The http://www.quakeforge.net/ tools have hint, skip and detail brush support!

Please test those features and report if and how they work. 

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In case you missed it, there also is a multi-threaded VIS tool. Willem did the hard work and Tuna made a bugfix.

Download: http://www.quaddicted.com/tools/wvis_20100119.7z

<Vondur> hmm 7 minutes instead of 32, pretty nice! 

 

this deserved a news thread. :)

i did find one thing that i guess is an oversight:
_sunlight2 has no color settings. _sunlight2 isn't actually a sun, but sort of adds outdoor minlight by creating an array of suns (i guess) in a circular pattern. it would be awesome if this got a color setting like _sunlight does.
you could set a nice bright yellow _sunlight and then a blue _sunlight2 to better simulate outdoor lighting.

also:
tools have hint, skip and detail brush support!

where are these tools? i can only see a link to a custom engine or mod. and would i have to give up bjp_qbsp? 

Quite hidden on the downloads page (simply says "Tools"): http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/quake/quakeforge-tools-0.5.5-win32.zip 

Is this true? If so no map will have a VIS compile time > 15 seconds anymore and a new era of Quake mapping has started I guess. :D 

> _sunlight2 has no color settings.

_sunlight_color2 ;) 

re: 5

thanks for the link. i still don't see it on the main page. just 'downloads' which links to the mod and 'developer tools' which links to some weird stuff that i don't understand. so yeah, pretty well hidden imo.

re: 7

ah ok, i tried _sunlight2_color :P thanks :) 

Direct link to binary and source of this skip/detail/hint brush capable version please.