answers are almost certainly easy but i found it frustrating trying to get textures showing up in gtkradiant.

i've installed the 1.5 beta from www.qeradiant.com, set the engine to quake, set the correct path and opened a .map file (it was bambuz's 108 speedmap), and all the textures are "not found". ok so i have to extract the textures from the .bsp file, or i can download something like quakewad.zip to get them (assuming the map uses only the original textures).

i downloaded quakewad.zip, opened the .map file again and all but one of the textures appeared in the "used textures" frame. i'm assuming the texture still "not found" was because it was a custom texture or quakewad.zip isn't the way to go.

so my first question is if something like quakewad.zip is a good way to get the original quake textures for use in an editor?

then when starting a new map and making a brush i want to apply a texture to it. with a brush selected i bring up the "surface inspector" and i can type a texture name in, and can't see a way to select a texture from any kind of list unless it was already used.

so my second question is if this is how you do it? or if things are configured correctly are all the available textures meant to be displayed in the texture menu after the separator? 

the lava texture is from the team fortress pak file. (pak0 or pak1.pak) Get the equake tf addon pak (from quakeworld.us) if you want that tex :)

You can rip textures of maps and paks with programs. One at least comes with worldcraft. 

of course you can get the texture directly from the bsp too with some util... :P 

How do i prevent cracks on bezier patches?

how *do* i prevent that? :P

http://www.planetquake.com/necros/temp/patch.jpg

you can see that the highlighted patch doesn't match with the one joined to it (they are seperate patches)

how can i get them to have the same amount of sides so they line up? 

Apparently, GTKRadiant 1.5 will read .wad files directly from quake's id1 directory. You would have to extract the textures out of a bsp file manually, with a program like Wally. 

This will also disable fullbrights on torches, muzzle flares, and lightning bolts. 

works perfectly. 

i'm hopelessly behind the times, but help me out here... :P

basically, for my d3 map, i wanted to have a few specific settings that will be used for that map only, and they are all cvars... (namely, wanting to tweak g_kickamplitude and g_kicktime a bit to reduce 'owl neck' and pm_walkspeed to a *ahem* proper movement speed.

is there some kind of way to exec a cfg file or something? i can't even get an autoexec.cfg file to work-- i added g_kicktime 0 to my autoexec, but it gets reset on every level anyway. :P 

Not sure if your serious or not..., but select your patch, press s, check subdivide patch and adjust horizontal to suit. 

This will also disable fullbrights on torches, muzzle flares, and lightning bolts

I didn't really see any big differences about what you mentionned here... errr... though the effect might be for sure different with different engines.. At the moment I only checked the command with aguirRe's engine and FitzQuake.. I will took a much more carefull look on this point...

In anyway, thanks for the tips. 

what the hell is owl-neck? i've never played it, so i'd love some explanation :) 

When you take damage, your view swings around like crazy, which makes fighting the fast melee monsters quite annoying, as when they start inflicting damage to you, it becomes pretty damn hard to aim and fire at them properly to get them to shut the hell up. 

Not sure if your serious or not..., but select your patch, press s, check subdivide patch and adjust horizontal to suit.

cool, thanks for that. i think i'm just blind, actually. o.0 

 

This will also disable fullbrights on torches, muzzle flares, and lightning bolts

Metlslime, I checked what you said, and you were right (sorry, I would have to believe you... thousands apologies... :P... ).
However, I made further tests, and the results is I have to choose my textures very carefully. Then I guess I can keep gl_fullbrights 0 in my config file, just because:

1- My new project uses DKT1/3 texture sets which are globally base/modern textures (nothing like mediaval gothic stuff, only metal, computer, etc..) so I will use no torches... The idea is to try to be as consistent as possible, like I was with CDA using only DKT3 textures...

2- The "light-effect" rendering ingame (i.e using FitzQuake) can be balanced adding lights at judicious positions... I guess it wil be the same with other engines. I also made the test with flashing electric textures, and it was not bad at all IMHO...

3- I will try to avoid lightning bolt gun use in this map to solve the issue you mentionned above (removing it from the map is an option...)

In fact, I think the visual effect can be equivalent with or without gl_fullbrights set or not... I just have to take care about what I do..

I will post screenshots later to let you see the effects.. ;) 

Dude. Seriously. Just fix the textures. 

Ok, is it just me, or do HL2 displacements actually suck complete arse? What the fuck is that TERRIBLE displacement editor in Hammer? Effectively a displacement has the flexibility of a patch in Max, but the tools are designed as to make editing its geometry in an kind of meaningful way a near impossibility.

Seriously fucking dissapointed... Is there any way I can move the displacement vertices around like vertices of a brush?

Or maybe someone has some handy tips or a link to a good guide... 

It will be better if you fix the textures instead. It is very easy, even if you have no experience with TexMex. 

shutting off fullbrights to fix crappy textures = cheap hack
fixing said textures = proper fix. 

cross posted with rpg! :o 

JPL ffs listen to fribbles
It takes 5 mins MAX and if you dont know how to do it ill do it for you ok? just come on irc or something and message me 

OK OK calm down please...... I downloaded TexMex yesterday, and I've just made a quick test some minutes ago. It sounds quite easy to modify textures while I still didn't find a Q1 palette related features to convert DKT textures... Is it existing at least ?? Unless it was this brightness adjustement feature... Well... I'll made further tests and I will see if it works well or not... The map is at its beginning, so there is around... hmmm.. 20 seconds of building (TxQBSP, fullvis, tyrLite)... so not a big deal to test the textures ;) 

call3 450 setsize setsize
plats.qc: plats_spawn_inside_trigger
plats.qc: func_plat
no function
backwards mins/max
host error:program error

fuh loads it. there is a plat in the map. 

- send me the map.

- also, try it in aguirre's engine. 

Some tips:

- You need to use brushes of equal size if you want the displacement surfaces of two seperate brushes to attatch cleanly with no hassle.

- To move the displacement vertices as you would a single vertex on a brush, set the 'Radius' to 0 and the terrain tool snaps to the point where the vertices meet.

- Displacements don't work on brushes with more than 6 sides.

- Only select the face you need the displacements to show up on (as you would texture a single face) when you create your patch

http://blitz.circa1984.com/blitz_06_16_ver20009.jpg
http://blitz.circa1984.com/blitz_06_16_ver20002.jpg

You can make some very nice dirt piles and rock formations with a little work ;)

If you have any other troubles, get on #tf or send me an IM at 'lolleyballz'