It is a long time since I did anything with sound: how do I tell if a sound is looped or not? I have GoldWave 5.19 

Mathuz: set "_light" in the worldspawn entity or compile with "light.exe -light #"

Mike: Check if the loop flag is set in the wav properties and look for a cue point/loop marker. 

Doh! I don't know how to view the .wav properties. 

Try the Help dialog/manual. Or good old trial and error. 

i'm not sure, but it should just show up in the main editor window.

cue points/regions/loops are usually represented as like a dotted line crossing the waveform or a chevron at the top where the timeline is. 

OK, got it now. As you say, loops = Cue Points.

Thanks both. 

well, there are 3 distinct markers in wav files from what i've seen.

cue points which are exactly that-- points

regions which are two points linked together to define a region between the two

loops which are sometimes called sustain loops which are like regions but allow you to specify things like # of loops so you could actually have multiple loops that play different # of times in the same .wav file, although not many wav players will actually follow those loops. the only program i know of that makes use of sustain loops is tracker programs like modplug.

quake only seems to accept cues and regions and from what i remember, ignores sustain loops. i guess this is mostly just an fyi but i thought maybe it might be useful to know in case you ever have a wav that's not looping that is supposed to or something. 

has a feather to save waves single or looped and is shareware. 

Making lights into func_illusionarys (just cuboid lights) increases vertex count!!!

Im at the point where only AGLQuake will run my map because I have hit the vertex limit. of about 65000.

What's the easiest way of reducing vertexes? Why does making a light brush into a func_illusionary increase the count? 

"What's the easiest way of reducing vertexes?"

I'm going to go ahead and state the obvious - delete stuff. 

What? 

whether a brush is world or bmodel, it's still geometry and hence has vertices. also, don't forget that the compiler doesn't know what a func_illusionary is, so bmodels, whether they are solid or not at runtime still generate collision stuffs.

use r_showtris to see how the bsp face splitting is behaving in the area but yeah, the only real way to reduce vertices is to reduce geometry.

neg: i'm working under the assumption he's talking about light fixtures

there's some kind of limit in the engine in how big a face can be and it's related to the size of the texture on it. scaling the texture up means the face can be that much bigger.
if you scale textures up, this will require bsp to split faces less but obviously can't be done just anywhere. 

I remember Levelord talking about that back in the mission pack days. He said he would take back faces that the player can't see and scale them to high heaven to reduce cuts. 

No - its sorted now. I was saving a new version then compiling an older version. It was wierd - I had some light fixtures which were causeign face-splitting, say small octagons for example too, and i was func_illusionarying them but it didnt seem to reduce the vertices.
Turns out I was compiling the wrong map file!!! Stupid Rick..... 

Use the RMQ engine. Which is as of right now Quakespasm. Soon it will have some interesting stiff.

I can't elaborate because it all depends on others - I can't look into learning how to code an engine right now.

In any case, that issue sounds odd. Maybe I'm not understanding it right. Long way to go yet. 

Hello!
Does anyone know if there are high-def versions of the Quake1 maya textures anywhere?
And if not, do you know of a good source of aztec/maya/inca-inspired high-def tga/jpg textures I could use? (I'm mapping in Darkplaces)
Any pointer will be appreciated! :) 

I think sock made some for maya theme, but I'm at work can't see is site... see is profile and go to is webpage! 

Thanks, Trinca! I found his site when I was searching earlier, actually. There is no inca set per se, but at map (Pyramid of the Magician) that is inca-themed. Maybe I could extract and use some of the textures from it...
His Egyptian set is really cool (and big), so I could also use that instead - I was just a little worried that it would be even more cliche... ;P 

http://www.quaddicted.com/wads/tp-egyptq1.zip 

Yes, I think so, well the high-def version of it: http://www.simonoc.com/pages/materials/tpegypt/index.htm :) 

Fantastic textures pack :D
GG 

What distance do they fly until they're removed - 1024 units? 

 

necros said a while ago in #7873: play_sound_triggered still does have the ability to stop a looping sound from playing. as long as impulse is set, if a play_sound_triggered (with the toggle flag on) is triggered again, the sound will be stopped.

I tested it and it does not work, so I guess I forgot something. Here it is and how it looks in .map file

{
"classname" "play_sound_triggered"
"origin" "-2912 0 88"
"noise" "ambience/jpl/lava_rubble_loop.wav"
"volume" "0.7"
"speed" "-1"
"targetname" "HellRubble"
"toggle" "1"
"impulse" "0"
}

Obviously the entity will be triggered by two different triggers (actually a target2 field in two different func_teleport)...

So would anybody consider to help me please ? 

I didn't try this yet, but what you got looks correct.

"impulse" "0" I think is always default.

so maybe try "impulse" "1"