Been tinkering with Quake mapping again after ... so very, very long.

At any rate, using Arcane Dimensions and wanting to start the player with just their axe. I see the "takeweapons" key for the worldspawn but not having a lot of luck getting it to do anything. And Google hits are very thin.

Any guidance I could refer to? 

You may also have a look at the "Holy Quake Mapping Bible" written by aguirRe:

http://bjp.fov120.com/tooltips.txt

This text file allowed me to solve 99% of the issues I face when I as mapping (one decade ago)

Good read ! 

Just found the same question on discord.

Give the player a trigger_once hull brush.

classname trigger_once
target take

Another trigger

classname target_items
items 4096
origin . . .
spawnflags 2
targetname take
weapon 4096

Player starts with only the axe.
Thanks riktoi. 

With "wait" "-1" on the path_corner you want it to stop at. Train will start again when triggered (again) 

I'm trying to compile my quake map and its not working so here's the error.



Copying Files...
1 file(s) copied.
Converting map...
--------------QBSP--------------
---- qbsp / ericw-tools v0.18.1-32-g6660c5f ----
Input file: gamermap.map
Output file: gamermap.bsp

---- LoadMapFile ----
*** WARNING 06: No info_player_deathmatch entities in level
4808 faces
783 brushes
341 entities
36 unique texnames
1075 texinfo

Opened WAD: D:/quakedev/wads/QUAKE101.WAD
Processing hull 0...
---- Brush_LoadEntity ----
0 brushes
0 planes
---- CSGFaces ----
0 brushfaces
0 csgfaces
0 mergedfaces
---- Portalize ----
--------------VIS---------------
---- vis / ericw-tools v0.18.1-32-g6660c5f ----
running with 16 threads
testlevel = 4
LoadBSPFile: 'gamermap.bsp'
************ ERROR ************
Error opening gamermap.bsp: No such file or directory
-------------LIGHT--------------
---- light / ericw-tools v0.18.1-32-g6660c5f ----
Raytracing backend: Embree
running with 16 threads
LoadBSPFile: 'gamermap.bsp'
************ ERROR ************
Error opening gamermap.bsp: No such file or directory
The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the file specified.
Press any key to continue . . .


It used to compile fine but now it doesn't. I'm new to this message board so I might not be posting in the right place. please help I wanna finish my map >:( 

Something is probably wrong in your setup, like directories or perhaps the paths have spaces in them (they shouldn't). Maybe something changed?

For some reason the QBSP log looks cut off and then immediately VIS log starts. Either way the BSP file either can't be created (maybe some user rights issue like you can't write to that folder or whatever) or is not created due to some other error. 

Yeah you'd probably need to show us how your compile GUI is set up, paths/arguments/whatever. 

Put your tools (qbsp.exe, vis.exe and light.exe) in a directory such as c:\compile\, along with your map file.

Then click start, type CMD, press enter.

You should see a command prompt.

Type cd c:\compile

Then type qbsp gamermap

Then, assuming it finishes, type light gamermap

If that runs, type vis gamermap

then you can copy your map file to quake\id1\maps or wherever your maps directory is.

Then you can run Quake, press the tilde key (`), and type map gamermap.

The old fashioned way. You will probably find out what the problem is along the way. If not, post your experience here :) 

My map crashes the Quake Rerelease with this weird error:

kexTaggedMemory::Malloc: failed on allocation of 18446744073709453648 bytes (c:\jenkins-agen\workspace\_ii_silver_athena_quake_i_master\kex3_bastet\source\renderer\r_model.cpp:1145)

It's vis'd properly with no warnings or errors and works in quakespasm and qss. 

Selected everything and moved the map so it's at the center of the grid and now it runs fine. 

whenever i use Ctrl-T or click "select touching" in the menu, instead of selecting touching, it deletes the object i originally pressed. What am i doing wrong? 

Are you using Radiant? If so, that is expected behavior. The four options -- "select partial tall," "select complete tall," "select touching," and "select inside" -- all assume that you will first draw out a temporary brush that you intend to use only to select "real" brushes. The temp brush then gets deleted as part of the operation. 

