After many hours I found what I think is an acceptable way to convert Q1 textures to Q2(this was a request of sorts)

When I say acceptable I mean, a non destructive conversion! Which was every tools way of converting previous, hehe.

Here is a sample: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/355836262847873045/355847674475446272/side_by_side.jpg

The jpeg straight out of the .wad on the LEFT, my converted .wal file on the right.

I think the conversion looks decent enough? But in Q2 I just think it looks like poop.

Thoughts? 

Q1 and Q2 have different palettes. You cannot convert from one to the other without destroying information.
Your .wal is thus slightly less bright etc.

On the other hand, if you use .tga instead then you can avoid the palette thing entirely, but this won't work in vanilla, obviously (most q2 engines are fine with a .tga instead of a .wal, but its best to provide both in case someone insists on vanilla/sw). 

Due to palette differences, the texure will shadow differently.
Quake 1's versatile palette:
https://quakewiki.org/w/images/0/09/Qpalette.png

Quake 2's restrictive palette:
http://fabiensanglard.net/quake2/quake2_palette.jpg

Now, Q2's palette is more bland because Q2 relies heavily on colored lighting. Try using light color to correct it maybe. :) 

Q2 was designed with old opengl in mind.
it has no fullbrights (nothing can glow in the dark).
it has no overbrights (brighter areas cannot oversaturate, resulting in flatter dull lighting)

it has rgb lighting, but this mostly just means that they went crazy with it, thus anywhere even near sky becomes orange, which reduces effective palette variation even more. 

No not moving literally, I'm still stuck here in the Canadian wilderness...

My AD map which is almost finished the beta stage has gotten a little bigger. Sometime at the point it grew from 10 000 brushes to 11 000. I got an error message (tyrutils v0.15.10) "Too many vertices... compile with bsp2..."

It wasn't a leak since the map still does full vis/no leak detected/no pnt file, and adding the bsp2 tag has fixed it. I guess it literally had too many vertices. Is there anything I should know now that the map is in this format? Everything seems to be working fine. I guess I'm stuck with it at this point since I won't be deleting details this time.

Thanks 

My understanding of BSP2 is that OTP will tell at you and your map won't work in old engines. I'm not aware of any engine that's actively developed that doesn't support BSP2. 

*yell not tell! In what world is it okay to "correct" a perfectly spelled word?! 

I figured as much, I'm mostly learning this stuff as I go, and have gotten lots of great tips from the masters.

Since its an AD map the player will have to use Quakespasm, Mark V, or Darkplaces anyways, so I hope no one gets mad at me... I'm actually surprised how well it performs in Darkplaces on my machine with integrated graphics.

Thanks. 

If you get too many vertices on a sealed map then it's time for BSP2. 

It's easy to make typos on these tiny virtual keyboards. Since tell and yell are both valid words, Android proposes them both to choose from above the keyboard. If you forget to pick one, it's not Android's fault... ;)

Sorry for the OT, guys. 

My phone is large enough that the keyboard is actually very reasonably sized for thumb use. I decided to just turn off autocorrect completely anyway, if I really need it the suggestions bar is still there...

In OTish news, what do people think about hiding small items in total darkness? Right now there's a rotten health hidden in a little alcove that's pretty easy to spot but unlit. Should I throw a little light in there or is it okay to have something you'll only really find by accident like that? 

Many engines support it, and it's no different from bsp29 other than increased limits on just about everything. Nobody will be mad at you :) 

hiding small items in total darkness
That's a no-go in my book, unless it counts as a secret - but a secret for just a rotten health might be a bit of an overkill.

That said, wouldn't the fullbright parts of the health box make it noticeable?

Didn't know you could still use the suggestions bar with autocorrect off. 

Suggestions bar depends on your keyboard. I use Google's "GBoard" on my phone.

And there are no fullbrights on the health pickups in AD's medieval set.

I think you're right about it being a no-go. The fact that I wasn't sure about it should have told me all I needed to know about the placement... 

Does anyone have advice on how to build something like this out of brushes? I want to make it hollow on the inside as well.

Thanks! 

Round and hollow? example 

Duke of Ontranto

https://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/fc1.html

In pak, see ---> progs/barrel.mdl

Live action -game fc1 +map fc1m2 

In JACK, create cylinders stacked, in vertex mode use CTRL+E (or maybe it was ALT+E), scale edges as needed. It helps to have both mating brushes selected...this works for donuts as well as cylinders. 

I don't remember reviewing fc1... It's been a while since I played through any maps in quake actually.

Those barrels are decent, actually. I ended up figuring out how to make them out of brushes by looking at the wireframe in qme. 

I use TB2, but I was able to achieve a (probably) similar effect with the basic vertex manipulation there. :)

Now i just have to cut my beautiful new barrel up into little chunks so it looks cool when you shoot it to bits! 

I'm not sure if you know this but a protip i recently found from Sleepwalker was: You can use CSG Merge to merge faces in Tb2! Make the diff sections of your geo then use merge to quickly extrude the brushes. Try it.

Also there are barrels in Hexen 2 that could probably be used as a template. I wonder if the map source is available? 

Hey, I loaded up the AD .fgd file and made a symlink of the "progs" folder into Trenchbroom's root directory assuming it would be able to find the models there, but it seems that it can't, where do I need to place it so that Trenchbroom will find them? 

You don't need to symlink anything. Just make sure that TB knows where your Quake directory is and select the mod's folder here!

There are essentially two places where you need to set up your mods (at minimum): Under the map tab, where you select the mod folder, and under the Entities tab, where you select your entity definition file such as a .fgd or a .def

Hope that helps :)