Do I just put the brushes in an empty map, run bsp and light and then place it in a different map using info_notnull or something like that? 

Do I just put the brushes in an empty map, run bsp and light and then place it in a different map

yes, be sure to place the bsp in your progs folder.

using info_notnull or something like that?

i use the Quoth mapobject_custom entity, has mangle and such.

At least thats what i do, not sure if vanilla progs handles this so easy.. 

yes, be sure to place the bsp in your progs folder.

you can use progs/map.bsp or maps/map.bsp and both will work for the model path. only sounds are hardcoded to be in sound/xxxxx 

in fact, it's generally good practice to put any external bsps in a subfolder so you can keep things clean. unless you want to use a pak file in which case it matters less. 

Okay, thanks. Now, how do I place the external bsp into my map? 

how is the newest remake going? 

Trying to open some .map files saved with WC in Radiant but keep getting.

parse error at '[': expected '#number'

The maps are also BSP2 sized.
GB, you have experience with this? 

WC uses a different .map format from Radiant.

I don't know if WC has other limits that could possibly be BSP2 related; the only thing I think I have heard is that it can't properly display maps that are bigger than 8192x8192.

There is a converter program by a person called Scrama, I believe, you might have some luck using the quakeone.com forum search. It is somewhat obscure though. You will also have to convert the texture wads between WC and Radiant. :-s

If it only needs to be done once, using some converter is acceptable, but daily WC <-> Radiant conversion in any halfway productive environment, eg in a team setting, isn't very good for the workflow. I have lovely memories of this problem from RMQ. 

I thought the only difference was .rmf
yay! 

It's for something of a spinoff map... 

I'm not 100% and can't check right now, but I think TB will load this map fine and save it as a standard .map file. Although the texture alignment info will be fucked, naturally. 

Actually, I just remember I did use TB for exactly this in the past... must have been some hazy late night troubleshooting, haha. I'll try that! :) 

That is good to know. 

Actually, it's still not working in Radiant, exact same issue... like I said, I was probably only half awake, lol. 

I search "worldcraft" I get a dozen of useless pages about World of Warcraft. Sigh. 

thread: http://quakeone.com/forums/quake-help/servers-coding/3997-half-life-bsp-q1-5.html

dl: http://scrama.3dn.ru/load/0-0-0-24-20 

So it still exists? Someone should archive that :-p 

not sure how to extract textures from those rmf files though. But you probably have access to the wad3 files. 

And the new one isn't in Russian :P
http://quakeone.com/forums/quake-help/servers-coding/3997-half-life-bsp-q1-8.html#post49563

I'll put it in the wiki :D 

I'll get out mah ruler! 

I have tons of maps and map scraps that were created in Worldcraft (1.6) and I've never had any problems opening them in Netradiant. 

I guess you mean that Valve version of Worldcraft? 

huh, IIRC I have used it to convert WC maps in the past.

Then maybe the problem is something entirely different? Now I'm confused. 

Worldcraft was hacked to work on quake by varios people, the final package being assembled by Baker.

HL maps basically are quake maps, the only difference being the texture format of hlwad, and that is only used by worldcraft, the bsp still compiling with normal quake textures.

Worldcraft .maps have extra texture coordinates that allow things to be moved about more freely than other editors (at the time at least) allowed without mucking up the projection.

It sounds like the .map you're looking at is corrupt, have you tried opening it in a text editor like notepad++ or something? I don't know radiant but I'm assuming it tells you on which line it's failing.

Afaik bsp2 makes no difference to the .map format. 

The .rmf doesn't hold the textures, you can just extract those from the bsp using texmex.

You could also try downloading Baker's worldcraft 3.3 adapter package. Not saying you learn wc, but it could help you to fix the error and the package has texture converters inside... although I'm not sure if they'll be able to spit out a normal wad after chewing on a hlwad.