and uh... slime too i guess. :S 

When would this even happen? :)
I guess if you were to make a horizon but, damn the size of the water brush would be huge! 

It's almost always a mistake. You copy a brush, move stuff around, etc. It happens. 

Make sure all water/lava face's texture attributes are 0 

Make sure all water/lava face's texture attributes are 0 

Which should be 1 

Point me to a .bat FAQ or whatever so I can make my compile a bit more clever.

I want to copy the mapfile, change some of the data within it (texture names for {) and then compile the copy.

Or... does your compile tool already allow for something like this Necros? 

the latest trenchbroom 1.x release can work with { textures, in case you were working around that.

Not sure about where to get a good bat file tutorial, sorry 

so, alpha textures start with "{" ...You're kidding me...how many tools does that break? 

The compiler gui thing doesn't do that, although writing some kind of command line application that regex replaces stuff would be trivial.

I don't do i/o stuff much, but I imagine you could do the replace in between your input and output streams and never even have to load the file into memory, just scan the buffer before you feed it to the output? 

"We mark important threads by prefixing the name with a semicolon and the words 'DROP TABLE'" 

Yeah I was just going to work around the TB problem, but if it's already solved in editor then I'm good. 

Well, older versions of TB for one.

Using the - symbol would have been much better. I wasn't much involved when that particular discussion was going on though. 

it's a terrible idea, but apparently it matches the half life convention, which means someone at Valve also had a terrible idea.

Though personally i have a bigger objection to the fact that it's typographically ugly. 

in other news, in order to prevent people from stealing your textures for other maps, just call it "ground 3" or something.

tbh, my stance is that editors should just be quoting texture names anyway, and that its only okay to drop the quotes if its alpha-numeric-plus-underscore.

my solution to batch files is to install cygwin, then you can use 'sed' or whatever. probably overkill though. 

someone at Valve also had a terrible idea

what NO 

Does anyone know if there are any WAD tools for OS X? Want to extract a WAD from a BSP, maybe make my own WADS, etc. Or am I being ridiculously optimistic and should just fire up a virtual machine? 

will do the trick for extracting a wad from a bsp:
"bsputils --extract-textures e1m1.bsp"
(from http://disenchant.net/utils/ )

for other things, I just use wine for OS X (http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/) 

many thanks ericw, just what I needed 

Anyone know of some particularly useful/interesting/advanced/silly/stupid bsp tuts?

domes, concave semi-cirles, anything not exclusively right angles, rules-of-thumb for unusual multi-faced polygons, etc...

I can already hear the cacophonous chant "just use meshes!"

but yeah, bsp stuff plz :) 

 

...but looking now 

Very valuable resource for beginners; I always refer to it when I map ... err, I mean when I incompetently mess around with TB. (Not sure how useful it would be for you, KillPixel, seeing as the finished parts of kpcn2014 are better than anything I could hope to complete in this lifetime.)

But for other newbies who may stumble across this thread and have trouble finding the guide in question:
http://www.quaketerminus.com/hosted/happymaps/curv_tut.htm 

 

CZG's tut is nice but making those pipes in TB isn't too easy IMO, I end up doing a lot of vertex work instead.