31 December 2025

For now, the labels doesn't work

If i put a comma after the word or only the word, as in the image, the label doesn't work for me and doesen't show below the topic. I tried on other topics.
 

Happy New Year 2026 !

Happy New Year 2026 and no streets problems !

04 July 2025

You can use our link with your feed application

You can add the below link to your preferred feed application:

https://roarkes-kingpin-life-of-crime-mapping.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

01 October 2024

Added "Labels" under topics

 Added "Labels" under topics to help you reach topics better. Not finished yet.

28 May 2023

In buymeacoffee, i will switch to Stripe

For you to help me, i will switch from PayPal to Stripe, for buymeacoffee.
 

PayPal is no longer supported on Buy Me a Coffee.

how to change my membership payment method from paypal

I asked if a intellectual property rights option can be added, to be paid as a artist.

19 February 2022

News regarding the prefabs we made

We plan in doing some urban maps with the prefabs made.

20 January 2021

Quake Army Knife errors (part 1)

Error in console :

SampleTriangulation: no points.
Situation : 
The map renders to fulbright when played.

Problem :
Texture to small on face of the poly.
Resolved :
Scale the texture to 0.5 0.5 or other number.
 

Quake Army Knife 6.6 beta 6 - dragging a group of polys in the panel

 

When you drag a group of polys in the editor panel, you can make a prefab out of them. You either than drag them back in your working place as parts or as a whole.
A prefab is like a real ,,prefabricated section of a object,, that can be put somewhere (a building etc.)
Prefab example in the editor and in its 3D fullscreen view, for Quake 2 Dawn of Darkness mod (minus the object_flame1 and light entity which are added to the prefab - more on this later) :
 
 









Quake Army Knife 6.6 beta 6 - making a group of polys

 


Today we will teach you how to make a group of polys. The tutorials series for Quake Army Knife we will post on Patreon are not on any particular order (tabs, button order etc.), and you can learn better this way.
When you work in the editor, you create a virtual world for a game (Quake 2, Half-Life etc.).
You work with a brush made of poly(s) and a brush is like a ,,real cardboard,, and the poly(s) is the ,,carboard,, walls you can arange. You can also always rename your group or poly(s) parts.

Quake Army Knife tools paths and files short explanation


You may have different tools versions
In Quake Army Knife, click ,,options,, in the uper tab inside the editor, click ,,configuration,, and inside the ,,Games,, line go to ,,Quake 2,, and give path to qbsp310.exe, timvis3.exe and arghrad.exe. They are tools for the editor to work. 
The qbsp makes a bsp file along your map file.
Timvis involves making sure that brushes etc. work within the editor. Errors will be showned in the editor console if not.
Arghrad provides: 
,,Sunlight options, Entity brush models can cast light, provides many more surface light options, Phong shading for simulating curves,,
 
 

Some stuff inside a map. file

Some stuff inside a qkm. file 
The .bsp file is the file that your game will use, when you run it. 
If in Quake 2 console you write map your map name, it will run or you can run the map with Quake Army Knife directly. Be sure that in your Quake 2 shortcut, +set game roarke is written in the Target box.
From the editor,  a .map file is the file saved from Quake Army Knife (can be opened later and edited further, but the prefab parts will be saved in the map structure and functions in entities). 
A .qkm file will have the prefab parts and functions like you did it originaly.
.QRK file are used by the editor. You can make your own for other Quke 2, Half-Life etc. mods. My brother and i made Dawn of Darkness mod .qrk file. 
They reside in the Quake Army Knife addons folder (there each game has its own folder, but your .QRK file you made reside in the main addons folder).
Don't mistake a .qrk file with the .qkm file above !
Game patches can be downloaded:

Quake Army Knife 6.6 beta 6 configuration

 


Quark Army Knife 6.6 beta 6 configuration for games like Quake 2, Kingpin life of crime, Half-Life etc. I waited sometimes in the video for you to read what the configuration has to offer.

Quake Army Knife 6.6 beta 7 compared with beta 6

In the ,,memory,, tab, the Compression Level and Size of compression buffer, those lines were removed.


In Files tab - Textures line, the above was added.


In General tab - OpenGL line, this was added.

 In General tab - DirectX line, the above (in red) were added.

 

 

In General tab - Startup line, the above (in red) was added.

 


In Files tab - ZIP line, this was written.


In General tab - Glide (3Dfx) line.


 

In Map tab - Display line and in the same thing in Model tab - Display line
The above images, represents things added in Quake army knife 6.6 beta 7, which were not in Quake Army Knife 6.6 beta 6.
This was tough, reading and comparing things ... at 2.31 AM

How to add and edit you mod with Quake Army Knife 6.6 beta 7

 


Here i'm using Quake 2 as a short example. After you install your game and tweak your Quake Army Knife configuration, add your game mod by following this video. Quake Army Knife 6.6 beta 7 has a few differences in configuration, but you can use Quake Army Knife 6.6 beta 6 too, if you want.

13 January 2021

System we use

P.C. with Windows 10 64-bit system (CPU 3300 GHZ, 8 GB memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 video  card, ASrock Z97 anniversary motherboard, Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS sound  card).

29 August 2020

Kingpin Life of Crime - Gangster years cars pack 1 it is done

Some ingame screenshots.






Kingpin Life of Crime - Gangster years cars pack 1 v.1.rar archive contents :

Kingpin Life of Crime - Gangster years cars pack 1 v.1 folder with :

Kingpin Life of Crime - Gangster years cars pack 1 v.1.rtf and 6 .qkm files, each with one vintage car prefabs, with the following names, made with QuArK 6.6 Beta 7:

 

1906 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost


1912 Ford model TT Tanker

 


1923 Ford model TT Stake Flatbed Truck


 

1925 Ford model TT C Cab Delivery Truck


 

1934 Hispano Suiza J12

 


1936 Auburn Speedster 851

 Download from moddb :

moddb

Vintage car prefabs, made by Roarke, idea to make more cars prefabs inspired by the Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost 1906.qkm vintage car constructed and scaled by my brother Roarkes.

Edited and finished the Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost 1906, and renamed to 1906 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost.

1934_Hispano_Suiza (later on renamed to 1934 Hispano Suiza J12) had two holes in the left car door, reported by my brother.

The car prefabs have their windows breakable.

 

Copyright Roarkes and Roarke.

Copyright:

CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

 

You can share, transform, adapt and indicate if changes where made.

Give atribution.

Non comercial.

ShareAlike, if you transform or build upon, keep the same license.


For later use in your maps, singleplayer or multiplayer, drag the named vintage car group on ,,Drop your most commonly used prefabs and entities to this panel,, above the compass in the Quake Army Knife editor.

At the confirmation screen click ,,No,, to insert the whole group there.


You can visit our site dedicated to Kingpin: Life of Crime:


Patreon

and

Moddb


The comunity forum:

kingpinforever

 


11 August 2020

15 July 2020

Kingpin Life of Crime - Gangster years cars pack 1 is almost done

Kingpin Life of Crime - Gangster years cars pack 1 is almost done and will be posted.




02 June 2019

A trip in the city


 

May the upcoming photos be a inspiration for your single or multiplayer maps. This topic will get updated.

03 April 2019

Floors and motifs snow effects in the making

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Motifs can be used as floor textures. I try to make realistic snow effects and it is working for the time being. The textures will have a higher resolution, 256x256, as .tga files.
1. If you walk in a temple and snow stick from your boots.
2. Your parents may have told you that is not right to walk with your boots on the parquet. Snow will creep in, but later will melt and you will have to clear the mess.