1) Can I give a damage to monsters by enabling a trigger in vanilla Quake? For example I use trigger_counter and when the sequence is complete it kills some monster.
2) Can I execute telefrag on monster without a teleport entities? 

QC hacks might make this possible. You could set the 'use' key on the monster to whatever the name of it's death function is in the progs ("dog_die" or whatever, you'll have to look in the source to see), then just trigger it, but it won't figure into the kill count properly.

You can also make a func_door or something and set "touch" on it to "tdeath_touch", and have it open from under the floor to poke the monster in the feet, that should blast it pretty hard. note: I have never tried this. 

of course, that's assuming the monster isn't moving, in which case I guess you could just crush it too ... never mind, I'm not paying attention! 

I have a quad on a func_wall that gets killtarget when the map starts. The quad then floats in midair. It worked fine until I enabled VIS during my compiles, and now the quad falls through the world. What gives? 

Not sure, but you might need to killtarget it a bit later if you are doing it instantly when the player spawns, the Quad may have not dropped to floor yet if you do it instantly. 

Doesn't change anything, sadly. 

Okay I found out why. It needs to have a proper texture, not SKIP. 

Is it possible to compile a map without wateralpha these days? 

it's a qbsp option. for tyrutils: -notranswater and bjptools: -nowatervis 

 

Skip should have the same collision as other textures unless some compiler has changed this behavior 

droptofloor uses visible hull, no? 

no.
it uses a tracebox, so the hull it uses depends upon the size of your entity (which is kinda what you'd normally expect). 

Having a group of several monsters teleport but only one shows the tele effect. I can't seem to get more than one instance of the effect at one time. Anyone seen this before? Using the latest quakespasm btw. 

try running the engine with -particles 100000. 

Strange that by default quakespasm won't display more than 1 tele effects worth of particles...

anyway, thanks! 

 

So I'm drubbing through the progs dir with qME, and can't find the health box model. Am I a colossal blackhead and missing something? You be the judge. 

b_bh25.bsp 

Maybe qme doesn't display .bsp's? 

qME doesn't display BSPs. 

QuArK does! 

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