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 - continued log since april 1st to april 30                          -- b.
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[idsoftware.com]
Login name: johnc                       In real life: John Carmack

Plan:

This is my daily work.

When I accomplish something, I write a * line that day.

Whenever a bug / missing feature is mentioned during the day and I don't fix 
it, I make a note of it.  Some things get noted many times before they get 
fixed.

Occasionally I go back through the old notes and mark with a + the things
I have since fixed.

--- John Carmack



= april 1 ============================================================

* added $flags to models for client side stuff (rotations, trails)
* allowed coop play
* started using Host_Error for client errors
* lint

+ animating textures
+ NULL connect
+ connect while in a game crashes

different sfx cache size for client only?
frame chnaging while paused?
item targets
respawn in coop

= april 2 ============================================================

* exploded wizard bombs on death
* server optimization
* fixed angle on loadgame and coop
* average monster velocity for aiming
* made wizard fall properly

+ running into nails
+ can still get shot out of the world
+ dynamically allocate color translation tables
+ pause work
+ backpack dropping

water stair climbing
check door linking , regarding the partial closing
restart level spawn parms
dead player save que
quakeed magnified texture view
ambient + gravity attributes
load fames
restart without killing server
no-aim option

= april 3 ============================================================

* made func_wall and removed the dm_only / not_dm

+ sky fuckups
+ single pixel movement quantization?
+ falling out of world

auto aiming sucks
remove superscaling
s->relasecount error
.cfg default for exec
frame too fast bug causing lockups
last request/reply
registration trademark!!!
explosion cores
check side to side movement for big attacks like the shamblers?
change backpack content messages
combine model and sound cache!
better PVS with more leafs?


= april 4 =============================================================

+ teleport flash is broken
+ order of monster fall to ground

multiple input drivers (hard coded)
save cfg
bounce head gib?
wall scaling is step up?

= april 5 =============================================================

+ sound loop points

multi life / level demos
precache_sound return string value
make jump buffered edge triggered
clipping hull lips
hang after sitting overnight on dos

= april 6 =============================================================

use PVS to speed line of sight checks?  Is that any faster than doing
	the line check, because it involves two point checks?
swooping ai movement by checking distance to impact with forward trace?
make minimum frame time a cvar, so you could clamp to 10fps
runmove() builtin for progs?
draw triggers debugging option (z buffer it)?
look towards killer when dead

= april 7 =============================================================

* fixed tfog
* fixed removal of entities over net


= april 8 =============================================================

* fixed stray rocket trails
* fixed coordinate integralization problem
* identified the Aim() time sink
* fixed smooth step up
* got new clipping code running

+ sound looping prob is due to decimation
+ expand numtextures to a word from a byte
+ remove FL_ONGROUND after being pushed
+ still damage through walls
+ counting trigger
+ paused graphic
+ demon freeze jump

add s and t vectors to the plane description in .map files
remove the pad around bmodels bounds
make pushmove area check instead of linear search
server pass full pathnames to client
dos crashes overnight (timing wraparound bug?)
quake logo screen needs filtering
shoot all the way through walls with objects
wizard fireball
plat problem in tim17
shambler lightning
weird grenade launch spot
auto pause on console
hold "other" on delay triggers
gib stuff

= april 9 =============================================================

* fixed crash when -NXHost on quake
* added +precache 0 option to speed up WAN loading
* fixed sound loading bug
* added loop lengths to sound loading
* increased MAX_MAP_ENTSTING

+ quakeEd filter brushes
+ 16 bit looping sounds hang the dos game

QuakeEd showed "Helvetica-Bold" in entity comment field.  Scary.
maake treading water better
trigger to turn off spikeshooters
save the entity string memory
blocked bmodels are conveyors?

