id Software's Paul Jaquays updated his .plan with word that the Quake III Arena Shader Manual is available for download, documenting one of the less understood aspects of making models for Quake III Arena. Here's the scoop:

The Quake III Arena Shader Manual is available for download.

Yes, Q3A map and model makers, here's the Christmas present that Santa's elves hadn't quite finished yet. It's in the format of an MS word document and has some graphics nested in it, so it's a little large.

ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake3/tools/Q3Ashader_manual.doc

Kenneth and I are playing around with making a simple html version of it, but that may be a little while yet.