how do i make the texture start with "*" ? 

In texmex and rename it. 

https://www.quaddicted.com/files/tools/texmex_34.exe 

hmm, i thought you used to be able to do that in quark, sorry. 

oh you can!

when you have the texture wad loaded in quark, click the + to expand all the items. you can slow double click or press F2 to rename textures that way. 

Let's say you have an FGD ... is there a way to default a value for something like "delay" to "5" if it's set up as a choice field?

delay(choices) : "Attenuation" =
[
0 : "Linear falloff (Default)"
1 : "Inverse distance falloff"
2 : "Inverse distance squared"
3 : "No falloff"
4 : "Local minlight"
5 : "Inverse distance squared B"
]

That would save me some time ... 

worldtype(choices) : "Ambience" : 0 =
[
0 : "Medieval"
1 : "Metal (runic)"
2 : "Base"
]


That 0 sets the default. 

what is worldtype? 

I love you with mouth. THANK YOU! 

Also, world type sets the key style to be used.

I think that's all though. 

I'm not sure if there's logic to handle this, but I think if you set a default value and don't change it, the editor will not write it to the map file, and if the fgd default is different from the actual default, you'll get the wrong result. 

So in this case with the lights, the editor will not write out "delay" "5" on any lights, because it sees they're the default value and what's the point of writing a default value. 

:( 

But I haven't used WC in a long time.

Is this for all versions of WC?

What about Jackhammer? 

So I don't know. 

Oh no, wait, it's cool ... I added a light to an empty map and this is what Jackhammer spit out:

{
"classname" "light"
"style" "0"
"delay" "5"
"wait" "1"
"light" "200"
"origin" "-56 8 0"
}

All FGD defaults intact. 

I must have remembered my troubles wrong. 

How can I change a map's:
ambient light,
gravity,
and add door unlocking sounds 

TO change the ambient light and add door sounds.

To change the gravity, you need a mod, or you can rename it to e1m8 in standard Quake. 

I can't open a bsp with quark to change ambient light and add door sounds?

Also where in the qc is the area where e1m8's gravity is changed? 

I don't think it's in the QC ... unfortunately. 

I don't even need to retype it; my browser autofills the answer if you need it again...

Once you have the .map you'll need to set all the door sounds in editor and the worldspawn light key and then recompile it.

The QC for gravity is in world.qc:

// custom map attributes
if (self.model == "maps/e1m8.bsp")
cvar_set ("sv_gravity", "100");
else
cvar_set ("sv_gravity", "800");


I think a trigger was introduced for this in Dissolution of Eternity. Or maybe it was Scourge of Armagon.

But you could just add it as a key to worldspawn going on what it says there, it seems pretty rudimentary. 

I'm pretty sure you can just do another lighting pass on the bsp and don't NEED the .map to do that (no comment on whether it would be easy). Use adquedit to extract the entities from the bsp into a text file. Modify that text file to change the ambient light (perhaps modify the worldspawn keys...) then use adquedit again to put the modified entities back into the bsp. Finally run your favourite light.exe on the modified bsp. 

Just run light.exe -light # on the bsp directly, no other files needed. 

made some whacky architecture and it moves pretty choppy,wanted to add an invisible wall just over it to smoothen movement i tought i remember something like a func_invisible or a flag to do so I'm using worldcraft), any other solution is appreciated to