First, to CosmicProphet and all the others who worked on this: it's awesomely super. Thank you.
Second, a few comments on the alien crawler by JewishDude. I'm having a little trouble getting it to show up.
Under preferences, I turned on 'full shader effects'. Without this checked the alien does not show up at all. With it checked, it shows only a grayish shadowy shape. I should also note that some of the walls don't show up and the windows look suspicious. I have an intel 82915g chip, which supports Vertex Shader Support and Pixel Shader Support but only up to 2.0. Could this be the problem? Sorry, total newbie, so not really sure.
I also notice when I r-click the entity, in the information, under 'optional visuals' - 'texture', it says [Alien crawler.tga]. I have no such tga. Could this be the problem? Again, total noob with FPSC, and there's a lot I don't know about PCs in general, so pardon me if I'm wrong and don't know it.
I'm guessing here that my PC is the problem, rather than the entity, in that it does work for some people (and I'm guessing their PCs have better video cards than mine).
Thanks again to all. Any input on the alien crawler (perhaps verifying my suspicions on the problem) would be appreciated.
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