I'd like to know which version of Radiant works best for Quake. Also links to the better tutorials on using it may help. I tried using it several years ago and I found it difficult to even get basic stuff done so I haven't looked at it since. 

Trenchbroom? 

NetRadiant, imo. Or, if you want to use detached editing windows, the latest build of GtkRadiant 1.5 (=26 April 2007). Some people prefer 1.4 or earlier versions. 

Is there a way to update the textures in a bsp from a wad? 

Not without recompiling. 

but it's a bit of a pain, and one texture at a time.

-Open the bsp, open the MipTex folder.
-Right click and Cut the texture you want to replace. Remember its position in the list.
-Open the texture browser (Toolboxes, Texture Browser.) You can import wads here under Edit, Import, Import (Copy) Files.
-Select the replacement texture, choose Copy from the Edit menu.
-Then select the MipTex folder in your bsp, choose "Paste Special..." from the edit menu, select "Quake 1 Texture" and click paste.
-Drag the new texture into the same position in the list as the old one.
-File, Save. 

I want to use trigger_hurt to increase the health monster (dbg = -1000), but it does not work for zombie. Why? 

the zombie's pain function (zombie_pain) always resets it's health to 60 when it's damaged (unless of course that's fatal damage).

you could do the armor hack if you want it to be tougher, add the keys "armortype" "1" and "armorvalue" "60", and it'll have 60 extra health... it won't regen that health though. 

and negative damage is still treated as 'taking damage' as far as the code is concerned, which is why it uses it's pain function 

thanks 

those are interesting to note!

I think as the game progresses a lot of encounters are made easier due to the extra power of the weapons you have. Would be fun to be put into a room with a bullet sponge enemy to create extra panic. 

it can be difficult to sell to the player why monsters are more beefy than normal, and that doesn't always make enemies more difficult, pain animations will still play and lock the enemy from retaliating... so they just take more ammo than usual.

I think it's best done on single enemies with something like "effects" "3" (i think 3 is the golden particles?) that gives a visual cue that the enemy is special 

is just a nice light effect.

The effect 3 seems kind of broken. 

Is a combination of 1 + 2.

And I don't think 1 exists? 

The values are 1 (particles), 4 (artifact glow), 8 (muzzleflash glow) 

If this belongs here, but is there a way for me to force an entity to be fullbright without using fullbright textures?

Specifically I want to use it on windows, but using water textures won't work because they have a specific pattern I want to maintain. 

What sort of entity? If it can be modelled with brushes, then an external bsp model will do it. 

i think so??
basically setOrigin() the entity to an area where it is bright, then manually change .origin to the new place.
I've never tried it though. 

It's a func_breakable, or to be precise, various of them. The external bsp should do it,since resting the origin sounds like it'd be fiddly across this many entities.

I forgot about external BSPs, those should do the trick well enough. I suspect there'll be a problem with collision though. At least there was with expanding door triggers when I tried instancing their BSPs a while back.

Thanks guys. 

actually no! external bsps can have perfectly working collision; several of the sarcophagi in ne_ruins were external bsps. 

Like I say, it was only the trigger bbox of the door with a weird offset, the door itself was fine. 

The following keys can be used on any entity with a brush model:
"_minlight" "n"

Set the minimum light level for any surface of the brush model. Default 0.

http://disenchant.net/utils/ 

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Thanks mech, that looks to be an even easier solution.