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Still didn't make it much easier to work with though unfortunately, as when I'm dragging vertices in one view the editor always seems to compensate for it, like here where I tried to align the vertices along the curve in the top view and the lower edge got dragged downwards. That was just an example image that I threw together to show what happens and not a serious attempt at creating a curve, but this is what happens no matter what I try, and skew didn't seem to work around this either. Oh well, time to try out WC again then I guess, where this is unproblematic...
I think Quark is also a great editor, but has some purposely corrupt coding is in the export to
So forget the float precision, Quark doesn't even let you get 2 unit precision on angled brushes. I work with Quark since it was an early Qmap version in the late 98, so I'm very contributed to it. Skewing with one brush only goes by setting angle of a brushside.
But then you miss gridclipping of course. My simple outcome is when I make a map In Quark with complicated brushes the leak error grows. When I import the same map into WC1.6 and it compiles well with the same compilers it reduces Quark in compare to the WC1.6. I'm doing with QRadiant and it is a RTFM job to get familiar with. My interest grow to BSP which has an update to 96, since I learned to know it in QBSP94b. sorry i didn't reply earlier, but it appears necros did a pretty good job of explaining everything you asked.
Yeah necros got me on the right path (thanks again), just fiddling around with different techniques at the moment.
Also got Hammer 3.5 to work with Quake, had no idea it was even compatible, so thanks for the tip Ricky! Although I did encounter something strange... made a test map, saved as And bear with me here, but how do you make the extra parameters for the compile tools work in Hammer? In the advanced compile menu I wrote "-soft -extra 4 -gate1" without the quotes as a parameter for $light_exe, but it doesn't seem to do anything. Light 1.43 by Bengt Jardrup. I would keep to using the
The good thing is that the Hammer editor's texture lock feature works really well - you can really speed up texture alignment because of it because you can clip, copy, paste and most importantly rotate as much as you like, and the textures stay aligned. You have to press F9 to compile your map from the editor, and that is where you add your commands. You have to press F9 then click on the button "expert".
Didn't get around to trying this out before now, but yes, apparently putting the commands inside quotes work. At least, the compiler seems to recognize the parameters "-extra4" and "-etp" as "Extra 4x4 sampling enabled
Enhanced Texture Positioning enabled" appeared in the compile process window, but "-soft 1" and "-gate 1" gave an "unknown option" error for some reason. Also it didn't seem to make any difference whether I compiled with these parameters or not, here's two comparison shots from compiling with and without: http://i.imgur.com/IlsWS.jpg http://i.imgur.com/36dNX.jpg try compiling from batch files/command prompt, or try my ne_q1spcompiler thing.
i seem to recall running the compilers in the editor console wasn't good for some reason. maybe someone can confirm/refute? Your compiler thing did the trick necros, that's quite a nifty tool you got there! Though I noticed I couldn't choose a map saved as
jt_, soft1 and gate1 also gave the "unknown option" error. Guess the in-editor compiler isn't all that. Also, while I'm at it - know if it's possible to list textures after which wad it appears in with Hammer, like with QuArK? At the moment every texture (1000+) from all the wads I've imported appear at once in the texture browser, which makes it quite tedious to find whatever I'm looking for. no, -soft # and -gate # are the correct syntax.
as for textures, hammer has a filter where you can type in to just show textures with that string. you could rename all your textures from one wad with a prefix of some kind? i don't know much on that score-- hl2 has the filters all set up via scripts as well as filename. so you type c17 and you get all the downtown textures. Yeah I tried adding a suffix to all the textures so I could just type in the suffix and sort them that way, but I'd have to search and replace each texture I've already used in my map with the renamed ones, which I haven't been arsed to do yet. Eh, I'll probably work it out.
there's a program out there that, i think, will batch import tgas into a wad. you could extract the wad, use a batch file renamer (google) then use the batch wad importer. i think baker made it? i just remember seeing it a while ago somewhere, probably i3d.
Yes - work in
What is it that scrags are such fucking divas when it comes to the simple task of flying into a teleporter towards the player???
