I decided to try out Trenchboom today but I am having problems getting textures to show up. Is TB supposed to load the default textures? I have the editor pointed at my Steam install of Q1 and the models in the entity tab show up correct, but no textures show up in face tab. Under the map properties window its set up for Quake.fgd and looking under id1. I see you can add texture wads here but all of Q1's default stuff is loaded under .pak files.

Is this behavior normal (no textures under face tab) or should I have all of Q1's textures show up in my list? 

Textures should be loaded separately. Go grab some .wads from here. 

I highly recommend reading: http://quakewiki.org/wiki/Getting_Started_Mapping 

I'm doing a video tutorial from absolutely zero aka can't map, don't know how to set up directories etc...

Hopefully the first part will be up soonish (I'm only doing the tutorial, it's being edited by a friend). 

i've found the greatest enhancement that external textures provides isn't high res, it's freedom from the 256 colour palette.

This. 

when setting a fog command in quoth - how does one set the *colour*? 

try sth. like
fog 0.037 0.23 0.22 0.21
were the first number is the density and the last 3 values
rgb ranging from 0.....1. 

thanks 

The fog setting isn't just for quoth, it's supported in most engines on all maps that have that parameters in the worldspawn. I don't think it's a standard parameter though (i.e. not supported in glquake and definitely not winquake), so I don't know why it's not _fog. 

in that case you would just add 'fog x' into worldspawn? 

Yup. 

Anyone know of a decent website or resource where I can download pd music that would be suitable to use in games? I'm looking for sort of a orchestral ambient type sound but really I'll take anything as long as I can use it without hassle :) 

http://freesound.org/browse/ 

PD is hard to find, I would suggest creative commons instead. And for that check my recommendations in the music thread or be more specific. 

This -
http://incompetech.com/

I'm pretty sure Mike Woodham used it on his last map. Not bad stuff either (egoraptor and harry patridge have both used his music) 

I'll check it later! Thanks. 

Wrote an artice/tutorial on outdoor lighting/fake G.I. with Tyrlight
click Hope it's helpful.

Daz: Jamendo ofcourse, tonn of CC licensed music. 

When the player is inside of a liquid (water/slime/lava) the view screen warps in and out (probably not the right term) is there a console command to enable this effect if not in a liquid content? I know about screen tint console command v_cshift. 

r_waterwarp in some engines. 

oh... sorry, this isn't what you need. You want to enable the warp in air, this variable can only disable it when in water. 

I recall there's a power up in Quoth that does it... 

But you can make the player drunk with some console commands I can't remember just now. C shift and Bob speed or something.

I usted them in a�n e3m4 remake During the posponed section. Will dig them out and post in a bit. 

But you can make the player drunk with some console commands I can't remember just now. C shift and Bob speed or something.

I usted them in a�n e3m4 remake During the posponed section. Will dig them out and post in a bit. 

It's a single one - v_idlescale. 

I recall there's a power up in Quoth that does it...
This is not quite correct. It appears this way in Darkplaces, because the engine automatically applies view warping when v_cshift is used, but this is not true in all engines.