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#1013: This is a major problem

by Nitrocloud on 12/17/2002 04:30

I've heard of great FPS on this game, and I get less than 1. I get 15 on Unreal Tournament, and my hardware config is:
400MHz AMD K6-2
8MB Shared Video RAM
248+(8) RAM

I've configured everything very low!

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#1014: Re: This is a major problem

by Al_Capone on 12/17/2002 04:42, refers to #1013

upgrade for the love of god !!!

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#1015: Re: Uploading maps ?

by VerbalC on 12/17/2002 06:01, refers to #1011

Got it Al.

That's nice for your first mapping run, but can I suggest some things?

First: You have that water as just a texture, but not real water. Type "waterlevel -5" in console ( ~ ) that's about right waterlevel.

Second: Lighting is a little dark, you only have a few lights. You should place lights all over, maybe some low power ones spread throughout the map so you don't get big black patches.

Third: Ammo, all you have is shotgon and rockets. That map is very open and would be good for long range gunning which the rifle and chaingun is good for. I'd put 2 rifle and 3 chaingun ammo boxes in.

Fourth: Map title - nothing big but your title when you enter the map is the default "unjown by unkown" Type: mapmsg "Aztec by Al Capone"

With those fixes, the map will be much better I think. So when you're done with it and feel ready (maybe you do now already?) then email me the final and I'll put it on my site. Good luck and keep up the good work.

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#1016: Re: Uploading maps ?

by Al_Capone on 12/17/2002 07:08, refers to #1015

Well I take the suggestions for granted, but not sure about chainguns and rifles, too fast, too deadly :)

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#1017: Re: Uploading maps ?

by Al_Capone on 12/17/2002 07:58, refers to #1015

What you mean by low power ?

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#1018: Re: This is a major problem

by SleepwalkR on 12/17/2002 09:26, refers to #1013

Your video card doesn't support full OpenGL. Get a used Geforce2 on ebay.

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#1019: Nice!

by ShewtmieIRBdaNeWbIe on 12/17/2002 21:55

Im having lots of fun with the map editor. I dont think I can speedmap yet... YET, but Im working on getting the basics down, like making water and other cool effects: (I like water, you might see it alot in any works I do). I hope that "no room over room, YET" statement mentioned in one of the doc's is true; room over room would rock!

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#1020: Re: Nice!

by pushplay on 12/17/2002 22:33, refers to #1019

One of the first things you have to do as a mapper for this game is get used to the idea of not being able to do room over room. But once you do get used to it, you'll find that you don't miss room over room much.

Feel free to enter into the speedmap, no one's going to mind if your map isn't the best.

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#1021: Re: Nice!

by Piglet on 12/17/2002 23:04, refers to #1019

so do i shewtmie so do i :D

good to know that still more people are mapping :)

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#1022: Latest leak

by ShewtmieIRBdaNeWbIe on 12/17/2002 23:49

Well, I can tell you... I want to figure out how to tilt cubes and make nifty angles, because my new map... well, its going to be special! Lets say the common idea is teamwork, and kinda like capture the flag, but no flag.

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#1023: Re: Uploading maps ?

by VerbalC on 12/17/2002 23:58, refers to #1016

Yeah if you think it will harm the gameplay leave the ammo how it is.

But, the other suggestions really will pollish the map alot...(because they are all just graphic related things really)

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#1024: Re: Latest leak

by ShewtmieIRBdaNeWbIe on 12/18/2002 02:01, refers to #1022

The base structure is done
Texturing is 90% finito
PRetty little addons... arnt really done, yet
No objects yet, but a good idea where I want them!

How do I take a screenshot in cube, and where do I find it later?

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#1025: Re: Gore

by SHOCK on 12/18/2002 02:27, refers to #1007

Thanks, this did help some. If someone comes up with something to eliminate the blood, I'll try that too.

SHOCK



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by Aardappel on 12/16/2002 09:55 through 217.7.138.114, refers to #1002

there is a -g command line option (originally implemented for the german market) which stops rendering gore (i.e. the chunks of flesh lying around) but does not disable the blood (as that wasn't required).

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#1026: Re: Latest leak

by pushplay on 12/18/2002 02:32, refers to #1024

Screenshots with F12, find them in the main folder.

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#1027: Germans...

by [RI]insight on 12/18/2002 14:45

Why does all german ppl assume that the rest of the world speaks flawless german?

Like, 90% of the clan sites are in german.. how come? Don\'t they teach English in germany? A site in another language than English reaches a remarkably smaller amount of people than an English page would. So pleeeeeease all clans, mappers, tool makers and everything, start doing your pages in English! I rather take a page in English with loads of grammatical and/or spelling errors than a page filled with a language that I haven\'t studied in ages.

Start using the \"official internet language\", English!

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#1028: Re: Germans...

by Piglet on 12/18/2002 18:14, refers to #1027

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!

You are most inappropriately named insight, lack of sight would be more appropriate. The reason so many clan sites etc are in german is a lot of clans are german. The reason you see so many english websites is thats what your intrested in (do you ever search for spiele or whatever, no you search for games)

Your post is completly racist, extreem and really fairly unpleasent, please take it back

Oh and in case your wondering im english, so dont give me any, well you german so you dont know crap!!!

Dont they teach german where-ever you live???

sorry everone else i didnt mean to get so angry, but people like insight drive me mad!

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#1029: Network???

by BLUESCREEN on 12/18/2002 18:53

How can I play over LAN?
I've started the Cube-Server and then the game itself. In the menu there was the option "localhost" which connected me to the server running on my PC.

But how can other peoples in the LAN join the game?
Is it possible to tell the game an IP which it should connect to???

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#1030: Re: Germans...

by pushplay on 12/18/2002 20:23, refers to #1028

I agree that it was a stupid thing for Insight to say, but racist is a poor choice of words for it.

Also, can we get a word-wrap: break-word in the style sheet here?

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#1031: Re: Network???

by pushplay on 12/18/2002 20:28, refers to #1029

For a lan game you should use the IP addresses used within the network to find the server.

Say you run the server, then go into the start menu, click run, and type winipcfg. Then click on "more info" in the bottom right. Select your ethernet card from the drop-down menu and your IP address will be listed under "IP Address." If you want people to connect to your machine on the LAN they type in game: "/connect 192.168.0.4" or whatever your IP address was.

I think some windows versions might use names for the program different than winipcfg.

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#1032: Why was that stupid?

by [RI]insight on 12/18/2002 20:30

All I said was that I wanted to see more
english sites about cube. Since clans
are an international thing, I think it's
natural to use a language that most of us understand.

And yes, they do teach german here.
So ich kann ein bischen deutsch verstanden.
But I still think it'd be for the best if
the pages were in English instead.

I really can't see the stupid in that..
Let's say one wants to read up on a clan
before a clanwar, does he have to learn
german for that+ That's bad imho.

Everyone is totally entitled to his/her opinion, but I can live without posts like Piglets.

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