I used Ijed's .bat for compiling my jam2 map and it looks like this. What i could do wrong to get that? 

Bad light map. Did you replace all the bits that said YOURMAP? It should be one to create the bsp, one to vis it and one to light - I think the last one you missed. 

 

No, i substituted them all, and i saw light.exe running in the compiling window. Surprisingly, i cannot see light.exe now on Worldcraft's GUI when compiling, maybe i deleted something ...

By the way, i had to delete from the .bat -transwater -oldaxis -lit, for it to work. Told me that it couldn't recognize those parameters.

* Could you explain that outdated part, Mfx? 

 

What compilers are you using?

Switch to Tyrann's!

http://www.disenchant.net/ 

Could you explain that outdated part

when you compile a map with coloured light, you get two files; the .bsp which has black and white lighting and a .lit file which has extra data that the engine uses to add colours. if the .lit file is from an older compile, it can make the map look weird in game because data is mismatched between the new .bsp and the old .lit. 

http://nowfromhome.com/net-40-on-windows-xp-sp2/ 

I've got Radiant 1.6 working with Quake (thanks Eric), I've got Necros his compiler thingie working and I can make and compile maps. Woot Woot!

Now, I want to make me some Quake stuff. However, I've never done SP before. Are there some unwritten rules for Quake SP design? Any tips? Feel free to share. 

1. Always put a secret under a lift. 

Necros, thanks for the link, i'll try it as soon as possible.

if the .lit file is from an older compile, it can make the map look weird in game because data is mismatched between the new .bsp and the old .lit.

Yes, that was the issue. The map looks OK if i delete the .lit file. Now to see how to make it uses .lit files like it did with WC GUI, as the parameter -lit gave errors with the .bat file.


* Ijed, i checked, all the compiling utils i use are those from Bengt Jardrup and MH(txqbsp, vis and light).


* SpronyvanJhonson.

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Read Shambler's thoughts on Q1SP design from long ago:

part 1 part 2 

NewWinding: 65 points

o_O

This follows after multiple healing point off plane warnings. 

does your qbsp version support the epsilon switch? If so, fiddle with it:) 

Very useful feedback indeed! 

should have mentioned that's with aguirre's txqbsp.
tried with -epsilon 0.01 but still getting that error. 

slowly raising helped me in many cases. But surely it depends:) 

Can be interesting to look at, lots of things can be used for Quake1 mapping too.

http://www.quake3world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=290 

Modified HL development textures. I find them useful for texturing curves and odd shapes. Uses full bright so you don't have to light anything.


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I made some orange ones ages ago so I could map like half life. It's not need though tbh 

Regarding marksurface limits and stuff, I don't think I've ever seen a plain text description of what qbsp does exactly. I know it CSGs all the brushes together, then uses brushplanes to divide the resulting space, and those spaces are organized in a tree, but that's as much detail as anything's ever gone into. It's either that or "read and comprehend the source code." 

"read and comprehend the source code"

I think that's the main stumbling block. I tried to parse through QBSP at one time because I wanted to add some features but I ended up throwing in the towel ... It's insanity distilled into C form. 

i managed to pick up a lot of info over the years just from conversations with other people and reading snippets here and there. There are (or were) partial explanations of different parts of QBSP on the internet in various places. 

from working in the engine source code, since that needs to interact with all the parts of the BSP file.