Hi, I've recently started to learn to use the map making tool Trenchbroom to create some quake 2 jumpmode maps. I don't seem to be able to find a way to add ladders and ice to a map. Does anyone have any idea how I could do it or if not who might know? 

You have to change the properties of the surface of the texture. You can find them under the face viewer (for changing textures) there should be a box called "surface", click the "..." button and edit it, it's either that or the content ... button. 

I can't see "surface" or "..." where you're suggesting they should be. Here's the print screen of what I can see. Am I missing something there or looking in the wrong place?

http://prntscr.com/6vbz7b

(thanks for the response) 

It doesn't support Quake 2, so there is no way to edit surface and content flags. 

that you're using a modified version of trenchbroom 1 to make quake 2 maps. My advice would be to ask at Q2 Cafe as that is where that version of TB originated -

http://leray.proboards.com/board/50/quake-mapping-central-re-mapper 

Yea, I am using the modified version of trenchbroom 1 to make quake 2 maps. I'll try that site, thank you. 

 

I'm not sure I would call it closed or Beta as SleepwalkR himself above described it more of an Alpha. Some things are missing yet, there are bugs, and it can crash from time to time, but anyone who knows how to compile source code can compile TrenchBroom 2 from its sources available on the TrenchBroom github. There is the NewArchitecture branch which is slightly older code and the develop branch which is more current code of TB2. On Linux I'm using a build of both branches and the only time either crash occasionally for me is usually when I'm cutting brushes or manipulating vertex. As new code gets introduced and fixes implemented things can break, but all and all TB2 is a pretty good experience for me so far in its use with Quake mapping.

If you're not familiar with compiling projects from source or don't want to deal with issues that will come up from time to time then I'd just wait until there is an official TB2 release. The wait will be worth it. ^_^ 

It would be very useful if you could create bug reports for those crashes or if you could add your observations to the existing bug reports. I haven't been able to reproduce those crashes. 

I have no doubt it will be worth the wait. I've been checking the progress for a while. I don't know how to compile but if there's a pre compiled windows 7 64 bit executable I would be more than willing to help test it. 

I've been reporting the issues I come across all along, but the brush cut and vertex manipulation crashes are few and far between on Linux and Windows 7. They seem related to the previously reported issues. I need to "try" to reproduce it more than a few times before I can make a better observation to report on github.

I do have an observation I'm working on related to the recent fix for fly mode in the develop branch. The mouse look behaviour when navigating around the 3D view when "not" in fly mode has changed and not for the better. While not a bug I guess it is still annoying. I got side tracked tonight, but I'll put it up when I can in the next day or so. 

because of reasons. Anyway, am still stuck at the point where I tell TB2 where Quake is on my computer. It now allows me to change the path, but it doesn't seem to remember it. My entities still show up as coloured blocks, and when I open preferences, Hexen is selected and it tells me the game path is not set. When I select Quake and click Ok or Apply or both, it still goes back to Hexen/game path not set.

Also, maybe I've just got... err... stupider, but I cannot seem to import textures. Has this changed and can one now only do it from within "Texture collections" at the bottom righthand side, by clicking the "+"? If so, that is not working for me... 

Just reopened TB2, and now when I specify my Quake path, my entities do show up. The "Texture collections" thingy works now, too; no idea why it did not work a few minutes ago when I first fired up the programme...

Clipping finally works, but only sort of. When I want to clip a brush and select to keep both halves (using ctrl+enter until both halves are highlighted), it still deletes one of the two halves.

The vertex tool still crashes the programme, although it now seems to freeze and cause the entire computer to hang before crashing.

The copy+paste bug is still there too. When I want to copy+paste a selection of brushes, all is fine until I hit "paste", at which point TB2 automatically deselects some of the brushes, only pasting some of them.

The copy+paste bug and the clipping tool's weird behaviour are both serious problems to me; everything else I can provisionally work around (though it would be wonderful to have a working vertex tool at some point), but these two problems make it impossible for me to make any mapping progress.

So far I have not encountered the warping brushes issue again.

All of this is on Linux Mint 17 'Qiana', Xfce 32 bit. TrenchBroom 2.0.0 5cfc5aOR (in case all those letters and numbers are important). 

I can't keep track of them here. 

I have just done so.

Hope I have done it correctly... 

The reports look good! 

Is there a setting in TB2 for making brush outlines sharper/more visible? By default, they kind of blend into the grid/textures (even when I select "render flat", they tend to blend into the grid). Makes it hard to see where my brushes are... 

You can add an issue on github, though. 

Thanks for the response. 

Stupid question, but is this a new feature in TB2? What is it for? It turns out it gives me a workaround for the copy+paste bug, but I am just curious as to what it was actually intended for. 

 

in 3, 2, 1 ...

Currently I have TB2 working on my Linux Mint computer, which I installed using SleepwalkR's instructions from earlier in this thread (sorry for the extensive quotation):


You need to compile it yourself. First you need to get the sources using git. Open the terminal and cd into some directory under which you want to have the sources. An example would be the ~/Documents directory. You do not need to create a sub directory for the sources, git will do this for you. Make sure you have git installed:

sudo apt-get install git

Then clone the sources:

git clone https://github.com/kduske/TrenchBroom.git

This will create a directory named "TrenchBroom" under your current directory, so if you did cd into ~/Documents, the sources will be in ~/Documents/TrenchBroom. cd into that directory.

Now you have to switch to the branch that contains the actual sources for TB2. You are currently on the master branch, which contains the TB1 sources.

git checkout develop

It should answer with a message such as this:

Branch develop set up to track remote branch develop from origin.
Switched to a new branch 'develop'

To ensure you're on the right branch, issue the "git status" command:

git status

It should answer with a message such as this:

On branch develop
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/develop'.
nothing to commit, working directory clean

Now read the build instructions in the Build.txt file and follow them. If you run into any problems, report back.


This is the only version of TB I have on this current setup; I have not installed TB1 on this computer since installing the OS.

Now I would like to install TB1 (so that I can use it for things that do not currently work in TB2), but I am not sure how to go about it. I am scared of e.g. following the instruction on Andy's Blog and replacing things that are currently up-to-date with older things... or something (I cannot really articulate my fears more precisely as I have no real idea how any of this works).

So given that I've done everything SleepwalkR describes in the post quoted above, what should I do to install TB1?

PS: Sorry for the barrage of questions from me in this thread. I do try to figure things out for myself first, but end up just getting more and more confused...

(PS: SleepwalkR, the grouping function is a brilliant addition! Thank you.) 

The build instructions for TB1 I found on github are very confusing to me compared to how easy it is to compile TB2 from git. I did attempt it months ago, but it gave me no joy. 

Also, TB1 doesn't really work well on Linux