http://user.tninet.se/~xir870k/tooltips.txt

It explains it all, but is mostly focused on bug fixing. There's a light section in there that explains the values and how to use them. 

Quake Lighting Basics by necros


http://shoresofnis.wordpress.com/guides/lighting-basics 

I might try that. 

Tronyn snuck another 2PSB map past my filters so I updated the BSP2 page at https://www.quaddicted.com/tools/bsp2_format 

What is the best way to compile a map with the newest MacOS? I'm using trenchbroom to make levels and it says there are compilers built in but I don't see any way to actually use them, which I don't understand. 

built into TrenchBroom (unless you're using the very old version which I released for Mac OS only about two years ago). You need to download the binaries yourself, for example from here: http://disenchant.net/utils/

Then you need to figure out the command line parameters (see the manuals in the downloaded zip file) and call them from your terminal in the correct location. 

Use necros compiling tools.

http://shoresofnis.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/ne_q1spcompilinggui-update-1-0-1-and-quake-stuff/

It will make your life a whole lot easier. 

Here's a tutorial on how to do the initial set up, once it's up and running you'll be flying.

http://shoresofnis.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/ne_q1spcompilinggui/ 

I believe that those are for Windows and not Mac. 

Did he say mac? I wasn't paying attention at all. 

Does anyone have tips for defeating the unsigned short integer limit of 65535 faces or verts in a bsp file?

I currently have in Worldcraft map info:
Solids: 14828
Faces: 90024
etc.

This number will probably reach around 150000 faces as I finish the map (I'm about 70% done). I have not compiled in over 10 months as it would probably take that long for vis to finish. Is it possible that I could still compile and beat the limit? I would like to stay within BSP if possible and avoid BSP2. 

try tyranns vis 

Tyrann's qbsp never works for me. I just tried his latest version 0.14 and it still crashed.

Most of my brushes are created to break up an otherwise boring wall into interesting textures. I have an idea to create a couple dozen textures for specific walls to be able to make just one brush instead of I dunno 5-10. But that raises this question:

What are the texture limits for standard bsp 29?
# of unique textures?
Max texture size (e.g. 4096x4096)?
# of instances of each texture?

I can't find the limits anywhere. Google has failed me. 

With Tyrann's tools?

I've been using them exclusively so might be able to help. 

Making Textures For Quake

Be careful about the max size, I once made a texture that was 320 units tall and for some reason the alignment was off at the top by a small amount, as if the texture height had been changed by a pixel or two. 

Actually, after reading that page again for probably the 10th time, the following finally sunk in:


OpenGL requires that all textures have dimensions which are powers of two (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, etc.) When GLQuake loads a texture with non-power-of-two dimensions, it resamples it, very poorly, and passes it to OpenGL with power-of-two dimensions. So it's a good idea to make your texture dimensions powers of 2 to begin with, to avoid ugly resampling.


Guess what? 320 is not a power-of-two. Duh.

I was probably a victim of the poor resampling. 

tyrann is an active developer, send him a proper bugreport with files to reproduce it and you might get a non crashing toolkit in days. 

Trenchbroom is being buggy on me! where the hell is the new update for the editor?! 

disregard that, I've got it to work for now. 

Please use the TrenchBroom thread to report problems, and if you don't give me bug reports, you won't see your problems fixed. 

SleepwalkR is doing this as a hobby, for fun.

In any case, how goes TBv2?

I see you knocking down issues on the devtrack at a decent pace :) 

It's going well, but there is still a lot to do... I can't really say when I can release something. 

I got it to work. Had to compile as bsp2 but hey I have 80000 already and have at least 50000 to go before I sleep. And polys to go before I sleep.

I found out why Tyrann's qbsp "seemed" like it wasn't working. It stops outputting to the console after upteenhundred "WARNING: Brush with duplicate plane" warnings but still compiles.

And on that note. Is there an rmf to .map converter that won't round my smaller brushes' verts to x.0? 

 

Ok, I'll stop now.