Thanks for the compliments. It's up to the admins to decide what to do. I'm sort of reserving judgment since I haven't seen all the deleted posts (I was away for the entire weekend and they were already gone when I got back). I'd like to just move on from the issue and see a working patcher going. At that point I may be finally able to publicly release the client, pending perhaps some preliminary discussions with devs/admins/server admins to see if they have any outstanding issues. In the meantime I'm adding this new sky code to OpenZone and ZoneExplorer. Then I might see if I can learn something about GLSL shaders (yes, KhaN, I know you're looking at me...)
EDIT: I finally got around to enabling mipmapping...
