Multiple WADs
#8669 posted by JneeraZ on 2009/06/16 11:55:06
I'm not familiar with how editors work with multiple WADs so as I add support for them into ToeTag, I'm going to have a few questions. Heh.
OK, so if you load up 2 WADs that have a texture inside of them with the same name, what happens? Say you load WAD1 and WAD2 and they each have a texture called BLAH -- what do level editors commonly do about that? Hold them both? Only use the first one they see?
WC
#8670 posted by RickyT33 on 2009/06/16 12:16:08
will show all of them in alphabetical order, and it will show two of any textures the same. So when I have a load of IDbase wads loaded there are often two or three of each of the common textures in a row on the display......
#8671 posted by JneeraZ on 2009/06/16 12:27:37
Excellent info, thanks!
OK, so how does the UI work for Worldcraft?
How do you load multiple WADs? How do you unload a WAD you no longer want (or can you)? Are you just editing the worldspawn key/values or is there an actual dialog box for it?
You Go To Tools=> Options
#8672 posted by RickyT33 on 2009/06/16 13:14:09
Which brings up a dialogue with several tabs ranging from 2d diplay options, your build programs, and one of them "is textures". Here you find a list of your current wads and the options to remove any you have highlighted and to load other wads. You can load as many wads as you like,and they will appear straight away in your textures. Removing a wad from the list requires a restart.
You cant actually see any textures from here.
You get to see all of the textures whenever you enter "texturing mode" (or whatever they call it). If you enter texture mode via a button on the left margin of the screen. If you press the button with brushes highlighted then all of the faces of those brushes become highlighted. A 90 degree right angle symbol appears in the middle of each face to make it easy to see what angle it is at.
A small dialogue appears near the right of the screen with a picture of the current texture on it. Beneath the texture are all of you alignment buttons (left, right, mcenter, top, bottom, fit) and your integer fields for x and y scaling and x and y position, and angle. There is a button beneath the picture of you current texture to open a window where you can see all of the textures you have loaded, and select another one. You can narrow the textures being shown to you by typing letters in a sort of search field.
As for the worldspawn, you never have to worry about that, WC just adds the correct paths into the worldspawn whenever it exports its RMF format into a MAP file. Along with a nice annoying key "mapversion" which it gives the value "220" and you have to remove it manualy (unless you have the utility "nomapversion.exe") :P
#8673 posted by JneeraZ on 2009/06/16 15:33:12
Oh OK, so it's a global setting and not set up per map. Alright, thanks!
Heh, I Can't Stop
#8674 posted by negke on 2009/06/18 22:20:38
Suppose this won't work, but asking anyway:
A push that only works when being touched from a certain direction like regular triggers with an angle field? Perhaps with a movedir/angles combo, or bastardized use of trigger_push_touch?
Same Textures In Multi-wads
#8675 posted by roblot on 2009/06/19 02:52:35
I was making some custom wads lately with the same textures in them and the BSP editor i'm using shows just one of them (a 2 frame animation). I was wondering though, has anyone been able to load a 512 by 512 texture in their editor? The biggest i got to see and use are 128 by 512, and 256 by 256. The wad i made with a 512 by 512 texture shows correctly in a wadviewer i got, but shows up as a 32 by 32 white texture in BSP.
Nvidia Driver Conflict With WC 1.6
#8676 posted by Orl on 2009/06/19 16:22:39
This is just as a heads up for anyone still using Worldcraft 1.6 (myself) and who has the latest nvidia drivers. Apparently, if your driver version is anything higher than 182.50, your 3d view in WC will look something like this:
http://qrf.mine.nu/~orl/misc/wc.png
However, enabling the hardware acceleration option will fix the 3d view problem, unfortunately that also raises the other problem of not being able to select any object within the 3d view.
Again, anything higher than version 182.50 of the nvidia driver will result in WC's 3d view going crazy, and essentially useless.
Wait
#8677 posted by Drew on 2009/06/19 16:33:26
you can make triggers only work from a specific angle!?
Play
#8678 posted by ijed on 2009/06/19 16:35:25
Negke's tall map - Skinny Norris I think it's called. Have to take the puzzle route.
To have an angle trigger make the angle something other than 0.
Orl
#8679 posted by ijed on 2009/06/20 02:09:20
Find the openGL.dll that I posted earlier in the thread and put it in your wc folder. It might fix the problem.
Drew, Ijed
#8680 posted by negke on 2009/06/20 09:01:22
Or simply: the start map ("this hall selects.." triggers)
#8681 posted by JneeraZ on 2009/06/20 11:16:34
Wow, I NEVER noticed that the start map triggers did that. All these years, so weird...
Ijed
#8682 posted by Orl on 2009/06/20 15:51:23
Sorry, but I can't seem to locate the openGL.dll you had mentioned. I checked this Mapping Help thread, but found nothing. Care to point me in the right direction?
Pipes And Curves
#8683 posted by gb on 2009/06/20 18:18:38
czg's curve tutorial, does someone have a link to it with the pictures intact?
Wouldn't this and the hiprotate tutorial be something to archive at quaddicted?
#8684 posted by JneeraZ on 2009/06/20 19:16:39
Thanks
#8685 posted by gb on 2009/06/20 20:20:04
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That's it, indeed. I can never remember this stuff :-P
#8686 posted by Drew on 2009/06/22 07:16:08
maybe a dumbass question. working on a sm, tested it out - a door moves. perfect right? added some more stuff, now it doesn't trigger.
its a lowering platform, and a setpiece that I need to keep. any ideas whats going on here?
#8687 posted by necros on 2009/06/22 07:41:21
you said it was a lowering platform, which would imply it's pretty big.
are there any doors that come close to intersecting it? it might be linking.
#8688 posted by RickyT33 on 2009/06/22 11:31:22
Yeah
Try the "door dont link spawnflag" on this door and any other doors near it.......
QBSP Error
#8689 posted by negke on 2009/06/22 14:25:47
Help! What could be the problem here??
TxQBSP 1.13 -- Modified by Bengt Jardrup
Inputfile: trinca/genitals.map
Outputfile: trinca/genitals.bsp
------ LoadMapFile ------
18 faces
3 brushes
2 entities
3 miptex
8 texinfo
Building hulls sequentially...
Processing hull 0...
------ Brush_LoadEntity ------
----+----+
3 brushes read
------ CSGFaces ------
----+----+
18 brushfaces
18 csgfaces
18 mergedfaces
------ SolidBSP ------
************ ERROR ************
SubdivideFace: Didn't split the polygon near (0 0 4), caralho1_2
1 warning
Elapsed time : 0:00
Peak memory used : 0.1 MB
Looks Like A Fault QBSP
#8690 posted by Spirit on 2009/06/22 14:31:36
It should process CZGFaces, not CSGFaces!
Trinca/genitals.bsp
#8691 posted by JneeraZ on 2009/06/22 14:43:08
rofl
#8692 posted by Trinca on 2009/06/22 15:32:59
negke miss my penis -:|
u�re such a hore!
Negke
#8693 posted by JPL on 2009/06/22 16:13:38
Texture may be scaled too small, if I remember well... Check aguirRe's tool tips
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