thank you for the quick response! ill give it shot thank you again Scampie! 

it says its not a recognizable program or action, how do i open the command prompt from the bspc or in the folder? 

ok, so the command prompt

In Windows, it's in Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> Command Prompt. Or you can do Start -> Run -> type in 'cmd'

In the command prompt, you want to change directory to the directory where bspc is, so for example if gtkradiant is in c:\gtkradiant\

cd \gtkradiant

then type what I said in the above answer.

bspc -bsp2aas c:\quake3\baseq3\maps\mymap?.bsp

this runs the program, and lets you also start it with command line options (like '-bsp2aas')

If you need more help with using the Command Prompt, go here 

i tried that and i got system path cannot be specified and filename, directory name or volume label syntax is incorrect. ive been learning ths program for 4 nights straight and has ate my time up thats why i need help, thank you for your continued help kind sir 

also quake and gtkradiant are saved on a flash drive under E:\ 

In CMD it's always assumed that you are starting in C\. So first type in CD E, then do what scampie said. 

it's e:

you type e: 

If it's Windows 7 you can just navigate to the folder in Explorer and shift+right click in an empty spot (not on a file) in the right side pane. One of the options on shift+right click is "Open command window here". 

Bah. I haven't used it in over a decade. I was thinking of MSDOS when it was a "\" instead of the newer sytax (XP and beyond) when it changed to a ":". 

I really should clean this keyboard, the N keeps sticking. 

now it says opened log bspc.log no files found 

ok now the in program gtkradiant aas conversion worked, how do i make the bots do something after they teleport to another room? and thank you all for your help 

do you guys know how to make a open map "outside" i want to replicate q3dm17 and be able to kill whoever jumps/goes "off" the map 

those maps are not really outside. they just have the entire main structure floating inside a box with the sky texture on it, then they put a trigger_hurt (or the q3 equivalent) with a super high damage on it above the bottom of the box. 

 

as best as I remember, without going and looking at a map, you also need a trigger to play the Player death scream sound and another to remove the weapon they drop. 

And do it. Come back when you have more solid ideas about what you want to achieve.

If you try to build on the idea too much before putting brushes together you'll get frustrated once you get to that stage.

<smiley face> 

I have a weird lighting issue in my jam map in a single corner... it's a dark shadow along a seam that only occurs when the map is vis'd. If the map is unvis'd, the seam doesn't show.

Any ideas how to clean this up so there is no seam? The light from that light fixture is a upward spotlight, delay 3, and a small delay 2 light. Using the latest tyrlite. All my other corners set up exactly the same don't have this issue :_( 

Try moving the lights extremely slightly. Or if you're using trenchbroom try using snap to grid on the geometry. :P

Tinkering a bit tends to work out for me. I get loads of weird lighting bugs all the time 

 

er... well, I took vis out of the equation completely and it still lights funny... I should've really specified "the seam only appeared when the map was sealed", rather than vis being the culprit, since I'm sure vis itself isn't doing anything to the faces that would effect lighting.

Brushes are absolutely and completely on an 8 unit grid. I use Radiant, so there's no need to guess if I making a mess. I guess I'll poke the light positions a little and see if that helps... but not hopeful there. 

maybe the brushes join in an other way as the others corners?
But i guess you checked, hmmm.
Do you have skybrushes behind that geometry?
i found light sometimes leaks through, when dabbling with commandline parameters :)
Is the texture scaled?

I have no clue. 

"Light After Vis"

What difference does that make? 

I find that I get different results depending on whether the map is sealed or not. I try to work with a sealed map just so I know it's working right. 

"Light After Vis"

What difference does that make?

Shouldn't make any, it seems that Scampie really meant sealed vs. unsealed.

Sealed maps have additional surface splitting/BSP optimizing steps in them, so i can see why it would affect lighting.