XenoGenic's Laboratory is now hosted right here at PlanetQuake. Drop by for Quake 2 and Q3A levels, artwork, textures and alot more. Stop by for the goods and welcome them to their new home today. archive / submit We can't get him to stop talking, so we decided to make some use of him for an interview! That's right, we harness the power of Lee'Mon's words in our latest interview, Lee'Mon: Mod Pimp Supreme! Stare into the question mark. You know you love the PQ Poll. You know you love our witty commmentary in last week's results. Go read.. now!   Wednesday, October 11, 2000     Pwrweapons Server Side Update Quake III Arena News | 10/11/2000 | 9:06 PST - Pappy-R The server side version of the Quake III Pwrweapons mod has been updated to include more features to bring it more bang for the buck. Check out this new list of sweet treats: Changed the name to ServerSidePwrweapons (in case ya have the clientside version also). Also put folders in the zip for easy install(just extract to your q3 directory). Removed the need for a bind to double (the rl shoots dual rockets by default now) Replaced the plasma fire with the vortex fire from the clientside version. Removed chat protect. Changed the names of some weapons and ammo to fit the guns. Increased the hook speed. Check Out Dragonball City Quake III Arena News | 10/11/2000 | 9:02 PST - Pappy-R The Dragonball Quake project for Q3A has six new screenshots posted showing off loof's new City map. The level is looking fine, so drop by Dragonball Quake for a look. Lee'Mon Speaks Community News | 10/11/2000 | 7:53 PST - Ash As Spyke searched high and low for interview material, he soon realized he had the Producer/Manager of Wirehead Studios right on his ICQ list. Read all about our staff writer Lee'Mon as he tackles timeless questions like "Who are you?", "What do you do?", "What's up with Wirehead?", and "Where is the mod scene heading?" It's a meaty interview, so go dig in! It's Poll Time, Vote It Up! Community News | 10/11/2000 | 7:35 PST - Pappy-R The PQ Poll has questions to make you think. We even snuck some real questions in this time that have nothing to do with Pokemon, sporks or even Hellchick. If you wanna hear from Hellchick and the rest of the gang, you'll have to check out last week's results after you vote in this week's Poll, so have at it! Q3Radiant Basics Quake III Arena News | 10/11/2000 | 7:29 PST - Pappy-R More help for learning the basics of Q3A mapping is available from eKSeL's Tutorials. There's six tutorials up so far with more to come. Areas covered right now include: #1-Getting Q3Radiant Up and Running #3-Working with Brushes #5-Getting Light Into Your Map #6-Compiling and Playing Yor Map ...more. More Case Customizing Community News | 10/11/2000 | 6:29 PST - Pappy-R The new fad that's hitting our community is custom cases for your gaming hardware. Check out Q3A case at The Tech Zone . You'll see more and more creations at LANs now, and it's not that hard to get into the swing of things. If you make a cool case in a Quake theme, send me those pics! LvL Crushes the 600 Mark Quake III Arena News | 10/11/2000 | 6:06 PST - Pappy-R The LvL - Q3A review site where you call the scores and post your take on the levels has squashed the 60 map mark today by posting 8 more maps and now stocking 607 Quake III levels. That's quite the feat, and we'd like to send out a big phat "whOOp!" to the crew of the LvL. Now let's see the new 8 you can check out today. * Si'Metrik by Sock (Space DM 3-8 player) * Deadly Grounds by Killazontherun (DM/Tourney 2-4 player) * Avernus by WEXAL (Q3F CTF 6-12 player) * Human experiments by Gummo (DM 3-8 player) * neogouffre by polo (DM/Tourney 2-4 player) * Reverberation by Dubbilan (DM/Tourney 2-5 player) * haruspicina by Rustie (Space DM/Tourney 2-4 player) * Broken Silence by Quaker-X (DM 3-7 player) Congrats guys, great work!   