What is this thing doing ? Is it just "decoration" ? 

what the fuck are the planets doing ?

And where hides the last monster ? After countless hours exploring the whole map, I'm unable to find the last coward.

And I need to solve that planets mechanism mystery.

And geez that map is amazing ! 

although there isn't a status bar icon for it.
Would it be within the realm of possibilities for the final 1.6 release to have a custom AD HUD a la -hipnotic that could display any custom key, provided that said key comes with its dedicated icon? 

Also needs engine changes.

I recall Sock posting something, here or elsewhere, that indicated he was looking at doing something with centerprints for this. 

and it's cool but TBH it's a kinda makeshift solution. A custom HUD would be better. As for engine changes, modern engines already support the hipnotic HUD, so I assume it wouldn't need much more tinkering. AD wouldn't run on vanilla engines anyway. 

Is it really that hard to find, it's driving me bonkers?! :(

I have 40/50 secrets, 470/508 baddies and I've been wandering around for hours now. Looking for that damn key!!!

Did it fall out of the map, hahaha 

What the hell is the mechanism doing ? 

daz found it on his video.

it seems to have some door that only opens at a certain time, or when you do something later on?

i remember passing it, but it didn't open for me like it did when daz walked past it. 

... or Raven-like ? 

I only found 27 of the secrets in my short run-through; the crypt key was one of them. It just allows you to open a door that connects the middle areas to the final areas. It doesn't open anything new. Don't remember where I found it. 

Thanks. I just found it :) It's accessible at any time, as long as you know the path to get to it! 

Thanks mh, for some reason it gave me a shared library rather than an executable after compiling but it runs anyway. 

noclip to the rescue.

(I admit to noclipping a lot but mostly to see and learn how the maps are made and come together in-game...) 

even when noclipping. 

Thanks very much! Sorry, I missed your response earlier. 

 

Awesome level. The architecture and layout are outstanding. However, I'm stuck. I can't seem to find my way out. How to you get out of this level? Is there a walkthrough anywhere? This alone is like an entire game. Great job, but need some more help. I've chopped up all the bodies on 14 total altars. I've defeated what I believe is the boss after letting him out. I've found three keys I believe (I can't remember). 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8JWgsz8-lQ
This video shows how to run straight to the exit 

I found that one, at last ! Yep, Sock made a secret under a lisft ! 

i'd love to merge start and ad_chapters into a single map, but I can't compile my frankenmap since I'm missing most of the necessary textures. ad_chapters relies on wads from the actual maps it displays instead of having a wad for itself. ad_start.wad is included in the maps folder for some reason, but the others are not.

i've looked through the mapping section of the ad readme file, the files included in the ad devkit and searched online for these files, but to no avail. I can't easily extract them using bsp2wad either since I have no x86 windows available to me. I know you can set up a virtual machine to get around that problem, but I figured I'd ask for other solutions here first.

right now I'm using trenchbroom, and it doesn't seem to be able to access the textures from the bsps directly. i read the the section about setting mods up in the trenchroom manual, no mention of anything other than wads. Do other editors like worldcraft or gtkradiant have this capability? trenchbroom can load the textures directory from pak files, but that doesn't help since ad is built on a pakless file structure.

also, where are effect textures like the new explosion sprite stored in ad? i looked through the textures and gfx folders and even checked if it was attached to the texture of a mdl file, but didn't find anything. did i just miss it or is it stored in progs.dat or some other place i cant fathom? 

It will state invalid version number but continue anyway.

From there you can "save copy" to wad3. Now you have the .wad file/textures. 

bsputil --extract-textures foo.bsp
from:
https://ericwa.github.io/tyrutils-ericw/

or, tyrann's original tool is probably easier to compile if I don't have a binary for your platform:
http://disenchant.net/utils/ 

If you want the ad_chapters textures, open ad_chapters in TexMex and save it as .wad. 

thank you, that helps! :)

any ideas on the explosion texture though? 

But I think you're thinking of the particle effects incorrectly. They're not sprite based. So there will not be a set of explosion textures etc.

There's a particles folder with a particlefont.tga inside. I think you couple that with the Quakespasm "Spiked" engine modification and that gives you the effects.