Category: r/Quake

Hi,

I’m implementing BSP traversal for Quake 1 (.bsp) maps and trying to determine which leaf the camera is currently inside, following the original Quake BSP specification.

I’m using the official documentation here:
https://www.gamers.org/dEngine/quake/spec/quake-spec34/qkspec_4.htm#BL5

According to the spec, BSP nodes store either:

• a child node index if bit 15 is not set, or
• a leaf index if bit 15 is set, where the leaf index is obtained by inverting all bits (~value).

I implemented recursive traversal like this:

int find_camera_leaf (Camera* camera, bsp_model_t * tree){ model_t * model = &(tree->models[0]); return find_leaf_recursive(tree,model->node_id0,camera->pos); } int find_leaf_recursive ( bsp_model_t * tree, uint16_t node_index, vec3 cam_pos) { if (node_index & 0x8000) { // Leaf: bit 15 set return ~node_index; } node_t * node = &tree->nodes[node_index]; plane_t * plane = &tree->planes[node->plane_id]; float distance = cam_pos[0] * plane->normal.x + cam_pos[1] * plane->normal.y + cam_pos[2] * plane->normal.z - plane->dist; uint16_t child; if (distance >= 0.0f) { child = node->front; } else { child = node->back; } return find_leaf_recursive(tree, child, cam_pos); } 

and The structure definitions match the spec:

typedef struct { long plane_id; u_short front; u_short back; bboxshort_t box; u_short face_id; u_short face_num; } node_t ; 

The problem is that the function often returns an unexpected leaf index, frequently leaf 0 ,or wrong out of bound values like 65535 ,like (the dummy leaf), even when the camera is clearly inside visible geometry.

I clearly remember that when I was a teen, my father got the Quake shareware demo on our family PC.

When you started the game you could choose the chapters or campaigns you wanted to play by walking towards a portal. In our case only the first campaign was active, while the other portals were blocked by a gate or door that you couldn’t open unless you paid for the full game by calling a number.

Now, I CLEARLY remember that I tried to use the cheat no clip to pass by the locked gates and it worked. I then had access to the full game without paying for it.

People keep telling me that this is not true and that it’s only an urban legend.

Am I misremembering something? Because I’m certain I did that.

The title says it all. As a teenager I played this game a lot, but when I bought it on Steam now I couldn’t even set the resolution properly. Can you advise me on what’s worth checking out/buying/setting up so I can play singleplayer against bots? I’d mainly like to be able to properly adjust the resolution, mouse sensitivity (I know that can be done via the console), and have the game run at as high FPS as possible. I tried one mod version, but it’s limited to only 90 FPS.

Hey, everyone!

I am returning to the Quake series after years away. I have played just abit of Quake 2 back in the day, but I wanted to try the whole series, especially 1, given how immersive it seemed to me.

Forgive me for the silly questions, but I am quite curious and I look for games that invite the player to personal involvement, amd I would like to know how is it for long-time fans:

1) What do you find most enticing in the game? What should I be paying more attention to?

2) How’s the pacing? I tend to pause and appreciate map structure between bursts of action. Is it the expected flow?

3) What are the best maps? Any community map packs or mods that are must-plays?

4) Any tips on how to appreciate the game?

And, finally

5) If I wanted to go MP within the series, what should I do to become minimally apt and not get in the way of other players?

Thanks in advance!

^{I was born in 2003, I grew up playing FPS games, and I recently started playing quake in the last few years.}

^{What I noticed is that when you get two consecutive shots with the rail gun, the narrator says “IMPRESSIVE”, and even show a image of it.}

^{I don’t consider myself to have good aim, but I can get two and more consecutives shoots with the rail gun without much problem. But the game seens to treat it as a event important enough to be compared to getting a double kill, or getting a airshot with the rocket launcher.}

^{It makes me wonder, at the time when Quake was released, was getting two shots with the railgun something impressive for players of the time? Did the average FPS players aim get better with time?}

I’m playing through the game for the first time and loving it, but the soundtrack is making me lose my mind. Not because of its quality. The songs are amazing, but whoever decided to use a waterphone in them deserves a medal for how that specific sound has aged. I literally cannot help but imagine Gordon Ramsay when it comes up.

I’m aware that the QEX port is sloppy work. It doesn’t even let me minimize it when in fullscreen and has some weird slow-down in multiplayer sometimes.
What is a good port for playing netQuake(not quake world) multiplayer?

