MARCH 30th '98 - damn freelance
Ok, still no prefabs to post yet - I've got about 5 prepared with screenshots but haven't had time to check out the .map files fully and do all the other stuff neccessary to ensure there are no problems. Quick bit of news: BadMonkeys prefabs have moved to http://www.rcip.com/badmnky/prefab/ The dteam are looking for core and guild members - who are they ?, well here's the email I received:- DTeam is looking for level designers, brush designers, html programmers, mac programmers, coders, idea people, advertising people, texture specialists, env specialists, AI people, lighting specialists and sfx people. Applicants choose between either core member status or guild status. Dteam Guild: body of individuals who do anything 3d design related on a solo basis. Instatement to dteam as a guild member is achieved by petitioning dteam@captured.com . Please include in the subject [guild request] 1) your name 2) your specialty 3) why you like the idea of dteam helping you to achieve your goals Dteam Core Membership: body of individuals striving toward similar goals on a very regular basis. Core membership is very limited. Core members will: 1) aid guild members to achieve their goals 2) produce quality work via the dteam special projects branch 3) design new projects on a non-limitation basis... core members may work on any project at any time, be it non-profit or professional 4) submit a monthly report on activities, at least. Instatement to dteam as a core member is achieved by petitioning dteam@captured.com . Please include in the subject [core request] 1) your name 2) your specialty 3) other related experience 4) your timetable 5) why you feel dteam is your team questions, comments and rants to dteam@captured.com c/o dolomite. I'll give you more info when it comes in, there will be a website soon - it's busy being created. Oh, and you've still got about 24 hours to win a Monster Voodoo 2 in the RMG Prefab Contest. Don't think I'm gonna make that deadline :)
MARCH 26th '98 - hang five
Soon.
MARCH 25th '98 - Real Busy
Got a ton to post, but too busy with freelance - got to pay the rent :) Hopefully new stuff by the weekend if not sooner.
MARCH 24th '98 - life is ,, . strange >?
That was one of the strangest days I've had in ages - if your not keen on this news stuff, then skip this. I emailed, phoned and generally tried to find out what hell was going on after that damn phone call this morning - the hacker allegation really threw me. I found out what I already knew about the law concerning this issue, but that didn't stop me worrying about having to deal with cops in my house - it would not have been nice, there are things here that are hard to explain :). Anyways, my old management phoned me wanting to talk to me about the whole issue - I emailed them wondering why the hell they were doing this - and phoned around a lot, I reckon that some of the people I phoned might have made them see the light. To cut a long story short, they backed off the charges and I admitted that, I had, in some way, hacked their network, but they accepted that I did not have malicious intent when I did so. After discussing how much salary I would get from my final month (not a cool thing) I had a reasonable talk with old management. I am now doing freelance work for them, and am earning 4 times more than before. Don't ask, I don't even pretend to understand .......... More prefabs coming Real soon !
MARCH 23rd '98 - Accused of hacking !!!
Well, I guess you have read in the news down there a bit that I left my job recently due to disagreements with management. I phoned just now to inquire when I can collect my cheque. I was informed at this point that I can get my cheque tommorrow and that I can also expect the police to pay me a visit at home. What ??? Apparently I hacked the network over at my old work - in reality I ftp'd into my old machine to get hold of my personal mail inbox after my hard drive crashed and left a folder on the desktop saying 'Bush was here' with an animated gif inside the folder - that was just my way of saying to my old colleagues 'hi - I'm ok' - I guess that was a pretty dumb thing to do in retrospect, as the animated gif shows me growing devils horns :( I set up a small http and ftp server on my old machine so I could access files from home and also learn more about putting a web server together, now it seems that my old work believes I can access the whole network and that I'm a super hacker - I guess these people watch too many crap movies. Unfortunately, my colleagues at work are not too clued up when it comes to networking and computers in general, they are still learning, so anything that goes wrong with that network will now be blamed on me, the 'evil hacker' and the management also knows so little about computers that they will believe anything ! I don't know if anything will happen because of this, but I'm going to do some intensive research into the laws in this country about hacking - who knows, maybe I did break the law ?- but I really dought it. Due to this whole thing happening, I haven't got around to updating the site - I've got a couple of cool prefabs to post, they'll have to wait :( It seems that some people like to kick you when your down.
MARCH 22nd '98