In Worldcraft and other editors, you can drag a selection box to select brushes and entities. But in Trenchbroom there is no selection tool. So you make a temporary brush then Ctrl+T. 

i've been trying to design some elevator shennanigans and the last blocker i am experiencing is a button i have that triggers several targets sharing the same name is also triggering an func_door that itself has no targetname. I don't understand how this button is doing is causing the func_door elevator to move once pressed despite seeming have no direct connection to the elevator. I think I've even recreated the brush at this point, deleted and drawn a new one, and structuralized the old one... it seems like it's a proximity thing, like the button is triggering it just by proximity!?? 

If doors touch, quake will automatically link them to animate together (so that a two-part door will animate in sync.) Could that be your issue? If so, there is a spawnflag on doors for "don't link", see if that helps. 

Thanks for the suggestion, testing this out inevitably lead me to fixing the problem which I think had more to do with some nearby doors. I don't know what about them was the problem exactly... but I had three brushes rising up out of the ground to form a wall, and two of those brushes were grouped as one func_door with the other working as a func_door on its own. Ungrouping these and turning them into one func_door seemed to fix it. Why I had it any other way in the first place I cannot say. But that's another blocker overcome, wooh! 

after compiling my map properly (using ericw's tools, i've been doing the fast mode for a bit), a brush that is part of the walkable section of a floating platform bridge I have built it suddenly not solid, causing the player to fall through it. i've tried switching the brush to an entity and back to structural, replacing it with a duplicate, adjusting the geometry. the only thing that makes it solid seems to be placing a duplicate of it directly underneath it - and it does work, the player does not stand on the duplicate's geometry, it's like the brush's geometry is suddenly solid again.

i don't know what's up with this! 

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+V in Trenchbroom snaps all the vertexes to grid AFAIK.

Sounds weird, I've had weird bugs in the geometry before. If you download the Worldcraft Quakeadapter, you can load your mapfile, then click Map-> Check for problems. It has nice mapfile error reporting. (Well it's better than nothing I guess). But I don't think the auto-fix tool will do you much good. Might yield some info though. Trenchbroom has a console too, if you click Ctrl+4, that might show something up. 

for errors too. 

 

Hi all.
I'm trying to make a simple elevator, imagine it's a small cabin. I want it to be triggered by a button. So far it's simple, the problem is that I want that button to be a part of the elevator (cabin), so it moves when the elevator moves.

I tried with func_plat, func_door and func_train, without success, the button will not move.

Any idea?

Thanks. 

I don’t think you can do that with vanilla progs. But with most of the big mega mods like AD, alkaline, copper, and progs_dump, I think you can. 

progs_dump has a great elevator system that was taken from one of the mission packs and then enhanced but sadly I don't think you can use the button as you describe. The button needs to be a static entity - so ours live at each stop the elevator can make.

Our system is nice because you can call an elevator back if it's on the wrong floor for any reason. We have a good sample map in the release that shows how it all works.

progs_dump info, links and videos can be found here: https://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=62207

I am only aware of one other mod that might have this functionality but I am not 100% sure on that. It's called extras_r4. There's an updated version called extras_r5 too that added some new stuff.

r4 is here: http://quake.chaoticbox.com/downloads/extras_r4.zip from http://quake.chaoticbox.com/

In mid 2002 nostalgia and boredom drove me to write some interesting QuakeC hacks. The result is this "Extras" mod, which aims to provide extra stuff for Quake mappers. It features honest to goodness func_water, and func_ladder entities, as well as an insanely customizable emitter/effector based particle system, and advanced trains and switches. So if you ever wanted to dynamically flood a level, or attach water volumes and/or switches to trains, this is the mod for you! Example maps and some snazzy new animated sprites and sound effects are also included.

r5 is here but not a lot of documentation: https://github.com/khreathor/extras_r5 

Thanks both of you for the reply. Right now I want to finish a map that I've started in 2000 (long story). And I want to be as close as vanilla Quake as possible, so I'm using only standard Quake textures, monsters, etc.