Things you never knew about FTE!
1. DOWNLOAD
2. Mouse-driven menus & Menu Charset
3. Copy-Pasting Abilities
4. Menu Download screen
5. Mouse-driven server browser
6. EzScript Plugin
7. IRC Plugin
8. Namemaker Plugin
9. Find/Edit Config Files
10. Md3 and Pk3 File Support
11. Advanced Scripting Capabilities and Config Distribution
12. Bloom and Realtime Lighting / Shadows
13. TEAM
1. Download the latest version of FTE - Build 2666 (Released April 4, 2006)[size]
GL only
Software only
Merged build (GL and software in one exe)
[size=18]2. Mouse-driven menus and the new Menu Charset (mcharset)
That's right! FTE has mouse-driven menus! RaRe has made a very faithful Quake-themed cursor to go along Moon[Drunk]'s faithful charset. All menus are now fully mouse-driven. No more scrolling long lists with the keyboard! To go along with mouse-driven menus, FTE also uses a separate menu charset made by our very own Moon[Drunk]. This has two benefits: Menus can now be renamed without having to create a whole new image, and only one image is needed for the entire menu! Mcharset.png includes A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and "/" ":". All you need in one file!
Installation of mouse cursor:
1. Go to the Menu Download screen by clicking Options -> Downloads, then click on "Quake Retexturing & Remodelling Project"
2. Go to the "Bonuses" sub-directory
3. Select "QRP [24bit Faithful Cursor]" and click apply
4. cl_cursor cursor & cl_cursorfont 25
Note: You are free to change cl_cursorfont to whatever value best fits your resolution or preference.
Installation of Menu Charset:
1. Place mcharset.png into Quake\id1\gfx
3. Copy-Pasting Abilities
Using the mouse, the console could be copied by right-clicking. You can paste this back into the console (or notepad) using ctrl+v. Very useful when someone pastes an ip to a game or a link to a website, or if you want to copy someone's macros or some aliases
4. Menu Download Screen
Don't remember all the sites where you can get neat updates and addons? You don't have to. FTE has a built-in menu_download screen that will download upgrades for you. Currently, you can download configs, scripts, particles, or even the latest Quake Retexturing/Remodelling Pack. Download bar is shown in console.
Location and instructions of Menu Download:
1. Located in Options -> Download
2. To use, click the file you want to download, and "W" for "want" will be checked. Click apply to download the file (Note: "H" is checked if you already have the file).
5. Mouse-driven Server Browser (WOW!)
Wow indeed! This thing is simply incredible. Pressing Enter/Space will join the game as a spectator, double-clicking will join as a player. You can also sort by the categories on top (name/ping/players, etc) by clicking on them. To add/remove servers as a favorite, select a server and press ctrl+f and the server should be cyan in color. The map levelshot will be displayed automatically in the bottom right of the server browser. Also note the spiffy new Quake-themed scrollbars
Location of Server Browser:
1. Menu -> Multiplayer -> Join a game
How-to make levelshots:
1. Take a screenshot of a map with FTE with the following settings: gl_contrast 1; gamma 1. I use this alias:
bind f1 "gamma 1;contrast 1;wait;screenshot;gamma .3;contrast 1.4"
2. Refont the levelshot to the recommended font of 320x200 or another low-resolution image.
3. Place the image into id1/textures/levelshots
Installation of the scrollbars:
1. Go to the Menu Download screen by clicking Options -> Downloads, then click on "Quake Retexturing & Remodelling Project"
2. Go to the "Bonuses" sub-directory
3. Select "QRP [24bit Faithful Scrollbars]" and click apply
6. EzScript Plugin
Don't feel like deleting and changing all of your commands from MQWCL/FuhQuake/EzQuake? Then Don't! EzScript does it all for you! Constantly upgraded as new commands that parallel other clients are added.
Installation of EzScript plugin:
1. Go to the Menu Download screen by clicking Options -> Downloads, then click on Plugins
2. Select the EzScript plugin and click apply.
7. IRC Plugin
Quake players have requested this for a _LONG_ time! It's finally here. And yes, it's very stable and I haven't been able to find any bugs. You can browse through channels, irc status window, and Main (back to Quake's console) with the mouse! Very convenient!
