Sometimes the most obvious solution is the hardest one to find... 

I only know because I'm using one in a current map. 

lol. 

I put a keyed door on the floor. It has the lip set so it doesn't actually move. Its right below what was the original keyed door. It's targeted to a trigger_relay and the original keyed door, both named "tryagain". The relay has a delay of 3 seconds and targets the six rising steps.

This works okay. It's not exactly the effect I wanted but I can fool with it from here.

Funny thing, I had the keyed door inset in the floor and it wouldn't get triggered. There were no other brushes overlapping it or anything, it was just like a piece of the floor. I had to move it above the floor to get it to work. I'll have to try that again because I just remembered I also changed it's angle from 0 to "up". Maybe that had something to do with it. 

While testing my level I 've come up to an odd point of setting the skill level.

I counted all monsters and took their health count together. Then I counted all ammunition and tried a relation with their availabillity to match the health count.
But as the TE_DAMAGE of all weapons differs this isn't the right way to handle.

I can count the ogres and enforcers to reclaim their rockets and cells, but as they are also gibbable this is only temperary.

Is there an easier way to gain the outcome? 

Use monstercount / (pi*thumb), then substract the release date.

Or just play the map and add enough items so that you can get through smoothly. Then declare this as Hard and scale down the difficulty settings from there. Then see how the testers do. 

You have to take into factor the players level of accuracy. According to teh games I play, my accuracy = 20-40%. So it is meaningless.

Always just play, play, and play again. Then get l00ts if testing done. :D 

Well I played rather several times only the hard and nightmare are the worst.
So I thought if I

TE_DAMAGE * ammucount = all monsters health + random

could compare it mathly. 

There's too many variables to make an equation of it. Unless you want to get alot more complex than 4 variables.

What negke says works :) 

Wasn't quite sure where to put this :P

TF2maps has finished their TF2 swamp theme pack that contains new models/textures/blah which you can download and use for free, its very high quality stuff!

http://swamp.tf2maps.net/ 

 

Don't know what happened after a qc-script, in game leaves the message:

PR_executeprogram : excessive stack (53 normal = 31)  

bad scripting. 

Doe's anyone know of a texture pack that has some nice alpha channelled hanging vines and overgrowth textures? Or any packs that feature some sort of old abandoned temple theme? I'm thinking more Mayan than Egyptian here, any info would be appreciated! 

the original rtgnosis texture set had a vine/leaves overlay with an alpha channel. 

Sock's Pyramid of the Magicians (pom) level. 

I had totally forgotten about that map, damn its perfect =)

Thank you very much! 

I know this is probly in here somewhere, but...

Is there a guide / howto for editing quake maps in valve source sdk? Is this possible or should I just be using hammer 3.4 (3.5?)? 

Although search for Baker's Quake Adapter for hammer 3.3 - maybe I'm misunderstanding what you want to do. 

My goal was to be able to edit maps in the new hammer, export them somehow, compile for quake with the new tools. I figured I'd ask here first in case there was a tut somewhere.

If it's not doable I am gonna fire up hammer 3.4.

It's been a few years (and a few computers) since I had a mapping environment setup. ;) 

I've been meaning to do it myself since the latest beta version can apparantly show model meshes inside the 3d window. 

It works in Fitzquake, but it doesn't in Qrack.
Why could that be ? 

Could be the engine is Qrap.
What are you trying to killtarget and how? 

Shambler = dead = open gate
The gate was previously closed by another trigger. I want it to re-open (or disappear, that's good enough for me) when the monster is dead.

Qrap or not, it's got nice shiny stuff, I like ;)!

But what I really want is a level that can be played in multiple engines. Except Darkplaces, I've given up on that one, it is not accurate with the placing of items or monster spawns. 

The problem is there's a glitch (or oversight) in the code that prevents monsters from using the killtarget field just like that. You have to give the Shambler a dummy target field for the killtarget to work.

You could probably also just set the "toggle" flag on the gate and make the Shambler target it normally.

Issues with item and monsters in DP often indicate improper placement, e.g. too close to a wall, that other engines ignore. For regular custom maps, any newer DP build should work flawlessly.