Small Mod compilation

[Seven]

Hello Jugin,

Everything you need for original Quake is already in the download above.
The list you copy/pasted from the opening post mentiones the official mission pack bugs. You do not need them for regular Quake.
If you want the mission pack bugfixes as well, you can download their corresponding SMC packs from first page of this thread. They are all included and the source is always included as well.


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Dear all,

Some time ago a forum user mentioned the issue in Quake that monsters can protrude into walls. Which looks weird. Especially when their corpses are half way sticking in walls...

I added a collision check algorithm around the monsters to avoid the described behaviour. It works robust and does not interfere with maps and monster pathfinding because their bbox will stay exactly the same.
It works with all engines and all monsters in all maps.


Here is a clip that shows the improved behaviour in-game:
Please click the "enable subtitle" button to read the included text.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjKA0841GkI&t=31s[/ame]

Best regards,
Seven

[Jugin]

Thank you so much!
Sorry for the importunity.
Can you make corrections from "the list"?

"Original Quake / Gameplay Bugfixes:

Fixed Quake's original player pain sound bug in skill 3
Fixed Monster-count bug for swimming monsters
Fixed original ID1 fish model death animation bug
(Super)-NailGun's nail position correction
Fixed zombie and mummy flesh-projectile spawn-position for 2nd attack animation
Fixed projectiles "interact/explode on sky" bug (aka "solid sky bug")
Fixed tarbabies original Quake: They no longer get stuck on ledges and steps
Option to disable the *bleeding* of shootable buttons and secret walls/doors/explo-boxes
Mission Pack 1:
Fixed hipdemo1.dem missing music bug
Fixed DP related bug that deals damage from rubbles even though they are lying on the floor
Mission pack 2:
Fix for Darkplaces buzzsaw not moving bug
Fix for Darkplaces Lavaman projectile "stuck in walls" bug
Fix for Darkplaces Plasma Gun projectile not moving bug
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[Seven]

Hello Jugin,

You will miss a lot of fun and interesting things when you are using a stripped down version. Maybe you will change your mind and want to try out the one or the other SMC feature later on...
You are always welcome to come back and try the regular mod.


Anyway, here is what you are asking for
I checked fteqcc´s box: "Quake 1.06 bugfixes" and this is what it compiled for me:

Original Quake / Gameplay Bugfixes:

• Fixed Quake's original player pain sound bug in skill 3
• Fixed all weapon projectiles "interact/explode on sky" bug (aka "solid sky bug")
• Fixed Monster-count bug for swimming monsters
• Fixed original ID1 fish model death animation bug
• (Super)-NailGun's nail position correction
• Fixed zombie flesh-projectile spawn-position for 2nd attack animation
• Fixed tarbabies bug: They no longer get stuck on ledges and steps

Darkplaces fixes for original Quake are also included.


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Have fun with your Quake,
Seven

[Jugin]

Hello Seven!
Thanks for the answer!
But I do not know how to program. And I do not understand anything in the source code.

[Seven]

Hello Jugin,

First of all, there are almost no (serious) gameplay bugs in Quake 1.06.
So you will not get stuck or have gamestoppers when using original Quake 1.06 gamecode.

The SMC is developed for DarkPlaces. Spike made it possible to have most features run in FTE as well. But I did not test them thoroughly. Particle visuals differed quite a bit when I tested it last time. I do not know how it looks today. Also, some smc features are made with DP fixes enabled in mind, so they may bring issues with other engines.


The scope of SMC is a lot bigger than fixing remaining gameplay bugs in Quake 1.06.
You can enable/disable almost all SMC features to make Quake experience match your personal likings. The SMC, ontop of that, also fixes all DarkPlaces specific Quake bugs. As Darkplaces handles some things differently than the regular Quake engine, it needs in some areas special treatment and therefore some fixes for regular Quake as well.


Back to your question:
If you only want to have SMC´s Quake 1.06 fixes, then you do not need the .pk3 at all. You only need the source code and copy out all the gameplay fixes. You will find a list of all fixes in the SMC history/changelog.
I always try to comment the source, so you should be able to find all fixes described in the history/changelog.
As mentioned above, do not forget to also use the Darkplaces specific fixes (most of them found at the beginning of smc_config.cfg). You have to add them into your autoexec.cfg.

If you have further questions or diffculties finding all fixes, feel free to ask.

Kind regards,
Seven

[Jugin]

Hello Seven!
If I need only "Original Quake Gameplay Bugfixes", what files to delete in the ".pk3" ?

[DoodGuy]

Hey Seven,
When I loaded your multiskin mod the monsters didn't have any textures, they were just white. And no, I didn't had any other monster replacement mods. This also occured to me when I tried to load Quake Reforged monsters

[Seven]

Hello CharlieSandford,

First of all, please make use of the edit button. That helps to keep post and pages low.

