and it's a prerequisite for trolling (i.e. some form of accountability). 

@dumptruck_ds: Yeah, I get that. :) Of course registering has its benefits, but it should be the person's own choice, and I thought the way you phrased it, it sounded a bit like a demand/pressure/prerequisite.

In any case, my comment was directed more at whoever posted the question in 19413/19414, than at you. People may have various valid reasons for not wanting to register and sign up, and it would be a shame if they feel pressured to register and then stay away completely as a result.

And (re: #19424/Shambler) of course I'm talking about people asking for mapping help, contributing knowledge, etc. and not about trolls/people posting abuse. I can understand the argument there, although there are plenty of people happy to troll and post abuse while logged in anyway. So I'd argue that even then, whether or not someone is registered or logged in is irrelevant: just don't be a troll and don't be abusive. 

can a mod delete / move the above BS into the beef thread?

It would be nice if any visitors coming here wouldn't be greeted with this as their first experience here. 

Would if I could. I think there's no beef here now tho. All good. 

how do I get spike traps to shoot more/less frequently? 

ah nvm, got it (it's 'wait') 

Been trying to get my head around the Valve220 map format.

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/MAP_file_format

What's the point of the "rotation" field?

There's a not-particularly-clear description of it on that page, but I still don't get why it's required when you already have two vectors defining the "right" and "up" of the texture.

Possibly related, but in Netradiant, if I do a fractional texture rotation (e.g. 13.6 or whatever), only the integral part (13) gets saved to the "rotation" field in the .map, yet the extra precision is not being discarded, because it's generating different "right" and "up" vectors, compared to if I just rotated it by the integer 13.

It's almost like the "rotation" field is just for show, but why? 

It's a cheat. Rather than the editor (JACK or Hammer only) having to calculate the relative rotation of the texture UV space every time it loads a face into a brush, it merely calculates this during save and puts it into the .vmf or.map.


At least U think thats what it's for. Old Worldcraft 3.3 needed some hackery if I recall to read it. Whoever did the WC3.3 patch might know for sure. 

That field stores the knob position of the Hammer UI. It's not used by qbsp when compiling the map.

I guess the reason it was done this way is, you can rotate the brush with texture lock on, and this won't cause the texture rotation knob in the UI to change on its own. 

interesting cheers, so it's pretty irrelevant. 

what's a good method to creating arches that match up with the arch textures? in JACK I would use the primitives and CSG but that was funky sometimes and TB doesn't have those functions at all. 

https://imgur.com/a/tmtmz 

derp. a description would probably be nice:

theres an arch tutorial for Trenchbroom. 

Hi!
Is there a way to control/turn off the bounce lighting specifically on _sunlight and _sunlight2? 

but it's a good suggestion! 

 

Is there any difference in physics whatsoever between a trigger that was created in the editor as a brush model, and a trigger that was spawned dynamically in the QC? I'm guessing the answer's "no", but wanted to double-check. 

no. either way, solid_trigger is an aabb. the shape you set in the editor is irrelevant, only the bbox extents are meaningful.
so one uses setmodel and then discards the model, the other can just directly use setsize. same result. 

That's the answer I was expecting and indeed hoped for. Cheers :) 

Working on some colored lighting in a map. I had been tinkering around with the Arcane Dimensions stuff, and left those settings on when I originally setup the lights. My lights look really good in AD. Later, when playing the map in Quakespasm with no mod, I noticed the colored lights are pretty crappy by comparison, and I'm not sure if its a matter of settings or if Arcane Dimensions just had a different lighting setup than Quakespasm can do on its own. I feel like there's a setting I'm missing or something, perhaps a rendering setting in the engine I need set in the config?

Shabby Lighting
Screenshot 1 with Quakespasm: https://imgur.com/bhmaPJv
Screenshot 2 with Quakespasm: https://imgur.com/avdiEJk

Pretty Lighting
Screenshot 1 with Quakespasm + AD mod: https://imgur.com/jA1Jjys
Screenshot 2 with Quakespasm + AD mod: https://imgur.com/fcMKFl1

Bonus Question: Does Arcane Dimensions mod always use the new health and ammo models or is there a way to tell it (in map settings) to use the classic models?

OS: Windows 7 64bit
Client: Quakespasm v0.93.0 x64
Editor: J.A.C.K. 1.1.1064 64bit 

I created these for the video tutorials I am working on. Not pretty but you may find them useful.

Link on Quaketastic

Screenshot 

Hello, I'm having difficulties setting up textures in trenchbroom. I have followed instructions and added Texture compilations WADs, but the textures doesnt show up in the browser...am I missing something here? 

I noticed I get the following error message when adding a WAD:

Could not load palette file 'gfx\palette.lmp': File not found: 'gfx\palette.lmp' 

Quake path not set? 

click "face" right up screen, aside Map Entity.
texture browser +
Add texture wad set path.