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Dog Maps 01

Another short video demonstration of a few different Quake 1 movement techniques. Various forms of air acceleration, climbing, crouching, doublejumps, et cetera. Player movement is again being handled by the mod I'm tinkering with.

This video is also available on youtube (in higher-but-still-garbage quality).

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I've been fixated on rebuilding Aerowalk lately. The third time I've remade it from scratch actually, each time my skill at mapping improves a little.

The overall structure and dimensions of this version is quite close to Quake 3's Aerowalk (and/or cpm22).

View of the grenade launcher and health bubbles from the weak side green armor on my remix of the Quake map Aerowalk. The map is textured in original Quake 1 techbase style. A tall wall curves gradually from the left to the right of the scene.
View of the jumppad from near the lightning gun on my remix of the Quake map Aerowalk. The jumppad / wind tunnel features a spinning fan (the source of the wind) that looks suspiciously like a computer case fan. The game assets and engine shown are clearly Quake 1 and not a later version or sequel.
View from the red armor platform on a remix of the Quake map Aerowalk. Angled detail panels are visible on the walls to the left and right of the player. Textures are again Quake 1 techbase style.
View from the strong side green armor nook on my remix of the Quake map Aerowalk. This is under and away from the red armor platform. The teleporter to the upper platform is directly in front of the player. The scene features careful texturing and some poor lighting.

Short QuakeC movement exhibition on pd_ladders.bsp

The map shown in the video above is pd_ladders.bsp (a test map from progs_dump 3) by dumptruck_ds. Player movement, both acceleration and the slidemove, is all done through custom QuakeC running on the FTEQW engine. Movement techniques shown include ladders (obv.), mantling, stairstepping (airsteps), Q1 air accel, Q3 air accel (strafejumping), CPM air control, and so on.

I wish I could've chosen to obsess over something other than a Quake mod. Having said that the movement feels pretty good now. It's getting there.

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Valkyrie Profile is hard if you don't know what to do ahead of time. Lezard's tower was a brutal spike in difficulty.

Got through it with help from chat after 3 hours and needed to stop for the day. Will continue the game and move into Chapter 5 on Thursday (hopefully).

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I have a copy of Heaven Is Waiting but I don't have this release (Seduction), I definitely need to pick it up.

For some reason programming always makes me itch for goth rock. (And coincidentally the Quake FlyMove / SlideMove function I was tinkering with is called "DanceMove" in the code.)

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Continuing Valkyrie Profile (1999, PSX) today at twitch.tv/andreaen.

Finishing out Chapter 1 and going into Ch. 2 this session. (And I did some reading on the game's systems yesterday, hopefully I understand them better now.)

Valkyrie Profile (pt. 2, first playthrough)

Chapter 1 complete, part of Chapter 2

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