You don't need all the fancy features of the light tool to make a great map. The original maps were made just using the lights as they are.

The most important key for lights is "light" which allows you to set the brightness of the light. 

But why light? I honestly think a DM map would be more effective if all places are equally lit, so that way you can easily see all places. I get the aesthetics, but not the effectiveness. 

Noone forces you to make a map without light.
It can be a good way for improving your level on texture alignment.
Only take care to give it the vis-test level 4.

There were times I didn't map and I was more home at work.
:P 

There's nothing stopping you from making a map that's bright. But no-one wants to play a full-bright unlit map. It looks ugly and would make you look like a lazy mapper.

At the end of the day it's your map, I would suggest making it lit because people will (quite rightly) moan. :P 

If you, at the time, do not care for lighting then just try something like this for your current map:

-------
Light
Key Value

light 450
delay 5
-------

Then just place them around the map, if you don't want many dark places then place many. It will look better than full bright and it will also be moderately equally lit. 

Also use _dirt 1 on your worldspawn. That way you at least have a little definition in your fullbright map 

Alright, I see. I just ran it through light, so I'll post it later. Super lazy right now. 

I just refreshed, so I have not done anything you guys said. Lol, I have time tomorrow to do it. 

Fullbright map messes with my depth perception. 

Outdoors can have light coming from the sky, but indoor areas look better if most of the light comes from an obvious source.

The various flame/torch models actually have a "light" key The source could be a light fixture made from brushes or one that is part of a texture. Windows and lava also make good light sources.

Even with a source, you will usually have to add additional light entities for fill and to simulate light bouncing off walls.

Good lighting is hard work. 

How I make walk to a monster? 

Check this link:

https://quakewiki.org/wiki/path_corner

Also,it could be beneficial for you to look over some of the articles there. 

 

what engine is fine for test?

Because joequake had texture glitch, and fitz is heavy and don�t supports alt+TAB when I press it. 

http://quakespasm.sourceforge.net/ 

Anyone recommend somewhere I can pick up some snow/snowy rock textures for Q1 + Worldcraft? I'm a bit behind the times. Ta. 

There is a Rune.wad on Quaddicted with some ice and snow.
I think there are more.., daikantan.wad 

 

MFX used some decent looking snow/snowy rock textures (considering the quake palette is rather poor for that sort of thing) - in the IKWhite map jam - I can't remember which jam number that was, nor do I know the source for those textures. 

Ruins has some snowy rocks I made by photoshopping some doom 3 Mars textures.. 

Thanks guys. 

I would like to see a list of keys and entities, because I'd like to learn to make doors and all of that fun stuff. 

all that shizzle should be in the quake wiki (in theory) https://quakewiki.org/ 

ok I looked and that wiki is very incomplete.

tbh, I learned everything by looking at the game code in the QuakeC files, which isn't an ideal option for everyone.

Your editor should have an entities .def file or .fgd somewhere which contains all the entity keys and "should" have text descriptions of what everything does.

What editor are you using? 

The old "The Forge" site linked from the Mapping Tutorials page on the Quake wiki used to have a semi-comprehensive entities list, but I see that's no longer accessible (you can get as far as the list of entities, but the descriptions are all dead). That used to be my go-to resource...