Tracking new releases (for addition to the database)

Awesome, look forward to playing this! Will submit to the archive very soon

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I noticed that my mc_rj2_tonhao (Templum Exsilli) solo release map was uploaded to the database but doesn’t have a page on quaddicted yet. Do I need to provide any other files related to this map?

Sorry about this Tonhao, looks like I either missed it or forgot.

I have some work to do towards adding metadata to certain packages to enable QuakeInjector to install them in a harmonised way, and it looks like this will be one of them, so I won’t add just yet but will bear in mind and sort as soon as that work is done

I have submitted colony4 today though, no excuse for that one except that I’ve had a rough few weeks

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And it’s online! Thank you :slight_smile:

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Are Dropbox files not allowed?

Yeah stuff like Dropbox or Drive is not great for long term storage. Quaketastic is still a good option, details at the top of https://celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=3&start=16675

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Title: Sinners' Ascension v1.1a
Author: Tonhao
Map size: medium
Description: This map was originally planned to be part of Map-Center Retrojam 4, but the jam was only officially announced long after the end of my vacation, so I published it as a standalone map.
Tags: Vanilla, rerelease, kex, coop, singleplayer, deathmatch, bots, runic, medium, skill
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https://www.quaketastic.com/files/single_player/maps/mars_e0m2.zip

Map title - Corrosive Eternity
Map author(s) - Mars
Map size - Large
Short description - Very long metal themed map with high monster/secret count. Based on progs_dump mod (by dumptruck_ds). There are different music tracks on each skill setting.

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Hi!
I noticed that my mars_e0m2 "Corrosive Eternity" page have no download link. Do I need to upload my zip to another file hosting service instead of quaketastic?

Oh damn, no that’s simply because I was doing it very late at night and I obviously didn’t paste over the default value correctly. Will get amended ASAP, sorry about that

  • Submitted a PR for the link correction, just waiting for Spirit to approve. My tool for generating the data files is really hacky and needs an overhaul
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Oops! Thanks to the both of you for catching and fixing that! :smiley:

Things are still very much in change all the time but some day we will have even better tools and checks.

I'll mirror all the latest release now.

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https://www.quaketastic.com/files/colonyx.zip

MAP TITLE - ColonyX: Cobalt Crucible
MAP AUTHOR(S) - Mark Turner
MAP SIZE ESTIMATE - Small
SHORT DESCRIPTION - A choose-your-upgrade siege map for vanilla Quake. Secret map in the Colony episode, accessed through Colony4.

Updated Download: https://www.quaketastic.com/files/chthonscrypt_v1.01.zip

MAP TITLE - Chthon’s Crypt
MAP AUTHOR - Tritum
MAP SIZE ESTIMATE - Small
SHORT DESCRIPTION - Chthon's Crypt tries to stay relatively close to vanilla Quake design,
while offering a tight experience inspired by American McGee's industrial
levels from Episode 3.

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Hey, just downloaded this and saw a .pts file is included, this means the map has a leak so hasn’t sealed or VISed. Checking the pointfile it looks like there might be an entity out in the void that needs to be moved inside the map. You can see it in the QBSP log here:

---- FillOutside ----
*** WARNING 10: Reached occupant at (40 -312 8), no filling performed.
Leak file written to cthonscrypt.pts
---- MakeFaceEdges ----
---- GrowRegions ----
Processing hull 1...
*** WARNING 10: Reached occupant at (40 -312 8), no filling performed.
Processing hull 2...
*** WARNING 10: Reached occupant at (40 -312 8), no filling performed.

More info about leaks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFd-D46OCrg&t=51s

Once it is fixed and recompiled properly, you should get a .prt file rather than a .pts. But neither need to be distributed in the zip, only the BSP is required to play (and optionally the .map if you want to share your source)

It is also customary to include a .txt file in the zip with a little bit of info about the map, any credits etc. Feel free to grab one from any other map in the archive for inspiration!

I’ll hold off adding for now in case you want to address these in a revised release

Thanks for the heads-up on the leaks, made a few changes late that left a couple things floating in the void that I missed, should all be fixed now. The original release did have a .txt file but it was just titled “README” which in hindsight is 99% likely to get buried so I’ve updated the title to make it stick with the rest of the map files.

Download: https://www.quaketastic.com/files/chthonscrypt_v1.01.zip