when i'd go back and try to check entity links, i could never figure out where t73 matched and what the heck does t94 go to?? o.0 :P
but then, when i look at the q1 source maps, i saw (to some dismay) that id used that for all their maps. o.o

Very annoying when you're trying to remake them. Not having to deal with that was a welcome side effect of finally (re)starting from scratch. 

In just grew up used to it I guess since id had it in their editor and then QERadiant continued with the feature. I assumed it was a staple which is why I added it to ToeTag!

The only place it's going to be a hassle is when doing, say, a metal map where you have tons of spotlights to set up. Blah... Although maybe targeting an info_null isn't necessary anymore as I saw something in the light docs about giving a regular light an angle... 

have been pretty standard in most light apps for the past ~10 years or so! 

(not sure on hindsight whether you were actually talking about it) 

and yeah, the key is 'pitch yaw 0'

(zero is placeholder, because rotating a conical light source doesnt really do anything) 

"have been pretty standard in most light apps for the past ~10 years or so!"

Well, I've been out of the mainstream Quake editing world for over 10 years so ... new to me! :) 

which light app are you using?

i'd recommend the one here if you aren't already using it: http://user.tninet.se/~xir870k/ (bundled with rvis) 

Darkplaces uses gl non power of two extension 

Ah, that figures. Since my card doesn't have it, it doesn't look very good for me :) 

I have a trigger_once, that triggers four teleporter monsters.
I made all teleporters silent.
I want to use this trigger silent, but the options show
1 secret
2 beepbeep
3 largeswitch
and 4.

I may be a nooblib, but should I fill in silent? 

just leave 'sounds' set to 0 to be silent. (this is the default behaviour). 

anyone know of some good button textures? i'm looking for something that would fit in a quake medieval/metal theme.
tired of the metal Q button, copper pentagram and red dagger on sunburst buttons. :P 

Knave cross button. Daikatana episode 3 buttons/tiles. One of the red rune tiles in metal.wad. Some distinct square metal panel with an interesting brush frame. Existing button texture remixed and rearranged with mirror/rotate. 

so I disabled UAC in order to allow for texture usage.
Now all of my rmf files are gone. And my Quoth game mode was gone from WC. wtf? I still have some of my .map files, but of course the textures are all fucked.

sucks. 

That sounds funky. Has someone else been using your machine?

It's just a security option, not a 'bin my stuff' option... although it is Windows.

AFAIK the .map format should retain the texture alignment as well since it's a modified form with a load of extra detail written in. 

I'm pretty confused regarding that situation - I rebooted, and then my files were gone. Maybe I'm being a retard - I'm NOT much of a computer dude, like most people on func.

I'll keep poking around, but it was mostly crap scraps anyway, not too much of worth - just one or two files which were at all important to me.

I never had issues with alignment in .map files until when I was making sm 160 - RT23 gave me some tips on it earlier in the thread.
Is it a WC 3.3 issue only? 

Just remember to save to .rmf format and you cant go wrong :) 

I am not sure where the code comes (it was released some time ago) from but in the verion I have, they don't cling to the ceiling. Is there a flag to set in the editor?

Anyone know? 

from the quoth mapping tutorial
Vorelings can be made to begin in a map hanging from a ceiling so that they can drop down on unsuspecting players. To do this, place the monster below a ceiling and set the key/value "dangle" "1"

http://kell.quaddicted.com/quoth/quoth_tutorial.html#voreling 

Thanks 

does zipping a map file create micro leaks/brush misalignments?
dug a map out of a backup archive and there seem to be way more 1 unit misalignments than i remember. 

zip is lossless 

heh, i dunno. it was the only thing i could think of. i could have swore i repaired the errors after making the backup, and it seemed like there were about 10x as many this time around. :P 

Which editor? If it stores the planes in the MAP file as floats, it might be floating point creep. 

it is floating point creep.
i was trying to figure out how to get aguirre's convmap to correct the inaccuracies (that's what it was originally coded for), but i couldn't. :S