try it, people.
Yes, I'm self-promoting! We usually have "Sunday-night FvF" as the pre-planned time to gather and play each week.
connect fvf.servequake.com
#1532 posted by Baker on 2016/11/19 04:15:56
@spike - I like my Quake simple which is why I like FitzQuake.
I don't even like menus, my engine has 1 more preferences menu than I like (because I would prefer zero).
I just like it to be simple.
I think users that are that serious that they need something like that -- need to be using an FTE or DarkPlaces.
#1533 posted by Baker on 2016/11/19 04:20:48
@gunter -- I was pursing a false lead, but I obsess about little behavioral differences like that. I'm going to overcome that and slap a "to be continued" on it since it's a Friday night.
Quexpo 2116
#1534 posted by
on 2016/11/19 04:23:57
Celebrating 110 years of Quake.
Latest Engine updates to Mark LVI
Arcane Dimensions 3, so big we had to upgrade Mark LVI and QSS 101.5 to support bsp4 and protocol 77777.
QmasterIII's celebrating the release of his great grandfather's mod released in 2016 by adding aupport for AD2!
@johnny -- Yeah I Fixed That Now ;-)
#1535 posted by Baker on 2016/11/19 04:34:20
typo fixed
#1536 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/19 04:44:37
We don't make typos.
Just syntax errors....
2116 - 1996 = 110?
#1537 posted by
on 2016/11/19 05:08:18
Never Was Good With Subtraction
#1538 posted by
on 2016/11/19 13:07:56
#1539 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/19 16:07:30
Hm, so vid_vsync simply does not work at all in the GL version (or Win version)?
In DX, changing the value gives a warning about it taking effect after mode change, and upon mode change (changing the resolution) the FPS will be clamped to 60 no matter what I have host_maxfps set at. And then everything looks smooth.
But in GL there is no warning and no change in FPS....
Can vsync not be made to work in GL (or Win)?
Also, since it requires a "mode change" it might be better to stick the vsync setting in the resolution menu so that it can be "applied" like any other mode change, but even without having to actually change resolution.....
Also, wasn't there a "mouse smoothing" thing in Quake at some point? I know there used to be the -dinput command line option.... My mouse movement does not seem very smooth. Er, well, I am using a touchpad on this netbook, heh, but still.. it is pretty un-smooth.
Let me plug in a usb mouse....
Oh! That's MUCH smoother with an actual mouse!
So I guess my question is: Is there any way to smooth the motion of my netbook's touchpad? heh. Shut up! I know I'm the only person on Earth who plays Quake with a netbook touchpad!
I have "mouse acceleration" disabled already. I hate that.
#1540 posted by mh on 2016/11/19 18:11:42
Vsync in Direct3D is part of the specification. In Direct3D 8 or 9 you select it by setting PRESENT_INTERVAL_ONE (vsync on) or PRESENT_INTERVAL_IMMEDIATE (vsync off) when you create your Direct3D device. To change it you setup new present parameters with the appropriate options then Reset the device: the moral equivalent of a mode change. Direct3D 10+ is nicer: it's just a parameter on the Present call (equivalent of SwapBuffers for GL). To change it you just use a different value; no Reset or mode change needed.
Vsync is not part of the OpenGL specification because the OpenGL specification leaves that up to the OS (sometimes one wonders if the OpenGL spec authors take tips from Sir Humphrey Appleby). Typically on Windows it's implemented by the WGL_EXT_swap_control extension, although it's entirely possible for a vendor to define their own extension for it. Because it's an EXT extension, drivers aren't obliged to support it.
So if your OpenGL driver doesn't have an extension for vsync you don't get to have vsync in OpenGL - even if vsync works in Direct3D on the same hardware and OS.
In cases such as that you might find a setting for vsync in your driver's control panel.
#1541 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/19 19:10:55
Hm, no vsync options in my limited OpenGL control panel.
I guess I will stick with the DX version, after all that hassle getting the GL one to work, hah.
Oh well, the mirrors look cool, but they actually cause a pretty big FPS decrease for me anyway.
#1542 posted by Baker on 2016/11/19 19:37:05
@gunter --- Like MH said
...It's your Open GL drivers. Your log says "Swap Support" found. So Mark V tries to use it. Apparently when it tries to use it, nothing happens.
#1543 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/19 19:42:08
On the other hand... it seems I'm still getting the intermittent crash on level change with DX....
Dr. Watson says the crash was caused by "access violation."
I guess I'll run with -developer and wait for it to happen again to see if the qconsole log has any information....
#1544 posted by Baker on 2016/11/19 19:54:39
... do cl_autodemo 1
If you ever have that happen again, upload the autodemo (the most recent demo living in your id1 folder or whatever gamedir you are using).
