It seems surprising to me that a brush intersection that creates an off-grid point would leak the map. Since when does bsp care about the grid? bsp files contain float coordinates, so it should not be a problem. 

it has to do with hull expansion. if a brush intersection causes a problem in hull0, when the collision hulls are created, that minor problem is sometimes magnified such that it basically just gives up on the area, creating those 'holes' where you just fall, seemingly, right out of the map.
aguirre's bsp is pretty good at fixing problems, but some still slip by. other compilers are even touchier. 

Do NOT use the Digger. It is the QuArK equivalent of carving. Do not use it. You will summon everything that sucks about mapping. 

Well, QuArK is a fantastic straight forward editor, very easy to handle... but it suffers of a fucking bad behavior regarding its floating point coordinates capabilities: this makes sometimes the brushes to be off-grid.

The only way to avoid this off-grid corrdinates to be very careful when you move your faces / vertex, and even when positioning the textures on faces.

If you want to correct any leaks or "hole in maps" you have to read this first (The aguirR'es Mapping Holy Bible) http://user.tninet.se/~xir870k/tooltips.txt that will give some very good procedure to solve 99% of your leakage problems.

However, for the remaining 1%, you can still open the .map file generated by QuArK after QBSP process, and look for the floating coordinates: that will give you an indication where are the corrupted brushes, and you'll be able to either replace it, or force it to grid with the editor.

In anyway it is long, it is painful, but it is worth doing it :) 

Spirit, it'a too late for "don't use digger" (for my current map ) - I have tons of diggers there.

But let's say that in the future I will stay away from digger - how can I replace that ? How can I make holes in a brush without using diggers ? 

How can I make holes in a brush without using diggers ?

Easy: you have to make it manually.

Example of a tunnel:
- Bad: you can use two "cubes", inserts a "digger cube" in a "solid cube"...
- Good: you can make it manually with 4 cubes, without digger, just making the hole a real hole with brushes

Dunno if it is clear :P 

For clean mapping you place each brush by hand. A cube room consists of 6 brushes. 

JPG, it's very clear, that's how I do the rooms, tunnels and everything. But I was talking about "real diggers" : imagine that you have a pillar and you want to puch a lot of holes into it.
It's very easy to make a "long" cube, then dig a pyramid in it and multiply that digger.

How do you do that without diggers ? (I know it can be done, but it's hell) 

Sorry - JPL (not JPG) :)
Something like this : http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/4003/holes.png

Imagine that in 3D with a lot more holes (and not only on a column, but with more rows) 

Or make one "section" as a brush, then copy and paste it. This way you have absolute control over what you make. The computer cant screw anything up for you. 

but your pillar sounds kind of like something I've been fiddling with:
http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/5668/zqftest03pillar.jpg

making the whole thing out of chunks that fit to the grid 

A brush at a time is always better. The automatic carving tools just aren't very good. If they were then mapping would be semi-automated, since knowing where to cut stuff needs a good understanding of good build quality that the editor itself doesn't have.

Not that vertex editing and clipping tools aren't good. Like Ricky says, just don't trust the machine to do anything remotely clever. 

But dont use it too much it turns everything to shit when you do. 

just don't trust the machine to do anything remotely clever.

oh god, THIS.

carving a square hole into a square brush, you'd think it could at least split the resulting polygons in a symmetrical way.

2/3 point clipping is pretty much a replacement for carving, honestly, because the only times you end up being able to use carving is to flat out remove bits of a brush. 

The WC Adapter texture conversion utility working on windows 7?

I got it working ok on Vista 'run as administrator' but the same doesn't work on 7, it just throws the most enlightening error message ever 'no log exists'.

I could convert the textures elsewhere and pass them over but its a pain in the balls and bad practice. 

Can anyone recommend a wad with some nice flesh textures in it? 

 

cheers, looks like a fun set :) 

zerstorer also, and of course doom :) 

I tried a few times to make something out of the organic room tex' but couldn't put anything together that worked. I mean the ones that have the door included. 

i'm not a fan of ogro textures because they are way too dark. you basically miss out on cool shadowing because the textures are nearly black to begin with.
the textures are very cool, but just don't allow lighting to look good on them. 

Spirit recorded a demo using DP of my latest map last week, but it does not play at all on FitzQuake..
I really would like to avoid DP install on lmy computer, so is there any converting tool/method/whatever that would allow to play the demo on FitzQuake ?
Thanks a lot in advance... 

 

Just make a second quake directory and put darkplaces in that. Not like Quake is particularly big these days :P 

All you need is the exe, just like most other engine ports.