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Resources In our Resources section, you can find tips and tricks to improve your gameplay, as well as utilities to make your Quaking easier. Looking for console commands, or help with scripting and key-bindings? You'll find 'em here along with nifty utilities like viewers, log parsers/analyzers, stat generators, and editors for making maps, models, skins, and demos. Like bots? Check out the bot utilities. Hate bots? Check out the anti-bot utilities (it's the newest rage!). You want administration tools? We got 'em here. Heard about "rocket jumping, but don't know how to do it without exploding into a pile of gibs? Well we guarantee that you can find info on how to do all those l33t trick-jumps you've heard about right here! There just so much cool stuff to be found here that you might even find Hellchick's kitchen sink! Tips and Tricks The Bind: Arena indian18 and Essobie's definitive site for custom configs, key-bindings, scripts and aliases for Quake3: Arena. Deathmatch 101 Whether you're new to Internet gaming or an old hand ready to sharpen your skills, this is the place to start! Advice on everything from strategy to using GameSpy. It even has a CTF section. Fragistics This is an Open Source program that will parse through the games.log file generated by Quake III Arena and create webpages filled with stats on the games and players who played on that server. There are 4 categories of stats produced: Player stats, Games stats, Map stats, and Overall stats. Friends who Frag So you need to improve your deathmatch skills because all your friends make fun of you? Maybe you're just looking to add a few tricks to your fragging bag. Then FWF has everything you need! GameSpy 3D Find the fastest Quake and Quake II games possible through your ISP. GameSpy is the best way to get into the game, no matter what mod you want to play! Gothic Revival GR is a tutorial site helping you learn how to use Q3Radiant and make your own Q3A maps. Curved surfaces, lighting, and texture use are only some of the topics you'll find here. Riding the Rocket (Trick-jumping challenges) This is a Q2 and Q3 trick-jump challenge website. Each week you can submit demoes of yourself trying to meet that week's challenge. Also, s8n has some very comprehensive tutorials on trick-jumping, so there's no excuse for you to be blowing yerselves up while doing rocket jumps anymore. Bunny hop on over there now! Quake Server Browser News "Your Quake Server Browser Resource" is filled with server browser news, reviews and information. Quetiquette Of course, every Quaker should read this guide for etiquette while quaking online! Skillz (Gaming contests) THE #1 Source for Quake Contests. Zanshin's GLQuake Dojo This is a fantastic OpenGL site, with information, screenshots, drivers, FAQs, and performance tips to help you get the most out of your 3D card. A must visit for all GLQuake and Quake II users. Zanshin's remodeling at the moment, but stay tuned because he'll be back with Quake III GL news for ya! Utilities Administration Utilities Automation This is a utility to help organize your mods and make it easy to set them up and run them. It uses profiles to allow you to set up a game the way you want it, and then save the data, ready for quick launch the next time you want it. It allows control over many features of Quake such as game limits and DM flags. You can organize your profiles and mods, with saved descriptions, to make it easier to remember what is what. AutoQuake 2000 You can easily start mods which are based on Id Softwares Quake engine. This program is big help for those of you who haven't updated Half-Life, Quake1 or Quake2 and want play Single Player mods like They Hunger and Darkstar or even some old Quake 1 mod. So this is a damn good program for ANYONE who wants to launch a mod easily. Borderfield Here you can find various tools and utilities for Quake2 and Quake:3 Arena. All of their software is free so there's no excuse not to give their schtuff a go! Also, if you have some software you'd like to see published, they'll be happy to host it and show it off for ya! BQServer BQServer is a server-side ActiveX dll that allows a Quake server to be administrated from any web browser. Install the BQServer dll onto your server running IIS, and you can send rcon commands to a Quake server via ASP pages. Because BQServer allows the developer to send and receive rcon commands, you can have as much control over Quake as the game server allows. Using the web platform also allows endless flexibility with the graphical interface. Clandestyne Software provides free gaming utilities to enhance your gaming experience. Programs like QBind will help you easily create and edit your configs with a graphical Mouse/Keyboard