Mark V cl_autodemo only keeps 3 autodemos at any time so it isn't a burden or resource consumer.
#1545 posted by Gunter on 2016/11/19 21:59:44
Got it.
And m_filter was probably the mouse smoothing thing I Was thinking of.... However, in Mark V:
]help m_filter
Console variable: (TODO: UNUSED -- remove)
Also, I tested on the older WinXP laptop, and vsync did indeed work in GL Mark V. I guess my netbook just doesn't handle the GL vsync techniques correctly.
+zoom_key -- I think you are setting the sensitivity too low when this is used. 1/10th standard sensitivity seems better (10%). Looks like you're using 6.25%
There's an issue with the Winquake version if you run in a window with the vertical resolution set the same as your screen height. Like if I run in an 800 x 600 window on my 1024 x 600 netbook. The HUD is chopped off at the bottom of the screen.
#1546 posted by Baker on 2016/11/19 22:28:31
1) +zoom_key
... Make your own or edit it to your liking and put in autoexec.cfg as follows
type "aliases" in the console and then "copy" to copy the console contents to the clipboard.
Put your edited version in autoexec.cfg.
2) Then don't use 800x600 windowed mode ;-) Not engine's responsibility to save the user from his own choices.
... vid_fullscreen 0; vid_width 800; vid_height 540; vid_restart
or something
Error Loading Game
#1547 posted by zbikey on 2016/11/19 22:32:21
Hello again.
I have the following problem in the newest version playing standard Quake. I save the game at the beginning of levels. When i try to load it the game crashes with the message "R_Renderview: called without enough stack". Curiously, if I start a new game and then load the save, it loads properly.
#1548 posted by zbikey on 2016/11/19 22:33:06
I'm using the software renderer.
#1549 posted by Baker on 2016/11/19 22:48:51
I'm trying to reproduce this. I'm not getting the problem.
Are you using a command line or the Quake Injector or anything that would be adding command line parameters?
#1550 posted by zbikey on 2016/11/19 23:02:53
Nope, a clean installation with the original files from the gog version. Just deleted config.cfg and autoexec.bat and the problem persists. I get the same crash in the openGL version but a different message "R_Renderview: NULL worldmodel".
#1551 posted by zbikey on 2016/11/19 23:18:32
When you're killed and press a button to respawn, you're moved to the beginning of the level but you're still "dead".
#1552 posted by Baker on 2016/11/19 23:20:04
The problem you are having is pretty different, I'd like to help you solve it I can, but need information since "R_Renderview: NULL worldmodel" -- should be almost impossible as error with a valid map.
1) Are you playing regular Quake or a Mission Pack or something else or a specific map?
1b) If not regular, what are typing in to play it?
2) Are you using replacement content?
2a) Are you using
.lit and
.vis from the download?
(NightFright supplied that I haven't personally tested it, but he's very thorough but if put in the wrong folder could cause problems.)
3) You are on Windows using the current version at quakeone.com/markv?
4) Could you post your config.cfg, autoexec.cfg and qconsole.log (when it crashes)?
#1553 posted by zbikey on 2016/11/19 23:37:09
To make sure everything is in order I made a new directory, only id1 folder with pak0.pak and pak1.pak and the mark v files (also downloaded again). I started the game on normal, entered the portal and saved at the slipgate complex. If I start mark v and attempt to load the game from the menu I get the crash.
1)Just pak.0.pak and pak1.pak from the gog installation, no mods installed no changes in config, no autoexec.
3)win10 home 64bit, yes newest version, both opengl and software crash.
