but it's a good suggestion! 

 

Is there any difference in physics whatsoever between a trigger that was created in the editor as a brush model, and a trigger that was spawned dynamically in the QC? I'm guessing the answer's "no", but wanted to double-check. 

no. either way, solid_trigger is an aabb. the shape you set in the editor is irrelevant, only the bbox extents are meaningful.
so one uses setmodel and then discards the model, the other can just directly use setsize. same result. 

That's the answer I was expecting and indeed hoped for. Cheers :) 

Working on some colored lighting in a map. I had been tinkering around with the Arcane Dimensions stuff, and left those settings on when I originally setup the lights. My lights look really good in AD. Later, when playing the map in Quakespasm with no mod, I noticed the colored lights are pretty crappy by comparison, and I'm not sure if its a matter of settings or if Arcane Dimensions just had a different lighting setup than Quakespasm can do on its own. I feel like there's a setting I'm missing or something, perhaps a rendering setting in the engine I need set in the config?

Shabby Lighting
Screenshot 1 with Quakespasm: https://imgur.com/bhmaPJv
Screenshot 2 with Quakespasm: https://imgur.com/avdiEJk

Pretty Lighting
Screenshot 1 with Quakespasm + AD mod: https://imgur.com/jA1Jjys
Screenshot 2 with Quakespasm + AD mod: https://imgur.com/fcMKFl1

Bonus Question: Does Arcane Dimensions mod always use the new health and ammo models or is there a way to tell it (in map settings) to use the classic models?

OS: Windows 7 64bit
Client: Quakespasm v0.93.0 x64
Editor: J.A.C.K. 1.1.1064 64bit 

I created these for the video tutorials I am working on. Not pretty but you may find them useful.

Link on Quaketastic

Screenshot 

Hello, I'm having difficulties setting up textures in trenchbroom. I have followed instructions and added Texture compilations WADs, but the textures doesnt show up in the browser...am I missing something here? 

I noticed I get the following error message when adding a WAD:

Could not load palette file 'gfx\palette.lmp': File not found: 'gfx\palette.lmp' 

Quake path not set? 

click "face" right up screen, aside Map Entity.
texture browser +
Add texture wad set path. 

Has to be your Quake directory. As Pyro said. 

I don't think there's anything different lighting-wise in AD, or at least there shouldn't be given lighting is baked into the map, and a quick look at the documentation file and configs doesn't show anything. Normally if you're getting issues with colored lighting, it's due to the engine not supporting it so it either doesn't show up at all or shows up as standard white lights, but you've clearly still got some kind of color going on in the standard QS screenshots. I tried replicating it with multiple lights overlapping, different light values/types, etc. and couldn't get that 'colored outline' effect, would you mind uploading the map (and your own compiled .bsp) to see if the same thing happens to others?

Bonus Question: Does Arcane Dimensions mod always use the new health and ammo models or is there a way to tell it (in map settings) to use the classic models?
AD always uses its new models IIRC; there's a couple variants including a metal-sided style based off the id1 boxes (the same way AD includes updated weapon world models, enemy models, etc) but they're normally limited to the base worldtype, being replaced by the wood-sided boxes and health potions in medieval/runic. Glancing at the qc files shows there's a skin_override key available for both health and ammo entities that you can use to force one model or the other though, so give that a whirl. 

Hey guys. First-time mapper here working on a, hopefully, exciting map that I'm eager to finish and release. I've been working on it daily for the last 7 days and learning as I go. I'm having an issue, however, that maybe someone could help me with? So the level is coming along and I'm moving into a new section. It's at the end of a hallway and then I'm trying to make a path to the left. Everything compiles right with that new path but when I extend it to make it longer, there is an error compiling. It says "Mixed face contents in leafnode near (835.43 -192.00 72.00)" and I sort of know what that means as I've had to fix those kinds of errors before. Problem with this one is this hallway, floor, etc are not bumping into anything, are connected properly, and all that. There's literally nothing for it to run into so I'm not sure what's happening. Any ideas? 

Run into meaning sky and wall, for example. That's where I saw that error before was when my sky was encroaching on some walls. Cleared it right up after editing it a little but this error I'm having currently is really confusing the hell out of me. I don't know why the new section will compile right when it's a small size and then cause everything to screw up when I extend it a few meters down. I've tried building other stuff in that area and it seems that there is a point of no return kind of deal going on. 

It's for Quake 1, if that matters. 

That's usually something you get when you have a face with sky texture touching a face with some kind of liquid texture, or a trigger. Sure there's not something like that going on? 

Yeah, I'm almost certain. I do have a skybox in one section but fixed all the problems there and never had any more issues until this hallway part which is a good distance away from the skybox. I've narrowed it down to the point I can't go past as well and there's nothing in the way whatsoever. If I extend it even one small block it won't compile. Really frustrating. 

Deleted the skybox completely and tried it and still won't compile so can narrow that out at least. 

Oh weird. Fixed it but still not sure why it was a problem. I constructed a little table in the hallway and made a shiny gold necklace on it and used zoomed in lava for the gem part to give it a cool glow. This didn't cause any problems prior either but I just deleted it and now I can keep going with the hallway. Weird. I wonder why it would work to a certain distance and then stop considering the necklace is also away from the place I'm now building. You did help me though. You said "liquid texture" and it gave me the idea to delete it and see what happens. Thanks, man. Woo! Was getting worried for a second. 

Bummer about the necklace though. It looked awesome. 

Maybe with some screenshots of how you've set things up people will have some ideas of what could be going wrong. 

I've had "bad geometry" cause leaks before but never got that mixed face error. It sounds like you had lava just on one face of the brush in this case. Maybe a custom full fright texture would have a similar effect? You can probably use something from the prototype wad here: http://khreathor.xyz/site/prototype/ 

Yeah it's all sorted now anyway so no worries. I'll come back to the necklace when I finish everything and see if it goes through. Are these leaks you mention a major problem? I've seen some leaks pop up during compiling but I'm still able to play the level and all that so I figured it wasn't a huge deal. 

I'm liking those textures. Thanks man.