I have been trying to use Trenchbroom, yet I have run into a serious issue. I have pointed the application to my Quake directory, and loaded the quake fgd, yet it won't load any textures into the program. It loads the Entities just fine. I have tried pointing Trenchbroom to several different installs of quake, including a vanilla quake install, Darkplaces, etc. Each time it finds entities, but can't find textures. please advise. 

To load a separate .wad file for map textures. It doesn't pull these from the quake folders. There is a comprehensive amount of .wad files on quaddicted.com 

See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnEnn61GRR0

You can download .wad files from: http://www.quaddicted.com/files/wads/ 

The window opens for about a second. I can see it trying to load stuff, then it just shuts down with no error message or anything.

Log file just ends abruptly.

4068 2013-06-26 10:35:38: Renderer info: GeForce 7800 GS/AGP/SSE2/3DNOW! version 2.1.2 from NVIDIA

Corporation
4068 2013-06-26 10:35:38: Depth buffer bits: 16
4068 2013-06-26 10:35:38: Multisampling disabled
4068 2013-06-26 10:35:38: OpenGL instancing disabled
4068 2013-06-26 10:35:38: Loading entity definition file C:\Trenchbroom\Resources\Defs\Quake.fgd
4068 2013-06-26 10:35:38: Loading 'progs/player.mdl' (searching )
4068 2013-06-26 10:35:38: Unable to find MDL 'progs/player.mdl'

(etc, etc....)

4068 2013-06-26 10:35:38: Loading 'progs/g_shot.mdl' (searching )
4068 2013-06-26 10:35:38: Unable to find MDL 'progs/g_shot.mdl'
4068 2013-06-26 10:35:38: Created Face Shader Program
4068 2013-06-26 10:35:38: Created Face.vertsh
4068 2013-06-26 10:35:38: Created Face.fragsh
4068 2013-06-26 10:35:38: Unable to link Face Shader Program, linker output was:

and that's where it ends. 

What version are you using?
What operating system are you using?
If you're on Windows, did you install "Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package" http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5555 ? 

Trenchboom is 1.09.224
Windows XP SP3 fully updated
VC++ x86 redistributable 10.0.30319 is installed

Computer is an old Athlon 64 3400+ (nVidia chipset)

I guess I could try on another computer, but this is the one I do all my dev type work on. 

What is the GL driver version? It looks like the driver is failing to compile / link the shaders, which may or may not be a driver bug. 

The video driver is really old (2007). I never mess with it because I updated it once and had a lot of problems, so I went back to the old one and have never had any problems since.

That was so long ago that I don't actually remember what the problems were, only that I made a mental note to never screw around with the video driver again. Maybe a new driver wouldn't have the problems. 

I didn't ask about video card drivers, because I thought it was obvious and common sense by now that people update their video card drivers. You see the message everywhere now a days. 

Sorry about that. The Face shader which is failing on your system is quite complex and might therefore cause these problems. However eithout an error message I have nothing to go on to fix it. If you're willing, We could try to pinpoint the problem by removing functionality though. Write me at kristian.duske@gmail.com if you want to try this. 

Loving this so far. :) My biggest gripe is that I don't know all the Quake entity key/values and Trenchboom doesn't list them (either in the documentation or in the Entity tab). Seems pretty hard to find that info on the net too. :) I ended up opening up GTKRadiant, placing entities and seeing what it's descriptions say. Any chance of having better entity descriptions/more options in the Entity Properties Tab? 

That feature is coming, but the author of Trenchbroom is on vacation right now.

But, if you can find 100 people to start using TrenchBroom, and get 100 websites to start praising TrenchBroom, then I think the author will come home early from vacation and implement that feature ASAP. ;) 

I wish! 

Hey, I love you for this. No really, I LOVE you.
Keep it up :) 

Google quake map specs and also google worldcraft guide. Both are what I use for mapping. Or alternatively download my map q-deck because it was made entirely in trench and I included the source :) 

Quake map specs -
http://www.gamers.org/dEngine/quake/QDP/qmapspec.html

Quake standard entities -
http://www.quakewiki.net/archives/worldcraft/entity/standard/standard.shtm

My map -
http://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/fesp1.html 

 

just open the .fgd or .def file included in the download and search the entity you need. Should be a lot quicker than opening another editor at the same time! 

I just found that out later today. I was looking to see if I could add that info to the .fgd and saw it was already there. What would be useful is a Windows help file with all the entity info, similar to Doom 3's script reference help file. 

such things are planned. 

In the map properties option, the 'Select a subdirectory' spot there are no options.

I feel like this is a very simple thing to fix but I'm blind. 

Do you have the path to Quake set up correctly in View->Preferences? 

I like it!

some crashes on win32 though.

*when i click on the titlebar symbol (accidentaly)

*clipper sometimes 

if you get any errors, it helps to track them if you submit them on github:
https://github.com/kduske/TrenchBroom/issues?direction=desc&sort=updated&state=open 

There's much improved version that I still haven't finished. If you would like to try it out, send me an email at kristian.duske@gmail.com.