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Oooh, ooh, someone said Scimitar was good thanks. I logged in for the first time in about 3 years just to say that :D

D.I.V.O.R.C.E. is a dolly parton song. Like Y.M.C.A. but more letters and less jolly. So far it's going well. Pretty amicable, the only thing we've almost squabbled over is the bottle opener/corkscrew. But I won out and she's already bought her own that she likes better. Re: Divorce laws, they're a bit stupid (in the UK) you can't just "Get Divorced" like you can get married, either one of you has to file for divorce and explain everything you hate about the other (not good when you're trying to remain friends) or you have to live apart for two years and then you can do it almost automatically (not good if you want to draw a line and get on with life). The whole system is set up as if it's still the 1800's and the little wifey has to explain why she's divorcing the drunken, unfaithful husband and apply to the county court judge for permission (who may also be drunken & unfaithful and think her husband's behaviour is fine and not grounds for a divorce).

Just thought i'd share. Moving out on monday after 4 years of marriage. Still, means less time stuck on the couch being forced to watch 90210 and more time Dooming...

@EarthQuake : great stuff, thank you!

tried 200 and it (in eternity) behaved oddly. The sky was centered around a point where the top and the bottom of the texture meet. Tried 256 and it is off-centre but this time you can only tell if you're right on something tall. like the top 32 px ish of the sky are off the top, wrapped up the bottom and a purple line joins it back to the foot of the texture again. tried the 256px variation in prboom and it looks really good, though that was without mlook so the horizon was out of place (too low) as the top of the tex was the top of the screen seems like it's too hit and miss and i'll have to drop back to 128px for max compatibility, sigh

No, I'm from yorksire UK, i was google image searching for something more eastern-european to fit in with the Half Life 2 ish theme but the jersey one was quite choppuppable, here it is. Turn out i may have lied about the CC licence http://jerseycitycolocation.com/sitebuilder/images/Jersey_City_Skyline_Jan_2006-735x270.jpg i've only used the bottom left and bottom right, Interestingly my eldest daughter is named Jersey. But there you go

Thanks all, am going to go with 200 and see how that looks

the sky is actually a cc licensed photo of new jersey i think. it looks a bit blurry because i originally made it at 200px high but then squashed it to 128. the half life textures are a bit dodgy too because in HL the player is 72 units tall compared to doomguys 56ish and they haven't been squashed to match! thanks for the positive noises, this has been on hold for about 6 months so need to get cracking

How big can i make a sky texture for your average boom compatible source port? (namely prboom,eternity) 1024x128? or what about when supporting mlook? can i nudge it up to 1024x256?

Like this idea, as for plot/angle i suggest you theme it so that you're the second guy through, hot on the heels of the original DoomGuy, i.e. just one map behind him, cleaning up the stragglers and having to clamber over the semi-demolished buildings he left in his wake!

@kimo i get a W_GetNumForName: M_EPI4 not found error trying to play back the map 02 max. I want to watch myself getting pwned! EDIT: I am a moron : was trying to play the zip, not the lmp. Amazing that you toow off 2.5 minutes by just basically getting on with it and getting stuck in as compared to my nervous running away!

WinXP SP3, launching prb+ from command window tp record a demo on UAC Ultra, if it's midi music could it be the soundcard? still seems odd to me that it will still "play" the music at all when volume is zero but there you go.

if i set the music volume to zero then after a few minutes the music starts playing again, and i have to bump it up to the first volume notch then back to zero again to stop it

NEWER EDIT: http://cyclomedia.co.uk/doom/demos/ua02-706.zip Second exit, took 28 seconds off the first. Much cleaner apart from any bit of it that involves revenants, i just seem incapable of dealing with them correctly tonight. Or aiming my chaingun properly. Or not getting snagged on every fucking lamp. Should be able to get this under 7 mins, but not tonight, too much Becks is in my blood. EDIT: http://cyclomedia.co.uk/doom/demos/ua02-734.zip Map 02 UV Max 7:34. Very untidy and i spend a lot of time hiding or waiting for lifts and crushers, but it's the only exit i've managed :-)