To be honest, I have no idea.

Also, your run Quaddicted, right? 

Why not try making a map without relying on teleporting monsters? I try to avoid it.

It's actually a kind of worn out mechanic.

A bit like Doom 3 monster closets, now that I think about it. 

It's because there is little space for other closet. Please check the Revision 1: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wfj440tkrnq2bn4/guse1m2.zip?raw=1 Play the map. Either side is occupied by something, be it a door, a mechanism, a closet, or whatever. No space for a Vore trap after pressing the button, except I make a teleporting monster. Well, it's the best I can do. 

Should I use slopes or stairs while making a deathmatch map? 

Figured it out myself 

Like the ones in CS, but for other games like all the Quake engine games and UT (but especially Quake 1).

Example:
http://i65.servimg.com/u/f65/12/75/64/79/map_d310.jpg


I try to noclip out of the level and take a screenshot, but there's usually a Hall of Mirrors effect or having some parts of the map disappear. 

Add command "gl_clear 1" (without quotes) to you autoexec.bat to get rid of HoM.

If there's a lot of sky, that will get in the way also. Too bad there's not an option to turn off drawing of the sky.

Hit the + (plus) key a few times to hide the staus bar, and type the command "r_drawviewmodel 0" to hide the player weapon. 

Also, if you have fog enabled it might look better in an overview screenshot if it's turned off. Like I didn't do here:

http://quaketastic.com/files/screen_shots/Wish13_0007.jpg 

Something I can't figure out:

How do you achieve the Red/Bold lettering on messages?

At the very least, in ad_swampy the textbook used to start the tome of power quest has an example.

I see that the message key has a value with/b The Rune Quest/b/ <--(Backslashes) but when I attempt that on my map it does not work which also uses AD by the way.

I have even directly copied MFX's textbook and it still does not display the lettering which leads me to believe I am missing an element here. Any help is appreciated!

While we are at it, are there other fancy lettering you can do? 

The colored lettering only works for server names and user names. I'm very sure messages are not affected by this. 

How do you color lights? Is it in hexadecimal or something? 

It's a light entity key. I use 0-255 RGB

_color rrr ggg bbb

I don't know if it does hex, but I think you can use 0 to 1 if you want. 

Thanks for replying.

That makes sense but ad_swampy uses this inside of an entity's message key. It just looks like a simple bold tag but it does nothing if I attempt to use it on my map. 

Also, do I need that underscore for the key? It looks awkward. 

Hmm. I don't know. Were you using vanilla Quake when you were playing it? 

Yes, the underscore is required.

The Light program will generate a .lit file with the same name as your bsp. That's where the light color data is. The lit file be in the folder with the bsp or no color light will be seen when the map is played.

As far as I know, the lit file is unique to each bsp. Every time a new bsp is created, a new lit file is needed also. A non-matching lit file will cause some very weird lighting effects. 

I'm going to light my new map soon, so thanks for that. 

hmm, backslash b should work, not sure how it wouldn't work for you unless the Tome of Power has special code to do it that isn't the same as trigger_once/func_door/etc. code. 

Thanks metlslime,

I will try it on a trigger_once to see if I get the desired effect...that will rule out if that is indeed the case. 

So using /bTEXT/b does not work even on something like a trigger_once. (Backslashes instead obviously)

I am at a loss here! 

what engine?

\bSome text\b does work. 

Use this: http://www.quaketerminus.com/hosted/oqnm_4_20/oqnm_4_20.htm 

Where in the world does this gem come from??

That worked but I still am puzzled about how ad_swampy achieves the same with just /b. I am using Quakespasm as engine of choice.

Thanks negke for the link! 

Use my light tool and add the "-parse_escape_sequences" option, see:
http://ericwa.github.io/tyrutils-ericw/doc/light.html

I should probably just leave that on by default in the next version. It's also weird to do it in the light tool :P

necros: was this working in bjp's tools? or in qc strings? IIRC, If you use \b in qc code, the qc compiler is what parses the \b's and turns the text red. 

copying mfx leads to hell in the most direct way.