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Teleport Help 
New to Quake mapping and I'm running into an issue where every time I teleport a wizard it telefrags! I have separate teleport destinations per-wizard. I tried adding different relays per wizard with different delays and it still doesn't work. I tried just teleporting one wizard and he still telefrags.

Is there something I'm missing like maybe my monster closet setup is busted? 
Overlap 
Loveschach - is there any chance you've accidentally got two wizards stacked together? 
Teleport Help Cont'd 
Preach - The teleport destinations aren't stacked. Do they telefrag if they're stacked on the other end? There may be slight overlap. 
 
the trigger_teleports need to be spread apart and the monsters themselves spread out, one per teleport 
Teleport Help Cont'd 
I confirmed with a little noclip and notarget that the teleports will work as long as the monsters don't aggro. For some reason, even though I have the ambush flag set they're always aggroing due to the sounds of shooting. I switched the wizards to ogres and confirmed the same thing happens.

I'm not sure why ambush flag isn't working, is this easily fixable, or if not, is there a way to set an enemy hearing range so I can hack around it? 
 
The ambush flag not working is a surprise, what mod are you using? Or just standard id1?

I’m guessing the teleported triggers are all next to each other and the awoken monsters are walking into their neighbors teleport trigger. One fix would be confining each one into separate boxes so they can’t walk out of their triggers. 
Teleport Help Cont'd 
I'm using Quakespasm with Trenchbroom, I believe this is standard id1 so I'm gonna say yes!

Putting them in separate boxes is a good idea, I'll try that solution. Thank you! 
Teleport Help Final 
Well, I was looking at the output from the compiler and there were some warnings about empty target properties so I decided to take a shot in the dark and it fixed the issue. So for any future people who might have this problem, there you go! 
Disappearing Doors 
Hi, I'm new to quake mapping.

I was very close to finishing my first map and suddenly my func_doors started disappearing. This isn't just a visual problem, the collision is disappearing as well. I have a lot of doors in my level, is there some kind of limit? I tried different tool sets and the same thing still happens. Any advice would be appreciated. 
 
Do all doors have seperated targets? It can happen when one of the door initials is not corresponding.
Are there any compile errors? 
 
I noticed I had some dangling targets then noticed I had a bunch of doors on top of each other that I didn't know about. Deleted the extra doors and it seemed to work, I'm not sure if it was because of the targets or doors. Thanks for the help! 
Teleport Out Of Map 
Hi, Please I have a problem with the map I'm currently working on, it's really strange...
When I get to a certain point the map "teleports" me out of the map in a strange way... I have recorded a video if someone knows wtf is happening...

I have check entirely the log and all its fine

thank you very much!!

https://www.facebook.com/100000983447601/videos/3464460793596668/ 
#20546 
The playable area of a Quake map can't be further than 4096 Quake units from the centre of the world (where the x, y and z axes intersect). When you move beyond that, you see the kind of thing happening like in the video you posted.

Either your map is too big (i.e. bigger than 4096^3), or more likely it's simply off-centre. If the latter, select everything in your map and move it so it extends more or less an equal distance in all directions.

If the map really is too big, there are solutions for that too, but try centring the map first. 
 
Thanks!!!!!! It works!!!!!!!!!!! Very grateful 
Sorry, I Meant 8192^3 Of Course 
No problem; happy to help :) 
Fun Fact 
Try firing a grenade out of the playable area and the engine will drag it to the opposite side of the level, dragging its particles after it.

Got this in one of my levels now, but unfortunately no way to fix it without rebuilding lots of map :P 
Looped 
I came upon the same "duce" when I tried to make the fishing ogre walk for several spots.Then it started walking from the side level to the other. No idea how it came back again in an endless loop. 
 
Vis doesn't ignore func_illusionary, right? Or does it? I'm a little confused by the fact that ericw-tools includes both func_detail_illusionary and func_illusionary_visblocker. I would have thought that one of those would be superfluous. 
 
Vis ignores func_illusionary the same way it ignores func_wall or func_door. 
 
Thanks. So what's the point of func_detail_illusionary, then? 
 
func_detail_illusionary becomes part of the world bsp, like func_detail, so it costs no static entities and is more efficient to render. 
 
Ah, ok. Thanks for the explanation! 
X Entities Inhibited 
When running a map with "developer 1", what does the warning "[some number] entities inhibited" mean? I understand the "walkmonster in wall", "item fell out" and "exceeds standard limit" messages, but this one has always thrown me. 
Whoops, That Was Me ^^ 
 
Just A Thought.., 
I think it's like the "no deathmatchplayer" warning, when compiling a map with only a player_start. Something like a maximum entity warning that is obvious. 
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