Partial logo for my new Quake map “Fire, Water Squish” I am currently changing my photo and image editing software from Adobe Photoshop to Affinity Photo recently (well, actually this is a process that needs a bit of time), as I got fed up with Adobe’s Creative Cloud and their pricing model (I do own...
Quake 1 Mapping: “Damaged” or “Aged” Architecture As part of the map Fire, Water, Squish I was trying to achieve a damaged and/or aged architecture look in some places. Basically I built it around the idea of having a solid “stone” core within the walls, covered by thinner textured walls (the blueish...
Quake 1 Mapping: Multiple moving func_door entities connected to a single button Another room from my upcoming map “Fire, Water, Squish”. The initial idea of the sliding floor (as originally seen in DM2: Claustrophobopolis) somehow didn’t seem enough. To make it visually more interesting I decided to add some more moving elements...
Quake 1 Mapping: Some more information regarding func_train and lighting Following up on my last post, I wanted to provide you with a few more thoughts and details. As you can see in the editor screenshots, I put the individual func_train entities (for the moving chain segments and the lift) into different positions to...
Quake 1 Mapping: func_train and what’s possible… Most of you who are interested in Quake 1 mapping will have come across the func_train entity at some point. I also used to know about it, but until recently never thought whether it would be possible to build some kind of massive “chain” constantly...
Re-Opening After finally finding the time to (hopefully!) come up with an “Impressum” and a “Datenschutzerklärung” for a simple private blog, I decided to re-enable the WordPress site again. I also added another category to the menu (see top right) with Quake,...
Cyberlink Powerdirector in der Urlaubsvideo-Praxis (und Entscheidungsfindung, warum es diese Software wurde) Da ich Ewigkeiten gebraucht habe um mich fĂźr eine Videobearbeitungssoftware zu entscheiden, schildere ich hier mal in loser Reihenfolge meine Erfahrungen…
Raspberry Pi Zero W und Homematic mit HM-MOD-RPI-PCB Jetzt hatte ich schon länger den Raspberry Pi Zero W (RPi0W) rumliegen und wollte diesen gerne fßr Heimautomatisierung nutzen. Konkret ging es mir dabei im ersten Schritt um die Einbindung des Funkmoduls fßr Homematic (Infos hier), genaue Bezeichnung...
