did you tried to change worldtype field type to base in worldspawn (i.e value = 2)? It should allow you to have Hi-Tech keys, and a kind of buzzing sounds when doors refuses to open, etc.. Try that and recompile the map.. ;) 

Great - thanks!

Here's another one: Where to get that cool wind sound that plays whenever you enter an outdoor area? Couldn't see it under ambient sounds. 

It is an ambient sound indeed: use ambient_suck_wind point entity where you need to have a wind sound... 

Nope - that wind effect is different (used in Wind Tunnels, for example). The one I'm talking about can be found pretty much from every outdoor area in any hi-tech map. For example, in E1M1 right after you exit the first elevator. 

Oh, this effect comes from the sky, not from an entity. To obtain the same effect, you have to build an open area, with a sky... and maybe you need at least to vis the map to obtain a correct rendering but I'm not sure... Good luck :) 

can be found pretty much from every outdoor area in any hi-tech map

i'm a little confused... the wind sound can be heard in (i think) *every* map since it comes from skybrushes.

but it does indeed need to be vised to hear it. vis sets which areas can 'hear' the sky sound, so when you're in those areas, it seems to come from everywhere and not a specific point. 

Yeah, it seems that all the leaks around the map caused the vising process to fail. I had known of these leaks but I thougth there were just a few of them and that I could take care of them later. So yeah, I spent two hours hunting and fixing them (around 10-15 of them around the map).

Live and learn. 

 

force qbsp to produce a prt file or even use bsp2prt, but it won't exactly reduce fullvis time or improve r_speeds ...

With old versions of TreeQBSP, you could even get a huge and invalid prt file even if the map leaked. Then fullvis would go on for ages and either crash or produce completely invalid PVS data. E.g. sm36 had this issue in 2002. 

I wonder why the game won't show all the leaks in one go - typing "pointfile" only shows one leak at a time. This is why it took so long (two hours) to remove all the leaks.

But anywayz - another question: How to change ALL textures of one tile (say, "floor01") into another (say, "floor02") so that you don't have to change them one by one? 

Use the Replace button on the Texture Browser. Also, read your Worldcraft documentation ;) 

Every WC user should at least once read through the documentation supplied with the program. There are many usefull tools and shortcuts described in there. Many of them are pretty hard to find when just experimenting with editor.
Read the manual. In this case it will make your life a lot easier :) 

Yeah, I've been scanning through some old websites searching for good tutorials. They're usually way better than built-in guides. And I guess I forgot all about the built-in tutorial so...

But anywayz - any suggestions for late evening lighting? I noticed the sky texture itself doesn't emit light like in Quake 3 engine games so everything has to be done manually. Should I use many light entities with little volume or one or two entities with more volume? The point would be, of course, to make it look so that the sky emits the light - not some tiny light sources on the ground. 

With the -sunlight and -sunlight2 parameters for good-looking outdoor lighting ;) 

why sunlight 2? Is it for when you want to set your map on a planet with multiple suns, or is there a more cunning use of it?

Also, are there any light compilers that support radiosity aside from that old one riot made? (where the hell can I find that anyway?) 

is at http://icculus.org/~riot/

I don't know of any others for Quake. 

Helps make the shadows cast by -sunlight not as harsh (i.e. not pure black). 

it's pretty much a blend of varied angles to get a softer shadowing effect. 

...sun_mangle, especially if you're using a skybox that shows the sun. 

I tried viewpos facing directly away from the skybox sun but it's wrong - seems I'm missing some simple change between the coordinates of viewpos and sunmangle.

The idea is to have the light look as if its coming from the correct planar angle and altitude. 

before; there are several formats for specifying a vector in Quake. Viewpos only works for intermission format. For spotlight and sun mangles in Light you use the simpler yaw pitch format.

-sunlight2/3 (the latter is recommended) can be considered "outdoor minlight".

See readme for more details on these subjects and more. 

in WC some of the textures seem alligned, once I fire the map up in quake that is no longer the case. I'm pretty sure theres a command that can be entered to remedy this but I can't remember... any help? 

either -oldaxis or -alternateaxis may work depending on your compiler. Check the docs. 

Yet again ;) 

What will we do without that?

(seriously, color+radiosity in light, tightly controlled and used with the right artistic restraint, looks amazing)