Another cool prefab set added to the structures area - similar to those seen in the "waste" maps. I've got the prefab watch up again on the right hand side over there - I'll find a better place for it, but that'll require a bit more redesigning.
MARCH 21st '98 - Loads of new prefabs !
Seven new prefabs have been added in a new section - Switches These are most excellent - six of them are by EutecTic and a measly one by me. :) - Enjoy ! I've had a few comments about the new site design - most people seem to like it, although I think I made the top section a bit too big and the drop down menu thing is a bit wierd - sometimes the images just vanish and have to reload themselves again when you mouse over them - not much I can do about that, but I think I'll keep it there for a while (took ages to get right) Well, I've surveyed the damage to my PC and have managed to get a lot of stuff back because I still had 187 email messages on the planetquake server which had all sorts of zips and stuff in them - two hard drives down in one week what a downer :(
MARCH 20th '98 - The New Look !
Spent the last few days redoing the site, I'm pretty happy with the way it's looking now, although there is still a bit of tweaking to be done. I've been messing around with Javascript and was trying to create a links remote window which always stays on top, well, It can be done, but it seems to crash the browsers to often, so I decided to scrap that idea. If your using Netscape 4.0+ or Iexplore 4.0+ and your javascript is enabled, you'll notice the drop down menu from the prefabs menu - it's goes a bit wierd at times but seems to work fine. This site would have been up about 12 hours ago, but my main hard drive bombed out completley - this seems to be happening far to often lately ! The drive is irrepairable, it's making that wonderful 'klunk, klunk, klunk' sound when it boots up. I lost a ton of stuff, including a DM level I'd been working on for about 40 hours which was looking damn fine. Well, now I'm down to just 2 gig as opposed to 4 - bummer :) More prefabs coming as soon as I get my computer fully functional - I'm damn glad I didn't lose this redesign ! (It was on another drive:)
MARCH 18th '98 - things go wrong.....
Been a while since the last update (4 days - long enuff on the web) - sorry to all who have submitted recently, but here goes :- We've got a set of rocks - cool if your considering redoing your garden, a wonderful warehouse style set of tunnels for all you DIY enthusiasts out there, a set of two catwalks which will really make you howl and finally a couple of brackets from the home improvement section of the DIY center. All these reside in the structures section of the prefabs. There's a few more to be posted which I'm busy fixing - so the guys that submitted them, don't worry, I like the ideas a lot and am prepared to spend some extra time to enhance them. You might note my rather 'iffy' mood today, well, I just quit my job. I got shouted and pointed at by a short greek guy - I've got nothing against greeks at all, but this guy displayed all the stereo-typical attributes of a standard greek guy - I thought his head would explode. Bottom line is, he was totally unreasonable with me and unprofessional to boot - so I handed in my resignation and left - bummer - he was also the manager of the company :) The worst thing is leaving all my work colleagues behind, but I'll go and visit them as often as possible. On a less serious front, my secondary hard drive of about 1.5 years standing decided it no longer wanted the data that was stored on it - I tried to persuade it using scandisk and disk doctor, but it wasn't convinced and put up a good fight. It won the battle and now has no data on it, so I'm still not sure what I have lost, but I have another gig of space to fill up - not nearly enough these days :) In typical computer fashion, I'll only know exactly what was on it when I need it most. Just in case you were worried about me losing my job, dont ! - I've got enough free-lance to pay the bills for a while and it also gives me more time to update the site ! In celebration of the job loss, I've embarked on a complete redesign of this site - hopefully it'll be up and running by the weekend and will be a lot faster and more logical ! (but you'll still get these really wierd updates every now and then:)
MARCH 14th '98 - Just after midnight, feeling luckier.
Two new prefabs ! There's another vehicle from the vehicle specialist Jeremy (Medicine-Man) Wise, the q2pickup and an interesting security door from EuTectic. Well, after yesterdays postings, the case is closed, in reference to myself and others requesting that the prefabs be removed from the site I received this email :- Okay, I will do so. Damn, Friday the 13th sucks. I feel much better now :)
MARCH 13th '98 - an amount of time afterwards...... Any bad luck yet ?
