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This is the place to ask about mapping problems, techniques, and bug fixing, and pretty much anything else you want to do in the level editor.

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No 
None of the hardware engines do.
Fitzquake does have and r_showtris command though, which may help you accomplish the same thing.
Set r_showtris to 1 to draw all triangles in PVS, set it to 2 to draw only visible triangles. 
Thanks Czg 
 
Vis Help... 
It seems that the vis.exe that I am using is ancient... Could someone please point me to the "latest and greatest"? This would be for Quake.

Thank you in advance. 
Ahem... 
I recommend everything that's here:
http://user.tninet.se/~xir870k/ 
Quake WADs 
Does anyone have a site with a lot of texture WADs for Quake? I already have id, hipnotic, rogue, cr8, knave, ogro2, hexen2, praevus, speedbase and zer and am looking for more stuff like rubicon, dkt textures and others. 
Jago 
i thought madfox made some textures... 
Jago Jago 
I have a lot of those wads, but I don't know of any currently active site that has those. 
Waddage 
This is why I can't wait to upgrade my hosting, I'll host wads. 
Bal... 
Thank you. 
Jago 
buzzsaw.gamedesign.net has dkt wads.

metlslime has rubicon in some sub-basement of his site; i forget the exact link, ask him.

planetquake.com/fatty has a few. frib has some that you probably already have.

others? get some q3 packs and convert your own. 
Where Can I Get Q1rad 
the lighting program with some calculated reflections. haven't found with google. fat controller's site had a link but it was old. I had it on the old hd... 
On Riot's Site 
Textures 
speedy has some, and rpg too i seem to remember. 
Thanks Aguirre! 
 
Bambuz 
Speedy's textures I already have (and had them listed in my post) and RPG's site doesn't seem to have any textures. I now got the Daikatana wads as well (thanks Bal!) and am looking for Rubicon and others. 
Correct 
There are no texture wads housed at my site. What I meant was, I could e-mail them if necessary, or I could upload them somewhere if someone pointed out an archival site that I could access. 
Off The Wall Question 
You can call me lazy, but I was wondering if there was a program to create simple brushwork from a diagram? For example, 2d blueprints would create the whole level in brushes 128 units tall, which could be used as a "base" for making the map?


I am trying to easily translate doodles into maps :) 
Yeah, I Remember This Coming Up Before 
inertia, I think I know where to look the program. Give me a moment. 
Here We Go 
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/games/PC/idgames2/utils/level_edit/converters/bmp2map6.zip

It works but is by know means perfect. No Z plane beyond the 1/2Z implementation of the original Doom. Any curved line will be translated into ugly blocks. It's worth messing around with though. 
Headthump 
u rock, thanks

too bad i am on a mac and would need the src code to use it on here... oh well, will mess around with it later! 
Alpha Channels & You : A Winning Team 
OK so I'm trying to create a decal for usage in my HL2 map. I basically just want it to be "weathered" looking text -- that is to say, the texture is just a word that has some slight erosion.

So I read this tutorial : http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Creating_Decals

And I read some other tutorials.

And my final result is this : http://blitz.circa1984.com/help_alpha.JPG

Looks like it will work, right? Wrong. It doesn't work. I'm exporting as a .tga, checking off the option to save the alpha channels, and generally doing everything else right as far as I can tell. But for some reason it's just not recognizing the alpha channel, and only showing the "diffuse" part of the texture.

Please help me if you can because I have been trying to figure this out for a while now, but I can't pinpoint where I'm going wrong.

Thanks 
I'm Sure This Won't Be Applicable 
but do you need to make a shader for that texture or something? I have no idea, just taking a stab. 
I Made The Shader 
But that doesn't matter, because it's not even working in a regular image viewing app -- Ifranview, Photoshop itself, etc. 
Hmmm 
You have your alpha channel at 100 percent opacity. Is that recommended in the tutorial? 
Maybe Not, 
Looks like a different version of PS than my PS6.
Your pulldown window says 'normal channel.' 
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