It worked! Huge thanks!! 

Does anyone know how to get this sucker up and running in Windows XP? I got it once on an old machine but it is behaving like a bitch on my new one :(

Thanks in advance :) 

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there are better solutions like gtkradiant... 

Install it and run it except it won't run, but rather it will crawl on any medium to big sized map (unless you have a monstrous CPU). What Vondur said, use GTKRadiant. 

Thats what visgroups are for. 

but it's a pain to be obligated to use them. if i wanted to load up a big map in gtkr and glance at everything at once for last minute checks, i can. it's nice to have the capability, even though you may not use it very often. 

Obligated to use them? I choose to use them, as they make adding new brushes and finding what the hell you're looking at in any 2d view much easier. To each his own, I suppose. 

well, in response to Jago's comment on wc running terribly slow on medium to large maps, you said that you can use visgroups, thereby reducing the amount of stuff on screen.

the point i was trying to make was that gtkr doesn't slow down to a crawl as jago was implying so that, you can still map even on large or medium maps without having to use visgroups to overcome slowness.

in wc, you can choose not to use visgroups yes, but the implication is that the program will run too slow to map properly without them.
thus, you are, more or less obligated to use them if you want to be able to use wc without slowdown. 

No one has Worldcraft 1.6a up and running in Windows XP?

That sorta sucks :( 

and it would probably help if you described in more detail what was wrong with wc, instead of just 'behaving like a bitch' which tells us nothing. 

well, in response to Jago's comment on wc running terribly slow on medium to large maps, you said that you can use visgroups, thereby reducing the amount of stuff on screen.
I probably should have mentioned I havent had this problem since along time ago using my old old p3 550 box. Then again, these days I have a somewhat beefy cpu and lots of memory. Use what you want. I just see alot of digs against worldcraft for *rad, and almost all of them I've never encountered or seen. Maybe I'm just lucky.

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No one has Worldcraft 1.6a up and running in Windows XP?
Err, what? Lots of people do, myself included. What the problem is? 

I have windows xp and run it fine. 

My maps won't compile correctly under the Normal run map settings -- I finally got them working in Expert though :)

Also, do your toolbar buttons lose their images after a compile? Thanx. 

Yeah, don't compile through worldcraft. Open a dos box and run the commands from there. Its much better. 

Obviously you have to export to .map first. 

Any idea where to get the non-shareware version of WorldCraft (for Quake)?

Also - if I wanted to import a bunch of jpg files into Quake editor (WC) what would I have to do? Put them all into one pack using Wally or something? 

http://www.planetquake.com/texmex/

And just import. 

I made a test with GenSurf (not really impressive) and Nemesis' Terrain Generator (wich is really impressive...), but it generates me an amount of compilation errors (like textures/poly misalignment) during TxQBSP process that crashed the BSP elaboration... (no VIS, no Light...) so... so playable BSP...grrr...
I know that some of you guys (Mike Woodham for example if I remember well) are currently using Nemesis' terrain generator tool, so the question is: how do you avoid errors in order to build the BSP ?? Is there a turnaround (without making hand-made terrains) to be able to increase confidence for this tool ?? 

I have not experienced the errors you mention.

But given that NTG works on a grid system and in my editor (BspEditor) the imported NTG file always lines up with the editor's grid, I would suspect you may not have 'snap-to-grid' or something similar in your editor.

I don't see why you should get poly misalignment errors otherwise. I have had up to 32,000 brushes in the editor and although I have had issues, it has never been poly connected.

If you want to e-mail me a small section of a map that is giving this error, I will try it in my editor and see if I can spot anything? 

...although I am a fan of NTG as can be noted from previous posts and my recent releases, if the terrain section is only small, doing it by hand is fairly straightforward even if a bit longwinded ;-) 

I tried to compile the generated terrain only, and this kind of misalignement error remains... I'm using aguirRe's TxQBSP tool, and QuArK editor.
I know there is a snap-to-grid option for polys in Quark, but I didn't use it while I was supposing NTG generates a correctly "grided" file... Well, I have to check if NTG and QuArK grid-settings match at least.. This can perhaps explain why I had this problem...
BTW, is there a quick tutorial that explains all the NTG features somewhere ??? I found by myself how to create mountains and canyon, but I'm not really used with the others features (like smoothing options, etc...), so I need a little bit help.... ;) 

There are some tutorials on Nim's site but his site is still not accessable at the moment. He does not seem to know when it will be as it is an issue outside of his control: global_register PHP setting!

The tools do need explanation and I am not sure that I am the right person for that, but in the meantime you can use the Smoothing tool from the Tool menu at its default settings, and this will certainly get rid of the acutely angled brushes that can be formed using the Raise/Lower tool.

One word of caution though, if you use it on lower slopes it will allow the player to climb the terrain more easily - this may not be the effect you want as terrain is most often used as a barrier to the player.

Also, using generated terrain is any easy way to increase clip-nodes beyond standard limits. This will be dependent on the base triangle size (I use 64 and 128) but you will probably need to use some large clip_brushes in your map if the clip-nodes get into the high 20,000s and you still have standard walls, floors, ceilings to build.

The main thing I did wrong in the early days was to build a fabulous terrain - mountains canyons, water courses etc - and then try to build a map into it. I would suggest that a better course of action is to build the map first and then place terrain sections into it. Fmb_sm40 is a good example of this technique where the terrain is about 12 or so seperate sections. (Of course I use the term 'good example' with tounge firmly in cheek.)

Ummm, don't know if this helps? 

It helps for sure... while I already see that Nemesis web site is down... grrr...
For mu first test, I tried to create the terrain in one pass... even if I have a clear idea about what I need, it's now for sure a bad idea... well, "hierarchization" of the map will save me... I hope.... ;P I have to split the terrain in many parts...
Well, so for the moments, I have to find by myself which settings will be the better for me... Anyway, thanx for your feedback.. 

Is there a way to invoke/emulate a console command from within the game (without the player knowing) by perhaps using a trigger?

I want to 'play' with some ideas but dont want to get into coding. For example (and I dont actually want to do this), 'r_fullbright 1' followed by 'r_fullbright 0' could effectively flash the screen.

Any ideas? 

not without custom qc, no. :\
the hipnotic pack does have an entity for this, i believe.

what is the specific effect you want to achieve? there may still be a way to do it.