= april 10 =============================================================

* made no-light levels auto fullbright
* finished second clipping hull

+ zombies on the ground can't be gibbed
+ listen servers not working?

error check all strcpy in QuakeEd
slow slide clipping with ogre hull?
grenades should trigger shootable triggers / objects
looping sound that didn't stop

= april 11 =============================================================

* fixed damage through walls
* fixed gibbing downed zombies

+ KEY_SEMICOLON

pointing?
ten second max looping sound?
integral sound stepping?
the damage byte stream is what is causing packet overflows
debounce jump
is there a mouse call to find the number of buttons?
fix palette after vid change...
too many vid_palette calls
DON'T FLUSH THE ENTIRE DAMN SCREEN!
fix snd_next to be snd_none
change sys_loadfile to com_loadfile
"system is little endien" message as optional verbose debug
sometimes shotgun sound doesn't play
double doors independantly closing
server speed went back up
fix auto aiming
no gun aiming
no change to grenade launcher
ogre grenades
zombie gibs
r_ambient
fixed angle for grenades when stopped
client side shambler lightning
gravity on corpses pushed into blocking positions
slime darkness value
sky time problem
integrate dirpack with qcc
check precedence of test directories and pak files
rocket auto aiming is not working right
amtele2 teleport problem
no save when dead
memory fail to console, not dos
still overrun nails

= april 12 =============================================================

<at raven>

= april 13 =============================================================

<at raven>

= april 14 =============================================================

* fix 8 bit palette in NS
* modified modelgen to allow multiple models in one file
* fixed qbsp to detect cases of no entities placed and skip fill outside
* new wizard spike attacks
fix corrected palette at mode change
make dos utility tree
make QuakeEd's menu commands variable length
debounce console
debounce jump
remote slist
slist with user names
fall out of world when dead
s_releasesound: s->refcount < 0
sound cache parameters
clear pause on restart
check pak file overriding

= april 15 =============================================================

* lowered slime cshift
* wizard slide move
* dog frames
* fixed auto aiming when dead on
* soldier less hp + tuning
* various gibs
* dynamically allocated scores structure
* trigger_counter
* door TOGGLE
* fixed forking bug that trashed pointfiles
* fixed sky fuckup

+ fix demon pop jump
+ zombie get up inside other
+ zombie gib throwing
+ lose onfloor when pushed
+ animating textures
+ schurch weirdness

make light styles global prog vars
base4 entrance door sucks
back attack damage
fix dynamic light values of players
aim up at nearby monsters
load pcxs in lbmlib
text triggers
swim slow straight up?
temp entities
client sound calls
zombie heads bouncing
bouncing monsters out of the world
gib bodies between pushers

= april 16 =============================================================

* reduced bodies to points on squash
* turned off onground when pushed
* new demon jumping
* fixed zombie stand ups
* fixed zombie standing off floor
* fixed uninitialized vector in movestep
* fixed scr_ofs cheat
* fixed upjump cheat
* _field names are ignored by quake
* fixed bottom checking
* fixed up fov
* moved icons into view screen
* added pause icon and showpause cvar
* renamed SOLID_EDGE to SOLID_TRIGGER
* delayed monster drop to floor

+ mbug.map texture toastage
+ save / loadgame start view angle
+ fix demon popjump
+ flickering ammo box on restart
+ weapons not following to next level?
+ knights not coming off paths when angered
+ load / save games are broken
+ pause veloicty spin
+ reset lightstyles on level load

more screen turbulent warps
default fields in /*QuakeEd header
is draworder working in deathmatch?
enforcer no melee attack, side step
triangle transition size
open secret doors with area effects
alias model racing stripe
shoot over grounded zombies
activatable trigger
wizard altitude changes
enforcers need to drop ammo
player torso gib shouldn't be used for most monsters
teleportation issues
some keyboard keys make it in while changing levels
make a base directory variable for all util scripts?
invisibility (remove weapon)
flyjumping up slopes
better polygon lighting
track killer when dead
allocate cl_entities on the hunk
start dead zombies
cvar changing buttons
invulnerability powerup
raise / lower weapons
is qc pausetime needed?
delay item drop to floor?
run first second of game before entering player


= april 17 (cut here on april 28 to reduce bandwith ====================

(april 17)

* fixed memory trash in bsper and added error check for excessive textures
* forbid savegame with a dead player
* fixed memory trash bug in sound channel management (also the caching bug)
* fixed 255 wrap around super shotgun ammo bug
* fixed no/blinking ammo box on restart in a net game
* added centerview command (bound to K_END)
* removed impulse0, impulse1, ...  in favor of "impulse 0", "impulse 1", etc
* made shift a consolekey, so it doesn't do game actions
* add K_SEMICOLON
* added keyboard freelook
* added mouse_yscale and mouse_pitchscale
* fixed spawning angle from loadgame

