Arcane Dimensions

[Amon26]

this is wonderful. truly wonderful.

[Dick Steele]

Arcane Dimensions is just incredible. I wonder if it's possible to enable the new weapons in regular Quake and in other custom levels.

I've searched and found the following on Quake's Steam Forum:


"Judging from some stuff in the readme, it looks like you could do this:
- set "developer 1" before loading a map, then
- use "impulse 9" to get all the base weapons, then
- use another impulse (or alias) to "upgrade" a base weapon to one of the new weapons.

Impulse 200 Upgrade Axe (alias = "upgaxe")
Impulse 205 Upgrade SSG (alias = "upgssg")
Impulse 210 Upgrade LG (alias = "upglg")"



Sadly this does not appear to be working

[JDSTONE]

i got a little bit of time to play a map or 2. so far this has been a outstanding mod love the zombie like knights. and everyone seems to be tossing bombs at you. i was busting out windows to get pick ups and guys were busting down walls to kill me. all the mis models added a lot to the environment. the 3 shot gun was a gib fest! the library in the hidden map was a good read. I hope some day you get your dragon in the basement.

[Blood Vengeance]

Which build is reccomended to run AD in Darkplaces?

[Spike]

that happens when a mod writes a tempstring to a global or field and then forgets to clear it out again.
vanilla just uses a single location for tempstrings so it just saves some random value instead.
that sort of thing can be a pain to track down without setting a breakpoint within the engine itself.

[talisa]

decided to try playing arcane dimensions again with the DP patch.
while playing sock's map 'obsessive brick disorder' this errror keeps popping up every time i quicksave:

prvm_getstring: invalid temp-string offset (12 >= 0 prog->tempstringsbuf.cursize)

it doesnt crash the game and nothing seems to be affected by it,
but i keep getting the error every time i quicksave and thought id notify about it

[antiriad]

Its the crackling of the torches, the whistling of the bullets, the dust and sparks from crashing breakables and the magical energies flowing from the spells!

It certainly is! I remembering buying that book when it first came and playing it all weekend! paper, dice and lazy sunday afternoon!
PS. Mountain does have a story mode, there are many secrets to the AD MOD!

Thank you and happy new year to everyone!

[MadGypsy]

@genius mapper - no doubt! I envy the talent of you guys for this skill. Amazing work.

[gdiddy62]

Thank you mfx! Much appreciated!!

Happy New Year Everyone!!!

[qbism]

which palette are you using?

Just the default s8pal, and 0.85 gamma.

For a currently unknown reason, a few of the mdl files in /progs cause a video buffer glitch and crash the super8 engine. Also reported for Mark V Winquake on insideqc.com. Realizing these are unsupported engines, yet opening the files in Noesis and resaving them fixes the glitch. It also results in smaller mdl file sizes. I don't know which specific files. I did a batch open/save.

[mfx]

gdiddy62,

This zip

https://www.quaddicted.com/filebase/ad_v1_42patch1.zip

should fix DP issues. Just copy over the existing folders.

[gdiddy62]

Can't find the patch for DP on your page??

Can you help please?

[sock]

Well thank you everyone for your feedback, it has been awesome to see what people think of the MOD. I plan to be gone for a while so if there are any questions, problems or stuff, hopefully the rest of the AD team will jump in and help.

I highly recommend you download the latest patch as it does fix a lot of issues with DP and scaling of monsters for higher skill levels.

I wish everyone here a happy new year!

some screenshots by MFX for the MOD, a genius quake mapper!
http://www.simonoc.com/files/ad/ad_swampy.jpg
http://www.simonoc.com/files/ad/ad_end.jpg

[Legend]

Exploring this briefly, it is likely super8 does not support a particular progs asset or progs.dat feature. More about this on qbism.com. Any observations could be posted there or in a separate thread as it is indeed an engine incompatibility of some kind.

Map (bsp) content renders, though.

which palette are you using?

[Spike]

regarding FL_ITEM, I expect its just down to how its drawn.
in your screenshot, DP is drawing the abs bbox (which is more correct in regard to solid_trigger and rotated solid_bsp, but may be slightly expanded compared to solid_bbox/solid_slidebox), while quakespasm is drawing whatever was passed to setsize (which is correct only for solid_bbox/solid_slidebox interactions).

raise the brushes under that item to above step heights, you should see that there's no differences other than the shown bbox.

FL_ITEM expands by 15 in the x+y directions.