Big ass bunch of reviews. ^
by Paul - Wednesday 24 February 1999 @ 07:44
Heres a mid-week surprise. Some reviews! 10 infact. 6 by me and 4 by Pingu. A big thank you to Pingu for helping me out. This clears nearly all the maps I have to review.
The Fat Controller has released his latest map in the RC series. Its called Grader Spader (500Kb). If you want to take a peek at some screenies of it while you download it go here. As is consistent with the series its done up a different style from his previous maps (yeah ok, RCDM4 and 5 use the same textures, so sue me!). As the Fat Controller puts it, its a E1M5-textured keep of four chambers. Pretty big map. Also why isn't his site hosted somewhere? Like Terrafusion. I mean, he has done loads of maps, more than some people who've recently joined there. Anyway, just a thought.
I've made further adjustments to the Netscape frontend to the site. The top bar wouldn't mess up on resizing the window. I've changed the index so it works with exact pixel sizes and not %. That was causing part of the problem. As far as the problems with the curved corners on the left and right (I just spotted them) hand side, I don't know what causes that little gap to be there. Suggestions on how to fix it would be very welcome.
Work on the archive changes continues. Heres my plans on what I'm going to do. I'm going to write a little program which will read in a file of reviews. Split them up, give each map review a seperate file, then go and create an index of all the files in the archive. Which should then create various HTML pages which have a listing of all reviews by author, map title etc.
I've also made what I hope to be the final adjustments to the page. I've worded it in such a way that its easily understandable... I hope =P. I've also added a link the links page.
The Q3A movie I mentioned yesterday is pretty cool, theres some really impressive stuff in there. Players doing backflips, things like that. This footage was released especially for the release of the Pnetium 3 chip. Now quite how a Pentium 3 will make much difference is beyond me. From what I've heard the only change the P3 has is these 70 new game enhancing instructions (like AMD's 3D-Now!) and it runs at a lower voltage. Anyway back to movie, the voice over is a bit annoying. Actually, its very annoying. Not because its a twangly American voice but because they mispronounce id software. The bloke says id as one word instead of like two letters, i.d. Geeesh.
Scary has got some new shots of Quake 3 Arena. Cool stuff. Not really had time to look at them properly. Some bad news as well, Webdog has ceased active development. Kind of unfortunate but there you go.
