I figured there would be issues like that. My gravel path shall continue to fail the existence test. Thanks for the explanation though, good to have my suspicions confirmed. 

I remember some fantastic-looking hi-res textures of earthy/rocky paths blending into the grass on the sides, made for Oblivion. They might not be exactly what you're looking for but they could be worth checking out for inspiration. 

It would be nice, and maybe i'll take a look in that direction, but i'm not too invested in this idea and frankly finding an appropriate wad or making one myself would take far too much effort for the results i'm looking to get.

You can see where the path would go here, on the grass with the two dogs. It's a pretty small area and so i'm just going to drop the issue now. 

Called quake texture tool.

Allows you to blend two textures together. I've tried it and it gives mixed results. Give it a whirl, you could probably get better results using other methods, but the tool is pretty quick.

https://www.quaddicted.com/files/tools/quake_texture_tool_v0_1_0.zip 

There's a nice one in : <a href="https://www.quaddicted.com/files/wads/ik2k.zip_ik2k.wad.jpg">9th row, on the right.. it looks better than that preview, i think it's 128x128 

preview image 

someone needs to come up with something cool with fence textures acting as decals. especially if they move... 

that does look nice (judging by the preview) but I'm not seeing any corner pieces; that's what's stopped me from using the hexen 2 textures too, since that's where my grass is from right now; it has a dirt path, but there's no texture for the inner corner so it's pretty useless. 

Can't you find a way to make a corner yourself with two 45-degree-cut brushes and play with texture alignment so the seam isn't too noticeable? 

Perhaps, but historically it hasn't worked very well. The hexen textures have a very nice blend into the dirt texture, with defined blades of grass that'd make it difficult to capture the same effect with brushwork (i'd say impossible).

Trying to make up for texture deficiencies with brushwork is normally a losing battle. Quake's gridsize only goes so small, after all. 

Just fire up Zendar and look at the ground in the opening valley. That sort of thing is the best way of doing it I think.

Quake's all a bit "squint your eyes and it kinda works". There's no point getting too perfectionist about this. 

Changelog & downloads
website 

My name, preserved in a changelog for all eternity! I'm gonna be so famous! 

Thanks for the update, Eric - and Pritchard :) 

There are 3 .dll's in this release(V0.15.8) that I just downloaded, is that a thing now?

I only ask cause I've never seen anything but .exe's for the build programs until now.

"embree.dll, tbb.dll and tbbmalloc.dll" 

I'm using an external raytracer (embree) in light now, mostly for performance. It's open source (Apache v2) and developed by Intel so it shouldn't be sketchy. The dll's are downloaded from: https://github.com/embree/embree/releases 

Okay, thanks. 

Bounce lighting is a crutch

i blame you for my lazy light work ericw >:( 

I would say exoskeleton rather than crutch. Nice lazy light work, Pritch, I love the chiaroscuro effect. 

Thanks, it's always nice to get compliments with fancy words I have to Google. I'm not really ashamed of how much I'm abusing the feature, it's a wonderful way to get smooth, soft lighting (those jagged edges are with soft and extra4!). I try to rely on visible sources where possible so having them reach as far as possible is a great help in a lot of ways.

I will say though that it's a shame it doesn't work for switchable lights! That's how I ended up with that before and after pic, adding a targetname to the light... Ruined my idea of an ambush in the dark... 

"I try to rely on visible sources where possible so having them reach as far as possible is a great help in a lot of ways."
I haven't reached the point where I try this feature yet, but I bet it indeed saves a lot of time by making the placement of additional ambient lights unnecessary.

"I will say though that it's a shame it doesn't work for switchable lights!"
Hmmm... Eric? Would that be within the realm of possibilities for a future update? 

I'll look into it! It was something I left out initially to keep things simpler. Nice screenshots! 

Any chance of supporting the "brush primitives" map format (like how we support Valve 220) ?

As far as I am aware, the "brush primitives" format was introduced for Quake 3 engine games, and is supported by GTKRadiant-based editors. It's like Valve 220 in that it allows textures to be projected properly on the brush face, instead of just the coordinate axes. I don't know too much about it, but there's an overview of the various map formats here:

http://quark.sourceforge.net/infobase/src.topics.face.html 

Cool! 

Should be doable, I imagine I can just grab the code from q3map2. I'll just need to find q3 map sources that use that format to test it with.