4)config.cfg (default, made no changes for the purpose of this test)
// Mark V
bind "TAB" "+showscores"
bind "ENTER" "+jump"
bind "ESCAPE" "togglemenu"
bind "SPACE" "+jump"
bind "+" "sizeup"
bind "," "+klook"
bind "-" "sizedown"
bind "." "+mlook"
bind "0" "impulse 0"
bind "1" "impulse 1"
bind "2" "impulse 2"
bind "3" "impulse 3"
bind "4" "impulse 4"
bind "5" "impulse 5"
bind "6" "impulse 6"
bind "7" "impulse 7"
bind "8" "impulse 8"
bind "=" "sizeup"
bind "[" "impulse 10"
bind "]" "impulse 12"
bind "`" "toggleconsole"
bind "a" "+moveleft"
bind "d" "+moveright"
bind "e" "+movedown"
bind "q" "+moveup"
bind "s" "+back"
bind "t" "messagemode"
bind "w" "+forward"
bind "~" "toggleconsole"
bind "CTRL" "+attack"
bind "ALT" "+strafe"
bind "SHIFT" "+speed"
bind "PAUSE" "pause"
bind "LEFTARROW" "+left"
bind "RIGHTARROW" "+right"
bind "UPARROW" "+forward"
bind "DOWNARROW" "+back"
bind "PGUP" "+lookup"
bind "PGDN" "+lookdown"
bind "END" "centerview"
bind "F1" "help"
bind "F2" "menu_save"
bind "F3" "menu_load"
bind "F4" "menu_options"
bind "F5" "menu_multiplayer"
bind "F6" "echo Quicksaving...; wait; save quick"
bind "F9" "echo Quickloading...; wait; load quick"
bind "F10" "quit"
bind "F12" "screenshot"
bind "MOUSE1" "+attack"
bind "MOUSE2" "+forward"
bind "MOUSE3" "+zoom_key"
bind "MWHEELUP" "impulse 10"
bind "MWHEELDOWN" "impulse 12"
_cl_color "0"
_cl_name "player"
_cl_sky ""
_hd_folder "hd"
_snd_mixahead "0.1"
bgmvolume "1"
capturevideo_codec "auto"
capturevideo_console "1"
capturevideo_fps "30.0"
capturevideo_hack "0"
capturevideo_mp3 "0"
capturevideo_mp3_kbps "128"
cfg_unbindall "1"
cl_anglespeedkey "1.5"
cl_autodemo "0"
cl_backspeed "400"
cl_bob "0.02"
cl_bobcycle "0.6"
cl_bobside "0.02"
cl_bobsidecycle "0.9"
cl_bobsideup "0.5"
cl_bobup "0.5"
cl_forwardspeed "400"
cl_maxpitch "90"
cl_minpitch "-90"
cl_movespeedkey "2.0"
cl_pitchspeed "150"
cl_rollangle "2.0"
cl_sidebobbing "0"
cl_sidespeed "350"
cl_upspeed "200"
cl_yawspeed "140"
contrast "1"
crosshair "0"
cutscene "1"
external_music "1"
fov "90"
gamma "1.0"
gl_polyblend "1"
host_maxfps "72"
host_sleep "0"
host_startdemos "1"
in_freelook "1"
in_keymap "1"
in_system_enhanced_keys "1"
lookspring "0"
m_filter "0"
m_forward "1"
m_pitch "0.022"
m_side "0.8"
m_yaw "0.022"
nomouse "0"
pq_bindprotect "0"
pq_download_http_locs "1"
r_clearcolor "2"
r_lavaalpha "1"
r_mirroralpha "0.2"
r_slimealpha "0.7"
r_stains "1"
r_viewmodel_fov "90"
r_viewmodel_offset "0"
r_viewmodel_quake "0"
r_viewmodel_ring "0"
r_viewmodel_size "0"
r_wateralpha "0.5"
r_waterripple "0"
r_waterwarp "1"
saved1 "0"
saved2 "0"
saved3 "0"
saved4 "0"
savedgamecfg "0"
scr_clock "-1"
scr_conspeed "300"
scr_originalquake2d "0"
scr_sbaralpha "1"
scr_sbarcentered "1"
scr_scaleauto "1"
scr_showfps "0"
sensitivity "3"
sndspeed "11025"
sv_aim "0.93"
sv_altnoclip "1"
sw_sky_load_skyboxes "1"
v_gunkick "1"
v_kickpitch "0.6"
v_kickroll "0.6"
v_kicktime "0.5"
v_polyblend_lite "0"
v_smoothstairs "1"
vid_fullscreen "0"
vid_height "480"
vid_refreshrate "60"
vid_sound_thread "1"
vid_stretch "1"
vid_vsync "0"
vid_width "640"
viewsize "100"
volume "0.7"
no autoexec file
Command line: [ ]
Log file: D:\test/id1/qconsole.log
Sat Nov 19 23:32:18 2016
WinQuake Mark V Windows (Build: 900)
Exe: mark_v_winquake.exe (1064 kb)
Exe: 14:43:15 Nov 18 2016
Caches: C:/Users/myname/AppData/Roaming/Mark V/caches
UDP4 Initialized: INADDR_ANY, 192.168.0.12
IPv6 Initialized: [fe80:0:0:0:9d90:b865:2c23:5f89%5]
Exe: 14:43:00 Nov 18 2016
256.0 megabyte heap
joystick not found -- no valid joysticks (a5)
Input initialized
Avi capturing module initialized
ACM module initialized
Sound Initialization
Set primary sound buffer format: yes
Using secondary sound buffer
2 channel(s)
16 bits/sample
11025 bytes/sec
DirectSound initialized
Audio: 16 bit, stereo, 11025 Hz
Sound sampling rate: 11025
CDAudio_Init: No CD in player.