No, you surely are not dumb. Maybe a little helpless but hopefully not hopeless.
An engine dev should have basic understanding of how to create/handle .pak files.
As well as open models in QME and do some basic edits.
These things seem to be holding you back from your mod at the moment.

If your engine cannot use/handle the file you downloaded from above post, the first step you should have done is to check if the gamecode mod works at least. You only need to create a pak2.pak and put the progs.dat in it. That way your engine should load up the new gamecode.
As you can see from the included source and files you need additional player models. If your engine does not find it, it prints out the first error message that your wrote.
So, what you should do to quickly have a result: Make copies of the original player model and rename them according to the needed file names. They must match the names exactly. That way all files are present/loaded and your engine will run the mod to make further tests.

If your engine does not support .pk3´s it probably also does not support subfolders in the mod folder. So simply extracting a .pk3 will not help. You need to pack them in a .pak file to make sure they get loaded.
Not supporting MD3 is not an issue here. As I wrote in the readme.txt, you can also use Trickles MDL models with the mod. Be aware they have different names (see above).
You only need to combine Trickles weapons with a weaponless original id1 player model. That is done via a few clicks in QME. Rename them according to the included mod files afterwards and it should work.
The weapon animation will automagically fit to the id1 player model. As long as engine restrictions are kept (tris count, etc.) your engine will load them just fine.

You can even use direct copies of original id1 player model and just recolor their helmet to see a visual difference in-game if you want. With every weapon switch you will see a different helmet color then. That is more than enough to make your tests with the mod.

Be creative and investigate your issue step by step for troubleshooting. That is my advice. Exclusion procedure is the key in my experience.
I am sure you will be successful in the end !

Have a nice weekend,
Seven

[CharlieSandford]

i then extracted the files from the .pk3 and just put them in the progs folder now i get a version error (should be version 29) Im guessing thats down to me not having md3 support in engine and i suspect im using the wrong Trickle´s combined models version (if im using it atall, i assumed it was just the v_wep pack from Trickles website. I feel so dumb right now

Following your advice in the below post, I am wondering if im using the correct trickle weapon pack, I only see one v_weap pack on their site and ive followed your instructions but now am getting wrong version numbers on the mdl files. I suspect im using the wrong trickle pack, could you point me to the one you mean? Thanks again, i'll do my best to stop bothering you after this.
Cheers Seven

I'm also wondering if theres any tutorials on adding pk3 and md3 to the engine, i desperately wanted to start over from scratch, and i do remember a v_weaps tutorial from back in the day that was purely written in .qc. Im just finding it impossible to work it out right now despite your awesome advice Seven. I've spent now about 5 hours going through the code, using trickles v_weaps pack and renaming the files the way you mentioned,i was also under the impression that if you did a -game short it'd load that progs.dat and the pak files in that directory, perhaps im misunderstanding something there too. I cant thankyou enough once again for your help but I simply cannot make this work. Perhaps my best bet is to figure out how to add pk3 and md3 support and things would be a lot easier.


p.s apologies for making new posts instead of editing old ones ;D Its been many years since ive used forums.

[CharlieSandford]

since my engine supports neither .md3 or .pk3 im using trickles vwep pack as suggested in the readme you wrote, however on load im getting an error saying "Mod_NumForNameprogs player_shot.mdl" not found Please forgive my further questions am i missing something silly? I extracted Trickles vweps to the correct folder so im not sure what im missing here

[CharlieSandford]

I cannot thankyou enough for that Seven. I am overwhelmed. Thanks so much for taking the time to do that, now I will be able to understand it fully and such. Very much aprecciated!

[Seven]

Hello CharlieSandford,

Asking me questions in realtime is quite difficult because I am not online often. I do not have a smartphone either (and am proud of it). So, you either have to wait minimum approx. 1 day for answers from myself or other forum members can answer questions.

Anyhow, I extracted the v_weapons code into a fresh vanilla 1.06 source for you. So you can play it in every engine. It should also work in multiplayer (I could not test it because I have no server or Lan or similar).

Tested only with FTE and DP because they support 3rd person view and that is the only way to "see" the player in SP. But the code is free of advanced engine extensions so it should work in all engines. Please read the readme for details.

Have fun with your v_weapons mod.
Seven

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[CharlieSandford]

Got a bit ahead of myself I guess, after looking through your incredibly well written and commented code im still going to find it a nightmare to get this working haha. Just wanted to thankyou again for your help and I will let you know if I manage to figure it out, I hate to be a bother but is there any possible way I can reach you other than in the PM section of this forum? I have a few little questions I'd like to ask in realtime if atall possible. I'd be much indebted to you. Thanks
Charlie

[CharlieSandford]

Thankyou so much for your reply Seven, that has been a huge help!

[Seven]

.... frame from within client.qc. Just like the powerup checks are also done every frame.

Kind regards and best of luck,
Seven