Quake changing colors mid-game

[[BTF]Jehar]

From... age? That's gotta be one of the weirdest things I've heard all week.

[Punk_FAS]

Another weirdness screenshot.  Been messing around with paks, removing some temporarily, and trying to switch back and forth from GL to R1GL renderer.  I've gotten this a couple times now -

[jägermonsta]

eRr0r!

[[BTF]Jehar]

That specifically looks like a conchars.pcx error. The general suspisions of a fubared pak0 and pak1 really seem to be well founded in this case. I would seriously reccomend replacing both with clean versions from the demo, if you haven't already. Right now it looks like it's less to do with the renderer and more to do with corrupted files.

[Whirlingdervish]

here punk, this little pak has the colormap and conchars from stock q2 in it.
if it still has the color problem with this .pak in your baseq2 and tourney/mod directories, then its something really weird going on here. this will help us narrow down the problem tho.


it should over-ride anything you have unless you have higher numbered paks than #9..
(in that case, change the number to slightly higher than the highest one you have)

[Punk_FAS]

Thanks a ton for the help Dervish and others.  I'm running totally vanilla Q2 now, as far as I know anyway.

Any recommendations on good/reliable/non-buggy pak files that have bright skins, 3...2...1 grenade timers, improved sounds, lower poly (less spam) rocket explosions, etc.?

[PANTONE 7717C]

Does that mean the screen is back to normal now?

As for pak files you could just do a forum search for "pak" or check out the 'Hosted player sites'-links, some of them have uploaded paks and whatnot to their webspace.

[Whirlingdervish]

I know I have some..

try:

http://dervish.tastyspleen.net/files

they should be pretty descriptively named.


for sounds/timers I can't help