No prefabs, just developments after the last post:- >I am very sorry for not putting any credit on the site about the >prefabs. I was in a hurry to get the site up, and lost track of >things. If it pleases all who complained to me about this, I would be >glad to give everyone credit on the site, and a place the names of each >creator onto the prefab image they made. I am not trying to piss anyone >off, and had no intention to do so, all I wanted to do is post some cool >prefabs and other things. I am not trying to be like that guy awhile >back that sold CD's with copywritten Quake maps on it for a profit. >I just want to get these prefabs out to the public and allow them to have >better access to them. I am not doing this for any money, just for the >love of Quake2. >--> From Grey Digger ------------- For the love of Quake2 ? That's why we started creating our sites - from the ground up, for the love of it. I started out my first site in August last year - the quake prefab park. The first thing on it was something I created, as were most the prefabs for the next two weeks. Always I stipulated that the prefabs were free for anyones use in a level, never once did I say they were to be distributed without prior permission from the author of the prefab - many of them include text files which stipulate that credit be given where credit is due. I spend a lot of my spare time, and god knows I don't get much of it, creating the site as a labour of love to myself and a free resource for others. In return, I get submissions from people who also love the game, people who also spend a lot of time and effort in creating the prefabs they submit. They submit them because they know they are dealing with a fellow netizen who is commited to his task. You require an interest and a vision to make your site the best you can, not just knock up a few pages of regurgatated material. I suggest you take the prefabs off your site, and build some of your own. Put the prefabs you created up on your site, and try to get people to notice them. Then I will gladly let you post prefabs from my site to yours if we get a good relationship going. Hell, if the prefabs you create are good enough, I'll even promote your site from mine. As of now, please take those prefabs off your site. Regards Matthew 'Bushboy' Trow Make your own judgements on that...
MARCH 13th '98 - the cut and paste bug strikes again
Hmmm, Friday the 13th will be unlucky for someone I hope, Badmonkey who runs the Badmonkey prefab site has just informed me of a site which is taking prefabs from his site, my site and also the qED prefab park without permission or any kind of credit to the prefab creators. I knew this kind of thing would happen eventually and it makes me feel a little bit angry. It's not like this site will get any hits as it looks crap and has second hand information on it, it's just the moral issue involved. Well, here is the URL http://www.ancientrealms.com/realms/Q2MAP/ and the email address is darklord@ancientrealms.com - send this guy some email, I will not be held responsible for any illegal actions :)
MARCH 12th '98 - 10 minutes later :)
Forgot to mention, my old quake site is now officially dead ! I will do the final update on The Quake Prefab Park then delete it - the reason ?, well, head on over to the qED prefab park where you'll find all the old quake prefabs that were on the quake prefab park available in the normal map format, qED format and quoole format !! Azrknight has been working hard over the last few months to convert all of the prefabs, making his site the best spot for quake prefabs and quite possibly quake2 prefabs as well :)
MARCH 12th '98
Some more excellent Quality prefabs for your perusal added ! Let's start with another brilliant 'turret' prefab from EutecTic - the q2spanzer2 is a turret which hangs from the ceiling ! Then we've got a cool looking rig sent in by Jeremy (Medicine-Man) Wise - very cool. Next up is another strange rotating prefab from Sagnor - you have to check this one out - the q2rottun will give you motion sickness. Finally I've put in another prefab tunnel group - check out the q2cityset A few things to note about the site - the prefab watch in the left menu is the amount of prefabs on the site, not including groups - they are counted as one prefab. I've stopped indicating how many solids and faces are in a prefab - it is now not needed as all the prefabs on the site are pretty much optimised and are of good/excellent quality. You'll always find the newest prefabs in a section right at the top, dates are also included to help you to keep track of what's been added when. There is still a lot to be done on the site - I must get some sort of tutorials section going as well as a links section, I'll probably drop the help section (nothing in it yet) and include that in the tutorials section when it gets done. As for links, I'd like to do some research on this and basically split it up into sections relevant to level designers. If a recent prefab is not downloading, wait for an hour and try again - if it still doesn't download, email me quick ! I think it's about time I added an old news section....
MARCH 10th '98
Another cool prefab added from EutecTic, takes some notes from this one - it's a complicated prefab to make - check out the q2spanzer. In other news, The Tsunami Quake 2 mod development team have extended thier competition deadline to March 30. What is it all about I hear you cry ?, well head on over there and see. Basically, one of thier projects is a random map generator, which takes a set of prefabs (foundry) and creates a random map from it. The person who creates the best foundry, gets themselves a Diamond Monster 3D II (8 MB version) !!. Now to enter the competition, you have to go over to Eldermage where you'll find that there is actually two competitions running - but I think the one is now over. Confused yet ? :)
MARCH 8th '98 - 20 minutes later.
Prefab hot off the press ! Jeremy Wise has just sent in a cool Bulldozer - looks brillianto !

