I meant how to make the cloned brushes offset when you press 'space'. 

FitzQuake - Warning: 1034 byte packet exceeds standard limit of 1024

What is this telling me that I have done wrong?

(Pulling the mothballs out of FMB-BDG) 

This is the more informative fitzquake version of "Packet overflow". Fitzquake itself isn't hampered by packet overflow (in single-player, at least), but it sends the warning to let you tweak things for other engines. The usual fix still applies - reducing the number of updates at once. 

Is there a version of Radiant that works with Win 7? It seems like the last couple of times I've gotten the urge to make stuff for Quake, Radiant has had funky issues where I had to change my graphical settings in Windows just to get it working. 

All you need to do is disable visual themes (=Aero) in the compatiblity tab. Netradiant does it automatically - try if it works for you, I had some issues with it and stayed with 1.5. 

how do you light compile a bsp model for quoth? 

There are lots of ways of doing it, if you know how to do it for hipnotic then that way still works. The external model supports allows for another way which I think is easier, and I'll explain that one now.

Create a new map file and build your rotating bsp model in it. Think about where you want the centre of rotation to be for your model, then move the brushes so that the centre of rotation is at the origin of the map (0, 0, 0).

Then compile your map as rot_mdl1.bsp. Return to your main map and add a point entity with classname rotate_object_point. Set the model field of this entity to maps/rot_mdl1.bsp and then compile and run the main map*. You should be able to find the rotate_object_point you just added and see the rotating model you built in fullbright.

All that remains is to open the rot_mdl1 map file in your editor and add some light entities around it, then recompile it. It's up to you to make the lighting believable, bearing in mind that your model will rotate, so keeping it fairly flat is advised.



* Question for the floor: Is maps/ the right folder for external bsp models to live, morally speaking? The guide puts it there because it's simple, where the compile process naturally puts maps. This makes it easy to compile it, check the lighting in-game and then adjust and repeat. But I think there's a case for these models to belong in another folder for released maps, either progs/ or a new folder like mapobj/. 

I somehow forgot that you dont even need to seal the map for q1 light, unlike other games. 

I'd say maps, even though logically it could go somewhere else - just because its the standard format that the majority of editors use. 

i just leave them in maps because i'm lazy. 

id software put their item boxes in /maps 

How to force q3map2 to keep samplesize at 16 on huge planar surfaces?
No, tessellating them wont help, it still bakes all them into one 128x128 lm texture. Cant make the slices non-planar (think of a square, it must be flat). Not using -meta is not an option (or other stuff wont work).
-samplesize 16 doesnt do anything either.

If its possible at all... 

How about tiny differences in texture alignment? Like 0.0001 unit shifts to prevent merging? 

Using worldcraft 3.3 I'm trying to convert ikbase to hlwad but I'm getting an error saying "texture too big - shrink it".

Not sure why since none of the textures are larger than 256 pixels?

Could the fact that worldcraft has to be in the program files folder which in Vista has strict rules about creation new files? 

Tried it, doesnt work. Q3map2 assigns lightmaps coordinates regardless of diffuse textures coords or names. 

maybe it's just a wonked out error message, and it's actually stumbling on the small 16x128 textures?

apart from that, are you trying to directly convert it from .wad to .hlwad or are you exporting then re-importing?
if you're doing one, try the other, etc...

i think hl wads, each texture is supposed to have it's own palette? not sure about that one. 

Thanks. Exported the textures then imported them into a wad that worldcraft was already using and the textures show up fine. Didn't have to do that in my old installation of worldcraft with ikbase... but whatever :) 

The error message it pops up typically doesn't have anything to do with the error - there's a log folder inside that tells you what really went wrong.

Lots of people have problems with that tool. 

I have a 'clean' install of worldcraft3 and wc3adaptor and when I'm opening a .map from the Quake map sources in Worldcraft I get misaligned textures! Anyone have a clue what might cause this?

screenshot 

WC uses Valve 220 texture protocol, or some jaz like that, and yeah - doesn't support standard .map texture format.

You need to find some .rmf sources, or use WC's awesome texture alignment to align the textures......

Kinda sucks in that respect, WC. 

Is there a reverse-mapconv anywhere? One that takes Q1 format maps and spits out the valve version with the added texture info? 

Couldn't he use an earlier version of Worldcraft? 

could try select all and then open the face edit box and align all to bottom left, as a quick and dirty fix.

There might be a few faces you then have to edit by hand to get looking right, but that should fix most surfaces in the id maps as they are not too complex.

if you can find yourself a copy of worldcraft 1.6, that will load the map files with correct texture coordinates as others have mentioned. 

That's weird, but if there is nothing actually wrong with the map and the alignments are "fixed" to look correct in this editor, will they still look right when seen in the game? 

OK. All the .map file texture info has to be passed on to a compiler before the map becomes a .bsp.

Now, the modern compilers we use support Half-Life texture protocol (because awesome people made us awesome tools since '96).

The original id1 .map sources have id1 texture protocol info inside them. If you compile those sources with a COMPILER then they will come out just fine.

BUT

If you load those sources into WC3.3, it doesn't know how to handle the id1 texture info, so all of the textures just become misaligned, or aligned to a 0,0,0 world grid.

If you then export a new .map file from WC3.3, then you are overwriting the original source. Just to clarify, when you import a .map file into WC3.3 you are changing it's format to .rmf. WC3.3 has to export from .rmf format, back into .map format so you have something which the compilers can then make into a .bsp.

The reason for WC3.3 having different texture protocol is because it allows a much more functional texture-lock feature (i.e. the texture lock actually works(!)).