What are the circumstances for losing weapons between maps e.g. is it automatic, can it be set on/off with a flag.

I have had to split my final map into two (this makes three in total including FMB_BDG) and I will need to to account for the loss of weapons as the maps are continuous.

(This is the map that I released a couple of years ago where I was over every limit so split it into two and only released part of it. The other half was finished some time ago and I am now populating it with meanies and will release it later this year) 

By Preach - its in this: http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=37116&start=201 thread somewhere. 

quake only resets weapons if you enter a map called start.bsp. this is the only case.

the alternative is if you use the console 'map xxx' command via a custom trigger entity. 

yeh i found out what to do thanks 

Trying to make a trap that shoots lava balls in an arc. Got everything working nicely except it refuses to display progs/lavaball.mdl as the projectile model...

So what am I doing wrong? :E 

It's because there's a horrible mistake in the documentation which got carried over into the fgd. You need to set "modelpath" rather than "model". Sorry! 

Ah okay, cheers. Works perfectly, even leaves the particle trail which I didn't expect.

Rah Catapults ahoy :D 

Sounds awesome :) 

If I wanted to import a mesh into Radiant, to use as a rough base for a Q1 map, how would I go about doing that and with which version of Radiant? 

I threw together a quick description thingy of my Ogre sequence.

It's more just a list of what objects are involved and what they do. Feel free to comment or tell me how badly I laid it out :)

http://www.zealousquakefan.com/2011/03/tutorial-ogre-chainsaw-intro/ 

Awesome, simply awesome. Excelent work Zealous. 

That's fucking great. Introducing enemies is always a good thing to do, but takes some time to get right. 

that's one area where I think rubicon 2 suffered from not having a linear progression -- without a known map order, I couldn't really create a special intro for each enemy type. I did manage to create first encounters that were limited to just that enemy type, but they had no special buildup or memorable event around them. 

I'm compiling a few things to start off that Quoth thread that Negke suggested. I'm not very good at writing this sort of thing but I've got a few tricks with rotates and info_traps I hope people would like.

I couldn't really create a special intro for each enemy type.

I was originally just thinking about how I'd introduce Quoth monsters in a mechanical sense, because despite the popularity of the mod I've read posts of people not really understanding or remembering their behaviour :E 

Ogre is indeed impressive! A pity you spoiled it in that video, would jump on my chair if i'd first got to see him in the actual level :) 

It awesome !! 

...very impressive work.
How about having the player look through a one way glass (hack) and seeing some Pyros testing their flamers. Armour evapourates, health halves and bio suits remain untouched.

On another note, what software/process do I need to turn .dem into .wmv or .mp4 files? 

Darkplaces let's you easily encode unimpressed AVI but of course it does look different from stock quake. If jdhack's engine finally was released you could capturedemo only limited by your harddisk's speed... joequake and its derivates also have AVI capture, iirc even with compressor support but I never found them easy to use. Whatever you do, make sure you encode to H264 or webm for good quality. 

Good old Fraps + compressing to the target format/codec with VirtualDub. 

Ye I used Fraps + Virtual dub to compress. H264 didn't work for me, it kept desyncing the audio. Compression with xvid and the bit rate suggested worked great though :) 

Fraps costs money or you have that ugly fps counter I think?

I recommend Avidemux for editing/encoding, much nicer to use imo. 

 

The website says "Registration enhances the program and allows you to record as long as you like. Perform full-size recording with no watermarks on your movie." about the $37 version. 

It seems I was being too subtle. 

...that gives me options.