Tuesday, October 10, 2000     More Goodies from Cthulhu Quake III Arena News | 10/10/2000 | 17:55 PST - Pappy-R The Cthulhu Q3 Total Conversion posted some new screens and pics for you today. This theme heavy project in the Lovecraftian vein has shots of two new weapons and the Lunatic Hospital level. There's a whole load of pics that you really should see if you're new to seeing this project. PADMAN's Cookin' Quake III Arena News | 10/10/2000 | 15:58 PST - Pappy-R There's alot cookin' in the latest Quake III fun map from the PADMAN. The new map, PADKitchen is another heavy duty romp and roll for graphically cool Q3A lovin. The PADMAN promises us some new effects, jokes, details and some original music from DiESELKOPF. This one weighs in at just under 9mb and will be heavy on your system, so slower machines may want to tread lightly. Those Damned Strogg! Quake II News | 10/10/2000 | 15:51 PST - Pappy-R Head to the DAV Levels site for a new single player Quake 2 mission with a nifty twist. The Strogg have taken an earth military ship and you have to clean house. Grab the needed items and make your escape on a sub is all you need to do in the latest Quake 2 SP mission from DAV Levels. Hit the DAV Levels page for info, a screenshot and the file of course. Screenshots From D-Day Quake II News | 10/10/2000 | 14:06 PST - Ash The D-Day: Normandy modification for Quake 2 has posted a couple more screenshots of Castrator's map-in-progress: Simserholf Bunker. They are some pretty good looking shots, so here's some advice from Jackson of the D-Day team: "...try not to drool all over your keyboard." Animal Arena Art Quake III Arena News | 10/10/2000 | 13:22 PST - Ash The Animal Arena site has posted a piece of concept art by Tiger that looks awesome. Head over to Animal Arena to check out the work, and read more about the forthcoming Animal Arena project. New Q3A Map from Auhsan Quake III Arena News | 10/10/2000 | 13:21 PST - Ash Auhsan has posted his latest map for Quake 3: Arena, auh3dm1, The screenshots look great, so head over to Auhsan Maps and snag it while it's hot! Q2 Annihilation Source Quake II News | 10/10/2000 | 10:15 PST - Ash Milk Industries sends word that they are releasing the source code to Annihilation, the teams first mod. Here's the scoop from LordImric: Milk Industries would like to announce that today we are releasing the code for our first mod Annihilation. Annihialtion is a Quake 2 mod that adds a host of new weapons and traps to the Quake2 game. The code is free to download and we would like to see anything people make as add on's to the mod like bots etc. So if you're interested in doing some work on Q2, head over to Milk Industries and take a look. Q3A Model of the Week: Gaben Helm Quake III Arena News | 10/10/2000 | 6:43 PST - Pappy-R Dwarf lovers will get right into our latest Q3A Model of the Week. The new character called Gaben Helm offers a new twist on Quake III player options. Check this heavily armed dwarf out for yourself as Gaben Helm gets hit by the spotlight. Get Your Installers Here Community News | 10/10/2000 | 6:23 PST - Pappy-R Mod makers wanting to offer the convenience of a Windows installation using InstallShield 6.2 can now take advantage of a great offer. Mike George can and will help you out by designing one for free. Right now Mike is only reachable by mail, but just drop him a line and get what you need. His previous work includes the v1.8 and v1.9 windows installations for the Coliseum2 mod for Q3A. If you don't get a reply from the previous mail addy, you can also try this one for Mike. Invasion Media Fix Quake III Arena News | 10/10/2000 | 5:23 PST - Pappy-R The last release from the Invasion mod for Quake III (v2.22) had a flaw in it. The team released the wrong map media pack causing players to have missing textures. You can now grab the new Map Media pak which is under 4 mb. The Invasion team sends along their apologies and I think we can forgive them. :) Big Annihilation Update Quake III Arena News | 10/10/2000 | 5:19 PST - Pappy-R The Annihilation mod for Quake III is proudly posting their progress today. Along with some new shots from the Omaha Beach level comes word that we will be able to use motorcycles in the game as well as turrets. Head over to the Annihilation site for details and the eyecandy.   