8 bit bigmap Halloween special

[dreadlorde]

[qbism]

"cvarlist" nasty crash bug will be fixed in next release. There is a hard-coded limit that needs to be removed. I was able to just replace it with similar Fitzquake command. Keep the bugs coming...

The cvar needed is "sbar" and it can be set from 0 to 4. 4 is the default new-style status bar, and 1-3 are the classic styles. Just looking at this, some possible changes: Change the cvar name to "cl_statusbar", and let the + and - keys cycle through status bar styles instead of changing size of drawing area.

[negke]

Some comments on the recent release. I think this is nice from technical perspective, taking on the old software engine was unexpected, and putting in modern features. Good stuff there. Many good addtions to the menu without cluttering it too much like other engines do. I don't like the new HUD - the numbers are too small and too far apart to be useful in battle. Didn't know the cvar to change it back to the old one. Be sure to include a proper manual/readme in the next release!

I playtested my DMC3 with this and it worked fine, though it seemed to be darker than with other engines. Especially the shadows on the monsters were sometimes unrealistically dark compared to the lighting of the current environment. In dmc3m6 there was a display error near -770 -300 380, where a patch on the floor would be have faulty lighting - it was extremely overbright or something like that. I took a screenshot, but accidentally deleted it, and I don't have the engine installed anymore. Sorry.

[necros]

[qbism]

[negke]

[quote="necros"]in the video menu, there's a slider for status bar that cycles through different configurations./quote]
Ok, good. I was just too blind then. Problem is I have to run Quake on 1152*864 because my monitor is old and faulty and will often stretch the display horizontally on 1024* or 800* w/ 60Hz resolutions, but on 1152* and above the text is so small that I can barely read it.

[LeoBao]

I went through a few e1 maps and noticed one thing though; that the enemies and power ups and other models like that are translucent most of the time [sometimes they're not for a second]. I'm not sure if they are supposed to be like that [i get the feeling it's not], and I can't find how to turn it off.

[dreadlorde]

[Yingchun]

I haven't had a lot of time, but was able to reproduce the skew in windowed mode. It looked exactly like your screenshot, so it's unrelated to hardware compatibility.

[qbism]

[necros]

do you know what causes this:



turning on r_fullbright removes the corrupted pixels.

i am using an unorthodox method of changing lightmaps for a lightning effect:
i create standard lights and manually assign 'style' to them (instead of letting light.exe do it) and then update lightmaps via qc by feeding in different single letter string settings via lightstyle() function.

this is the only non-standard thing going on in this map graphically, afaik.
textures are just standard 8bit palettized.

any ideas?

[leileilol]

[frag.machine]

[qbism]

[metlslime]