Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Warning: Lots of digital blood and gibs!
A 2024, Let's Play Quake on Hard using Xonotic/DarkPlaces engine, with a mod compilation starring a source edited 1.5 mod as described below with edits from myself refined over the course of a month! Playlist for quick map selection. Episode 1 currently up. The rest will follow in the coming weeks.
What makes this worth an upload? Since many have uploaded Quake and even 1.5 before? I would say because I have customized Quake to feature:
Mixed and matched high quality enemy models that are very similar to the vanilla models, as opposed to 1.5's specific look. Returned the weapons to the vanilla models, while keeping the added effects. Mixed and matched and edited rtlights, ent, lit and bsp files depending on my favorite that I ran across; also altered or added weather effects in many maps, and fog. This includes fixing some of the problems I ran across causing the bright light effect on maps without rtlights or missing or bad cubemap files while realtime shadows,etc are on. A lot of qc sources edits were required to get some of the other models to work well enough when switching off 1.5's specific monster models. And switching back to the vanilla weapons required removing new model files, and lots of testing. I like the spinup time on the super nail gun and it works with the vanilla mostly! Oh and I'm proud to have edited the episode 3 boss! After watching players spin around the poor thing and toast it, it now is an overly dangerous boss which you may or may not win against ;D I also switched monster random variation to mostly vanilla except for new behaviors. I actually really like Combat+'s changes, but at this time source was not available for it... So I went with Q1.5's! There are a lot of changes and a lot of sources for the combined files. I did not keep a list, but after everything is uploaded, I will see about making a proper sources list.
map e1m1. This is the bsp from q1.5's e1m1 with its many interesting events and structural/object changes. I honestly thought this was from the remastered version of Quake before I actually bought the remastered version and it turned out to be basically plain old original Quake D: Wow at this one! Changes I had to make to get this to work with the edited progs.dat... had to modify the qc source due to those lights objects not being placed down properly, and were floating midair at first with the edited Q1.5 source. I also had to manually find and remove a particular nasty rtlight that was flickering noticeably horribly with realtime shadows on as well. It was a pain to find and remove! I probably should have tried using coordinates to locate it instead...
On rendering... I ran into issues when originally posting the full recording all at once, due to some issue with it coming out unwatchably dark on youtube. Ended up figuring it out eventually, but decided to upscale from 1920x1200 to 3840x2400 with Topaz Video AI's Rhea with added detail at 100. Also had to load it in davinci resolve to change the color gamma to 2.4, and advanced output to gamma 2.4 + rec. 709, plus autogain with 0.15 transparency. That seemed to help it come out. Overall on average it took 8 hours per short map to upscale and reencode and upload 8 - 12 GB files! Ouch! Still I hope the quality helped appreciate the differences between other videos, regular 1.5 and this custom 1.5 combo.
Warning: Lots of digital blood and gibs!
A 2024, Let's Play Quake on Hard using Xonotic/DarkPlaces engine, with a mod compilation starring a source edited 1.5 mod as described below with edits from myself refined over the course of a month! Playlist for quick map selection. Episode 1 currently up. The rest will follow in the coming weeks.
What makes this worth an upload? Since many have uploaded Quake and even 1.5 before? I would say because I have customized Quake to feature:
Mixed and matched high quality enemy models that are very similar to the vanilla models, as opposed to 1.5's specific look. Returned the weapons to the vanilla models, while keeping the added effects. Mixed and matched and edited rtlights, ent, lit and bsp files depending on my favorite that I ran across; also altered or added weather effects in many maps, and fog. This includes fixing some of the problems I ran across causing the bright light effect on maps without rtlights or missing or bad cubemap files while realtime shadows,etc are on. A lot of qc sources edits were required to get some of the other models to work well enough when switching off 1.5's specific monster models. And switching back to the vanilla weapons required removing new model files, and lots of testing. I like the spinup time on the super nail gun and it works with the vanilla mostly! Oh and I'm proud to have edited the episode 3 boss! After watching players spin around the poor thing and toast it, it now is an overly dangerous boss which you may or may not win against ;D I also switched monster random variation to mostly vanilla except for new behaviors. I actually really like Combat+'s changes, but at this time source was not available for it... So I went with Q1.5's! There are a lot of changes and a lot of sources for the combined files. I did not keep a list, but after everything is uploaded, I will see about making a proper sources list.
map e1m1. This is the bsp from q1.5's e1m1 with its many interesting events and structural/object changes. I honestly thought this was from the remastered version of Quake before I actually bought the remastered version and it turned out to be basically plain old original Quake D: Wow at this one! Changes I had to make to get this to work with the edited progs.dat... had to modify the qc source due to those lights objects not being placed down properly, and were floating midair at first with the edited Q1.5 source. I also had to manually find and remove a particular nasty rtlight that was flickering noticeably horribly with realtime shadows on as well. It was a pain to find and remove! I probably should have tried using coordinates to locate it instead...
On rendering... I ran into issues when originally posting the full recording all at once, due to some issue with it coming out unwatchably dark on youtube. Ended up figuring it out eventually, but decided to upscale from 1920x1200 to 3840x2400 with Topaz Video AI's Rhea with added detail at 100. Also had to load it in davinci resolve to change the color gamma to 2.4, and advanced output to gamma 2.4 + rec. 709, plus autogain with 0.15 transparency. That seemed to help it come out. Overall on average it took 8 hours per short map to upscale and reencode and upload 8 - 12 GB files! Ouch! Still I hope the quality helped appreciate the differences between other videos, regular 1.5 and this custom 1.5 combo.
![Baldurs Gate II (Ghaleon sorcerer mod) [unfinished]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/eE1iNQvqDOE/mqdefault.jpg "Baldurs Gate II (Ghaleon sorcerer mod) [unfinished]
These are screenshots taken back in the early 2000s of a mod I was working on... I lost most of it when my PC broke, but I always wanted to use what I had left to complete a mod for BGII...
The mod in the shots, was basically a super player character; with each letter on the keyboard being a different epic level spell. And being a sorcerer he eventually found a way to increase his power, by drawing on the bhaalspawn soul within. (A key could remap the spells, according to the amount of soul Ghaleon had access to... (something like 0%, 25%, 50%, and max bhaalspawn soul)
Anyways I wish I had videos to show of it, as the screenshots just dont do it justice.
As for what I wanted to do with the mod eventually :
*spoiler aheadddd for BGII ToB*
I always thought Melissan was kind of a lousy final boss... If I had the patience to make it I wanted to create a mod to offer a different ending...
I loveeee Ghaleon, and wanted to make him into a joinable NPC for BG1. A fellow bhaalspawn (unbeknowst to you) that your decisions can affect the continutation of the mod in BGII.
The climatic end however, will end with either Melissan [if Ghaleon is dead or if he stays with your party]; or Ghaleon [two different possibilities assuming you dont somehow kill Ghaleon at misc encounters] (one possibility was the demon Ghaleon final battle (huge creature bhaalspawn/bhaal ressurection version) (other possiblity was the properly ascending Ghaleon as a super being [similar to what Melissan was up to])
The final possiblity was to be dependent on a certain mod called Imoen Romance ToB... Ghaleon would continue what Irenicus started...
In the words of Ghaleons voice actor :
Behold the Ruler you must serve... Oh yes... you got what you wanted... but not in the way you imagined....
Kneel before the Black Goddess....
Kneel and submit to her dark desires... for though I shall perish, I go knowing that I succeded in tearing your one true love eternally... and blackened this pathetic world... forever....
And thus the final battle would be a troubling final fight.
I had everything in much more detail written somewhere... hmmm where was it...")
