If those doors don't open, I couldn't find a way in and the button Neg!ke mentions, I didn't see either and I searched for quite a while before giving up and noclipped through the lower gates.

As for the origin keys, I don't know which editor you're using, but that might be the cause of the invalid origin keys on brush entities.

In any case, I'd suggest going through the map and delete the multiple origin keys for each brush entity (e.g. func_door). If an entity has a brush, it should not have an origin key. 

If an entity has a brush, it should not have an origin key.

orly? hm.. i never knew that; if there's not origin key, how does the game know where to put it? 

i have not put any origin keys and i use tread3d
what do they do anyway these origin keys, i've seen them but they are 0 0 0 and thats normal for my editor

i haven't seen anything saying that they do anything on my map nothing at all 

a real live person using thred3d in the year 2006 oh my 

i mean the red, round window above the final door (the same applies to the window above the castle entrance).

you put sky brushes on all sides of the map, right? although it doesn't really matter for this map, apart from lightmaps, you should do it the clean way. a sky brushe at the top (where the sky it, naturally); the outsides of the rest are the backsides of the mountain brushes and the floor then, so they are removed by vis.

necros: there are still the coordinates of the brush volume ;) 

tread is quite different, afaik. It's more of a worldcraft rip-off.

http://tread.planetquake.gamespy.com/

probably shit though. 

ah now i know what you mean, it's not a window more like an emblem showing like there is royalty here or stuff like that ;)

and yeah the skybrush is everywhere around the whole thing seling the map

oh and that litle light you thought i should add to the button, well that's gonna be a problem as in dm mode the button is hidden but the light goes thew the wall and the wall bit being a func_wall is not blocking it :( 

forgot to meantion that i've moved the door blocking the ogre/ra room to the stairs in stead so you have access to that room but not to the upper one from there, this should make AguirRe abit more happy ;) but i won't upload the this newer version yet as they are to similair :) 

I finally found the small button that opened the upper gate. Yes, that one could really use a light. If the light is switched on by the death of one of the monsters, it should look fine in DM too.

But even with the now open upper gate, you'll never have a reason to enter the lower room with the ogres, which is a bit illogical progress-wise. So changing that like you mention sounds like a good idea. 

i can't get the negative light to work right at all if i put it in the exit it won't do anything
so if you have any advice on that please tell me on the mather of that lava texture in the exit, i have never seen a exit with a lava texture or so only darkness mostly 

it's simply a light entity with a negative value, e.g. "light" "-300". you have to make the corridor longer and place the light next to (not within, of course) the back wall to make it look alright. light tools like aguirRe's support negative lights. 

that much i figured but i doubt i can make that corridor any long, just behind that black wall is the void or rather the sky
are there any other allternatives?
maybe i just should make like in some id maps a teleport like ending

oh i tested the map with another mapper in dm mode and he likes it alot so i suppose it isen't all to bad in there eather :) 

... and verify also your light tool command line. It can happened that minlight value doesn't allow you to have less that it is defined, so you will have to add -nominlight option to your light command... To check...

BTW, lava/water/slime and all texture name starting with '*' will be turned into fullbright in most of Quake engines... Then a negative light will not allow you to make it completely dark... To check as well... 

i'm starting to hit limits it seem stuff start to blink like func_wall entetys ammo and monster :( 

...long arsed demo with commentary should be in your box. 

..for taking the time! 

...sorry for the delay in feedbacking you!!! Real life(tm) has taken its toll! Hopefully on Saturday I'll have a little time to write my thoughts on your map. 

 

http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/images/fighting.002.gif 

If it is hell themed what I had in mind, q2/q4ish wouldn't likely help. I did test the idea after giving the sugestion, built some normal maps (used low sampling as not to go overboard) using Sock's tech, applied them to a room, smacked it up in Dark Places, and this is how it looks:

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/9057/tech001kz.jpg 

http://quake10year.com/

anyone seen this? thoughts? 

looks like that engine is using Steep Parallax Mapping. That's pretty impressive.

http://graphics.cs.brown.edu/games/SteepParallax/compare.jpg

Apparently the engine is by LordHavoc! The content leaves a bit to be desired, but then the guy says that it's work in progress, and he's using other people's art as placeholders right now.

From the MySpace site:

Quake 10 Year is a celebration of Quake. 10 Years ago iD software released a revolutionary game called Quake. This game changed the face of the fps game market. Not only for the actual game Quake, but for the engine that came with it. Music by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and a cast of talented people, Quake is a hard classic.

www.quake10year.com

The screenshots below show WIP (Work In Progress). Nothing you are seeing is final. You will see in some screenshots some textures that have not been remade. The only model that has been remade is the Grenade Launcher. More to come soon.

The Shambler you are seeing in the screenshots is made by Randy. The Fiend model you are seeing in the screenshots is made by MauveBib. Neither one of these models are Quake 10 Year Assets. However, I still like them and they are fun to play with. The engine I am using is a modified version of the Quake engine called Quake 10 year (made by LordHavoc). 

But everything else is just too shiny and colourful. Gaudy is the word. 

ok i've finnaly released my map just hope all is ok so don't be suprised if it feels abit hard as it's my first sp map tho it can be used as dm
have fun with it anyway
oh i moved the pics to another server for the once that need to have a look without downloading
http://www.multi.fi/~elvis/quakemap/hellvill.zip <- map
http://www.geocities.com/elvstrom/quakemap/hellvill1.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/elvstrom/quakemap/hellvill2.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/elvstrom/quakemap/hellvill3.jpg
all taken from sp 

Rofls.