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Is That A Quake Map File? 
Cause it doesn't look like one. 
 
Cause it doesn't look like one.
yes, it's valve 'mapversion 220' format file 
 
well, whatever it is, it needs to be converted into quake format.

you've got some strange syntax after the texture name (and i'm not sure you are allowed to have spaces either).
is that the enhanced texture positioning maybe? 
Texture Names With Spaces 
are a likely suspect. You should find & replace them with something else in a text editor and see if it works then. 
Connecting Levels? 
I'm certain this is a stupid question, but how do you link maps together so that the player can teleport to the next level(such as how it's done in the original Quake single player).

I know Half-Life used a "changelevel" entity, but I don't see that option available for Quake. Am I missing something?

Sorry if this is an obvious thing, but I can't seem to find an answer anywhere. I am using Worldcraft 3.3 with the Quake adapter if that helps.

Thanks in advance... 
Trigger_changelevel 
:-) 
Durr... 
That makes too much sense.

thanks rj... 
Weird Format 
Some tools do accept hammer map format and produce a quake 1 map, but I'd agree with everyone about the space in the texture name. 
Yes 
Those numbers are the extended texture format, and the compiler has no problem with them. Most quake map editors can't open maps with this extension, but if you're using the editor it was created by (WC3.3) then you'll have no problem.

Space in texture name sounds like the culprit... 
Iris Doors 
How do they work?

Rotating? If so, screw it :)

I've seen them in Quake but can't remember where... 
Bah 
Looks like it does work by rotating objects. Has anyone seen a non-rotating version? 
Iris 
I wonder if you can cheat. If you had two pairs of doors, one opening vertically and the other opening horizontally directly behind them, you'd end up with a square hole as you opened them. If you extended this idea to four pairs (and presumably made the doors fairly thin) you could make an octagon which might look quite iris like. 
Yeah 
that's kind of what I was thinking...

Will post any experiments that work. 
Iris Doors... 
don't need rotating, each slice just moves in a straight line. I think one of the IKBlue levels has this. 
That Sound About Right 
With pie slice floor texture.

I think it can't work vertically though, only horizontally. 
Iris Example 
And For Not QOOLE Users 
Re 9743 
that's not a real iris though. a true iris has pie shapes that rotate outwards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rskukxKo5UI

but yeah, what preach said works pretty good and looks really cool when opening and has the benefit of working as a vertical door. a lot of sci fi use doors like that. 
Sweet 
yeah you guys were right, it was just the spaces in the texture names. Awesome now I can finish these maps. Yay! Now here's the situation I'm in. I'm using the Nexiuz textures, the originals are 2x the size of the recent Q1 conversion ones, so I want to keep with the originals since otherwise my texturing will be messed up everywhere. I guess my question is, what would be the best way to replace the spaces in the names of the textures in the original wads with _'s, or, is there a Nexiuz texture wad available for Quake with all the textures in the original sizes? 
 
just run them through irfanview to shrink them, it's free :) 
Search/replace 
Wordpad. Or, if the map file is too large for it, a text editor like Notepad++ for example. 
All Your Bases Are Belong To Notepad++ 
 
Alright 
fixed the texture names, now I just need to convert (some of) the original nexiuz textures to the Q1 palette in their original sizes. What's the best program to do this? 
Or 
if anyone wants to do me the favour of converting these textures you'll be rewarded with a couple new Q1SPs, heh. 
Texture Conversion Tool 
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