Installation of IRC plugin:
1. Go to the Menu Download screen by clicking Options -> Downloads, then click on Plugins
2. Select the IRC plugin and click apply.
3. Connect to a server by typing irc /open SERVER_ADDRESS (I would recommend making a bind, example: alias cqnet "irc /open irc.quakenet.org" )
4. Join a channel as you would with IRC.
8. Namemaker Plugin
Don't like your name? Don't have a spiffy name maker program? Too lazy to remember all the keyboard commands to get special characters? Well don't worry. FTE has a namemaker plugin that uses your current charset (also good to view your charset). Very nifty
Installation of Namemaker plugin:
1. Go to the Menu Download screen by clicking Options -> Downloads, then click on Plugins
2. Select the Namemaker plugin and click apply.
3. Type namemaker in console to access the plugin.
9. Find / Edit Config Files
If you've misplaced a file, or want to edit a file, or even both, FTE can do it. Try typing in flocate config.cfg, and FTE will find it for you. Next type in edit config.cfg, and FTE will take you to a built-in editor to edit your files. Very Convenient.
10. Load Pk3 and Md3 files!
FTE can load pk3 flies, so if you're low on space, just zip files with your zip program, and rename the ending from .zip to .pk3. That's it! Notice that FTE will load any pk3 or pak in the folders it searches for, so you can name them as you please. For example, you can name a pk3 with all your models and textures "models_textures.pk3" and your maps as "maps.pk3", etc etc! Your choosing! Furthermore, notice that typing "path" in console will display a list of places FTE loads files from (depends on gamedir). Md3's are also FULLY supported by FTE. The second screenshot is from a yet-to-be-released md3 created by Ruohis.
Installation of Pk3's:
1. Zip up your files using any standard zip program (winzip), and change the ending to .pk3 from .zip
2. Place the pk3 file into your /id1/ folder
3. NOTE: If you are zipping maps or something that is supposed to be placed in a sub-directory, make sure the sub-directory is preserved in the .pk3 file.
Non-sequentially named Paks/Pk3's are loaded in the order windows hands the filenames over to FTE, therefore there IS NO ORDER.
Installation of Md3's:
1. Place .md3 files into /id1/progs
2. Place the textures for the md3s into the directory where the model creator describe in his readme. Clients have no control over this path.
11. Distribute, Load, and Use Configs with EASE!
FTE has very powerful, yet easy scripting capabilities. Any config can simply be made FTE-friendly by adding a few lines of code - which also make the config file EASIER to bind, easier to read, and easier to display!. Players can change the binds in-game, view all of their binds, and read descriptions for each command. See this for a bit more on advanced scripting and this for some more cvars. FTE's teamplay menu binding will help make it easier for newcomers to make and change their binds. You can even do it while in play!
How to make friendly configs:
1. Honestly, you can figure this one out on your own since it's so easy. I have modified Def's teamplay config. You can download it here. Make sure you read the 2 steps
12. Bloom, Realtime Lighting and Shadows
These two features are so awesome I just had to post more than 1 screenshot each. Top three screenshots are bloom effects, bottom three screenshots are Realtime Lighting and Shadows. Just look at that cute player.mdl swinging
How to enable Bloom:
1. Set r_bloom 1
2. vid_restart
3. Here are some other bloom settings you might want to tweak:
gl_bloom_fast_sample - downsamples screen image (might give better fps)
gl_bloom_sample_font - sets font of intermediate textures
gl_bloom_darken - subtracts the bloom more times, giving a less noticable bloom, perhaps more correct, but it's painful to set it high
gl_bloom_diamond_font - opposite of _darken
gl_bloom_alpha - controls the alpha
gl_bloom_intensity - controls the intesntiy
Try out all the settings to get what's right for you.
How to enable Realtime Lighting and Shadows
1. set sv_cheats 1 (note: realtime lighting and shadows must have this)
2. r_shadows 1 (or r_shadows 2 for realtime shadows as well as lighting)