CD Audio Initialized
========= Quake Initialized =========
execing quake.rc
execing default.cfg
execing config.cfg
couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
3 demo(s) in loop
Playing demo from demo1.dem.
the Necropolis
Using protocol 15
You got the shells
You got the Grenade Launcher
Loading game from D:\test/id1/s0.sav...
#1554 posted by Baker on 2016/11/19 23:51:00
Can you upload this save game file and both of your pak files?
This is very weird and I'd like to examine this.
#1555 posted by zbikey on 2016/11/20 00:04:07
I just checked it with rogue/pak0.pak, same deal, if I save in the expansion next time I enter the game when I try to load I get the error.
Same exact files work fine with 20160915 version of mark v (checked again now just to be sure, fresh folder etc).
If you wish I can upload the files but I think this proves they're not the issue here.
#1556 posted by Baker on 2016/11/20 00:17:38
I need the files uploaded if I am to have any chance of examining your problem and solving it.
Keep in mind several people have used both the Open GL and WinQuake versions.
As You Wish
#1557 posted by zbikey on 2016/11/20 00:26:13
#1558 posted by Baker on 2016/11/20 00:50:00
Going to take a look at this.
Cross your fingers and hope I can experience this problem. I have my fingers crossed.
/Otherwise, I can't think of any way I can help :(
#1559 posted by
on 2016/11/20 01:10:58
I'm getting the same kind of crash. It seems that the demo playback is causing it. Starting a singleplayer game or simply not running anything makes the savegame work.
Good News!
#1560 posted by Baker on 2016/11/20 01:12:35
With your pak files and your save game I can reproduce your problem.
It appears to be your pak files, somehow. Your pak0.pak in particular is not the same size. Your pak1.pak appears to be the same as mine.
Your save game does not cause me problems with my pak files.
I'll have to come up with a plan to figure out what is different and why it is happening.
/It's getting late and I'll probably do that tomorrow. But looks good that I'll be able to solve your problem.
#1561 posted by Baker on 2016/11/20 01:15:24
Pretty awesome I can reproduce problem and if you are getting it too, that helps.
I'm not getting problem with my own pak files.
And he says slightly older Mark V didn't have issue.
So I'll see what solves this little mystery and what is going on.
#1562 posted by Baker on 2016/11/20 01:16:29
/But it's late. Tomorrow sometime is most likely time.
#1563 posted by
on 2016/11/20 01:50:04
Pak sizes in my installation:
pak0 18312419
pak1 34362368
They're different on my CD:
pak0 18689235
pak1 34257856
I checked and, as expected, the difference is applying the vis patch. Regardless, the paks copied from the CD didn't fix the crashing for me (which is present in mods like Malice as well).
#1564 posted by Gebloner on 2016/11/20 04:22:56
There's currently a hard limit on the number of polygons a model can have at 2048, and unfortunately that means some model packs don't really work now. I don't see why that's in there, perhaps that cap can be removed?
Model Limits
#1565 posted by Baker on 2016/11/20 04:37:47
I've thought about the model limits. Quakespasm Spiked, for instance, loosens those up, and Enhanced GLQuake and I believe JoeQuake had higher limits.
In trying to get to the engine out beta stage to release Quake stage, I decided to skip thinking about that in the current release.
FitzQuake 0.85 has compatibility warnings (*), and I'd want to make sure a compatibility warning printed and also make sure no consequences in the software render (WinQuake) version of Mark V.
Short version: Something I care about but decided to not address before doing the release.
Is it an issue? It sure is. I know of replacement models that won't work.
(*) which new Mark V mirrored the Quakespasm approach to only print those if developer is set to 2 or higher
#1566 posted by Baker on 2016/11/20 04:50:04
I'll address this in some form in the next 24 hours.
WinQuake Model Limit
#1567 posted by Baker on 2016/11/20 06:23:38
According to Enhanced GLQuake/Enhanced WinQuake by Ben Jardrup
He raised the vertex limit to 3984 with the comment 3985 or higher seems to crash assembler (?)
... (means WinQuake's assembly language code).
So looks like I'm going to use 3984 as the new vertex limit which is about double current limits.
He raised the triangle limit to from 2048 to 4096. So I'll increase to that limit.
So both of those limits will about double, and it will be compatible with both the Open GL version and the WinQuake version.
(Ben Jardrup wrote one of the most backwards compatability-minded and thoughtful engines ever. Widely used until FitzQuake 0.85 came out with a similar limit raising capabilities).
#1568 posted by Baker on 2016/11/20 09:49:34
New version update, details in the new thread
This thread should really be closed and I'm going to post in General Abuse ask if a moderator could do that.
/Crazy to have 2 threads open.
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