It seems I was being too subtle. 

...that gives me options. 

 

"40 dlights exceed standard limit of 32"

What do I need to tone down? Is it muzzle flash by any chance? 

Flickering and the like? 

Large projectile monster hordes and lava balls? 

Looks like it. Another notnull trick bites the dust! 

as far as i can tell from the source, excessive dlights won't cause a crash, but the extra ones won't cast any light. 

Thanks. In that case I'll leave it in as the player certainly won't have time to be counting pretty lights during this bombardment! 

i'm excited about this map now. ^_^ 

and my computer bluescreened on me.

Now when I try to open it I get the following error message:

" Oops! SerializeRMF () v1.8 tried to load a file v0.0. Aborting"

and then
"there was a file error"

any idea what I could do? 

Have you tried loading it in a text editor? 

Its a corrupt text file. They're pretty rare.

You will have lost something though, even if you manage to salvage. 

oh well. 

Is there anything 'special' that needs to be done when exporting a map from worldcraft (quakeadapter version) to get radiant to read it properly? Just exporting to .map and loading the file in radiant doesn't produce any geometry.

Looking at the source there seems to be some 'extra' stuff in the .map produced by worldcraft. Example:

from my map:
<quote>
( 0 -896 160 ) ( 64 -896 160 ) ( 64 -920 160 ) JF2TECH07 [ 1 0 0 0 ] [ 0 -1 0 8 ] 0 1 1
( 0 -920 96 ) ( 64 -920 96 ) ( 64 -896 96 ) JF2TECH03 [ -1 0 0 64 ] [ 0 -1 0 24 ] 0 1 1
( 0 -896 160 ) ( 0 -920 160 ) ( 0 -920 96 ) JF2TECH01 [ 0 1 0 -24 ] [ 0 0 -1 32 ] 0 1 1
( 64 -896 96 ) ( 64 -920 96 ) ( 64 -920 160 ) JF2TECH01 [ 0 1 0 -24 ] [ 0 0 -1 32 ] 0 1 1
( 64 -896 160 ) ( 0 -896 160 ) ( 0 -896 96 ) JF2TECH03 [ -1 0 0 64 ] [ 0 0 -1 32 ] 0 1 1
( 64 -920 96 ) ( 0 -920 96 ) ( 0 -920 160 ) JF2TECH03 [ 1 0 0 0 ] [ 0 0 -1 32 ] 0 1 1
</quote>

from a random place in rub2m1:
<quote>
( 240 1216 64 ) ( 208 1216 64 ) ( 208 1200 64 ) jf2lite14 0 -8 -90 1 1
( 208 1200 80 ) ( 208 1216 80 ) ( 240 1216 80 ) jf2rust61 15 -96 -90 1 1
( 232 1200 80 ) ( 232 1200 64 ) ( 216 1200 64 ) jf2rust61 96 112 0 1 1
( 216 1216 80 ) ( 216 1216 64 ) ( 232 1216 64 ) jf2rust61 96 112 0 1 1
( 216 1216 64 ) ( 216 1216 80 ) ( 216 1200 80 ) jf2rust61 16 112 -180 1 -1
( 232 1216 64 ) ( 232 1200 64 ) ( 232 1208 80 ) jf2rust61 16 112 -180 1 -1
</quote>

There seems to be some extra junk in my .map, namely, the thing in brackets after the texture name. Are these a side effect of valve's 220 map format? Is there anyway to fix it? 

Like a loft conversion but cheaper...

I wouldn't be surprised if QuArK was able to convert between hammer's new map format and the classic .map. 

QuARK did the trick.

New question: I'm making a map using the rubicon2 mod. I have 4 misc_sparks with the same name that are targeted by a trigger_once with 50 health. Afaik, once the trigger_once dies, the misc_sparks should start firing, but they're not. I had this same setup when i was playing with rmq, but with fx_sparks, and it worked fine. I also have a trigger_once behind the first trigger that opens some doors, which still works fine. So what am i missing? 

I don't have any toggleable lights in the final rubicon 2 maps to prove that they work, but the code does appear to be functional. Do you have the start_off flag set?

(btw, there's no guarantee that they work the same as RMQ sparks, or quoth sparks, or anything else.) 

I don't have any toggleable lights misc_sparks 

I had the entities with the field 'name' instead of 'targetname.' Heh. The misc_sparks now work.

Another simple question: How does using changing the texture on a func_wall work? More specifically, what field needs to be added to the entity to tell it what texture to change to? Looking at the qc, func_wall_use sets self.frame to 1 - self.frame, but I've tried setting frame, startframe and endframe (like in hl), and texture, but none have done anything. Do the textures to start with +n, where n is the frame number? I've been trying to switch between jf2tech07 and jf2tech08. 

 

i've never actually tried it, but if it does work, it will work by switching between +0 and +a... 

The func_wall's use is set to func_wall_use, so it's going to always be switching between the textures. I worked around it. 

1. How can i flip a texture? I went through the options for like 20 mins trying to find this to no avail.

2. I don't see anything resembling visgroups, so how does one manage large maps? Invert the selection and hide everything?

3. Is there anyway to search for specific brushes/entities? Either by type (misc_*, info_*) or by targetname? It seems like that would be useful. 

jt_ to flip a texture, usually you have to set the scale to a negative figure, i.e. "'x' scale" = "-1".

I don't know if this works in Radiant, but I would have thought so, surely?