MARCH 8th '98

Been busy making prefabs lately, which I'll post in a few days - in the meantime, there's an excellent selection of new prefabs for download ! First up, Azr has made a very useful set of halls, as well as a set of gears and an excellent conveyor - (he never sleeps). Secondly, Sagnor has sent in a cool hanging bridge. All these prefabs are also available at the qED Prefab Park - azr has now got downloads for qED, quoole and Worldcraft ! Plenty more prefabs coming soon !! Finally, here's a call for anyone who uses the prefabs in a level to give some feedback ! If you've submitted a level for download anywhere which includes some of the prefabs, tell me about it - I'd dig to check out the level, and possibly post a review.

MARCH 5th '98

Well, as usual, instead of working on things which actually earn me money, I've built a new prefab - it's an elevator - go check it out, there's a .bsp and an example .map in the .zip file. Thanks to fishman at rust for having such cool tutorials on his site !!

MARCH 4th '98 - Evening time

Busy day today !! - Another prefab in - check out the q2boxdrop - it's a must see, .bsp included in the file !

MARCH 4th '98 - 09:14 GMT

Ok, as promised earlier, some more prefabs !! First up we have the Waterpipes in the prefab structures area, and secondly there is another great Bridge prefab in the prefab bridges area. More coming soon !

MARCH 4th '98 - 07:19 GMT

Another Cablecar added ! - simalar to the older one - check it out. I'm busy working on checking out other prefabs just before work - so there might be an update right after this one, otherwise later.

MARCH 2nd '98

New Prefab added - it's a wall light with a nice touch, it's in the misc area for the time being - I'll shift it into a new lights section when time allows.

MARCH the 1st '98 (copy and paste can be detrimental to your site)

Quick update : - Two prefabs fixed (they had errors) - Get the fixed versions of the q2fan and the q2hatch More prefabs later !

FREAKY FEBRUARY 28th '98 - 1,5 bottles of wine and smiling :)

Yessir, making this update kinda under the influence so to speak - should've been done some time ago, but there was a soccer match on. Bafana Bafana was playing Egypt in the Congo - no explanations here, look at a map :) Been working hard all day before that on a website for work - I decided I really hate netscape - the html control sucks !!! This is my rant of the day - Netscape was my all time favourite browser, since 1995 - tried um all, but now it's been overtaken by that monstrosity of a company which we all love to hate, and man, have they done a kick-butt turn around in the browser wars - netscape, catch a wake up call !. I mean, what kinda layout control is this - you take out all the carriage returns and the layout is fine - huh ?? - try edit that code baby.... makes no sense to me. If you don't know what I'm talking about, take a look at this example using netscape. After having wasted all your time on that rant, there's a fantastic fan waiting to blow you away - aheh a he heh eh. urm Always leave the best till last. Go and swing with that thang baby - don't let me loose on irc now I'll get k-lined !!!! Oh, before I go to the land of no return, The qED prefab park has gone all quoole in it's quake2 prefab section - yeppity doo dah, you quoole users can now download prefabs in the format of your choice !!! - Now, who says prefab sites aren't the best thing since sliced cheese ???

