Drakan2

no er right here...

hehe yup. its me. Generations was sort of cool but it really wasnt id
who axed it. I was horribly bored of it and Quake2 and was just looking
for an excuse ;)
The stuff i wanted to do in gen, like have the players be able to view
items of their class (i.e the Doomguy sees the Doom RL in dm6, while
the Quakeguy sees his) just wasnt possible in Quake2. Then there was
the problem with player speeds, midi music (i tried writing a proxy,
but there was a huge performance hit) and stuff like that. And lastly,
it was just getting so laggy with all the different stuff that was
added. Hopefully the Q3 clientside dll will have enough functionality
to allow me to do that stuff. What i really wanna do is do a huge-ass
single player and multiplayer mod in Quake3 with remakes of shareware
and dm maps from all 5 games (Wolf3d/Doom/Doom2/Q1/Q2). Now that would
be fun :) . But even if that was legally possible, you\'d need some
really talented modellers and artists to do that. So i really have no
idea whats gonna happen heh. Anyways, thanks for the good word man.
Cheers.

Skid, I recognize your name from the q2 mod Generations. Is this the same Skid?

Nothing bummed me out more that week than when id gave the \"Generations\" project the unofficial \"axe\". I still have the latest version of the Generations beta on my computer and boot it up every now and again to sigh, and think of what coulda been.

:(

hope the \"updated\" heavily part includes Winsock mutliplayer code over DirectPlay, and clipping and collision detection thats feels like its past the alpha stage. does anyone actually know a game that has used the DirectPlay API for client/server communication and created a playable game ? i\'d be very interested in finding out. The DirectPlay lobby stuff isnt bad, but it seems that whoever uses the communication API ends up patching to use Winsock because its broken.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh