can't yet make heretic 2 maps, the version of QED you get with the latest heretic 2 patch doesnt work properly. Plus I have no idea how to properly compile Heretic 2 maps outside of Quark (Spent a good few hours trying to compile manually with no luck)

Ironically the brushwork was mostly created in trenchbroom, I just opened 2 instances of quark and copied the brushes over. 

those are some good tips sock, but how am I supposed to learn how to do lighting properly? 

RoQ,

Make a small map and light it. Start the game and go look around in the map. Make notes of what looks good and what doesn't. Go back to the editor and change the stuff that didn't look good. Use sock's guide to go by.

As with most things, you learn by doing. 

How does one make an exit trigger in TrenchBroom?

I created a brush big enough for the player to walk into, right-clicked on it, selected Create brush entity --> Trigger --> changelevel, but when I compile the map with hmap2 and play it, this brush is not there. Am I missing something? Are there certain settings I should change? 

There is a long phase at the end of a map's creation that's just tweaking some lights and rebuilding. Nature of the beast.

-onlyents is very nice to have at this phase.


Does Heretic2 have a different .map format or is it just different entities? 

... how does one create a set of doors that slide apart in TrenchBroom (instead of one panel that slides into the wall)? I've created two brushes and made them both doors, but they just slide together in the same direction. I guess there must be setting one can change somewhere, but am clueless as to what and where.

I hope this is the right thread for these absolute beginner questions... 

either "unlink" the doors by setting the entity flag as unlinked, or create a new key called "angle" and set them at opposite directions. 

I did both -- clicked "Don't link" for both doors and gave them both a new property called "angle", and made one "180".

Thank you so much! 

Try r_lightmap 1 - it can help you improve lighting without the textures getting in the way. 

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Trying To Find Textures
#13862 posted by RingofQuaddamage [100.1.255.141] on 2014/06/22 16:19:30
Any good rock textures for quake? 

keep them linked if they're double doors, or they'll open separately if you stand in the right place

setting two different angles is all you need 

Any idea what I'm doing wrong with the exit trigger (post #13880)? 

To point it at the next map - whatever.bsp or it'll not do anything. I can't remember what the key is called offhand.

Also, triggers are never visible and are only rectangles - so I big prism will still be a rectangle in game. 

If you can stand my colour scheme (or disable styling) here's a kind of overview of lighting:
http://necros.fov120.com/post.php?postID=2 

the keyvalue is "map" ijed :)

set it to the filename of the next level, without the extension. if you don't have one, just use 'start' or the name of the same level you're already in. 

Thanks, ijed and Lunaran -- that did it. :-) 

Fantastic that Quake still brings in new mappers! 

Is there a way of making a secret door retract into a wall, and then go upwards? Or am I stuck with a handful of cardinal directions? 

AFAIK 

flags
"open_once" once open, stays open
"1st_left" first move is left of arrow
"1st_down" first move is down from arrow
"no_shoot" only opened by trigger
"always_shoot" even if targeted, keep shootable


Maybe a negative lip allows you to reverse the first left / first down directions.

Never played with them much to be honest. 

http://quakewiki.org/wiki/func_door 

I needed a door to use as a long, extending walkway. I needed it to slide out about 256 units, then up 16 units. I thought I could do it with a secret door somehow but I never could get it to cooperate. I ended up just using a func_train and used a little door hidden in the floor to provide the sound.

As far as I could tell they only go bang and pop open then slide in whatever direction they're set for. I always meant to go back and experiment with them some more but haven't got around to it yet. 

Suddenly my map does not want to compile anymore (I've been compiling and testing every so often until now) and I get the following error message:

LinkConvexFaces: Mixed face contents in leafnode

Clearly I've broken something, but I don't know what. Can someone explain?