Washed out? You must have a bright monitor, it looks fine to me. Screenshots end up as really dark TGA's, I up the gamma to about 1.5 to 1.9 depending and they look better. 

What does anyone use to export Q1 skins? I have Qped which manages PAK files, it can view the skins properly, but you can't export it - just the .MDL. If I open the MDL with "MDL", the skin colors are fucked. Or if theres a resource for Q1 monster base skins... 

quakeme 

Yeah I just found it, thanks anyway :D 

So I'm testing my skin in progress, have added it to the MDL, then it's going in a custom pak. QME has a limit of 20 frames, cannot export Ogre.mdl and MDL 'Quake Model Editor' says 'floating point overflow' :| 

If you're just looking to swap the skin on a model, adquedit will suffice. But because it's such a handy program to have around in full, I'd recommend getting the full version of QMe. t's handy for editing the mesh or animations of a model, plus gives you a preview of the skin on the model straight off. Add to that the two click removal of any fullbrights, and it's more useful than anything else. The full version of 3.0 can be found at http://www.edgefiles.com/files/9100.html
You can use the patch that comes with the 3.1 demo to turn this into the full version of 3.1. 

Thanks about the full QME but the file is not at any of the servers linked there. I'll go hunt around for adquedit. 

Scroll down to the external mirror site link. 

Got it thanks. 

What is it that the doors are doing/not doing wrongly?

I can see that you have some multiple-triggers that seem to be unattached, but give us a clue and someone will help. 

Here's some shots of some terrain I'm working on using the triangle method. Generally I'm doing this in seperate groups of tris and then join all them together at some point.

www.phait-accompli.com/q/crap/ter1.jpg
www.phait-accompli.com/q/crap/ter2.jpg
www.phait-accompli.com/q/crap/ter3.jpg
www.phait-accompli.com/q/crap/ter_ed.jpg

In the 1st shot on the grey bit theres shadows, this is because that group isn't finished - some tri points aren't met with other points to provide a cleaner terrain - don't want the player getting snagged on this, although you could place clip brushes. 

Autolink these bitches..

http://www.phait-accompli.com/q/crap/ter1.jpg
http://www.phait-accompli.com/q/crap/ter2.jpg
http://www.phait-accompli.com/q/crap/ter3.jpg
http://www.phait-accompli.com/q/crap/ter_ed.jpg 

in the last shot I can see a vertex meeting the middle of an edge in the top-down view; surely that's not a good idea, as it might not line up ingame? 

Could you circle the area you see this in? Worldcraft reports no problems, and neither does quake. I've made a flatter, bigger mound recently. 

When using the triangle method is to never have more than three triangles sharing the same point...otherwise it can look too artificial.

There's a good tutoral map at gamedesign.net for doing the triangle method. 

"triangle method" is called 'trisouping'. 

I am the definitive Quake resource on this board because they pay me to glue models together at Raven. But when the Bobs stop by Madison, I'll have the same fate as Michael Bolton. 

"triangle method" is also called 'trisouping'

Is that better? 

Are you confusing me with Starbuck again? (Hint: same colour name != same person) 

D'oh 

Good rule of thumb? Try "geometrically impossible".

Six, maybe (four is the minimum). I'd be more inclined to fuck rules of thumb off entirely in this case. 

Are you confusing me with Starbuck again? (Hint: same colour name != same person)


No, but if you have the same 1st letter and the same number of letters in your name, then you're the same person ;) 

Well I was only implying the confusion was caused by nick color and not.....
oh shit 

Try "geometrically impossible".

You just aren't trying hard enough 

I got a *** WARNING 22: Healing degenerate edge at (43 -168 224) in all 3 hulls in a map I'm working on. Your tooltips say to not really worry about it, but I'm wondering why I'm getting this error now when I haven't gotten it before. I have indeed changed a couple things, but none of them were in the region that gave the warning.