Long time

[Frenzy]

Hey! Long time no see fuckers! Who is still around!? I wanna play

[Mindf!3ldzX]

did you hit the report button heh.

[wicked_lord]

A dedicated server to Quake (all Quake):

This guy has quake "full" download on his page. ILLEGAL!

[Mindf!3ldzX]

Monkey are you on GameSurge still?

[BizarroMonkey]

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Hi.

Wat?

[Souless]

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Hi.

[Henry]

i still get the problem with diamonds with smc, but rogue and hipnotic work.

You get the diamonds in smc because you forgot to download the base version V5.0.

These 2 files must be placed inside your empty "smc" folder:
Quake_V5.00_small-mod-compilation_Seven.pk3
Quake_V5.11_small-mod-compilation_update_Seven.pk3

If you only have the 5.11 update without 5.0 then almost all assets are missing, even the particlefont. And you will see many sexy diamonds and ugly particles.

[ph0cus]

still here... hows don doing frenzy?

[raebocol]

thanks guys!

ok, i made separate folders for smc, rogue, hipnotic. I created shortcuts for darkplaces.exe for each one. I edited the Target (for each separate smc):
"C:\Program Files (x86)\quake darkplaces\darkplaces.exe" -game smc
"C:\Program Files (x86)\quake darkplaces\darkplaces.exe" -game hipnotic
"C:\Program Files (x86)\quake darkplaces\darkplaces.exe" -game rogue

so, i still get the problem with diamonds with smc, but rogue and hipnotic work. I didn't change any of the smc_config_.cfg files. rogue gets really laggy, do i need to tweak some settings? How do I replace the map file(s)? Is that what i need to do?

btw. what's the option to get rid of the gun thing pointing out of the bottom of the screen? ie, how do i make the weapon invisible?

btw, do people still play cax?

[Seven]

sweet, thanks guys, i got the smc's in.

i tried using the hipnotic, but it puts me out of the map for the Intro level, and i can't move. also, there are these weird diamond looking things when I play, what are those things?

can I use the smc's with proquake or qrack?

Hello raebocol,

Yes, that means that you are doing something wrong with the files and the subfolders I am afraid.
Basically, each SMC has only 1 important file, which is the large .pk3 file in the respective Rar download. For the moment, ignore the rest and at least read the readme´s.

Please also see this post
The hipnotic-smc (and only this one) must go into your hipnotic subfolder. Do not put them all together somewhere. The hipnotic folder must not contain a "maps" subfolder.
Start your hipnotic mission pack with "darkplaces.exe -hipnotic" shortcut (that is the default folder name after installation). And you will not fall out of the map (ouch that must hurt).

If you have further questions do not hesitate to ask.

Regarding the diamonds:
That most probably also has the same root cause as the start map issue.

Do not change the smc_config.cfg yet, as long as you are not familiar a little bit more with the mod and see what it does. After some playtime, you can adjust all SMC features via the smc_config.cfg file. For example delete all those new monsters if you do not like them, or make them spawn much less often for example, and so on.

Once you get the hang of it, you can also look into the other folders of the smc-download. They contain some more features you may want to unlock.

Best of luck and i hope you have some fun.

Kind regards,
Seven

[Mr.Burns]

I suspect Sylux is right on the money here. I too have seen darkplaces load rainbow coloured "diamond" entities when it seems to be unable to load the correct model. I wonder if this has anything to do with the game folder you may be pointing at in your command line.

I had a similar problem with a map in darkplaces whereby I appeared to be outside of the map on a given server. It turned out that I had a different map but with the same name installed which DP was loading up in error. Once I renamed the offending map and re-downloaded the correct one all was well. As others were kind enough to help me discover the cause of this problem I hope this may in turn help you

SMC was developed by the mighty Seven, who is a member here and an all round nice guy, for Darkplaces. I seem to recall that some testing was taking place to see if the Quakeworld client FTE could also run SMC but I am unsure how far that got.

Hope this helps

Monty

[Syluxguy28O3]

sweet, thanks guys, i got the smc's in.

i tried using the hipnotic, but it puts me out of the map for the Intro level, and i can't move. also, there are these weird diamond looking things when I play, what are those things?

can I use the smc's with proquake or qrack?

those wacky diamonds are missing models i believe. as for compatibility, it's designed to work only with darkplaces

[raebocol]

sweet, thanks guys, i got the smc's in.

i tried using the hipnotic, but it puts me out of the map for the Intro level, and i can't move. also, there are these weird diamond looking things when I play, what are those things?

can I use the smc's with proquake or qrack?

[Mr.Burns]

Thanks for the clarification Seven
Fortunately I only ever normally play using option A so it sounds like I may have just been lucky.

Glad to see you back sir, you've certainly been missed

Kind regards

Monty

[Seven]

Hello Mr. Burns,

Thank you very much for advertising the "small mod compilation".

You should be able to glean all you need for downloading and installing from the link I provided but personally, to keep things organised, I created a folder called smc then placed all the content inside it and fire it it up with -game smc in my command line.

You should not download and put all version from the smc into 1 folder.
That will lead to issues, as you will play regular Quake with the "Dissolution of eternity" (mission pack 2) game code.


That is why there are 3 different versions of the smc:
A) For regular Quake (You can recognize it on the word "Quake" in the download file name)
B) For mission pack 1 aka "Scourge of Armagon" by Hipnotic Software. (You can recognize it on the word "Hipnotic" in the download file name)
C) For mission pack 2 aka "Dissolution of eternity" by Rogue Entertainment. (You can recognize it on the word "Rogue" in the download file name)


B) should be put into your mission pack 1 mod folder (usually named "hipnotic")
C) should be put into your mission pack 2 mod folder (usually named "rogue")
While A) can be put into the "smc" subfolder, just as you mentioned.

Best wishes and hopefully have some fun with it.