used heapsize. Same failure.
Is there any other way? 

 

Where can I find the heapsize setting? 

GunSgt

I think you type com_hunkmegs into the console to see what your current settings are. 

Finaly it works with -heapsize 512000. 

Just found out about a strange thing with my Xmas map. The player falls into a trigger_push at the start, and in QSS this causes the camera to get tilted by 4 degrees.

Raising the player start by 4 units solves the issue, but copying the unmodified playerstart+trigger to a fresh map does not isolate it.

The trigger has "angles 335 35 0", the player has "angle 30". Messing with these leads to all sorts of weird results (zeroing the player makes the tilt go up to 8 degrees).

So, is it an issue with my map, QSS or AD?


I also had some other issues that were either AD bugs or me being dense:
- Widowmaker doesn't work in deathmatch: can't be picked up again after dying
- "Delayed" monsters seem to activate all monster-sensitive triggers on spawn
- "Non-solid" flag on a func_bob seems to have no effect
- The distance that a func_bob moves seems unreliable and/or goes out of sync over time
- trigger_monsterjump doesn't affect flying enemies despite the specific spawnflag
- It's impossible to trigger-set fog density/color to 0, have to use 0.0001 etc instead
- Brushes with sky texture on one side will behave as pass-through for projectiles on all other sides too(?). Possibly even make the enemies pass-through(?) 

non-solid func_bob becomes solid when you walk over a corpse 

I have a monster_ogre, and when I add a key value pair of
ammo_shells: 20
I gain 20 shells when I kill him and touch the dropped backpack.

This does not work with ammo_rockets however, because in ogre.qc it sets self.ammo_rockets = 2. Is there a way so it respects my values in the entity settings? 

Hey everyone,

I'm a newbie working on mapping with Quake 2 in Trenchbroom (loving the editor so far!)

Unfortunately I can't seem to generate a map with proper lighting due to a leak while running QBSP3.

I can still launch the map, however after compiling with QVIS3 it will be dark.

In order to troubleshoot I started a new file which is a simple closed off room, ensured my "Snap to Grid" option is on, and that the room is indeed closed off.

Here's what the compiler is doing:

#### Executing 'E:\Games\quake2\baseq2\qbsp3.exe q24'
----------- qbsp3 -----------
original code by id Software
Modified by Geoffrey DeWan
Revision 1.09
-----------------------------
gamedir set to E:\Games\quake2\baseq2\
entering E:\Games\quake2\baseq2\maps\q24.map
0...2...5...7... (0)
**** leaked ****
Writing E:\Games\quake2\baseq2\maps\q24.bsp
0 seconds elapsed
#### Finished with exit status 0

#### Executing 'E:\Games\quake2\baseq2\qvis3.exe q24'
----------- qvis3 -----------
original code by id Software
Modified by Geoffrey DeWan
Revision 1.03
-----------------------------
reading E:\Games\quake2\baseq2\maps\q24.bsp
reading E:\Games\quake2\baseq2\maps\q24.prt

************ ERROR ************
LoadPortals: couldn't read E:\Games\quake2\baseq2\maps\q24.prt

#### Finished with exit status 1

#### Executing 'E:\Games\quake2\baseq2\qrad3.exe q24'
----------- qrad3 ----------
original code by id Software
Modified by Geoffrey DeWan
Revision 1.04
Compiled for Pentium processors
-----------------------------
gamedir set to E:\Games\quake2\baseq2\
reading E:\Games\quake2\baseq2\maps\q24.bsp
Couldn't load E:\Games\quake2\baseq2\textures/__tb_empty.wal
No vis information, direct lighting only.
0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9... (0)
0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9... (0)
writing E:\Games\quake2\baseq2\maps\q24.bsp
0 seconds elapsed
#### Finished with exit status 0

Here's the map:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Aewjw4W7CVy729usfuW757d1DemlUbZp


Any help would be greatly appreciated! 

Have you tried 'File > Load Point File'? It should tell you where the leak is.
Have you tried different textures? The compiler complaining about __tb_empty means you have untextured brushes. Not all textures seal against the void.

I can see that the geometry shouldn't be leaking, but I don't have Q2 or its compilers installed. 

Hi nathnolt. Afraid that can't be done without modifying the QC. Map hacks involve getting interesting effects from setting values in fields which the QC has assumed are set to default. If the QC explicitly changes a field, you can't tell it not to do that.

Sometimes you can work around things the QC does, either by:
- using a hack earlier on to prevent the offending QC running
or
- running another hack after the offending QC to overwrite the value
Neither of these work for the ogre ammo, because the ammo value is set in the same function which drops the backpack. If you found a way to skip that, you'd skip the backpack spawning as well. If you rewrote the ammo value later (which might not be possible anyway...) you've missed the change for it to count. 

Thanks @Preach, both for your reply and your website. Is there a list with the combined knowledge of map hacks and/or entity knowledge? 

Hi.
Now that I'm getting closer to finish alpha-stage of my map, I'm wondering if I could implement the trigger_cdtrack from Arcan Dimensions to my progs_dump.
I have the fteqcc but absolutly no idear where to start.
Is there someone into QC who can tell me how to do this?

best wishes 

It's pretty involved. AD is a near re-write of the QuakeC logic so lifting anything from AD is a pretty advanced IMO.

That said I have not looked at that code so maybe it's a straight port?

QuakeWiki Modding Tutorial:
https://quakewiki.org/wiki/Getting_Started_Modding

QuakeC tutorial:
http://www.insideqc.com/qctut/

QuakeC Reference Manual in PDF:
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~jeremyp/quake/quakec/quakec.pdf

QuakeC Manual website version (with nice text formating):
http://www.cataboligne.org/extra/qcmanual.html

FTEQCC compiler:
http://fte.triptohell.info/moodles/fteqcc/

FTEQCC documentation:
http://icculus.org/~marco/quakec/fteqcc_manual.txt

Progs v1.01 source code:
https://github.com/id-Software/Quake-Tools/tree/master/qcc/v101qc

Progs v1.01 source code: (cleaned):
https://gitlab.com/quakec-v1-01-clean/quakec-v1-01-clean/commits/master

Progs v1.06 source code:
http://www.moddb.com/games/quake/downloads/quake-c-version-106

Hipnotic SDK:
http://www.gamers.org/pub/idgames2/more_idstuff/hipnotic/ 

Wow! Thanks!

A lot to read.

Thought of a free weekend. Haha :)

best wishes 

I will take a look at this qc for you as well but no promises on any real code unless it's something simple! 

Hi nathnolt, bit of self promotion but you could start with the map hacks posts on my blog. The earlier ones tend to be the simpler ones...

https://tomeofpreach.wordpress.com/category/map-hacks/ 

@ZungryWare has compiled an exhaustive list of hacks here:

https://scalar.vector.im/etherpad/p/r.6ad54765f5b9b714d4501dbb1b728c7f 

Thanks everyone for the help & support. 

also if you haven't seen it yet, there is a whole long-running thread about map hacks:

Teaching Old Progs.dat New Tricks 

I think I've found all necessary functions in the progs and definitions.
I will try to copy and paste after the weekend and tell if it works. 

I tried and failed.
Seems I've got to read more into detail. 

I will take a look this evening. (I said that before but forgot.)

I will report back here. Adding a reminder on my phone for after work.