display (for all versions of Quake). QNews will help keep you up to date on the latest happenings in the Quake community. Check'em out for more! Crazy Launch This utility contains the Quake3Runner, a Multi Mod Launcher which is able to manage and start all Mods on your PC. But that's not all: i's also able to identify the name of the Mods and its settings like Client- and Serversettings. You can also add in other programs, for example PakScape. You don't have to do anything! And, the best thing is the Quake3 Arena Tweaker! E-Studio has a handy dandy utility that allows you to more easily generate realistic terrain with a soft look for your maps. No matter what mapping program you use, you'll likely find this highly useful. Engines of Creation Home to the Quake Toolkit for admin and player Q3A settings. You'll also get options linked to Q3radiant and compilling tools. Fragomatic is a one stop shopping spree for tools and utilities. Server Commander, RCON Commander, Stats Commander and the Config Creator are some of what this spot has to offer and they're becoming very popular. You'll get tons of tools and help here including variable and command lists. The Game Name Builder The Game Name Builder is a program which allows you to easily create custom names in Quake, QuakeII, and QuakeIII. GibStats Hate it when your friends claim they're better at Q3A than you are because they beat you in ONE game? Then get GibStats - this programs tells you everything you want to know statistically about your games! It even produces sweet graphs about things like weapon useage and more. Definitely a must for a thorough analysis of the game! idDA (Demo Stats) The id Demo Analyzer is a tool that produces reports (frag statistics, etc.) in text or HTML on multiplayer demos for the games in the Quake family. Mod On Demand Borderfield's utility takes the hassle out of mod configuration and makes your life easier. OnTheWay Powerful and easy to use front-end for Quake 2 servers. Customize server settings, map selections, and more from it's powerful GUI. Q Check If you're frustrated by the fact that people don't know where you're playing when you jump into a game and want them to follow, look no further. Q_Check is an mIRC plug-in/script that will detect when a user joins a game via GameSpy3D and automatically set them away AND give the address of the server. Simple! Q3Offline ShellShock's Crater is the home of a nifty little Q3 utility called Q3Offline. Q3Offline is a Quake III Arena front end for quickly setting up offline single player games. Visit ShellShock to get more info on this program. Q3Radio Forget text communication - radio is the way to go. Q3Radio has 38 radio messages at your fingertips for DM, Teamplay, and CTF. Q3Setup This is an alternative front-end to Q3A. It allows you to set up off-line games of any series of maps with any combination of bots, as well as changing game type between maps for variety much more easily than if using the Q3A interface, or writing your own config files by hand. Quake Start One of the original Quake game utilities and still advancing with the NEXGen series. This one starts all the Quake games and more while also handling player configs and so much more. QWAdmin Make setting up your QuakeWorld server a snap, even with no admin experience! Turkey Manor Turkey Manor Design works to produce applications which make using Quake 3 easier, or more fun. Current products include The Quake 3 Easy Name Creator, The Arena Master (which makes .arena files for mappers), and the Turkey Jerky Text Changer mod, which enables you to change the text messages that appear in the game. UI Enhanced This mod-like utility replaces the Q3A user interface with one designed to make setting up single player and LAN games much more easily. Who's the Winner WTW is a Quake III Arena log analyzer. It processes Q3A logs and returns info like stats and scoring definitions for all games played, and puts it conveniently in HTML. Level Editing Utilities bobToolz bobToolz is a plug-in for Q3Radiant that will help mappers find those offending intersecting brushes. It does a lot of other useful things and is always changing, so check it out. QuArK (The Quake Army Knife) As the name would imply, QuArK bundles several useful Quake, Quake II, and Hexen II editing tools into one package. You can use it to edit maps, Quake C, models, BSPs, and more -- a must have in any editor's toolbox. Tread No relation to the beloved THRED, Tread is a new level editor on the scene that seamlessly works with Quake, Q2, Hexen2, Half-Life, and Kingpin. Miscellaneous Multi-Head Gaming You know that cool trick where people get more than one monitor to display different parts of a screen? That's called multi-head gaming. Check out this site to find out how it's done.