Qrack feature request.

[Baker]

Added: When recording a demo, show_rec will display "[*REC]" on screen.

STOP! THIEF!

Dammit, well my idea was a red dot indicating recording a demo. And I wanted to somehow make a progress bar when a demo plays showing how far into the demo it is.

Then again, I don't have much time.

Added: cl_levelshots 0 |1
Displays an image between level loads and fades out of view with the name of the map centerprinted.
(custom levelshot images should be placed in "/textures/levelshots" )

I wish there was a way to auto-generate a map screenshot for display from one of the intermission cameras in a map to avoid the need to have a pre-built screenshot.

I'm just rambling ...

Fixed: coronas are not visable through doors/platforms

Awesome!

Fixed chase_active so the view never pokes into the wall!

Mega-awesome! x5

added gl_free_world_textures cvar to clear out loaded texture before each map load...
+ saves texture memory
+ reloads color pallete (and/or bpp)
+ resets the mipmap level

Mega-awesome.

added preliminary support for HalfLife 1 maps with 24bit texture support

Cool! It would great to be able to make a toolkit for people to make Half-Life format Quake maps so we can play more interesting Quake.

The .bsp size is the same with the textures compiled into a Half-Life format map but it gets to use so many more colors.

Awesome stuff, Rook.

[MH]

I wish there was a way to auto-generate a map screenshot for display from one of the intermission cameras in a map to avoid the need to have a pre-built screenshot.

Of course there is; check my automapshot code. It's just a matter of changing when the automapshot fires, but it's all there at the bottom of SCR_UpdateScreen.

Having it happen before you enter a map might be a bit more difficult. You'd need to load the BSP and all models, process the entities client-side looking for an info_intermission (and bear in mind that there's absolutely nothing in Quake that says an intermission camera has to be called "info_intermission"), render that scene to the backbuffer or an alternate render target buffer, then capture it to a texture. Brrrr.

[R00k]

MH: i was thinking of your "save screens" when he said that.
Baker the REC code idea was thru (maybe u as well) as now in this age of Quake we CAN record demos at whim and im like "ok this game is getting juicy if i record now and i was already recording i will serrate the demo(s) ?" i just need a *** telling me that cl_autodemo is ACTIVE!! sorry if we shared the same "grr"!

side note about the level shots, it only looks good in SinglePlayer. Ther server sends the "Hey lets load a new map" way to late for any multiplayer gamer to give a sh!t. this is why i started making level shots blurred-fades, so that it "morphs" into the level..


LH: why random, wouldnt u like a user .cfg file to configure the custom maps how U want to play,then press nextmap?
or cl_nextmap 1 ?

[Lightning_Hunter]

LH: why random, wouldnt u like a user .cfg file to configure the custom maps how U want to play,then press nextmap?
or cl_nextmap 1 ?

Nope, because I have a lot of maps, and I enjoy the surprise. Basically, I don't want to enter 500 maps into a config file; I'd rather just be able to use an active command anytime during a game, and have it choose a map in the maps folder for me. When I play online with my brothers, we like a random map rotation. We've been doing it for games like UT99, UT2004, Quake3, etc (all of which have mods to shuffle the maps)... It's fun not knowing what map will pop up next. I would love you forever if you did it.

[Lightning_Hunter]

I just realized that if you use an MD3 model for spike or s_spike, there is no longer a particle trail behind the nails after you fire them. Could this be fixed?

[R00k]

Ok added to the todo list

[Mindf!3ldzX]

no,seriously. 5-0

[Neil]

r00k, can you add free look/move in demos? it was in glpro8 and it was a nice feature. Unless you already added it and i just cant figure it out

[=peg=]

left/right mouse click used to do that.. dunno if it is still in tho.. haven't used it for quite a while..

[R00k]

right mouse click toggles freelook
left mouse click toggles freemove

I really liked these features to see "bot demo accusations" and to study bot behavior from demos.

[Neil]

ah jez, i tried every fucking button but the mouse ones, i r retard.

[Lightning_Hunter]

I think I might have found another bug that has possibly been in Qrack forever (tested version 1.83 and the bug is still there). The physics of entities on elevators sometimes act a bit strange. Take the lift at the start of E1M1 for example. Sometimes when you go down the lift, the player will bounce up and down as it goes down (and so will the body of the soldier there if you killed him on the lift). I tried GLQuake to see if I could replicate this, but couldn't - so it seems this bug is Qrack related (or who knows, maybe it's been there since FuhQuake or JoeQuake).

I can't figure out exactly what makes it happen. Just mess around on the lift as it goes down, and it will eventually happen. Sometimes it happens when you just stand there not moving at all. The problem with this bug is that sometimes lifts on SP maps are hard to stay on when they go down, because the player bounces so much. This is especially evident in Low Gravity maps; the player will bounce even more then.

[R00k]

I think i've seen this in the past, it felt like the lift falls fast, then i drop and hit the lift and then the lift falls again, then i fall. Butall this happening in like 2 seconds. Though, trying my newest build I cant get it to do this again, after about 20 lift rides :/

[Lightning_Hunter]

Um, want me to try and see if I can replicate it with the newest build? I'm currently using 1.90 2422. Maybe I can record a demo of it.

[Lightning_Hunter]

Rook, when I try to load a map with the newest build you gave me (2764) I get an error. I'm not using any mods. Did you forget to include something mandatory?

Here is my condump:

Console initialized
Couldn't set DI coop level
DirectInput InActive
Video mode 1680x1050x32 60Hz
initialized
DirectInput Active
Mouse smoothing active
GL_VENDOR: ATI Technologies Inc.
GL_RENDERER: ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP
GL_VERSION: 2.1.8673

Multitexture extensions found
Enabled 4 texture units on hardware
VSYNC Support Found:
WGL_EXT_swap_control
Loaded 2 corona textures
Avi capturing module initialized
ACM module initialized
DirectSound initialized
Sound sampling rate: 44100 Hz
Failed to download qrack_version.txt
from http://www
.quakeone.com/qrack/qrack_version.txt
Error: The requested URL returned
error: 404
DirectInput Active
Mouse smoothing active
Exe: 00:25:52 Sep 20 2009
Hunk allocation: 512.0 MB

Qrack version 1.92 (build 2764)


 Qrack Initialized 
execing quake.rc
execing config.cfg
execing autoexec.cfg
No demos listed with startdemos
]map e1m1
CALL0      459(spawn)spawn()
<NO FUNCTION>
    world.qc : worldspawn
<NO FUNCTION>
Bad builtin call number 14 for spawn
Please contact the PROGS.DAT author
Use BUILTINLIST to see all assigned builtin functions
Try "builtin remapping" by setting PR_BUILTIN_REMAP to 1


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Host_Error: Program error
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]condump