yeah, that's probably the smart thing to do. The real danger is running out of planes. IIRC, there are a limited number of unique planes that you are allowed to have and terrain, for obvious reasons, uses up those planes quickly. otoh, I'm doing this in bsp2, so I have no idea what the limits are. I might be fine.


._. 

Add some lava and repost the first shot for proper hype! 

Wicked stuff..
I think you're safe with planes, but leafs are limited to 65k in several engines (qs, markv, fte) in spite of bsp2. Others have unlimited leafs I think (rmqe, dp?). I should port the unlimited leafs from rmqe to qs some time. 

If you're BSP2, I wouldn't worry about it. The compiler/engine will break LONG before you hit the wall there. :P 

1- W O W!

2- About collision, making it all func_illusionary and caulking with clips wouldn't solve it? 

I might do the reverse and have func_wall skip textured brushes if there are only a few collision problems.

Switching compilers also helped, I was using some older ones based off of aguirre's original txqbsp modification. I swapped to use ericw's tyrqbsp (since I was using his light util anyway) and it got rid of all the visual glitches as well as some of the collision ones, so I'm pretty positive about this working out. 

http://www.twitch.tv/ionous

Sadly, only for about 90 minutes, but better than no time at all... 

Do we need to name our map files jam6_namehere or jam666_namehere? 

it's just easier :) 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/revelation-666-is-not-the-number-of-the-beast-its-a-devilish-616-526779.html 

Mixed face contents in leafnode

I need to start from scratch I think, I decided it would be easier to make an entire lava ocean, then clip my rock brushes out of that. The rationale was I won't have to do any crazy alignments if I just clip from the same material and change the texture on the brushes I want to be rock.

Apparently I can't do that. 

You don't even need to do that. Just make your lava ocean and stick the rocks into it. Intersecting brushes are fine. 

you have a skybrush and/or water brush touching/intersecting your lava brush.

or you have a skybrush touching a water brush (sky is actually a type of liquid as far as the compiler is concerned). 

teleporter textures count as water too...... 

is there a recomended skybox for this? 

Here is what happens if I clip the lava through my rock brushes.

http://imgur.com/YuBEnsP 

found the culprit brush.... off by .0001 or something... 

Go for maybe 2-3 hours. 

Wednesday evening (GMT) is ROLLCALL time! Post your wip map screenshots in this thread and leave feedback for other designers wip maps!

I recommend imgur.com for an image host if you were wondering where to upload. 

I recommend Quaketastic for an image host if you want your screenshots to not be recompressed and in loving hands of our community. 

oh yeah 

Yesterday got tons done
http://shoresofnis.com/temp/2015-07-26_max.jpg

Today just had time to do a small bit... here's some in-game stuff. I love the new dirt mapping and debugdirt mode. So awesome for quick lighting checks.
http://shoresofnis.com/temp/2015-07-27_quake1.jpg
http://shoresofnis.com/temp/2015-07-27_quake2.jpg 

that fucking rocks 

I was trying to get into this Jam, but real life has gotten me down. I have had to relearn this stuff after... what? Almost 16 years? I always spend a few weeks a year catching up with the community and playing what Quake has to offer, but I haven't mapped since I made multiplayer maps for my friends at lan parties.

I might not make this Jam's deadline, but still having fun messing around with the editors and playing around with Quake again. My stuff is currently rubbish and I am trying to figure out a decent way to work efficiently with what I want to get out of these tools.

I am loving Necros' efforts and might consider using OBJ-2-Map myself as I can do far more good in Blender than in TranchBroom or JackHammer.