June 15th, 1999Skin Stuff - leave me alone!!!!Okay, If you dont know how to make skins, If you dont know what the pallette is, if you don't for the life of pokemon know what a goddamn .PCX is...
LEAVE ME ALONE!
Remember, multi-skin support isnt even released yet. I think i'll make a COMPREHENSIVE FAQ on making skins for the release, which will delay it a few days but will cause me a HELL of a lot less greif.
On this subject, I will answer NO questions. Form a "skin development guild" for all I care. I'm not an answerbot.
I'm ONLY doing this because approx every 15 min on IRC another person asks me how to do skins. I helped a few people, but this is getting insane and I don't have the time. Once again, call me an ass, but I just can't handle it all. =)
So, WAIT FOR THE FAQ. (If you msg me with questions RELATING to skins in ANY way... you're going on my ignore list until the FAQ is up) June 14th, 1999PS/2 Mouse tweakingHate how you move your mouse in quake2 and it JERKS to the next position? Well... lets make your PS/2 mouse sample faster! Instead of 40Hz, lets go for 200!.
Run regedit.exe and go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Logitech\ MouseWare\CurrentVersion\Technical There you will find a string called "PS2ReportRate". Change its value to change your sampling rate. (I personally like 200.) I think you have to reboot for the changes to take effect.
I think this only works with PS\2 mics.
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Since I hate mass emailing on the same topic... A PS/2 mouse is the one with the ROUND connector to the case. NOT RECTANGULAR. Figger it out. Skin SubmissionOkay, there seemed to be a lot of confusion on this, so lets clear it up.
To view a skin someone is wearing, you need a copy. In DP, if the SERVER doesnt have the skin, it wont let you use it. To make it so everyone has your skin, submit it to me.
Rules for skin submission:
I will only release QUALITY skins with the release. If your skin submitted sucks, I wont release it. I will NOT edit the .pcx in any way, so it is the SUBMITTERS RESPONSIBILITY to make sure that it loaded using the digital paint palette (which can be obtained from any of the .pcx files in the pball\pics\ directory under quake2) Please make the skins use the color BLUE to make sure I can convert to PURPLE, YELLOW, and RED with no glitches. There is something weird about the PCX format that i'm not too clear on yet, and only BLUE works consistantly. YOU MUST INCLUDE THE ICON (skin_i.pcx) FILE, WITH PROPER COLORATION FOR YOUR SKIN TO BE ACCEPTED. If the skin doesnt work from what i've received, I'll delete it, and email you a reply telling you it didnt work. Clan Skins - I will make a SEPARATE PACK for clan skins, as skins aint small. Max of two clan skins per clan please (not per clanmember) Same format rules apply as above. No new models please. Only use "MALE" "FEMALE" "MARINE" "BLIZ" and "ALITA". The later 3 will be released asap.
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Multi skins will disable themselves if the server has "allow_download_skins" or "allow_download" disabled. This is because if the server has a skin on it that someone is using, and you cant download it, the player will be wearing the "crap" skin. This will ensure everyone can see everyone in their proper skin.
Servers MUST HAVE THE SKINS for the client to use it. It is the system admin's responsibility to keep this up to date, and to keep cheater skins out.
ANY NEW SKIN WILL WORK on the servers, so long as there are all 4 colors, determined by the last letter representing "r" "b" "y" "p", and the "r_i" "b_i" "y_i" "p_i" ICON files representing them. I will release the skin colorizer as soon as it is working for all colors -> all other colors.
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IF MULTI-SKIN SUPPORT BREEDS MORONIC BEHAVIOR, SKINS WILL BE LIMITED TO "OFFICIAL" SKIN PACKS. (no calling me an asshole for doing it, you've been warned) June 13th, 1999New TexturesAs promised, I made some new textures for the Siege Castle map. You can check out a shot here. (heh, it's unlit, but you can get an idea :) Skin ColorizerAs you can see from the POTD, MULTI-SKIN support should be in DP soon! Right now, if you have a skin you want to use, send it on over, and i'll run it thru my skin colorizer to get the r-g-b-y varients, and i'll release it with the next version of DP. June 12th, 1999Map Central Map ProfilesThe PaintZone has put together map profiles for every paintball map made including screen shots, descriptions, and download locations. If you haven't been there, go now. If you have been there, go again :) -- Be sure to thank PearlSlam and the rest for all the hard work and time they put into this! Siege Castle ProgressFor those of you wondering how siege castle is coming aling, here's some screen shots: shot1shot2shot3shot4. (Note: the pillar textures will be replaced with better ones once I make them). This will be surrounded by a landscape generated with the new terrain program I'm working on (take a look at what it can do here). Hope that satisfies your cravings ;) June 9th, 1999Server List/Page UpdateYeah, we haven't been keeping the server list and page very up-to-date... mainly because it's such a pain. I put together a CGI prog that makes it really easy for us to update now. It updates both the server list and page so it makes it a lot easier on us :) I deleted a bunch of servers that didn't appear to be active. If there's any servers not on the list, be sure to email me and I'll add em quickly. YOY ArenaHere's something that'll make you all yump for yoy! ;) YOY Arena was released last night and play tested. We got a 5 on 5 match going on in that thing -- it was INSANE. I had a blast :) You can grab it over at The PaintZone. Enjyoy! :)