nterpolate pov angles in spectator mode cl_physfps_spectator (increases your ping) - feature by qqshka

whats that?

Well if your ping is 25ms in game, your spec ping will be around 33ms IF your cl_physfps_spectator is default 30. If you set it to 77 it'll be same as your in-game ping and speccing will be smoother.

Its not about reducing ping while speccing its about making it appear smoother.

Unlike Quake 3/QL speccing in qw is a bit choppy. This command hopefully fixes that.

and what does that have to do with pov angles? o0

Thats probably a more technical explanation. All I know is that when I set it to 77 the screen appears smoother when speccing someone.

Probably the reason spectating feels jerky is that you only receive updates of the other player every X frames rendered. If you add some "internal" lag like q3 has you can give intermediate angles to smooth it out.

WTF terrorhead, spectating in qw is not choppy, (well only if you have rate limited or are spectating someone who's lagging/pl spiking, but thats true of any game), fps-independent-physics, 1001 fps (13*77), 154Hz (2*77), 1000Hz mouse and keyboard. QW is the smoothest engine there is (and has been that way for years for those who knew how to configure it). The cl_physfps_spectator command is about conserving bandwidth not about improving spectating, it uses less information and interpolates that information.

Its choppy man. The problem is you don't play other games. I mean its hard to explain what it is but when I spec some one its never as smooth as when I'm playing. You are right about conserving bandwidth, I thought its about making it smoother so sorry about that.

An I honestly think TF2 and QL have better netcode than qw. 200ms is actually playable in TF2 and QL. I play QW, TF2 and QL on American servers sometimes and it goes like this

QW = unplayable
TF2 = playable
QL = playable

Still qw is the best game :D

Oh and another thing foe. I know you have a CRT monitor and your qw is always smooth but for some reason quakeworld is never as smooth as other games on LCD monitors. You get a bit of ghosting. For example TF2 and QL are much smoother on LCD monitors. I talked to povohat (he plays TF2) and he said the same thing. He thinks its because qw is a much faster game but I'm not so sure because QL is also a very fast game and is smoother (no ghosting) on LCDs.

You should buy an LCD and you'll see what I mean.

QL = playable

You are trolling. QL is not playable no matter the circumstance. Better netcode? pah! The fucking models aren't rendered where they're supposed to be, as evidenced by rail hits where the enemy is no longer visible on the screen when the hit occurs (ducks behind cover). Clientside hit prediction as evidenced by being railed by HPBs long after youve taken cover.

Clientside hit prediction is a compromised, erroneous view, through the latent's POV, of the enemy's actual motions distorted by the filter of the POV's client movement prediction. And this simplified version of the motion is taken as the truth for the hitscan weapons making higher latency an ADVANTAGE in this aspect. The more constrained and feeble the game is the harder it is to notice, but you watch someone playing QL on say 90 ping, when they pull out the shaft and get a nice gash of shaft connection you will see a huge lag space between where their crosshair is and where the model is.

Povohat is right, but instead of merely saying 'qw is faster' I would say it has more dimensions and is more volatile and more divisive.

you don't play other games

I don't play qw either anymore :(. I've played about 5 hours of QL or something, and already I can beat people with skill enough to have shitloads of ego invested in the game causing them to rage at me and accuse me of aliasing because they can't conceive of losing to a newb making newb mistakes, with fuck all experience, yet to adjust to item timings, or physics who simply aims, dodges and manipulates better.

QuakeWorld is the non-commercial all-but-forgotten pseudo-prototype without a limit on development for 12 years and counting... QL is a mass appeal billboard. Case, fucking, closed.

Good job guys. I really like cl_earlypackets command. Now my fps is in sync with usb rate without affecting ping.

Mumble positional audio support - feature by biomass

is that when people talk on voice comms it comes from their direction? if so awesome, if not im god i look stupid!

also read it like this, cool feature imho

i am amazed that ventrilo still dominates voip with mumble being out.

vent is really popular among stupid cs kids since you dont really need a fast response or positional features to rage effectively

for anyone with a brain there's mumble

It's because mumble can be a proper bitch to set up, and doesn't have a user-friendly interface.


I use it mind. Cheap as chips to rent a server, too.

i dont know if you meant clientside, but I had my first experience with mumble in tf2. it took a only couple of minutes to get everything working.

I've had little problem setting it up, but damned if my mates haven't had loads. It's more that it's very difficult to provide a fix by proxy, as compared to the simple ventrilo menu.

I'd be interested to try this but surprised if it did anything useful.

The mumble + qw feature is really awesome indeed. Well to be honest qw is awesome by default - mhaha!! And yes, good job guys, big huge TY for keeping it all fresh and alive.

nice! :)

what's the command for brightness? it's way too dark for my taste :>

gl_gamma
gl_contrast

<3 simple items

The bouncing simpleitems are really annoying.

cl_model_bobbing 0 ... gl_simpleitems

What is mumble

i just edited my posting

+ added Mumble positional audio support
As you may know, Mumbe voice communication software is hosted for free on quakeworld.nu. Now you can take benefit of its Positional Audio feature. In combination with the ezQuake client you now can hear the voices of your teammates coming from the actual direction where they are standing in the game. Closer description.

Oo this is a improvement :D
gl_simpleitems ow yeah, its fun to get back where I started and where it all started :D

On a side-note, nQuake Le premiere QW package is now updated with ezQuake 2.0.

http://nquake.com says for windows its 1.9.

The installer is version 1.9.
The 1.9 version of the nQuake installer gets ezQuake 2.0.
:p

Great job guys!

ill go in to the bathroom now.. to spray cum all over the place....

thx

no md3 support, sucks