3. r_shadow_realtime_world 1
4. r_loadlit 2
5. vid_restart
13. FTE is...
Spike - President, CEO, chief architect
Moodles - Webmaster, plugin coder, wiki maintainer, tester
TimeServ - Assistant architect, wiki maintainer, tester
Bigfoot - Resident porter
Full list
1. DOWNLOAD
2. Mouse-driven menus & Menu Charset
3. Copy-Pasting Abilities
4. Menu Download screen
5. Mouse-driven server browser
6. EzScript Plugin
7. IRC Plugin
8. Namemaker Plugin
9. Find/Edit Config Files
10. Md3 and Pk3 File Support
11. Advanced Scripting Capabilities and Config Distribution
12. Bloom and Realtime Lighting / Shadows
13. TEAM
1. Download the latest version of FTE - Build 2666 (Released April 4, 2006)[size]
GL only
Software only
Merged build (GL and software in one exe)
[size=18]2. Mouse-driven menus and the new Menu Charset (mcharset)
 | | |
| ||
| |
That's right! FTE has mouse-driven menus! RaRe has made a very faithful Quake-themed cursor to go along Moon[Drunk]'s faithful charset. All menus are now fully mouse-driven. No more scrolling long lists with the keyboard! To go along with mouse-driven menus, FTE also uses a separate menu charset made by our very own Moon[Drunk]. This has two benefits: Menus can now be renamed without having to create a whole new image, and only one image is needed for the entire menu! Mcharset.png includes A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and "/" ":". All you need in one file!
Installation of mouse cursor:
1. Go to the Menu Download screen by clicking Options -> Downloads, then click on "Quake Retexturing & Remodelling Project"
2. Go to the "Bonuses" sub-directory
3. Select "QRP [24bit Faithful Cursor]" and click apply
4. cl_cursor cursor & cl_cursorfont 25
Note: You are free to change cl_cursorfont to whatever value best fits your resolution or preference.
Installation of Menu Charset:
1. Place mcharset.png into Quake\id1\gfx
3. Copy-Pasting Abilities
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Using the mouse, the console could be copied by right-clicking. You can paste this back into the console (or notepad) using ctrl+v. Very useful when someone pastes an ip to a game or a link to a website, or if you want to copy someone's macros or some aliases
4. Menu Download Screen
 | | |
| ||
| |
Don't remember all the sites where you can get neat updates and addons? You don't have to. FTE has a built-in menu_download screen that will download upgrades for you. Currently, you can download configs, scripts, particles, or even the latest Quake Retexturing/Remodelling Pack. Download bar is shown in console.
Location and instructions of Menu Download:
1. Located in Options -> Download
2. To use, click the file you want to download, and "W" for "want" will be checked. Click apply to download the file (Note: "H" is checked if you already have the file).
5. Mouse-driven Server Browser (WOW!)
 | | |
| ||
| |
Wow indeed! This thing is simply incredible. Pressing Enter/Space will join the game as a spectator, double-clicking will join as a player. You can also sort by the categories on top (name/ping/players, etc) by clicking on them. To add/remove servers as a favorite, select a server and press ctrl+f and the server should be cyan in color. The map levelshot will be displayed automatically in the bottom right of the server browser. Also note the spiffy new Quake-themed scrollbars
Location of Server Browser:
1. Menu -> Multiplayer -> Join a game
How-to make levelshots:
1. Take a screenshot of a map with FTE with the following settings: gl_contrast 1; gamma 1. I use this alias:
bind f1 "gamma 1;contrast 1;wait;screenshot;gamma .3;contrast 1.4"
2. Refont the levelshot to the recommended font of 320x200 or another low-resolution image.
3. Place the image into id1/textures/levelshots
Installation of the scrollbars:
1. Go to the Menu Download screen by clicking Options -> Downloads, then click on "Quake Retexturing & Remodelling Project"
2. Go to the "Bonuses" sub-directory
3. Select "QRP [24bit Faithful Scrollbars]" and click apply
6. EzScript Plugin
 | | |
| ||
| |
Don't feel like deleting and changing all of your commands from MQWCL/FuhQuake/EzQuake? Then Don't! EzScript does it all for you! Constantly upgraded as new commands that parallel other clients are added.
Installation of EzScript plugin:
1. Go to the Menu Download screen by clicking Options -> Downloads, then click on Plugins
2. Select the EzScript plugin and click apply.
7. IRC Plugin
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| |
Quake players have requested this for a _LONG_ time! It's finally here. And yes, it's very stable and I haven't been able to find any bugs. You can browse through channels, irc status window, and Main (back to Quake's console) with the mouse! Very convenient!