Monday, October 9, 2000     Urban Terror 1.2 Preview Quake III Arena News | 10/9/2000 | 20:33 PST - Ash If you're already getting eager for the next Urban Terror release from Silicon Ice, then Crossfire has an Urban Terror 1.2 preview up. Read on if you'd like to hear more about what's coming up in UT before it comes up. Political Arena Debate #2 Quake III Arena News | 10/9/2000 | 17:39 PST - Pappy-R This time we did things a little differently, and invited the masses to join in on the fun of our Political Arena debate. We used the GameSpy Arcade software to gather the players and let the topics fly. The PQ staff took the Democratic side and the public played the parts of the Republican challengers. It was definately a night for the Blue banner of the Democrats and we took all the games fairly solidly. Thanks to all who played, and if you want to see some of the action, try this two demo pack as recorded by Hellchick who debated her points quite well with her handy Rocket Launcher. Cya next time! NOTE: The two demo pack will only run under Q3A v1.17, and you should have the Political Arena models and textures to get into the spirit of the debate. Eternal Arena 2.8 Quake III Arena News | 10/9/2000 | 17:20 PST - Ash Eternal Arena has reached version 2.8, which includes a motion tracker, new weapon models, and a few easter eggs. Find out more information on the Eternal Arena site. Navy Seals Screenshots Quake III Arena News | 10/9/2000 | 17:16 PST - Ash The Navy Seals: Covert Operations team has released screenshots of three new weapon models by Rattler. Head over to the NSQ3 site to check out the Sig-550 sniper rifle, the p228 9mm hand gun, and the HK-PDW. Weekly Level Love Community News | 10/9/2000 | 9:53 PST - Ash It's Level of the Week time here at PlanetQuake, where we give our weekly dose of level love for your Quake series enjoyment. This week we have spotlighted some levels for Quake Singleplayer, Quake Deathmatch and Quake 3: Arena Deathmatch. Check out Castled, When Sanity Ends, and the Twisted Palace of Hate as we pass on the level goodness from us to you. How Great is Eight? Quake III Arena News | 10/9/2000 | 9:32 PST - Pappy-R If eight is a magic number for you, then the LvL - Q3A is for you. They have eight new levels for you to scoop and score. Don't forget to post coments on: * a longer shadow by eFDAT (DM 3-8 player) * Bloodhouse by Gamma (DM 3-6 player) * Master's Range by Todd Guthrie (DM/Tourney 2-3 player) * BoomBox by Wizard (DM 3-5 player) * Q3Fort by GregQ (DM 4-10 player) * Chances are by jrp (DM/Tourney 2-4 player) * East Guard Tower by Todd Guthrie (DM/Tourney 2-3 player) * The Maze by Tscheckepp (DM 3-6 player) If you feel like trying works in progress, and helping to refine levels, hit the LvL Beta Section. The PQ Challenge...Live! Quake III Arena News | 10/9/2000 | 7:30 PST - Pappy-R This weeks PQ Challebge will be to further the debates in the Political Arena. We'll be meeting people in the GameSpy Arcade Quake III room to pick random candidates for a Democrats Vs Republicans Quake III CTF forum. To make sure you're all prepared and ready to go, head over to the Political Arena site and grab the Al Gore, George Bush model pak as well as the Joe Lieberman and Dick Cheney models. Also snag the Campaign 2000 Pack for the proper flag textures. The Political Arena page has full instructions on setting up, so no worries there. You'll also need to be running Quake III v1.17 and you can grab that from our own Q3A files page. You're going to want to have the latest and greatest version of the GameSpy Arcade software installed so you can be there to get in on the fun. We'll be meeting people in the Quake III chat room of GameSpy Arcade at 4pm PDT (7pm EDT) as usual so don't be late or you can't join in. We're also gonna try something a little different this time, and let people watch the action