i already expected it to be impossible. thanks for clarifying. 

Are there extent AI mods that would give monsters (I'm thinking an enemy human-type thing) the ability and logic to duck-and-cover and work as teams and stuff like that? 

make spikeshooters fire diagonally in Q1?

If so, how? 

Do you mean 45 degrees down, for example? Then no, AFAIK. Otherwise, yes. 

I want two shooters mounted on the ceiling firing in an "X" pattern. Both downward and 45 degrees inward.

Nothing can be easy :-(

anyway, straight downward will do. I figured out how to do that at least. 

Diagonal shooters are easy to do. Info_notnull with these fields

use spikeshooter_use
targetname blah
wait -1
spawnflags as for desired spikeshooter
movedir vec

Where vec is a vector in the direction you want the spikes to fire. The velocity the spikes are fired at is 500*vec, so to match standard quake behaviour this should be a vector of unit length. Of course, the advantage of this method is you can actually control how fast the spike fires by varying vec - I hadn't thought of that before.

This sets up a triggered spikeshooter, if you want a constantly firing one the setup is a little different:

think shooter_think
wait n
nextthink 3
spawnflags as for desired spikeshooter
movedir vec

Be warned you need something else in the level to precache the required entities, like a regular shooter of the required type.

inertia: AI_Cafe is a good place to start looking, there's certainly an example of making enforcers duck there
http://minion.planetquake.gamespy.com/index3.html

Working in teams is a bit more vague though, as the quake AI atttacks are basically relentless and crude. There's only so much teamwork you can put into constantly spamming grenades until you die. If you had something more specific in mind, like say navigating more sensibly in packs rather than the current all rush straight at the player and collide, then maybe... 

I want to have really intelligent packs of enemies, so that the whole "assault a base" thing could be done in a more tactical style. 

I hope I understood that. Thank you Preach!

TROUBLE: Building E1M2
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I need help. I am trying to build e1m2.map, straight from Romero's zip file.

QBSP gives me a warning about texture +1SLIPBOT not found. Of course, there is no such texture in wizard.wad! Is the map file faulty? I went the extra mile and downloaded wizard.wad from quaddicted. Problem remains. I changed that face to wiz1_4 or something, warning is gone, but:

QBSP then doesn't write a .prt file for no apparent reason. Sorry, I have no idea of the details involved, just trying to build the map. The wad is in a dir named gfx in the same folder as QBSP, the map wants gfx/wizard.wad. That should be OK.

Following that, vis says "no prt file found" and exits :-(

I have built an original and a modified e1m1.map without problems with the same setup. Got a .prt file without problems.

Qbsp does NOT give any error messages, just no .prt file.

Aguire ? 

...I've spike shooters firing at all sorts of angles in qte2m2? I'll check tonight, but I pretty sure all I did was add an "angles" field to the shooters then plug in pitch and yaw. 

so you're thinking like, sneak into the storage shed, unscrew a light bulb so that someone from across the couryard notices it and comes over to investigate, kill him, but then hide the body so that nobody notices it and sounds the alarm, then throw a pine cone over behind the trucks so that they guards hear it and go investigate, leaving the front gate unguared when approaching from the west, then sneak up and garrote the other guard, then take his keycard and use it to recode the security locks... 

All is fine. I have a prt file.

I fixed two leaks in e1m2. One was two parts of a slanted roof not lining up, the other involved some seriously twisted brushes (like, really deformed.)

qbsp had silently (grrr) produced point files, which contained leaks that quest didn't see. 

yeah except the player would have a sneaking suit.


and a box.

or a few boxes. 

...adding the "angles" field with value "pitch, yaw, roll" to the shooter was how I got them to fire at angles. 

That sounds way easier. thanks distrans :-) 

I'm still missing the fishcount correction for my progs.dat of the proxsys mod.
Where can I find a good fish.qc ? Or was it qstats?

Also still searching for the angle error of the newboss. 

it's a one-line fix. Just look at the swimmonster_start and swimmonster_start_go and related fish functions; you should notice that there's two copies of the line that increments the monster count, and you just delete one of those copies.

(this is from memory so the details may be wrong, but I know that if you look at the source, it becomes ovbvious.) 

but I'm a madcap when it's concerning qc.
even changing a line and correct it makes the compiler peak to errors.
I'm using fricdos, others won't even compile.

and I see two times swimmonsters_start but I can't delay them. If I delete the first one the fishcount still is double. 

Hopefully an obvious one.
I was sitting around with some free time today so I decided to try and make a little speedmap. However I've encountered a frustrating problem along the way...

I have three doors, all with different names. They all go down. They are all within a close proximity to eachother. I have a trigger_counter that causes one set of doors to go down. When this happens the other two doors that do not yet have triggers also go down. Any ideas as to why?
I tried copying and pasting, then changing the name of one door. No doors moved at all, even when triggered... Can someone help with this?
Thanks 

if the doors' bounding boxes overlap or touch, they might be automatically linked by the func_door logic. To prevent this, you can use the spawnflag "DONT_LINK" or whatever it's called on each door. 

does the same logic affect func_trains? 

i don't think so. 

How do I open a Keydoor at the moment I'm in front of it? So not when I find the key somewhere else and return to an open keydoor. 

set a spawnflag on the door (8 or 16 I think, one is for silver and the other is for gold) 

In Hammer/Worldcraft there is a "Gold key required" tick box in the properties field of a door entity. This way you can change the proper spawnflag. If your editor doesn't have such simple "feature" you should really change it :) 

I am using Quark65, and when I set a door to a key it changes the spawnflag to 8 or 16. If I return to the keydoor it is already opened.