Outstanding! :q3:

Just an indie project without an engine (or multiple engines) using Radiant because can have scalable patch-mesh and mapobject iterations (using GAWK to automate LOD stages) in a text-based format, beside just loving and working the quickest with Radiant. https://www.violationentertainment.com/ ... ...

Really looking forward to actually getting all this stuff into the engine with full normalmapped materials, particles and env-FX, and proper shadow-casting lights, etc. and coming back with some lovely 4K shots. For now, these are some low-res shots straight from DarkRadiant cam-view, using only the...

Noesis can apparently do all of this:-
https://richwhitehouse.com/index.php?co ... ojects.php

I figured I'd post this, since nobody else seems to have mentioned it. D3W (ex)regular Kristus (and associates) bring more Quake-style arena-DM action to the world:- https://www.doombringer.eu/ https://www.indiedb.com/games/doombringer [youtube]https://youtu.be/nQVy3JppXPk[/youtube] I personally thi...

These are really excellent pieces of work, look beautiful and demonstrate some great mapping skills. I find them very inspirational and have been closely studying them both for ideas for my own mapping.

You should be proud. I encourage everyone to check them out.

As far as I know, using JPG was 100% all about download and filesize. It has no bearing on in-game performance because the engine will treat it as any other data in the texture buffer. PK3 compression is more or less going to give you the same benefits as compressing your TGAs to JPGs. Not directly ...

Could be AA and/or v-sync?

If you're looking for some command-line tools, you're bound to find it hidden in here:- https://www.quaddicted.com/files/tools/ But I think that would be only good for static mapobjects. If you want animated models like characters and weapons, I'm not sure, last time I did that was using MilkShape. ...

Grid scale should be set to 0.64 and subdivision of 8, but it can depend entirely on exporter scaling options too. I don't know what kind of exporting support 2.8 has, I imagine it will take a long time to build up again, but you should be able to use earlier versions of Blender. If not, something l...

Sadly, professional version is subscription only, and at $525 a year. This isn't likely to sit too well with indies and I personally despise all subscription licenses.

If it's for hobbyist to toy with for free then it's great if it's that simple.

So here we go, someone on the #etlegacy IRC channel was able to help me dig this up... https://dev.etlegacy.com/attachments/280/fate-shot.jpg Freehand Adaptive Terrain Editor:- http://www.violae.net/temp/FATE_0_13_Win32_setup.zip I read that it doesn't export, but after playing with it I found that ...

That's interesting and I might have figured that out, except the Quake 4 gamepack never included an ent file. I suppose I could just make one.

So it seems Radiant gets its colours first from those ent files > then packed def files > then extracted def files > then its own defaults.

Oh wow, absolutely! I was changing the entities.def file, but it was actually the func.def inside the PK4 that finally made the difference. All this time I was poking around in the wrong files...

Thanks a million.

This is something that I really want to change, but I can't find it in any menu or file. I believe it's coded into the software, I'm specifically talking about GtkRadiant 1.5 and NetRadiant, specifically idTech4 support. The func_group entity makes brushes black and I'd like it to be something that ...

Hey, thanks man! That actually really did help a lot, because I threw the filename into Google and hoping to find some old lost FTP folders, and sure enough:- http://urtmaps.prkl.org/tools/ SurfaceGenerator is something that does pretty much what I was remembering. I read it even was based on the pr...

I vaguely remember some tools that could spit out a .map file of various customised shapes and objects (like stairwells) and I wanted to dig them back up and see how useful they still are, and see how one might go about using them to expand upon with more scripts. Although most of them are for idTec...

If you're looking to quickly view 3D models from opening them in Explorer, I can recommend this:-
https://castle-engine.io/view3dscene.php

For displaying 3D models on a webpage, I found this pretty easy to set up:-
https://www.x3dom.org/

More beautiful texturing work, and extremely generous because such professional quality should certainly earn a tidy profit.

I've had a lot of luck with this:-
https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

Depending on the issue/damage, this will either recover your files or you'll end up paying a LOT more than that and likely just get back corrupt junk for your money and time.

If it was 1.5.3:-
http://www.violationentertainment.com/f ... 01.5.3.zip

That's really interesting and good work figuring that out.

I wonder how it would turn out to invert the vertex light and use that to subtract from an enhanced lightmap, to add even more contrast to the visuals. Or maybe to shift hues to give an iridescent quality to everything.

These kind of things can be faked with the "shooter" entities, but requires a custom (invisible/silent) projectile, which I don't remember being too hard to set up.

You'd be importing models (split into pieces by visibility) into Radiant anyway, and needing to put a lot of clip-brushes around your geometry to help simplify collision, and using caulk to "hull" the map and use portals. It really all depends on the complexity of what you're planning. I'm...

I've been using an Android app called Skedio. It can export my "blueprints" to SVG which can then be converted to various 3D formats, imported into Radiant as a mapobject and used as a direct reference. Qubism also deserves a mention but it's not the easiest thing in the world to use. It c...