http://www.mediafire.com/download/jwq4cem33zg79pi/gravelwip.rar here's the map file with the wads included for those who want to try and fix this 

I think that is a logic error, not something with light.


CALL3 450(setsize)setsize()
plats.qc : plat_spawn_inside_trigger
plats.qc : func_plat
<NO FUNCTION>
backwards mins/maxs

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Host_Error: Program error
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Check your platform brushes. 

Yes, I can load it just fine if I remove the func_plats. 

Fuck, it's always the platforms, they can't handle negatives. 

I haven't been posting here since like... 2001? No idea if someone remembers me. I'm MaTi, I did MATDMx or MATSPx ;) Anyway, I wrote an article about Composition in Level Design.

http://level-design.org/wiki/index.php?title=LDWiki:Composition

...aaaand the Gamasutra version:
http://gamasutra.com/blogs/MateuszPiaskiewicz/20140817/223513/Composition_in_Level_Design.php 

Well, fuck that guy then. How can you not allow others to use your stuff when you yourself are using the work that others have made freely available for you? What an asshat. 

it says in the text file:

If you want the originals, please go to these sites:

http:// ......

DO NOT RIP THESE TEXTURES FROM THE BSP!!! GET THE ORIGINALS INSTEAD!!!

Well, he is free to do what he wants with them. And also, there is at least a turtlemap by another author in Quaddicted that uses those textures, so maybe he changed his mind. 

Hrm, any good way to remove those colors if they were used on a texture inside a wad.

I copy pasted an image from photoshop into TexMex, the result was good, but some pixels are fullbright, like a few scattered all over the place, but I can't manually sit down trying to find them.

Can I somehow select by palette in either TexMex or Wally perhaps, OR already inside photshop and then change a color to another palette id? 

I edited the palette in photoshop, I just turned all the last colors pink, then the next time I did a index, it didn't choose the pink ones, cause they were to far away to match.

I assume it's the last 32 colors in the palette that is fullbright? 

Yeah, last 32 are fullbright. I use 2 palettes when making textures. one with them in there and one without them. That way I have to be working on a texture where I know I need fullbright to have them there and nothing can sneak in.

Then again I am not using PS for doing Quake textures, but Cosmigo Promotion which is for index painting and pixel work. 

From like 1997.

I also have 2 palettes :) 

You can also use QME for this kind of conversion:

http://tomeofpreach.wordpress.com/2012/12/31/in-defence-of-qme/

It's a bit of an extra hassle to have to mock up a model with the correct texture size and import/export a skin. The advantage is you gain a bit more fine control - you can choose which rows of the quake palette the fullbrights are allowed to remap to. This makes it best for when the standard conversion is coming out a bit wonky - as a fallback for stranger textures. 

So after getting rid of that compiling problem, another problem went back:

In Darkplaces, it is massive slowdowns with flashing polygons. In Quakespasm, it's just massive slowdowns.

How can this be? Is it because of the skybox that is too big or something else? 

The vis compiler still doesn't want to work.

I tried making just a floor with sky textures as walls and cieling with a light in the middle, it worked perfectly.

I just don't know anymore. 

Maybe you could upload the .map file so other people can have a look? 

a leak somewhere. A quick way to check is to surround the entire level in a simple box (essentially what you did when it worked just fine). If the vis process starts then that's probably the culprit. Note you don't need or want to let the vis keep going, it's just a quick check. From there you need to get rid of the box surrounding the level and hunt down the leak. Often it's a micro-leak introduced from complex geometry.

There will be a .pts file generated by the BSP software that will point to the leak. Most editors (you didn't mention which one that you use) will load that up and tell you where the leak(s) are. You will probably have to copy the .pts file from the \map folder (where the mapname.bsp is) to wherever your work is being saved (where the mapname.map or mapname.rmf or whatever is) in order to use it. 

If I edit and/or incorporates iD stock textures to fit my needs in the level, is that considered ok? Like now, I need to put vines on a door, since Q1 doesn't feature any transparency, that means that I need to take the stock door and add the vines and make a new texture out of it.

I will redistribute the textures later on, however I will ofc say that some of them are modded id textures. 

it's been done many times before, so i think it's fine, but of course, you can't really license your modified textures to other people in any official way. But they can pretty much use them in their own quake projects as they wish to. 

Please don't include nonsense like "don't put this map on a CD" in your readmes. 

Maybe it should add that cd-thing just because It's quake1... like it was back in the days. 

I sometimes get requests to send people in third-world-internet countries a copy of the Quaddicted archives. Paragraphs like that disallow me from doing that which sounds against the intention of the author. 

sending it on a DVD, since they only forbid CDs? 

That's funny but I hope you got my point. 

http://www.mediafire.com/download/ixg2fsta44jg0f9/gravelfuck.rar
Note that I've tried to remove every brush except the skybox (which I was sure didn't had any leaks) and the vis still didn't wanted to work. 

Delete the sky box, build proper "sky walls" as you called it, clean up your brushwork, remove entities from the outside so it will be filled.