I think the -level thing may be numbered wrong.
-level 4 takes 95 seconds. -level 1 was nearing an hour before I quit. I checked the .prt file and found the prt2 header.

my original test was done on -level 4 so maybe func_detail isn't the fix I thought it was.

Maybe I did something wrong checking.... 

On some occassions, level 1 can take longer than level 4 indeed. 

 

I'm having the same issue with Hammer 3.3. When I compile using your qbsp the editor spits out an error message saying that the wad is not a wad file and the level compiles with no textures at all. However when I use another BSP tool (TXqbsp) the problem goes away and all is right in the world again (only with none of the extra features like detail brushes (which is why I switched over to your's in the first place.

The link to the snapshot above is borked so I can't try it. 

You use an actual .wad file version of the .hlwad file for compiling?

In other words you have quake.hlwad and quake.wad in the same DIR, where they both have the exact same textures inside. 

I do have both in there actually as a matter of course. That way if I wanted to change the .wad using TexMex I could change both at the same time. 

This is hacky - but if you load the .map file into a text editor, you could check that the path of the wad is set to blah...yourwad.wad wather than blah.....yourwad.hlwad.

I'm speculating here, but that might work?

It might not work either, IDK :P 

and hammer ends up changing it back to .hlwad in the .map file. Even when I don't save or export after I made the changes from .hlwad to .wad. 

Hammer adds the wad info without drive letter.
You could have the HL version on drive c: and the Q1 version on d: with the same path naming.

"wad" "\quake\qconverter\sockq.wad "

Or text editor Hammer uses sock.wad I just change the "wad" entry to sockq.wad.

Hacky yes 

I think the -level thing may be numbered wrong.
-level 4 takes 95 seconds. -level 1 was nearing an hour before I quit. I checked the .prt file and found the prt2 header.

my original test was done on -level 4 so maybe func_detail isn't the fix I thought it was.

Maybe I did something wrong checking....

No, that's what I meant about it being broken. You never ever want to run -level 1 to 3 because they take longer and are not as good as level 4. 

Hi tyrann! Tried to download from your link but it's 404. I also tried to second-guess what was wrong and go to:

http://disenchant.net/files/utils/snapshot/tyrutils-0.6-23-g3676261-win32.zip

That gave me a 403 error instead. Ready and willing to try it though! 

Poop, it really did not default to level 4 indeed. Yes, please change that!

spy, necros, DrLabman, please re-run and update the table. ;)

Still fast! 

So it works fine from the command prompt and regular .wad files after I changed the .map file to remove the hl from hlwad (that was the only changes I made to the .map file using notepad). So as near as I can tell the issue is in being able to read hlwads (WAD3 I do believe). So worst case situation I guess I can make something in Hammer, and then turn what I can into detail brushes once it's close to being done.

I will still make a shit map though... so there is that. :P 

 

Sorry about that, b0rked the original link and had a directory permissions problem on the actual upload as well. More coffee next time! :)

http://disenchant.net/files/utils/snapshot/tyrutils-0.6-23-g3676261-win32.zip 

wad3 working Thanks again 

I concur. And that detail-skip thing now works perfectly, for entity-free glass in maps. 

Preach- can you elaborate? Been out of the scene for a while- how would I use these tools to get entity-free glass? 

Here's a demo map:
http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/single_player/maps/glass.zip

The trick relies on a "detail" brush which is "skip" textured (which wasn't possible before tyrann's compiler). Skip prevents the brush from being rendered, and detail keeps it out of visibility calculations.

We start with a frame for our glass built out of regular brushes. A na�ve attempt would build a single rectangular detail brush to fill the frame and give it the skip texture. The problem is that the insides of the frame will still get clipped away by the detail-skip brush, so there's a visible gap in the level.

The fix is to build our detail-skip brush in such a shape that it doesn't clip anything away. In the example map each side of the window pane comes from a different brush. Each brush is a square-based pyramid, with the square face exactly filling the frame of the window, and with the apex of the pyramid sitting in the space inside the window (we don't care too much what happens in there because it's out of bounds).

You could pretty much do this already with just a func_wall covered in skip textures, the innovation is that you don't use an entity any more. In theory this also makes the trick mod-neutral, although in practice mods which don't support func_wall are vanishingly rare. 

I can't figure out how to make walls only appear in SP or DM only. Any ideas? I've tried to change the check the DM spawnflag for invisible walls (as a clip brush entity) but it clips no matter what mode. 

Ah, I see what you mean, thanks for that. I thought you meant glass as in semi-transparent, not a see-through solid, like apsp2 which appears to just be relying on wateralpha and a gray textured liquid turned func_wall. 

Fixed the issue for myself as well. Thanks Tyrann! 

I suppose that you could also use the skip\detail trick to apply a shadow with no obvious source like the Quake symbol in e1m3 (I think?)instead of making a skybox and then tying func_illusionary to a sky brush to hide it. 

Not sure I understand the issue, but if its a func_wall then NotDM should work no problem.

The inverse is applying the easy/medium/hard flags.

Could be that the detail faces are added to the map regardless of any entity controls though. 

I set the spawnflag for the func_wall as 1792 but it refuses to compile. I'm trying to make it so that the level will work in both SP and MP like the original Quake Maps did. Here's what happens when I compile -

http://s12.postimage.org/a47u1tqxp/error.jpg