How to use conversions and various mods with Darkplaces?

[Psy-Kai-Q]

Hello,

I want to play Malice, Shrak for Quake and X-Men: The Ravages Of Apocalypse, but I don't know how to start them with the Darkplaces Engine.

Btw, are there more mod packs resp. conversions like Nehara Project, Zerst�rer etc.?

[xaGe]

Run them like you would any other engine.

[talisa]

you use mods with darkplaces the same way as how you'd do with normal quake:
by starting darkplaces with the parameter -game modfolder

you can find any mods and maps over at quaddicted: https://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/
they are all collected there

zerstorer: https://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/zer11.html
nehahra: https://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/nehahra.html

both play just fine in darkplaces. however dont try and run them with HD monster models,
especially nehahra which includes modified models which include additional animations.
HD models dont include those additional animations and thus the models will appear to be frozen when the engine tries to display the missing animations

[Psy-Kai-Q]

you use mods with darkplaces the same way as how you'd do with normal quake:
by starting darkplaces with the parameter -game modfolder

Ah yeah thanks. I remebered something like -game malice, but was no rellay sure. I used -game -malice and thats why I can't run it.
Now I can play my favorite conversion.

[talisa]

sure thing

have fun, and happy quake-ing

[Psy-Kai-Q]

Hmmm... Malice is not working well with the Darkplace Engine.
I have the problem that in the map Area 44 are the small crate and the parachute (or a hover board) is missing and when I also activate the elevator in the basement, then I get an overflow of error messages.

[Henry]

Psy-Kai-Q, you can read in several threads about the gameplay issues of darkplaces.
Malice is affected just the same way as many other mods. Also zerstorer is not fully playable with dp. Even vanilla Quake and mission packs.

It has an arsenal of internal bugfixes in its trunk though. They try to fix the majority of those bugs. But now that these bugfixes have been disabled by default in recent dp builds, a lot of those bugs will show up in your quake again.

What you want to do is to enable the required internal bugfixes.
Add this line into your malice/autoexec.cfg to get your chute and small boxes back:
"sv_gameplayfix_droptofloorstartsolid" "1"
Both models stick inside walls upon spawning and therefore drop out of the map when map starts.

The third error message is already saying why it appears and where it comes from itself.

[Psy-Kai-Q]

Is it possible to play Hexen II + Mission Pack with the Darkplaces Engine?
If yes, how?

[talisa]

no darkplaces does not support hexen II

fteQW however does, and it also supports HD models, RTlights, replacement textures and shaders like darkplaces.

you can download the latest development builds of it here:
Index of /moodles

inkubo has made HD-textures and lit-files for hexen2, which you can get here:
Hexen 2 Texture Pack

i myself have made some gloss-maps to compliment inkubo's textures:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7i5ebevc4r...200.1.rar?dl=0
its only for a few textures though, i have to continue making more gloss-maps some time


i have also made a couple HD models for use with fteQW
book, open & closed:http://quakeone.com/forums/quake-tal...tml#post143516
boots of speed: http://quakeone.com/forums/quake-tal...tml#post143559
amulet of protection: http://quakeone.com/forums/quake-tal...tml#post143289
quartzflask: http://quakeone.com/forums/quake-tal...tml#post142204
treasure-chest: http://quakeone.com/forums/quake-tal...tml#post142483
crossbow: http://quakeone.com/forums/quake-tal...tml#post142553


bloodshot has also made a neat 3D background for the main-menu's of hexen II and PoP both:
http://quakeone.com/forums/quake-tal...tml#post124641 (few posts lower is the download-link)


and the engine itself has built-in shaders for water and liquids



inkub0 has also made RTlights for DEMO1 (1st map): http://quakeone.com/forums/quake-tal...tml#post124775
and for DEMO3 (3rd map) http://quakeone.com/forums/quake-tal...tml#post125085

[Psy-Kai-Q]

Thank you, I will check it out.
Btw, I need some good alternatives for Darkplaces, cause some mods are not really good working with it, like Shrak for Quake.
I can start it, but the there are no textures. All is white and some user mods have the same problems.