That's probably it.

A normal door without that flag looks for any other door touching its trigger area, and links it's movement to it.

If it's targeted by a trigger then that breaks. 

Not its trigger area, only the actual brushes. But yeah, when in doubt always set door_dont_link. 

is set.

I have tried rebuilding the door. I have tried rebuilding the trigger.

I cannot figure out what it is that I changed to make the scenario which initially worked stop working.

there is a trigger once in front of the door in question, meant to trigger it. Aftewards, an ambush is meant to launch. After six buttons have been pressed, the aforementioned door is meant to lower. doors are not set to link, the door revealing the ambush monsters has a different targetname.

This is officially NOT a speedmap any longer. this sucks. 

Probably something that's too obvious to easily spot. Check angles, lip, wait, toogle, targetnames, other doors that might reach there in their extended position etc. 

I'm gonna take a break and see if it becomes apparent next time I look at it. if not, fuck it, I will streamline. 

czg05 & czg17, maybe we should start some competition to finish these maps? anyone? or negke should look at them, or maybe czg himself could make it. (please czg) :)
i tried to combine two maps into one proper map, but i stucked for lack of inspiration for almost three years now. 

i'd sure like to see something made out of czg05 scraps. or even just with lunaran's doom textures. 

that shit would have been incredible. that scrap as it is is pretty incredible, actually. 

Skip as a visiblity blocket does not work on DarkPlaces as its traceline hits surfaces, not solids in the bsp like regular engines. It still clips, but monsters can see through it.
Skip should only work if it unlinks the texture from the leafs, which the current ones don't.
There may be a DP gameplayfix (default off), but it's uncertain.

So... once again DP fucks us over. >:(
No doubt it's all logical and technically correct, but as so often incompatible to 'standard' Quake engines. 

Current skip tools are built on a hack, which only works if your engine follows closely to how stock engines handled BSPs. (for example, Fitzquake 0.75 doesn't support skips because I didn't know about them at the time. (Fixed in 0.80.))

So it's not really darkplaces' fault that the hack fails, unless LH considered it a priority to support levels that use it (which would be nice, but then again skip is more of a mapper thing, and Lordhavoc lives more in the modder world, and things that are important in one community are sometimes not even a blip on the radar in the other community.) 

Yes, that makes sense.

I always consider the old stock engines as benchmark for all things Q1SP and I can't recall a single map of mine where I wasn't screwed by DP in one way or another. But then the response is all "don't use hacks then, use qc" and I'm wtf, mind the roots, even though there's some truth in it. It wouldn't be much of problem if the engine was only popular among the modders, but unfortunately every other newbie uses it as well which can easily lead to confusion when encountering such an issue. Oh well.

Just posted it as FYI to keep in mind the people here if using skip in their maps. 

I got the program running, but it can't find my mapfile.
So I took the map that comes with the program but I still receive the error.
What is wrong with the path file?

http://members.home.nl/gimli/donkey.jpg 

hqbsp?

use \ instead of / ? 

I just used the internal build path from Qradiant. The screen says [bsp] [*.map] 

It seems to expect the map in id1. That's crap I think. Try compiling by hand (not using the build menu, but run the compilers in a terminal). That's what I do.

Or change the settings for the build menu. 

Thanks, I'll try it out.

I placed the map in Id/maps.
When it didn't work I chose the one in C:\Program Files\GtkRadiant 1.5.0\q1.game\id1\qr001.map
It seems the program GtkRadiant/hbsp diesn't see the map 

Are there any tutorials on making spiral staircases, or maybe just some advice about making them? 

Spiral staircase by making a 12-sided circular room, as per the czg tutorial, Then make the wedges for the stairs. There are only 2 actually different shaped brushes they you would have to make, you can then make the rest of the staircase by copy, pasting and rotating those two. My coag3 map has an example of this. 

http://rickyt23.com/maps/coag3rickyt23src.zip

There's the source, the spiral staircase is at the origin of the map (0,0) 

 

http://rickyt23.com/maps/coag3_rickyt23src.zip 

Missed an underscore...... 

Sorry to ask such a noob question, but I've been searching for hours. I just want to get started on a map using the plain vanillaQuake texture set. Quaddicted has a texture archive, but it's just a long file list and I have no idea which files just contain the plain Quake textures.

Where can I get a plain Quake texture set wad? 

http://www.quaddicted.com/wads/quakewad.zip.
If you use (Gtk|Net)Radiant, put quake.wad into /quake/id1 directory 

http://www.quaddicted.com/wads/quakewad.zip <-- removed the period that got attached to the url. :)