Wow, I never thought the quake mapping community was still kicking. I've decided to finish my old quake1 DM level which has been sitting on my HD since early 2003. It's a great and pleasant surprise to see there are still enthusiasts to share mapping experiance with :D

Anyway, as I'm trying to relearn everything I've stumbled across an issue. I cannot get the teleporter to work. Everything seems to be correct but I get this error message when loading the level.

Object error in info_teleport_destination:
No targetname

In the map file I have:

Target_teleporter
Target tele1

and

Info_teleport_destination
Targetname tele1

I use GTK radiant 1.2.x something and Sleepwalkers mapconv tool.

Any ideas?

And a happy new year to all of you :D 

"classname" "trigger_teleport"
"target" "XXXXX" 

Make sure it's all lowercase 

Human error this time :P
Thanks for the replys.

And while I'm at it I might just throw you another question :) I want to make a lift that travels up only when a button is pressed. I get everything to work, but the lift starts behaving differently when connecting the func_button to the func_plat obj. Without the button connected the lift starts in "down" mode and raises when a player walks over it. However, when the button is connected the lift starts in the "up" mode. Then goes down when I trigger the button. AND after that it starts behaving as if it wasnt connected to the button. wtf?!

Any help here would be appreciated. I know it's possible to do this :) For example it works in the "Pinion1" map.

Thanks again guys. 

you have to use func_door instead, not a func_plat 

You have to have a door which travels "up", cant remember the exact map file key/value of the top of my head.

You can have it travel a negatve or positive value "up" to 256 or 512 units. And theres a spawnflag for "toggle" (1 press, door opens, another press it will close). An you can link as many buttons or triggers to it as you like :D 

its either 256 or 512 - thats what I meant 

A door can move as far as you want - there is no maximum value. The distance is determined by its "lip" value. 

thx for the quick response mate.

Sorry for spamming the board but any ideas on why I cant get the quad to spawn in? I use the "item_artifact_super_damage".

Also, while I'm at it.. the map is pretty much ready for some testing. Back in the days it was pretty easy to get some help with that, but how do you suggest I go about it today. Can I use this board somehow?

Cheers 

to quad to appear, item_artifact_super_damage must be placed. w/o any SF

btw, is it your maps safe1 and safe2? 

The item ist most likely too close to a wall or the ceiling (has to be 60 units) and thus falls out of the level. Load the map in developer mode ("developer 1" in the console) and you'll see a warning message if that's the case.

If you're looking for beta testers, post a note in the Screenshots & Betas thread. 

Spy: what do you mean with w/o SF?

Yes, I made safe1 and 2 and 3 is pretty much done now as well :P

Oh, developer mode :) Didn't know about that one. Going to try it out now. 

Thx, that really helped! Found a DM spawn point outside the level which for some reason caused the quad to not spawn.. odd.. but it works now :D 

well, beta is ready now :) Thanks for all the quick responses. I'll make a post on the beta board later. 

So say you had a bunch of quad damages in the room. Currently, they will all rotate exactly the same direction and start at the same angle so they are all perfectly in sync.

Is there a way in QuakeC to start them at random angles or change the rotation speed or do anything, really, to break it up and make it look more natural? 

I'd add

self.angles_y = random() * 360;

to the spawn function. This would randomise the angle they face initially, which should make them look better differentiated.

You could also set .movetype to MOVETYPE_NOCLIP and then give them an angular velocity:

self.movetype = MOVETYPE_NOCLIP;
self.avelocity_y = 10 - 20 * random();

I wouldn't recommend this though, because it entirely eliminates the benefit of the client-side rotation built into the model. You'll have constant network updates of the rotation, which seems a bit excessive for the feature. So I'd vote for option 1, but that's how either could be achieved . 

"self.angles_y = random() * 360; "

Well, I tried that but no luck. I also tried putting that into a one shot think function that executed a second after spawning but that didn't work either. I'm currently thinking that the model is being rotated in the cached model itself and then every time it renders, they all pull from that same value or something? 

I should note that I've created a new item using the quad damage model so it's not the ACTUAL quad damage that I'm dealing with here. If that matters... 

Looks like the rotate flag overrides whatever angle you set in qc or the map. The only alternatives are either to remove the rotate flag from the model, and do the rotation using self.avelocity, or to create several frames within the model each with different rotations of the model, and randomise between those frames on spawn. 

Bah! OK, thanks. :) 

Installed Quake on an old win98 computer.
A little curious I couldn't get higher video resolution then 320 x480.
So I decided to install the update 1.08 but this didn't help.
So I installed the SOA pak to see, which also didn't help.
Then Fitzquake or glquake but they start up like mud.

How do I get my quake off the phone resolution? 

the update 1.08 is dos only
get the 1.06

Try winquake? 

It has something to do with the video option screen.
Normally after installing quake it offers a resolution from 320x240 to 800x600, but for some reason the max only goes to 480x320. 

maybe a dumb question, but just how old is this old win98 computer? it's possible the video card doesn't support the higher resolutions? can you find out what kind of video card it has (if any)? 

well, that last question was retarded... it obviously has some kind of video card, what i actually meant was if it had 3d acceleration of if it was one of those ancient ones.