via Quake TV. You don't need anything but Quake III v1.17 to be able to watch, so don't worry about that. CYA there! New Urban Terror Screens Quake III Arena News | 10/9/2000 | 6:24 PST - Pappy-R The Official Urban Terror site has a recent news post and batch of screenshots from the v1.2Beta of this Q3A mod's testing. The word from the page is that things are moving right along and the team is happy about the progress made. No word on a release date except, "with any luck that should be sooner than you think". The screens are worth the trip so head over to check them out, and you'll notice some of the new features in them. Polycount Models for You All Community News | 10/9/2000 | 6:07 PST - Pappy-R The stock is getting beefed up as usual over at polycount, with new additions for Q3A and UT models. The new characters for Q3A come in as Gabe Helm and XM-07 Vigna Ghina. For UT you may all know the Julie Strain look and it's fresh for the Unreal Tournament crowd. Need a new look? Drive straight to polycount 'cause they've got you covered. Visitors Day at The Big House Quake III Arena News | 10/9/2000 | 6:02 PST - Pappy-R You'll be glad you popped by The Big House today to check out the full review for Boiling Mercury, Girndspire's latest Q3 DM effort and a new texture set from Senn. The textures are from his frosty themed Q3Stuff level. Head to The Big House for both of these treats, and don't mind the strip search at the gate.   Sunday, October 8, 2000     Map Nathan Beta Quake III Arena News | 10/8/2000 | 16:14 PST - Ash The Map Nathan site has a new multi-arena map up for download, map-ma_nate1. The map is ready for some beta testing, so give Nathan a hand in making a fantastic Rocket Arena 3 map by downloading the map, giving it some playtime, and letting him know what you think. Hunter Screenshots Quake III Arena News | 10/8/2000 | 15:10 PST - Ash The Hunter mod site has posted a batch of new screenshots. Hunter is the Quake 3: Arena mod in development of human and were-creature battle. Head to the Hunter site for more information. PQ in Review #53 Community News | 10/8/2000 | 9:43 PST - Ash It's hard to imagine that Spyke has been personally insuring that you never miss a single feature, contest, or important bit of news for over a year now. In this week's PQ in Review, he continues the great work and recaps this entire week into one sexy package. Read it, and send a little note over to Spyke about how much you loved it. New Quake 3 Log Analyzer Quake III Arena News | 10/8/2000 | 9:33 PST - Ash Q3LA, the Quake 3 Log Analyzer by Spike, has been updated and released with a new build. Q3LA has been improved in a number of ways, highlighting speed, quality, and support for huge games. Here's the list of changes since build 045: Increased MAX_CLIENTS from 64 -> 512 (side effects: it's faster but needs 2 MB more stack) Added player vs player stats for each player (crosslinked) Choice of sort order now possible in the stats Command line options can now be put before AND after filespecs Added option /top to write an additional top players list, useful for very large Q3 logfiles Improved player sorting performance List game numbers in chat.htm Mark spectator chat in tourney games by [---- ----], because the two players can't read it Condensed game lists a bit File creation date in games.htm and players.htm (Windows only) Total deaths split up into killed/suicides/deaths again Fixed: option /c changed to /l because of interference with option /cfg: Fixed warmup recognition in tournament games Fixed problems with times > 9999 minutes Fixed last game in a split game list refering to the wrong list Fixed possible crash when client_id > 1000 (world) and no_bots == true Fixed sorting by name (was sorted by html instead of ascii names) Download Q3LA build 056 now. Q3Comp Goes to v1.24b Quake III Arena News | 10/8/2000 | 6:47 PST - Pappy-R Reactive Software's Q3Comp mod for Quake III has another new version for you. This competitive mod has reached v1.24b offering even more