is there some kind of program that would allow me to search all entities of a common classname and either insert or replace keys on those entities?

like, <ahem> say for example, you had a map that had tons of torches and then this cool coloured version of aguirre's light compiler comes out and you wants to copy a specific '_color' key to maybe a few hundred torches, but not any other lights (nor light globes or flames, just torches). 

It's called Gtkradiant. Open the entity list and select all torches, then add the _color field in the entity window. 

Quark does it too! 

i tried in quark, but i couldn't figure out how to do it easily without going down the entity list and manually selecting them all one by one.

but gtkr... i'll have to try that because i had no idea you could select multiple entities that way (sikkpin's qe3 which is based on radiant which is what gtkr is based off of doesn't have that ability, you can only select individual entities that way). 

Hammer can do it too! 

looks like qe3 is firmly in the fail category in this instance. :P 

Find/replace "classname" "light_torch_small_walltorch" with "classname" "light_torch_small_walltorch"<linebreak symbol>"_color" "1 2 3"

Not sure about the linebreak thing though :P 

 

i use textpad which unfortunately, can't replace with linebreaks. :S 

if i could code, i'd make a little standalone app for stuff like this. it would read ents from a bsp or map and create a little database where you could sort by each attr & search for certain values. or mass-edit stuff like above 

Ah, are those on subsequent lines? And all of the same class?

JEdit is my favourite editor and it can easily do this. It is free, open-source and cross-platform. http://www.jedit.org/

Select the classname. Ctrl-F for the Search and Replace dialog. Copy the line to the "Replace with" form. Use Ctrl-Enter to add a linebreak. Add your new field. "Replace all".

http://s1.image.gd/o/25/258bfa3b7540f0b2484ef75076130ffa21851ee8.png

Make sure it will search in "Current Buffer". You might want to turn regular expressions off, should not be an issue here though. 

Even with \n 

Edit - Select - By Value - Entity Type - OK 

map > entity report > theen you modify the filter, you can search by key/value, class, and select point ents, brush ents or both > then click "Mark", then you close the dialogue and go to the selection tool, you will find all of the marked objects are selected :D 

ftw 

nt 

Fap on! 

don't Prog me RAM!

I know, just foolin'.
But these headlines
looks so stupid. 

yeah, i was thinking of making a program that would just parse the entity list and load it up into some kind of easy to access and modify gui, but since the text editor solution works, i no longer have any reason to do that. :P :P 

I was planning to design a simple language that would allow all kinds of transformations on Quake maps, but it never happened because I didn't know enough about language design. Today that would be called a domain specific language and there are lots of tools that would allow generating such a language very easily... maybe I'll get back to it sometime. 

sounds interesting. look forward to it :) 

http://i.imgur.com/BITmX.jpg 

I cannot recognize the map layout: which map is it ? 

Its COD MW2 isnt it? 

I've played a fair share of duty, but that doesn't remind me of any of the maps.