info

• name/message: fur the color (159, 91, 83)
• map by rabbit
• for "Liminal Spaces Jam", hosted by CommonCold
• version: 1

credit

sounds

• "aku aku"
  • https://www.myinstants.com/en/instant/aku-aku-crash-bandicoot/

textures

• makkon trim guide textures, by kebby_
  • the link only exists in the quake mapping discord, as far as i'm aware... but here is the message link to the .wad
    • https://discord.com/channels/464531227509260291/465241634683093023/1018655392831643658
• prototype textures, by khreathor
  • https://www.slipseer.com/index.php?resources/prototype-wad.263/
• makkon textures, by makkon
  • https://www.slipseer.com/index.php?resources/makkon-textures.28/
• quake101
  • https://www.quaddicted.com/files/wads/quakewad.zip
• rayman 2
  • https://www.textures-resource.com/pc_computer/rayman2thegreatescape/
• spyro 2
  • https://www.spyroforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=450020
• crash bandicoot 2
  • https://www.textures-resource.com/playstation/crashbandicoot2cortexstrikesback/texture/5844/
• ape escape
  • https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=15684
• minecraft 1.20.6
  • ripped by me (see below for how)
• rabbit emoji
  • from "Google Noto Color Emoji (2013-2023)"
  • https://emojipedia.org/google
• screenshots
  • taken by me in various programs (VS Code, TrenchBroom, Obsidian.md, google sheets, ericw docs, mun.la, notepad++, etc...)

skyboxes

• "Cold Coastal Skybox Textures" by Jasper Carmack on gamebanana
  • https://gamebanana.com/mods/6897
• spyro skybox by rabbit, made using "Vertex Skybox Editor" by rubberrabbit
  • http://www.spyrofanworks.com/tools/skyboxeditor
  • https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/1520/

music

• track 65:
  • name: "Aquatos - Sewer"
  • by: "David Bergeaud"
  • from: "Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal"
• track 66:
  • name: "Ion Storm"
  • by: "Frank Klepacki"
  • from: "Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun"

secret messages

1. "Til the Day we Die" by Sam Haft, from Helluva Boss
2. "Whatever It Takes" by Sam Haft & Andrew Underberg, from Hazbin Hotel
3. "Skipping Stone" by AJJ, from Operation Stackola
4. "I Love You for Psychological Reasons" by They Might Be Giants, from Dial-A-song Direct
5. "Chinchilla" by Cub, from Betti-Cola
6. "Haiku" by Tally Hall, from Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum
7. "Honeybee" by Steam Powered Giraffe, from The 2¢ Show
8. "Continue" by Kitsune², from I Kind of Really Want to Make Love to You
9. "The Too Much Song" by Lemon Demon, from Dinosaurchestra

technical

• .map made in TrenchBroom (TrenchBroom-Win64-v2024.1-Release)
  • qbsp: -splitturb -bsp2 mapsrc/${MAP_BASE_NAME}.map maps/${MAP_BASE_NAME}.bsp
  • vis: -noambient -threads ${CPU_COUNT - 1} maps/${MAP_BASE_NAME}.bsp
  • light: -extra -threads ${CPU_COUNT - 1} maps/${MAP_BASE_NAME}.bsp
• .bsp compiled with ericw tools (ericw-tools-v0.18.1-32-g6660c5f-win64)
• tested in QuakeSpasm (quakespasm-0.95.0_win64)

making a spyro skybox

• played around in Vertex Skybox Editor until i got something OK-ish
• split the exported .png image (4 tiles wide, 3 tiles tall) into 6 .tga images using a python script

ripping minecraft textures

• downloaded an instance of version 1.20.6 via PrismLauncher 6.0
• open the .jar file in 7zip (mine was located at N:\PrismLauncher-Windows-MSVC-Portable-6.0\libraries\com\mojang\minecraft\1.20.6\minecraft-1.20.6-client.jar)
• extract the folders containing textures, like assets\minecraft\textures\block

converting textures

• if they start as a tilemap or spritesheet, split it into individual images
  • some spritesheets are irregular, so i used this: https://github.com/ForkandBeard/Alferd-Spritesheet-Unpacker
  • otherwise i used this: https://ezgif.com/sprite-cutter
• the images need to be converted to work in quake, so...
  • i used python for this, with the Pillow package, mostly. using a script allows me to convert large folders of images very quickly
  • convert image mode to RBGA (red, green, blue, alpha)
  • convert pixels with an alpha (tranparency) value less than 254 to the RGB tuple (159, 91, 83) -- this is the color value quake reserves for transparency. when the texture has { at the start of its name, it will be turned transparent instead of pink
  • split the image into 2 images: one containing only the quake-transparent pixels, the other containing only the non-quake-transparent pixels
    • example splitting:
      • 
  • palettize/quantize the quake-opaque image into the quake palette with the fullbright colors removed (we can slice it like this: PALETTE[:224]; quake has a 256-size color palette)
  • "alpha composite" the two images back together
  • remove the alpha channel (convert image from RGBA to RGB)
  • rename the image file
    • prepend a prefix, like mc to Minecraft texture or ae to Ape Escape textures
    • prepend a { if the image has quake transparency (as in, when we find the color (159, 91, 83) in the image)
    • pad the number at the end of the stem with a zero, or multiple zeroes. this keeps them in order in TrenchBroom, otherwise they get reordered like this: [tile0, tile1, tile10, tile2...]
      • the "stem" is part of a python Path object. an example: if the image is images/tile.png we can think of it like parent/stem.suffix
    • finally, save the image file 😃
    • example output:
      • 
• then i import into Wally, and export the .wad file (i made one file per game, so Spyro 2 has a .wad, Ape Escape has a .wad, Minecraft has a .wad, etc)
  • https://valvedev.info/tools/wally/
  • https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Wally
• for minecraft textures specifically, i also resized them (200%) with 'nearest neighbor' scaling. i probably should have done that with other games' texture but oops
• for screenshots or small textures, i had to resize or crop them to be divisible by 16

my python script is not public yet (the code is really messy, its not fully usable yet), but i will make a post in the quake discord when it is

converting sound effects

• i used audacity to convert sounds into 16-bit mono wav files

end of readme

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