tweaks and features. Take a look: Added UI for working with q3compHUD (no more mucking with cg_* commands) Added the ability to force the enemy team to a certain model. This works with forcemodel on, so you can set your team to one model and the enemy team to a different one. -This functionality can be found in the Hud section of the UI. -set cg_forceEnemyModel to 1 to turn on. -cg_enemyModel specifies which model (I went ahead and defaulted it to tankJr). Added Flag icons back to id's Hud (Oops). Note to server admins: PLEASE, PLEASE delete your old q3comp pk3s. Some players are starting to get an infostring error when connecting to q3comp servers. This is caused by too many pk3s being sent during the verification phase of the connection process. The best way to remedy this is too simply delete the old q3comp pk3s. Graeme on the RoQ Quake III Arena News | 10/8/2000 | 6:40 PST - Pappy-R Graeme Devine, Game Designer at id Software, has made a .plan file update with info on the RoQ video encoder and source code. Here's the scoop: I'm putting together the RoQ video encoder and source code for decoding video files. This will let you use the RoQ format in MODs for video and in any other game you want. The quality speaks for itself. Q3A was all 512x256 @ 30hz, while 11th Hour (the previous use of this codec) was 640x320 @ 15hz. The RoQ codec pretty much beats out anything else in terms of quality, so I'm happy to be finally getting this out there. I talk a little about it's development in WIRED magazine (way back when Newt was on the cover) if you want to go dig.. Pak Rat v0.8a Community News | 10/8/2000 | 6:32 PST - Pappy-R The Pak Rat open source Quake model viewer, map viewer, and pak browser for the Mac has gone to version 0.8a today offering a bundle of new features and support for STV: Elite Force. Mac usuers will love this list of new treats: - compile button for .skin, .shader, and animation.cfg files. - supports more shader commands. - command drag textures off of models. - command option drag texture coordinate maps off of models. - command double click on a shader to open the shader editor. - command click on window title to get a directory popup. - weapon switching (use the number keys). - Animations menu. - improved map rendering. - support for Voyager Elite Force. - mdr models. - mp3 player. Animal Alpha Report Quake III Arena News | 10/8/2000 | 6:01 PST - Pappy-R The Animal Arena team has been working and playing hard on their Quake III mod based on animal classes in nine modes of play. More closed alpha testing was done and the full report, complete with screenshots is available on the Animal Arena site. Q3 Doujinshi Shots Quake III Arena News | 10/8/2000 | 5:58 PST - Pappy-R The Quake III Doujinshi mod has a couple developement shots of the "Dojo map" that's in the works. Take a look to see where the anime style characters will throwing down. ClassicGaming: Gaming the way you remember it

QuakeFinger   Graeme Devine 10/8 Todd H. 10/7 Robert Duffy 9/22 Christian Antkow 9/21 Paul Jaquays 9/5 .plan summary   Site of the Day   Let's cheer for the guys at the LvL - Q3A today. They broke the 600 Q3A levels mark with today's batch. Now go pick one!   New on PQ   Lee'Mon Interview 10/11 PQ Poll 10/11 Mod of the Week: SOG 10/11 Model of the Week: Gaben Helm 10/10 Levels of the Week 10/9 PQ in Review 10/8 TechTips 10/7 PQ Mailbag 10/7   Site Updates   Dragonball Quake: 10/11/00, 8:03 NEW CITY MAP SHOTS BY LOOF!!!! DAV Levels: 10/10/00, 3:08 New Q2SP map! Animal Arena: 10/10/00, 12:16 Glorious concept art...! Q3Terminator: 10/10/00, 7:12 MessageBoards online! Invasion: 10/9/00, 6:17 2.22server 195.11.243.36:27940 The Big House: 10/8/00, 8:01 New Textures and Q3 Review! Demo Analysis: 10/8/00, 8:57 new Q3LA build released doujinshi: 10/8/00, 4:52 New Map Shots !! Skipper: 10/7/00, 8:32 ALL NEW NAME!!! Killer's Maps: 10/7/00, 10:00 LUN3DM2 Reviewed Multi-Arena HQ: 10/6/00, 4:00 New Multi-Arena for RA3! Integral Studios: 10/6/00, 1:57 3rd All Stars Pack + 4 PT Frag