+ teleport issues
+ keyboard freelook2
+ button pushing underwater is difficult
+ shambler dropping from sky into player
+ jump down on ogre heads gets stuck
+ remove grenade randomness?
+ super slow console bug
+ backpack not dropping in tim18

block mouse movement on hitching frames > 0.2 seconds
have server send fully resolved quake paths
dynamically cache miptex
vomitus spray with acid
fix level transitions
auto return to level start
fix light runoff calculations!
carry over movement after respawn?
dissalow rotated bmodels alltogether
are live monsters being squased to points?
better lightning
don't change palette until console is all the way down after death

= april 18 =============================================================

* finished new bsp portalization process: 20% faster, 1/5 the memory
* fixed monster repeat teleport
* klook and mlook
* fixed monster stepping up into mid air
* what breaks switchable lights is a bsp->entities without running light
* changed network startup to use signon ready flags
* added extra face-on wall friction

+ fix ammo between levels
+ dark knight
+ message wasn't a nop
+ schurch zombie graves
+ sandy's bug1
+ slow drifting spikes
+ kill wizard spikes after their death
+ s_refcount bug still exists
+ wizard spike starters spawn inside walls
+ plat dmg fields
+ longer pause for ogre first shot

should demons step up before leaping?
shooting spikes out of rockets
need mouse configuration in the menus
try removing bounding pad on bmodels
add fadable light switches
ability to bind specifically to key up / down ?
bound ammo on weapon pickup
lava damage for monsters
error check add to reliable messages
less accurate ogre tossing

= april 19 =============================================================

* fixed world/entity clear allsolid flag bug
* tracked down problem with zombies popping out of graves
* fixed path follow when in combat mode bug
* fixed standing on top of monster stuck bug
* animating textures

+ don't report surface cache size when caching sounds
+ pick up items multiple times when on dropping plat
+ pause continues across restarts, but plaque doesn't
+ overnight lockups
+ debounce jump
+ wizard spikes start in walls

overbright light palettes?
slope auto pitch needs work
secret area counters
don't slide on slopes
zombies need to be gibed by pushers
monsters trigger plats
trigger_notouch
warnings on coplanar brushes in bsp?
only disable auto center when head is under water, not feet
debounce escape
lightstyles in savegames
sticky bsp corners
wizard partical centers
make triggers use BSP models?
better sky management

= april 20 =============================================================

* added hell knight
* Hunk_ReportSurfaceCache() instead of automatic
* fixed multiple touch on items riding plats
* helped non-solid and trigger items push better
* cleared pause on map restart
* fixed level change parms
* dynamic lights!
* special wide box for missiles against monsters

+ larger rocket radius
+ slow motion screwups
+ nailgun stops rotating when riding a plat
+ stuck roll angle

use knight kneeling frames
zombie crucified frames
looping sound while invisible
make running direction changes smoother
error check all file opens?
load temp file on stack if possible?
remove SOLID_SLIDEBOX
put auto aiming back in?
move rule checking to end of frame
quicksave / quickload
dissallow spawn parms on deathmatch
make connect to server send version number
make temp entities auto remove
no body que?
water up swim speed
tim was getting stuck in deathmatch

= april 21 =============================================================

* fixed texture animation cycling roundoff bug
* fixed up missile clipping
* fixed super spike -1 ammo and use 3 ammo bugs
* checked deathmatch before precache on monsters
* jump out of water
* debounced jump

+ check extranious messages on connect
+ continuous looping sounds
+ button texture changing
+ state textures for buttons?
+ remove the legless / headless player death frames

why is shambler lightning funny colors under NS?
extra point radius shoots through walls
big sound cache for deathmatch
abort load command?
is max_health ever used in progs?
don't go to frag scoreboard when single player dies
clipping against surfaces causes multiple slime damages in multiplayer only?
treading water less bouncy
jetpack model is saved wrong
super size boss

