ProQuake 4.90 Beta

[Baker]

When you get stats going, you gotta talk Slot Zero into upgrading Shmack. I wanna laugh at Scoffer and SaToon's shitty stats.

You know, Slot Zero's server used to be so popular that from 2pm to 3 am it constantly had 10+ players every single day (back in an age before gas grenades and free hook newbized eveything). There was only one guy that he trusted to be fair in all circumstances, someone uninterested in words and personal attacks with rhino skin. I don't remember his name at the moment.

Although to be fair, I still have rhino skin.

[bluntz]

It puts the oil on it"s skin !!

[R00k]

... stats for my ctf (and soon to be cax server).

Any custom svc_stats_* can be added easily.
thats how id pass stats from the mod to server to client to db.

[Panix]

You know, Slot Zero's server used to be so popular that from 2pm to 3 am it constantly had 10+ players every single day (back in an age before gas grenades and free hook newbized eveything). There was only one guy that he trusted to be fair in all circumstances, someone uninterested in words and personal attacks with rhino skin. I don't remember his name at the moment.

Although to be fair, I still have rhino skin.

I didn't know people like that existed on Shmack. You need to come back and play!

Hell, that's part of the reason I stopped playing CTF. Got tired of listening to all shit talking and dick sizing.

"LOL OMG U NOOB YOUR ROCKET EFF IS 68%[email protected]#$ MINE IS 70% OMG U SUXLOLOLOLOL" <- most conversations after CTF games.

Atleast on Shmack, I changed my name last time my IP range changed and most of the people have no clue about the status command. That's why I don't reply to folks when they talk to me in game there. (*cough*Rambo*cough*cd*cough) I'd rather play a game that has a lower caliber of skill with nicer people than better people who act like high school kids.

[Syluxguy28O3]

I'd rather play a game that has a lower caliber of skill with nicer people than better people who act like high school kids.

hey! im in hs and trust me, the peeps on smack act WORSE than high school students....hehe

[Polarite]

Good job Baker !!!

Great I can stay connected while map downloads
16fps gain in my timedemo ffafun demo.


Is there a option to turn off colored dead bodies ?

[Mindf!3ldzX]

hey! im in hs and trust me, the peeps on smack act WORSE than high school students....hehe

Thats because Shmack has been the land of "say whatever you want" .

[monoz]

i havent seen smack talking in ctf in ages.

where is the svc_stats rook?

[Baker]

Is there a option to turn off colored dead bodies ?

Really? I suppose that wouldn't be too hard and ProQuake 4.92 through 4.99 have to happen before I hit 5.00. So yeah sure why not.

16fps gain in my timedemo ffafun demo.

That's because of the colored dead bodies

Here's why ... the crappy color translation code in NetQuake uploads the player skin virtually every time a player passes in view (if they couldn't be seen before).

The high optimized colored dead bodies modification I did doesn't use that crappy method and checks for a skin/color/model change. Which hardly ever changes, of course.

So with 800 fps, it isn't uploading skins to video card for no reason a ton of times every frame.

[MH]

Technical crap about dead bodies. This is going to be old news to some of you.

The first 16 slots in the list of entities are reserved for players and all other entities follow from those. So if an entity is in those slots then you know it's a player, if it's not then you know it's not.

When you're playing Quake you occupy one of those slots, but when you die (and respawn) your dead body is moved outside of them (the respawned you will still be one of the 16).

Now, GLQuake makes use of this "first 16 slots" info when deciding to colormap an entity: if you're in the first 16 you get colormapped, if you're not you don't.

Hence the reason why dead bodies don't get colormapped in GLQuake. This is actually a GLQuake bug by the way as it works fine in software Quake.

Baker is right about everything he says regarding GLQuake's inefficiencies here. It's no joke, and re-uploading modified textures constantly during gameplay is not a nice thing at all (in the case of players it's even worse than lightmaps as GLQuake completely respecifies the entire texture rather than just replacing it's data). There are a coupla approaches and Baker has identified one; others include just loading all 200-odd combinations during startup, or a shader-based colormapping system. Whichever, either significantly reducing or entirely removing the need for this crap is a good thing.

[HackNeyed]

Hi Baker, I know ProQuake is made for multi-player but it's such a nice client I was testing warpspasm and thought you might want to know that the player gets stuck in the first room because two 'enemy' models are partly in the wall.

[Syluxguy28O3]

Hi Baker, I know ProQuake is made for multi-player but it's such a nice client I was testing warpspasm and thought you might want to know that the player gets stuck in the first room because two 'enemy' models are partly in the wall.

why i have no useful imput i do indeed thing that glitch is funny.

[Baker]

Hi Baker, I know ProQuake is made for multi-player but it's such a nice client I was testing warpspasm and thought you might want to know that the player gets stuck in the first room because two 'enemy' models are partly in the wall.

ProQuake doesn't support the giant Warpspasm maps (so the entity positioning is probably rounded off incorrectly).

[HackNeyed]

ProQuake doesn't support the giant Warpspasm maps (so the entity positioning is probably rounded off incorrectly).

Oh OK. Last I checked I thought that ProQuake 4.80 was going to have enhanced limits (protocol 666). I must have been hoping. I know EngineX has it but are there plans to support protocol 666 for ProQuake?

Great engine either way. Thanks!

[Baker]

Oh OK. Last I checked I thought that ProQuake 4.80 was going to have enhanced limits (protocol 666). I must have been hoping. I know EngineX has it but are there plans to support protocol 666 for ProQuake?

Great engine either way. Thanks!

With ProQuake, I've decided to stick with the 1996 style GLQuake experience so I won't be adding protocol 666 and actually stripped out skybox support, fog and other extras in the last version to give the engine more "focus".