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Tyrutils-ericw V0.15.1
Hey, I got around to setting up a website for my branch of tyrutils: (complete with lots of screenshots of different settings of AO, sunlight, etc!)
http://ericwa.github.io/tyrutils-ericw
and making an "official" release of it.

Nothing major changed compared with the last snapshot (may 1st), but a couple new things:

* .lux file support from Spike, for deluxemapping
* gamma control with -gamma flag and "_gamma" key
* rename -dirty flag to -dirt for consistency
* fence texture tracing is now opt-in only with the "-fence" flag.
* light should run a bit faster


This doesn't have lit2. Not sure what to do with that, tbh.

If there's a demand for it, I was thinking I could make a tool that upscales all textures in a wad by 2x or 4x, and adds a "-2x"/"-4x" suffix to the names. You could then manually get the higher-res lightmap on certain faces by applying the upscaled texture, and lowering the texture scale to 0.5 or 0.25 in your editor.

The only real disadvantage of this hacky method over lit2 is more face subdivision by qbsp. This isn't great, but it shouldn't be an issue if the hack is used sparingly (and bsp2 can be used if needed for higher face/vert limits.)

Anyway, enjoy, I hope this is pretty bug-free.
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Azure Agony 
Used black for its teleport texture.

I think you mean teleport. Portal is something created by vis.

That's not a terrible idea but I think it would serve better as an entity field: _overridecontents 1 or something to that effect. 
 
Just copy the teleport texture and call one copy *lavateleport and the other one *slimeteleport in your wad file. 
Oh 
thats brilliant. 
New Stuff 
v0.15.10-beta2

I've been working on qbsp, and did a rewrite of func_detail to fix the vis problem. The big change is, func_detail no longer seals the map (which makes more sense anyway IMHO). No more of this! (baker's shot of a way-too-big-PVS from some spot in ad_mountain).

Also, I added a bunch of func_detail variants (illusionary, wall, fence) described in more detail on the release page. Thanks for the suggestions, mankrip, and Spike a while ago.

This is still bleeding edge so it's marked as a beta, and I still haven't fixed the light issue you reported Pritchard. 
Func_detail 
I didn't think that had ever cut vis. I know it doesn't in GoldSrc/Source. Was func_detail something third-party FGDs added to Quake? 
 
Yeah it was something added later to the Quake tools - afaik originating in Quest.

It's not that func_detail blocked vis, but certain setups would cause bogus portals (what negke is reporting in #835) resulting in bogus vis results. 
YAY! 
 
@ericw 
light: styled lights no longer bounce by default, set "_bouncestyled" "1" to enable.

Just want to confirm this means bounce is disabled on id's lightstyles "flicker, pulse" etc.?

Is that set in worldspawn or on the light entity or both? 
@dumptruck_ds 
Yep, it's for flicker/pulse and also lights that start off and are switched on. The "_bouncestyled" key is on worldspawn and affects all the flickering / switchable lights in the map.

(The first release I did with bounce lighting didn't support having those lights bounce; now they can, but it's opt-in.) 
@ericw 
great. thanks for all your hard work on these tools. 
 
thanks for -forceprt1 - I was always editing prt file in text editor to load it to JACK :P 
 
thanks for -forceprt1 - I was always editing prt file in text editor to load it to JACK :P 
Why Is The Win32 Download 
about half the size of the Linux and Win64 versions? 
32 Is Half Of 64 
duh! 
Oh, Ummm, Haha, Yeah... 
I'm still running a 32-bit system, I didn't realize that doubling the bits would also double file sizes. Makes sense. 
 
would it increase compiling time if i added "_phong_ to my "func_detail" entry in FGD and thereby all my func_detail? 
 
would it increase compiling time if i added "_phong_ to my "func_detail" entry in FGD and thereby all my func_detail? 
 
If "_phong" "1" is set on every func_detail there will be a little overhead, maybe 10% slower, but nothing major.

The main thing I would watch for is unwanted smoothing. The default _phong_angle is 89 which might be a bit high (face normals up to 89 degrees apart will get smoothed together). Check with a "-phongdebug" compile and set r_lightmaps 1 in the engine to see what is getting smoothed. 
Update 
downloads:
https://github.com/ericwa/tyrutils-ericw/releases/tag/ericw-v0.15.10

- light: add "_shadowworldonly" bmodel key - only cast shadows on world, not other bmodels.
- light: switchable bmodel shadows (requires QuakeC support, see light manual).
- light: accept "_minlight" in worldspawn as an alias for "light"
- light: handle degenerate faces, print out the vertex coordinates

- qbsp: misc_external_map prefab system (see qbsp manual)
- qbsp: don't write unused texinfo
- qbsp: rewrite outside filling similar to q3map
- qbsp: revert change to SubdivideFace which was increasing faces a bit (see 53743dd)
- qbsp: add -expand option to dump the hull expansion to a "expanded.map", from q3map
- qbsp: add -leaktest option to abort compilation when a leak is found, from qbsp3
- qbsp: fix handling of duplicate planes, which was causing id1 maps to leak
- qbsp: try to get more reliable leaf content assignment (see a910dd8)

- bsputil: --check: print BSP tree heights at the first few levels of the tree
- bsputil: --check: check for unreferenced texinfo, vertices, planes
- bsputil: --check: print number of used lightstyles
- misc: travis-ci now runs qbsp on all id1 maps, the build fails if any maps leak 
 
Hey, thanks for this!
I was using beta for a while.
Awesome improvements! 
Leaky 
Weren't there changes to how func_detail brushes are handled? My map's more like a sieve now...

In other news, the removal of the Reload pointfile button from TB was a crime. A CRIME! There is far too much clicking involved now.

Do you know if that lighting bug I reported when the beta first came out was ever fixed? It's still an open issue on Github, but flying around my map I haven't spotted anything particularly nasty (by quake lighting standards) 
 
Don't use func_detail to seal your map. 
DoN'T UsE FuNc_DeTaiL TO SeAl YoUr MaP 
It was never my intention to use func_detail to seal my map. Think of it more along the lines of func_detail sealed my map, so when I ran QBSP it didn't catch the leaks and instead allowed the map to be VISed etc.

Most of the map is actually func_detail. And most of it is capped off with far simpler world brushes to seal it. But I missed a good two dozen tiny corners and gaps it seems, and that wasn't revealed until now.

Anyway I'm sure that's the least of my bad practices when it comes to VIS. Half of the map is in a giant box right now... 
Func_detail Doesn't Seal Anymore 
I know it's a disruptive change, and makes a lot of existing maps leak, but it was necessary to fix the longstanding bug with vis seeing through walls when func_detail is used.

qbsp has an -omitdetail flag now which should make it easier to see the worldspawn leaks in-engine, or hide all func_detail in trenchbroom; hopefully it's not too bad to seal up the leaks.

Do you know if that lighting bug I reported when the beta first came out was ever fixed? It's still an open issue on Github
I think I still need to do some work on that.
However, there are 2 things that will help for now:
- enable phong shading on the ground
- seal the map (the way I have light set up currently, it needs t-junctions in order to find neighbouring faces.) 
YAY! 
A func_ that actually behaves as a func_ now!

Pritchard: ah the box trick. I used that for a section of a map once with a lot of angled brushes. Tsk tsk, pure mapping laziness. ;) 
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