= april 22 (release of log ) ================================================

* server now sends clientdata in first spawn message
* S_LocalSound

+ overnight lockups!
+ half damage from own grenades
+ QuakeEd isn't linking
+ clamp superhealth on level change
+ forced direction change when another client enters the game
+ mode X sets don't work on sandy's machine

dump all cvars into savegame?
make strafe not a default mouse button?
noclip shouldn't activate triggers
debuglevel cvar for more messages
add escape character parsing to commands for bind / alias?
bindings for ctrl-key or alt-key?
swimming / flying frames
make monsters not walk into water/slime/lava
make client connections persistant through server changes
restart from different search path option?
combine cvars with qc globals?
shooting spikes in flight
some spikes come out with the wrong angle
messages stoped working after a while
disconnect messages aren't allways making it
PLAYERS_ONLY flag for all triggers
no ] prompt when not key_toconsole
need to cut down network packet size

= april 23 =========================================================

* changed network update to client PVS specific
* fixed broadcast svc_setangle on player connect
* fixed "Message was extranious" connection bug
* partical fields
* invisibility model switching
* effects passing from server
* invincibility

+ self.modified is no longer needed with PVS updates
+ empty space back fill Z buffer bug

vertical aiming sometimes shoots at a farther object
over long latency lines, should shots come from the position the player was
        viewing, or the true position?
combine client->active and client->spawned into a client->state
backpack message should include weapon gainsed
throw monsters around from explosions
drop wizard by half gravity
make tri subdividing rasterizer based on screen size! (huge models go slow)
american got a prog to crash
allow listen servers to have a sys_ticrate?
cut back on use of global host_client
new teleport surface warp
body que is broken

= april 24 =============================================================

* muzzle flashes
* eat keys between levels
* added new pain frames for soldiers
* fix savegames with PVS update
* new status bar updates
* fixed packet overflow and noclip with PVS update
* synced zombie throws from exact position
* put in new ogre grenade
* no span lighting in subdivided triangle code
* better gibbing code
* vid_size for nextstep
* determined the hang is in the sound mixing loop never exiting

+ auto pause with console
+ more time for ogres before launching grenades
+ is restart doing a progrestart?
+ fix gib head bbox
+ head outside level
+ backpacks don't drop when floor is pulled out
+ movetype_missiles need to be intangible against owners
+ gib dogs
+ teleport flashes aren't in the pvs
+ soldier3 new pain frames
+ fix high framerate bug

minimum ambient light field for bmodels
make it easier to jump out of water
default water treading
better discrimination of slime and water
need to cycle allocations of temporary entities to prevent false reuse
repeating bounce sound on dropping plats
crush monsters extremely by plats
about to drown warning noise
load last savegame by default
monsters burn in lava
float particals from tport pads
don't switch to frag bar on single player death
slope lookup
got stuck in a downed zombie
make an error message in qcc for function calls inside a parm list
polygon torches
need to make impulses reliable, or looping sounds may not be killed
restart game with entrance spawn parms
allways test demos and savegames after a net change!
option to match ping times for fair deathmatches?
get bonus items on top of doors spawning deterministically
selective cheat for testing

= april 25 =============================================================

* increased spread on super shotgun
* rewrote sound loading and mixing
* fixed sound refcounting bug
* fixed sound not playing bug
* fixed sound hanging bug

+ axe

colored lighting sample
lightning gun
light bmodels
don't let the view model go full dark

= april 26 =============================================================

* bringing down console auto pauses in single player
* fixed ultra-slow motion console movement bug on bad bat file startup
* fixed slow motion when > 72 hz framerate
* added axe
* never change up to grenade or rocket launcher
* added lower sample rate and bit sound loading
* stored the fullbright index out in the colormap lump
* new enforcer pain frames / code
* added alternate animation sequences for textures

+ still running into spikes
+ fix host_framerate
+ drop backpacks when floor removed

bound ammo maxs on weapon pickup as well as ammo
diminish sounds through walls
partical puff and light flash from spike shooters
do a disk icon when caching
proper alias model bbox efrags
allow monster hearing at farther distances
animating texture speed control
slipgate lightning sprite
winking out door in tim6
pusher problem on smotte (climbing out of water on a bmodel)
need to allocate as large a sound cache as possible
wizards die on top of spikes in mid air?
doors shouldn't start move sound if blocked open
don't slide down slopes
cache alias models