I’m playing Quake II (XBOX S) for the first time and am having way more fun that I thought I would. (Background, I’m 28F.) When I was maybe a preteen, I used to play Quake Wars with my family (the whole strategic war thing was pretty fun) and watch my mom and step dad play Quake together a lot. I also played Quake I on Xbox with a friend a few years back.

However, dominating this game and actually being able to not panic the whole way through has been absolutely awesome. I’ve always loved the idea of rip-and-tear games, but usually my nerves get the best of me. Now I’m finding myself locked in and getting face-to-face with the action.

I find it interesting how there are times I’m almost invincible — resources are super high, I can’t pick up medpacks or ammo for a while — but then I’m holding onto my last 20 HP for ten minutes trying to strategically kill the big boys 😂

There are a LOT of confusing corridors, and you never have any idea what’s around the next corner lol. I’m starting to be able to identify individual Strogg sounds and predict what I might run into next, and I’m learning to prepare the right weapons and conserve others. I do wish there was some sort of melee like in Doom (idk if they all have it, but I was playing Eternal, which has punches and chainsaws, of course).

Just got Quake 2 setup on my raspberry pi 5 (which I use as my portable retro gaming console) and no particles are being rendered at all, not the blaster trails or the blood. I’ve tried changing many of the settings related to particles, including making sure that cl_particles was set to “1” but I still can’t get them to show up! Here is my config file (which is mostly the default settings):

set cl_async "1" set cl_audiopaused "1" set cl_gun "2" set cl_http_downloads "1" set cl_http_proxy "" set cl_http_verifypeer "1" set cl_libcurl "libcurl.so.4" set cl_limitsparksounds "0" set cl_loadpaused "1" set cl_maxfps "-1" set cl_nodownload_list "" set cl_r1q2_lightstyle "1" set cl_run "1" set cl_showfps "0" set cl_showspeed "0" set cl_unpaused_scvis "1" set cl_vwep "1" set colorterminal "1" set coop_elevator_delay "1.0" set coop_pickup_weapons "1" set crosshair "1" set crosshair_scale "-1" set exponential_speedup "0" set fov "90" set freelook "1" set g_commanderbody_nogod "0" set g_footsteps "1" set g_machinegun_norecoil "0" set g_monsterfootsteps "0" set g_quick_weap "1" set g_select_empty "0" set g_swap_speed "1" set gender "male" set gender_auto "1" set gl1_discardfb "0" set gl1_intensity "2" set gl1_lightmapcopies "0" set gl1_multitexture "1" set gl1_overbrightbits "0" set gl1_particle_att_a "0.01" set gl1_particle_att_b "0.0" set gl1_particle_att_c "0.01" set gl1_particle_max_size "40" set gl1_particle_min_size "2" set gl1_particle_size "40" set gl1_particle_square "0" set gl1_pointparameters "1" set gl1_stencilshadow "0" set gl1_stereo "0" set gl1_stereo_anaglyph_colors "rc" set gl1_stereo_convergence "1" set gl1_stereo_separation "-0.4" set gl1_texturealphamode "default" set gl1_texturesolidmode "default" set gl1_waterwarp "1.0" set gl3_colorlight "1" set gl3_intensity "1.5" set gl3_intensity_2D "1.5" set gl3_libgl "" set gl3_overbrightbits "1.3" set gl3_particle_fade_factor "1.2" set gl3_particle_size "40" set gl3_particle_square "0" set gl3_usebigvbo "-1" set gl3_usefbo "1" set gl_finish "0" set gl_polyblend "1" set gl_texturemode "GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_NEAREST" set gyro_calibration_x "0.0" set gyro_calibration_y "0.0" set gyro_calibration_z "0.0" set gyro_mode "2" set gyro_pitchsensitivity "2.5" set gyro_tightening "3.5" set gyro_turning_axis "0" set gyro_yawsensitivity "2.5" set hand "0" set horplus "1" set hostname "noname" set in_grab "2" set joy_confirm "-1" set joy_escbutton "0" set joy_flick_smoothed "8.0" set joy_flick_threshold "0.65" set joy_forwardsensitivity "1.0" set joy_haptic_distance "100.0" set joy_haptic_filter "!weapons/*grenlb

I’ve been interested in playing Quake Live with people and I’ve been wanting to be part of the community but I don’t know where to look. Are there discord servers that dedicated to hosting matches and interacting with each other?

Trying to populate some low ping servers for the West Coast NA gamers.
r/WestCoastPCGaming

:3