Installation of IRC plugin:
1. Go to the Menu Download screen by clicking Options -> Downloads, then click on Plugins
2. Select the IRC plugin and click apply.
3. Connect to a server by typing irc /open SERVER_ADDRESS (I would recommend making a bind, example: alias cqnet "irc /open irc.quakenet.org" )
4. Join a channel as you would with IRC.
8. Namemaker Plugin
 | | |
| ||
| |
Don't like your name? Don't have a spiffy name maker program? Too lazy to remember all the keyboard commands to get special characters? Well don't worry. FTE has a namemaker plugin that uses your current charset (also good to view your charset). Very nifty
Installation of Namemaker plugin:
1. Go to the Menu Download screen by clicking Options -> Downloads, then click on Plugins
2. Select the Namemaker plugin and click apply.
3. Type namemaker in console to access the plugin.
9. Find / Edit Config Files
 | | |
| ||
| |
 | | |
| ||
| |
If you've misplaced a file, or want to edit a file, or even both, FTE can do it. Try typing in flocate config.cfg, and FTE will find it for you. Next type in edit config.cfg, and FTE will take you to a built-in editor to edit your files. Very Convenient.
10. Load Pk3 and Md3 files!
 | | |
| ||
| |
 | | |
| ||
| |
FTE can load pk3 flies, so if you're low on space, just zip files with your zip program, and rename the ending from .zip to .pk3. That's it! Notice that FTE will load any pk3 or pak in the folders it searches for, so you can name them as you please. For example, you can name a pk3 with all your models and textures "models_textures.pk3" and your maps as "maps.pk3", etc etc! Your choosing! Furthermore, notice that typing "path" in console will display a list of places FTE loads files from (depends on gamedir). Md3's are also FULLY supported by FTE. The second screenshot is from a yet-to-be-released md3 created by Ruohis.
Installation of Pk3's:
1. Zip up your files using any standard zip program (winzip), and change the ending to .pk3 from .zip
2. Place the pk3 file into your /id1/ folder
3. NOTE: If you are zipping maps or something that is supposed to be placed in a sub-directory, make sure the sub-directory is preserved in the .pk3 file.
Non-sequentially named Paks/Pk3's are loaded in the order windows hands the filenames over to FTE, therefore there IS NO ORDER.
Installation of Md3's:
1. Place .md3 files into /id1/progs
2. Place the textures for the md3s into the directory where the model creator describe in his readme. Clients have no control over this path.
11. Distribute, Load, and Use Configs with EASE!
 | | |
| ||
| |
FTE has very powerful, yet easy scripting capabilities. Any config can simply be made FTE-friendly by adding a few lines of code - which also make the config file EASIER to bind, easier to read, and easier to display!. Players can change the binds in-game, view all of their binds, and read descriptions for each command. See this for a bit more on advanced scripting and this for some more cvars. FTE's teamplay menu binding will help make it easier for newcomers to make and change their binds. You can even do it while in play!
How to make friendly configs:
1. Honestly, you can figure this one out on your own since it's so easy. I have modified Def's teamplay config. You can download it here. Make sure you read the 2 steps
12. Bloom, Realtime Lighting and Shadows
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These two features are so awesome I just had to post more than 1 screenshot each. Top three screenshots are bloom effects, bottom three screenshots are Realtime Lighting and Shadows. Just look at that cute player.mdl swinging
How to enable Bloom:
1. Set r_bloom 1
2. vid_restart
3. Here are some other bloom settings you might want to tweak:
gl_bloom_fast_sample - downsamples screen image (might give better fps)
gl_bloom_sample_font - sets font of intermediate textures
gl_bloom_darken - subtracts the bloom more times, giving a less noticable bloom, perhaps more correct, but it's painful to set it high
gl_bloom_diamond_font - opposite of _darken
gl_bloom_alpha - controls the alpha
gl_bloom_intensity - controls the intesntiy
Try out all the settings to get what's right for you.
How to enable Realtime Lighting and Shadows
1. set sv_cheats 1 (note: realtime lighting and shadows must have this)
2. r_shadows 1 (or r_shadows 2 for realtime shadows as well as lighting)
3. r_shadow_realtime_world 1
4. r_loadlit 2
5. vid_restart
13. FTE is...
Spike - President, CEO, chief architect
Moodles - Webmaster, plugin coder, wiki maintainer, tester
TimeServ - Assistant architect, wiki maintainer, tester
Bigfoot - Resident porter
Full list
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