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(april 27)

* alternate texture animation sequences for depressed buttons
* dropped knight and ogre melee damage
* arbitrary texture axis on surfaces through all the utilities

+ remove .modified
+ need to make qbsp do 256 subdivision based on texture axis
+ monsters still hit pathcorners when hostile
+ demon jumps don't do damage

triggering an open door still makes a noise
allow turning off styled lights
QuakeEd texture x size field is clamping at 64 min
faster mouse forward/backward?
is it jumping higher when running?
gun puffs still hit sky
get all visible entities into the low 256 or 128 edicts
force low quality sounds on low memory machines
still have some light edge blobs

= april 28 ======================================================
4-28: I removed the older entries to reduce finger bandwidth.

* QuakeEd: added texture rotation / scaling
* QuakeEd: fixed entity panel up/down angles
* QuakeEd: make brush select also set current texturedef
* QuakeEd: texturedef modification resets firstresponder to quakeed_i
* QuakeEd: added -extra to relight command
* QuakeEd: cmd-shift-click entity connect now works in camera view
* QuakeEd: entities now draw with solid color in rendered view

+ make counter triggers ignore extra events
+ missiles shouldn't clip against owner...

any key in demo playback should bring up the menu
make func_wall and func_illusionary toggle frame on use
make clipper tool use current selection height?
floor textures at start of tim6 alias
change numbers on weapon icons
cliphull.map has a problem

= april 29 =========================================================

* fixed light sample determination for all rotations and scales
* pulled wizard shot starts inside bounding box
* fixed demon jump damage
* objects never clip against their owner, and vice versa
* ogre pain frames
* fix pathcorner bug
* don't let monsters see into water
* don't allow dead monsters to be used by triggers
* reset player's gib head to proper bounding box
* gib dogs
* killed avelocity when bounce objects stop
* toss objects drop with plats now
* remove progrestart
* wizard spikes don't fire if dead
* make wizard drop altitude
* better stereo seperation

+ check message triggers

alpha qlumpy still has wrong type numbers
help screen?
auto reload savegame
add pak building to qcc
let doors target other items
guys gibbed by boxes go to no such frame?
is axe view skipping frames?
do player pain frames cause weapon frame skipping?
highlight current weapon in status bar
dynamically light bmodels
swimming motion
explosions need to reveal secrets

= april 30 ==========================================================

* clamp health and ammo on level changes
* removed modified field from edicts
* added pause before ogre first attack
* counter triggers don't fire on -1 or less
* added "give" command for testing
* added highlight on active weapon on status bar
* fixed message triggers
* styled light now correctly light alias models
* restart level with entering items
* increased rocket radius damage
* new swimming code
* changed sizedown aspect ration to mimic full screen instead of status bar

fix progrestart
sound streaming
klook is broken
don't slide on slopes
optimize server code more
get fakeplayer spots working again as monster targets
longer pause for ogre first shot
knights run up ramp on tim7 and stand in air
style light alias models
ogre only fall down when surprise pain
monsters should get angry at each other more often
increment sound channels so items never collide
powerups
vomitus
hell knight
blobs
work on dogs
monsters sim up/down
jump triggers
low grav aiming ogres
throw monsters with explosions
per level-gravity setting
explosion cores
monsters take damage in lava
turn towards killer when dead
slope lookup needs to match stairs
no monster pain frames in ultra-hard mode
monster moves after killing player
disk icon during savegame
smooth center instead of snap center
sometimes multiple death sounds don't start
don't use stdio lib from savegame
"player switches to " messages
info bar in single player: current secrets, kills, level name, etc
load game unpauses
pick up own grenades without explosions?
monsters fight each other after player death
allways switch to picked up weapons
switch to super weapons automatically?
light styles in savegame
prog access uninitialized edict field causes bus error
get 64 bit clean (progs overlay pointers and floats)
allow multiple pack files

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 - I do another cut here, monthly                             -- b.
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