FEBRUARY 27th '98 - late in the evening - zzzzz

Yes !! - I finally took the time to split up the prefabs area - Go take a look. Got three new prefabs for you lucky people today - A funky Cannon (Thanks Fishman !), a cool Cablecar - both in the Vehicles area and a set of perfect pipes converted from the old prefab park which now reside in the structures area Two prefabs have been updated - the q2rotrings and the q2minedoor2, so if you downloaded them, get the new versions (a few fixes) There's still some fine tuning to be done on the site, I'll get around to bit by bit - found out how to do this cool double onmouseover javascript thang - I'll be updating the menu with the script sometime - if your a site builder looking for this kinda thing head on over to Project cool. - that'll take you to an explanation on the double onmouseover, or you can go directly to thier website.

FEBRUARY 26th '98 - a bit later after work :)

Two prefabs added converted from the old prefab park - check um out. Nope, still no split up prefab section - hey whatcha want ? - more prefabs or an easy to navigate site ? (I'll get around to it) FEBRUARY 26th '98 Two new prefabs added - gotta run, real busy and work calls. Maybe I'll split the prefab section up on the next update :)

FEBRUARY 25th '98

The prefabs have been flowing in - a couple have not been posted due to invalid solids etc. (I don't have time to fix them) but check out the prefabs area which has four new quality prefabs - for qED users, you'll find all the prefabs on the site so far available for download at The qED Prefab Park as well as a few other Quake2 prefabs - I have been working closely with AzrKnight, who runs the qED prefab park and with both of us working on prefabs sites, that can only mean more prefabs. Incidently, I've got someone looking for the cannon prefab from Quake2 - anyone feel like putting one together ? (rotation and all) With regards to the state of the site at the moment - I must still build up the links, help and tutorials section and will be splitting up the prefabs section on the next update.

FEBRUARY 22nd '98

Received some great feedback about the new site - thanks ! It seems the first two prefabs were submitted a week in the future - fixed that :) - thanks for pointing that out Salvatore !. In other fixes, the onmouseover menu now works in iexplore 4.0+ and the images in the menu-bar now have the size defined in the html code - for some reason though, the menu images in iexplore move to the right 1 pixel when you click on there links in iexplore 4.0 - any fixes for that ??. There's a new prefab up - making a grand total of three prefabs !!! Check out Sagnors q2irisdoor. Oh, I'm using the american date system in the prefabs - takes a bit of getting used to, but most the people who visit the site are from the US - in South Africa (and England) we write the day, then the month - I wish we could all just stick to one format :) Oh, Jonah - I still can't send email to ya ! - I lost the other email address somewhere :( Oh, yeah - almost forgot !! - Go and check out the qED prefab park which is now housed by planetquake - all (or most) of the prefabs from my original site + a lot of others are available for download in qED format and there will be some Quake2 prefabs coming along soon.

FEBRUARY 21st '98

Well, it's done at last - the old quake prefab park is still there, but has been suspended - I have someone in mind to take it over, so hopefully it'll start going again soon. Due to lack of time, I was considering closing down the site altogether and not making a new site for Quake2 prefabs - but I realised that if I get up real early in the morning and go to bed real late at night, I could somehow find the time to manage a quake2 prefab site. I've got a lot still to do on this site, so bear with me during the construction process. Over time, I'll be converting some of the good prefabs from the old site into Quake2 format - don't pressure me on this, if you want to help, please do so. With regards to submitting prefabs, please read the feedback area carefully and abide by all the guidelines - to keep this site at it's optimum, I need to be able to post prefabs as they are - I don't want to spend time fixing broken prefabs, or seperating the relevant bits of prefabs from unnecessary entities or solids. No prefabs with invalid solids will be accepted - I'll just have to dump them, or email the sender asking them to fix the prefab and resend it. Only work of a high standard will be accepted - again, please read the feedback area carefully before submitting anything ! With that out of the way lets get down to biz ! The first two Quake2 prefabs are ready for download, at the moment, there is no sepration into types or groups, as there are not enough prefabs on the site yet - go on over to the Prefabs area and check them out !!.

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