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. 

Doesn't it share config files though? 

Yes, but DP-specific cvars are ignored/removed by the others. 

ZealousQuakeFan my Quake directory is 7 gb :p of course in a 500 gb disc is very few... 

I disabled the startup demos and added "cd play 11" to my autoexec.cfg but the track doesn't play.

When I tried any other track, they work.
I typed in "cd info" to see what was happening, and it said that the track is paused 

What engine?
Do you actually have a track 11?
Does it work if you load it while a map is loaded?
CD or files? 

So I understand the general wisdom is never do it, however I would like to know if there are any particularly instances of it that can be okay or must be avoided and such... the BSP I'm trying to put together atm is doing my head in :E 

it's not inherently bad.

Example: you want to make a cross shape. You can do this with only two brushes, keep everything lined up to the grid. no problems. The only potential weakness to this example is you won't have control over which brush will determine the texturing on the intersection -- so the wood grain may end up going vertical or horizontal on that spot. (in actuality i think qbsp always uses the brush face of the later brushes in the map file, when two brushfaces are coplanar and overlapping like that.)

Main thing to avoid is things being off-grid or sloppy on the part of the brush that is inside other brushes. You should still keep things clean and on-grid even if they are buried.