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Mapobjects 
Are definitely underused in Quake - the main problem being model precaches. Corpses aren't a problem because they'll be cached anyway since its almost a given that there's a living version in the map. 
More Lighting Woe 
Further to my post about the switchable lights, I've managed to narrow the problem down to occuring with aguirre's light.exe but not arghlite.exe.

When I give these entities a classname of "light" then they behave as regular switching lights, and are given their own lightstyle. Once I change the classname to "light_tubelight", arghlite treats them no differently, which is what I expect. But aguirre's light stops giving them a unique lightstyle, which causes them to turn off all the lights in the level when they get triggered.

It seems like it's filtering entities by classname before deciding whether the entity in question needs a unique lightstyle. So has anybody run into this, and is there a way to disable this with a command line switch or something? 
Compilers 
Are there any decent front end compilers for Quake similar to Eddi's GUI or Nem's Batch compiler for HL? 
Er.... 
Command Prompt + AguirRe's txqbsp. Its fast, stable and VERY EASY TO USE!!!

(Not as far as I know) 
Thanks 
I'm not sure why but there is **** for Q1 support docs for GTKR 1.5.0. I can't seem to get the compilers configured right, it seems to want to default to Q3 compilers. There's that and Zerowing's gamepacks link is a 404, and there's nothing about how to get GTKR configured for Quake 1. This is frustrating. 
Nm 
forget it, i just forgot had to remake the .game file. all good. thx for hearing my rant. 
Quake1 
Is a bit like that, Google just throws up lots pages of dead links.

Here's the main mapping place, Inside3d for modding and if there's a dedicated modeling forum then someone let me know.

I will say that there's a lot less timewasters in Quake1. Snarky fuckers in a higher percentage, but there you go. 
Gtkr 1.5.0 And Quake1 
Well I'm now at a loss. I think I need to make a new default_build_menu.xml because the one that comes with 1.5.0 is for Quake 3. I have no idea where to go with this... Google pretty much fails.

Anyone ever set up the build menu and get compiling from Radiant working properly for Quake 1? 
Ijed, 
what sort of minimum set up did you stitch together to get Aquire's NehQuake to work without Nehahra present?

Thanks in advance
- Adawanp 
Gravity 
Is it possible to have a "0" gravity in a map ? I think Quoth2 allows it, right ? 
Well 
As I remember it needed inside it's own directory a fake packfile that simulated to the engine that Neh was present.

The packfile has a sprite and a map in it, those being the essentials.

http://www.4shared.com/file/73663601/52f16486/nehfakepack.html 
Statue/viewthing 
Isn't there already an entity called func_viewthing or somesuch that could be used for statues? Does it require precaching as well? 
Thanks, 
you made my work flow today 100.88 percent easier. I was going to follow the pop up error trail to create dummy files otherwise. 
Np 
 
Enki 
why not give sikkpin's editor a shot? it's very similar to gtkr and it's made for q1 
Necros 
You are referring I would assume to this thread:

http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=60225

sikkpin's QuakeEd 3.1 (build 102. I will check it out. Thanks for the heads up; cheers :D 
JPL 
No gravity at all isn't possible, as 0 will default to normal gravity, but you can make the gravity very low. 
Lardarse 
Thanks for the info, I was not sure about that point ;) 
Blue Lines 
You can't set the gravity multiplier on individual entities to 0, for the reason lardarse describes. But you can set sv_gravity to 0, which works because cvars can have non-zero defaults. I wouldn't recommend it though, because the player can't properly land, so even when you're against the floor you can't jump. 
Hmmmm 
So a map with no gravity, like in space, would be very difficult to do.. unless a "fly mode" is enabled... Maybe a good idea for later ...
Thanks :) 
Sound Question 
I have a question about sounds I want to add in my map (Quoth2 based): is there any specific format I have to respect ? During beta test, it has been noticed the sound, after some time, turns to metallic buzzy effect... any idea where it can come from ? 
 
11khz mono.
The more sounds are played simultaneously (especially if they are loud/bass), the worse it sounds. 
Negke 
Thanks... what if sounds are 22kHz or 44kHz ? Can it cause soundcard crash ? 
Oh... 
..and 8bit or 16 bit mono ? 
 
8bit.
If the sounds are 22khz etc, they usually aren't played in regular engines, I think. 
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