and the light compiler needs a compiled BSP file, so it's not possible to preview the actual results.

Iterating is fun! 

Thanks for the F hotkey!

The sky rendering is great, but skies shouldn't be shaded. Also, they move too fast, and that's distracting � since JH is just an editor, there's no need to make them move as fast as in Quake; a subtle slow speed is enough.

Fun fact: Before figuring out how to create the molten mapping, I was thinking of rendering liquid surfaces in a similar way to your sky rendering. 

1) Skys shouldn't be shaded. May I take a look at a screenshot?
2) Shy speed is taken from Quake to satisfy a WYSIWYG paradigm.
3) Liquid surfaces can't be actually rendered as in the game because JH doesn't do polygon subdivision (to keep things simple). This also applies to Q3 shaders with "tesssize" + "deformvertexes". 

Typos again... Please read "skys" as "skies" and "Shy" as "sky". Sorry, we're celebrating xmas today. :) 

Ok, I'll take a screenshot when I get home. But switching between textured with shading and textured without shading is enough to notice the difference on the skies.

WYSIWYG is not necessary in this case, IMO. And what I like about the way you're rendering the skies is that its projection follows the shapes of the brushes, and this helps us to keep in mind the actual size of the area we're building. If it was exactly like Quake, it would be harder to tell each sky brush apart in the 3D view.

No problem, there's no need to animate liquid surfaces. Though making them translucent could help. 

It should look like this:
http://pix.academ.info/images/img/2015/12/30/a491a6df4d2dd6df7a9c418cc3de114a.gif

You are right, sky rendition in JH is not exactly same as in Quake, and that's also because of lack for face subdivisions.

It's easy to make water textures translucent, but there will be a confusion, because they'll become solid in the game. 

Most current Quake engines supports translucent water nowadays, even via software rendering.

My current approach is to hide the water brushes when I want to see through them. 

Showing the sky brushes' shape in the editor is very important. That's how JH does now. Animating the texture is important to see how a sky texture work in engine. Not hurting my eyes atm. An option to make liquid textures translucent would be nice. And what about rendering "{" transparency? 

IMO, WYSIWYG features for sky and water and such are less important than usability stuff like proper tablet support. Just my 2 cents. :) 

2adib: I'm not well familiar with modified Quake engines, sorry. I've made an editor for vanilla Quake actually, and there are no transparency. "{" textures are supported in Half-Life profile. I'll think of adding their support to Quake, if you tell me which color index is transparent (in Half-Life, this is the a color index 255 in a palette, but Quake shares the same palette between all the textures).

2WarrenM: I remember that, it's already in a todo list for the next version. 

Sorry, you're right. Transparency of "fence" textures is implemented by an alpha-channel TGA external texture, outside BSP file. It's an agreement between ports like Quakespasm, Fitzquake and Darkplaces, definately not a vanilla feature. Maybe when you make a Quakespasm profile it would make sense. 

"I remember that, it's already in a todo list for the next version. "

Oh, I know ... I just like banging my little drum. :) 

Retroquad and Super8 uses the color 255, and I bet the hardware-rendered engines with "fence" texture support also supports it.

Retroquad even goes a step above and doesn't require the "{" naming convention. This allowed for animated alphamasked textures. 

Really great update, love the fixes and new features. Thanks for correcting the texture alignment issue that had been giving me trouble before, I've now made the complete switch over to Jackhammer! 

I'd like to try and do a translation into a new language but cannot find any text files with captions. How can I contribute to that? 

I can give you necessary files, please email me: support at hlfx dot ru. What language do you want to translate into? 

Can't send email to the provided address. Are you sure it's correct? Is it just "support" or maybe something more?

I've tried to find a different address on the jackhammer website but couldn't see any. 

Just tested it from another email address.
Ok, then PM me on ModDB: http://www.moddb.com/members/xaerox
or on Steam:
http://steamcommunity.com/id/mrxaerox 

OK, message sent through moddb.
Also one potential bugreport (not sure yet if it's a bug or I'm doing something wrong). 

I'm using a modified quake2 that can use both TGA and WAL textures. Is there a way to add TGA as an allowed texture format? Maybe in config?

I've learned that md3 models can be shown along with md2 and now would like to do the same with textures. 

...ok, I read in another thread that modification ability would come when SDK is released. 

http://i.imgur.com/vPsRVWu.png?1

Latest JH
Ubuntu 15.10, using opensource radeon drivers

Something to do with the extraction process? Cheers. 

Do you have a correct palette file set in the options? 

http://i.imgur.com/V5PGKWE.png?1 

the button is still borked, but I was able to manually enter the quake.pal into the config file.

thanks :)