They are awake and fly back and forth in their closets but they carefully avoid the (touchable) teleport trigger most of the time. And then, when it's too late, they sometimes all teleport in at once.
Are you talking about teleporting in scrags? Why are they awake before they teleport in the first place?
All monsters are woken on map start. They don't have their own teleporter each to save entities and make for a slightly more random spawning effect. I might put a door behind them that slowly pushes them into the teleporter, or just leave it like that as they apprently all do spawn eventually.
** Executing...
** Command: Change Directory ** Parameters: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\quake ** Executing... ** Command: Copy File ** Parameters: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\quake\Id1\maps\smqx11_drew1a.map" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\quake\Id1\maps\smqx11_drew1a.map" ** Executing... ** Command: c:\program files\worldcraft\quaketools\nomapversion.exe ** Parameters: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\quake\Id1\maps\smqx11_drew1a" ** Executing... ** Command: c:\program files\worldcraft\quaketools\txqbsp.exe ** Parameters: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\quake\Id1\maps\smqx11_drew1a" TxQBSP 1.12 -- Modified by Bengt Jardrup Inputfile: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\quake\Id1\maps\smqx11_drew1a.map Outputfile: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\quake\Id1\maps\smqx11_drew1a.bsp ------ LoadMapFile ------ Title: "Infiltration" 9818 faces 1621 brushes 515 entities 127 miptex 1569 texinfo Added 26 texture frames Building hulls sequentially... Processing hull 0... ------ Brush_LoadEntity ------ ----+----+ 1487 brushes read ------ CSGFaces ------ ----+----+ 9010 brushfaces 7010 csgfaces 6320 mergedfaces ------ SolidBSP ------ 7009 split nodes 2984 solid leafs 3888 empty leafs 138 water leafs 14284 leaffaces 13054 nodefaces ------ FillOutside ------ 1548 outleafs ------ MergeAll ------ 4866 mergefaces ------ SolidBSP ------ ----+----+ 2636 split nodes 1197 solid leafs 1341 empty leafs 99 water leafs 7706 leaffaces 5761 nodefaces ------ Portalize ------ 1440 vis leafs 4711 vis portals ------ Tjunc ------ 5582 world edges 20228 edge points 4337 edges added by tjunctions 0 faces added by tjunctions ------ MakeFaceEdges ------ ----+----+ ------ GrowRegions ------ ************ ERROR ************ Entity with no valid brushes or textures on line 15942 Elapsed time : 0:04 Peak memory used : 8.2 MB ** Executing... ** Command: c:\program files\worldcraft\quaketools\vis.exe ** Parameters: -fast "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\quake\Id1\maps\smqx11_drew1a" ---- Vis 2.31 ---- Modified by Bengt Jardrup ************ ERROR ************ Error opening C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\quake\Id1\maps\smqx11_drew1a.bsp: No such file or directory Elapsed time : 0:00 ** Executing... ** Command: c:\program files\worldcraft\quaketools\light.exe ** Parameters: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\quake\Id1\maps\smqx11_drew1a" ----- Light 1.43 ---- Modified by Bengt Jardrup ************ ERROR ************ Error opening C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\quake\Id1\maps\smqx11_drew1a.bsp: No such file or directory Elapsed time : 0:00 any idea what is going on here? I have done very little since the last compile, when this worked just fine. Added a door with a clip brush. It needs at least one brush with a visible texture. Clip brushes in funcs only work if the boundaries are defined by visible brushes.
The TxQBSP program failed with the error:
Entity with no valid brushes or textures on line 15942 What you need to do is go to Map => Check for Problems Then you need to scroll to the bottom and look for something like "entity with no brush". Highlight the error, then click on goto, close the dialogue and press delete. When you press 'goto' or 'mark' (i forget), it will send the 2D view to the middle of the map. I want 6 buttons which will target a trigger_counter. but I want each one to also target an info notnull explosion. I know in Quoth I could simply make target2. Should I be relying on relays here or what?
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