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Are there any good beginner resources around?
GTKRadiant, NetRadiant, and Trenchbroom seem to be the most popular editors, and ericw-tools seems to be the current suggested toolchain for compilation, but all the documentation and stuff I've found seems ...to assume that you know what you're doing, which I really don't.
Sorry about the halfpost, interface bugged out. This might help to get you started with the very basics: https://quakewiki.org/wiki/Getting_Started_Mapping
...for this site so we know who you are. :) Maybe prepare a list of specific questions you have too. We'll be happy to answer.
JACK is also a popular editor for those with Valve/GoldSrc/Worldcraft experience: http://jack.hlfx.ru/en/ http://store.steampowered.com/app/496450/JACK/ I use TB2 and can answer questions. Also Terrfusion on Discord is a good real-time resource as well. ...was simply a friendly suggestion. Not a demand. You know, to get to know someone in a more personable way?
and it's a prerequisite for trolling (i.e. some form of accountability).
@dumptruck_ds: Yeah, I get that. :) Of course registering has its benefits, but it should be the person's own choice, and I thought the way you phrased it, it sounded a bit like a demand/pressure/prerequisite.
In any case, my comment was directed more at whoever posted the question in 19413/19414, than at you. People may have various valid reasons for not wanting to register and sign up, and it would be a shame if they feel pressured to register and then stay away completely as a result. And (re: #19424/Shambler) of course I'm talking about people asking for mapping help, contributing knowledge, etc. and not about trolls/people posting abuse. I can understand the argument there, although there are plenty of people happy to troll and post abuse while logged in anyway. So I'd argue that even then, whether or not someone is registered or logged in is irrelevant: just don't be a troll and don't be abusive. can a mod delete / move the above BS into the beef thread?
It would be nice if any visitors coming here wouldn't be greeted with this as their first experience here. Been trying to get my head around the Valve220 map format.
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/MAP_file_format What's the point of the "rotation" field? There's a not-particularly-clear description of it on that page, but I still don't get why it's required when you already have two vectors defining the "right" and "up" of the texture. Possibly related, but in Netradiant, if I do a fractional texture rotation (e.g. 13.6 or whatever), only the integral part (13) gets saved to the "rotation" field in the It's almost like the "rotation" field is just for show, but why? It's a cheat. Rather than the editor (JACK or Hammer only) having to calculate the relative rotation of the texture UV space every time it loads a face into a brush, it merely calculates this during save and puts it into the
At least U think thats what it's for. Old Worldcraft 3.3 needed some hackery if I recall to read it. Whoever did the WC3.3 patch might know for sure. That field stores the knob position of the Hammer UI. It's not used by qbsp when compiling the map.
I guess the reason it was done this way is, you can rotate the brush with texture lock on, and this won't cause the texture rotation knob in the UI to change on its own. what's a good method to creating arches that match up with the arch textures? in JACK I would use the primitives and CSG but that was funky sometimes and TB doesn't have those functions at all.
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