are you teleporting the shambler less than 100 units? There is client-side code in quake (and extended in fitzquake) that detects moves greater than 100 units in a single frame and treats them as teleports. In regular quake this affects the demo playback lerping, in fitzquake it also affects the r_lerpmove lerping. 

Your post than.

In RMQ we see it in RMQEngine, which is a fitz fork, so the less than 100 units thing should be what's affecting the self-teleporting enemies by the sound of it. 

by calling setmodel or setsize you might be able to force it to disable lerps for that frame (not tested.) 

it doesn't occur in my actual map... only the testmap. The test map used >100 distances though, but not by that much. 

anyone know if it's possible to rotate torches etc. so that they appear upside down? I vaguely remember someone made a speedmap with lots of upside down stuff inspired by alice. Whether this included torches I dunno. I suspect negke knows how to do this if it's possible :) 

 

I was about to answer my own question there. Just figured it out, but thanks :) 

I am looking for 'pretty' skyboxes of setsets and/or sunrises - think happiness as opposed to doom laden. Can anyone point me in the right direction (and I don't mean go west young man) 

sunsets: the letters aren't even next to each other on the keyboard 

http://www.quaddicted.com/webarchive/kell.quaddicted.com/skyboxes.html 

Thanks 

http://www.quake3world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9242 

When making quake 1 maps with gtkradiant 1.5, where do I put the texture files? And do I leave them as .wad or export them to a different file format? 

You need wad files directly in your quake directory, e.g.: Z:/Quake/id.wad.
You also need to set the key "wad" with the path to the wad in the worldspawn. 

z:/quake/id1/id.wad 

Do clip, skip and trigger textures affect lightmaps? 

Trigger textures certainly do - the map compiler has no idea what the classnames on your entities mean and has to assume that you want the option to render them (in fact some speedrunning mods have the option to show triggers in practice mode). Scaling textures that you know won't be seen by massive percentages ought to save some maps. 

skip does as well.

from what i understand, the skip'd faces are still in the bsp file, but they are moved to a point after a marker that tells the engine not to draw them, so they are loaded, just not drawn. 

skip and trigger generate lightmaps.

clip does not.

Theoretically qbsp.exe could be modified to natively understand skip; and then it would be possible to truly remove them from the bsp, reducing lightmaps and marksurfaces. But the current skip tools available merely hide them from rendering using a hack. 

 

Is there a Q1 compiler which works with func_group entities?

I am currently using TreeQBSP v2.05 (10/04/2007) modified by Bengt Jardrup, but it leaks if I have any func_group entities in my map. 

i know that aguirre's txqbsp does. just add -group to enable the support. 

I assume you are talking about this version of qbsp? (http://user.tninet.se/~xir870k/)
The program (qbsp) tells me -group is not supported, I checked the readme file and it has no mention of it. Are you using a special version not listed on his homepage? 

the file you want is the txqbspbjp.zip which contains his txqbsp. This one supports -group.

it's only his treeqbsp that does not support -group. 

Ok that was confusing, I looked at the website and saw qbsp to be newer and assumed it was the correct one to download.

The txqbsp does not support -oldaxis and -transwater switches, I assume this ok?