But dont use it too much it turns everything to shit when you do. 

just don't trust the machine to do anything remotely clever.

oh god, THIS.

carving a square hole into a square brush, you'd think it could at least split the resulting polygons in a symmetrical way.

2/3 point clipping is pretty much a replacement for carving, honestly, because the only times you end up being able to use carving is to flat out remove bits of a brush. 

The WC Adapter texture conversion utility working on windows 7?

I got it working ok on Vista 'run as administrator' but the same doesn't work on 7, it just throws the most enlightening error message ever 'no log exists'.

I could convert the textures elsewhere and pass them over but its a pain in the balls and bad practice. 

Can anyone recommend a wad with some nice flesh textures in it? 

 

cheers, looks like a fun set :) 

zerstorer also, and of course doom :) 

I tried a few times to make something out of the organic room tex' but couldn't put anything together that worked. I mean the ones that have the door included. 

i'm not a fan of ogro textures because they are way too dark. you basically miss out on cool shadowing because the textures are nearly black to begin with.
the textures are very cool, but just don't allow lighting to look good on them. 

Spirit recorded a demo using DP of my latest map last week, but it does not play at all on FitzQuake..
I really would like to avoid DP install on lmy computer, so is there any converting tool/method/whatever that would allow to play the demo on FitzQuake ?
Thanks a lot in advance... 

 

Just make a second quake directory and put darkplaces in that. Not like Quake is particularly big these days :P 

All you need is the exe, just like most other engine ports. 

Doesn't it share config files though? 

Yes, but DP-specific cvars are ignored/removed by the others. 

ZealousQuakeFan my Quake directory is 7 gb :p of course in a 500 gb disc is very few... 

I disabled the startup demos and added "cd play 11" to my autoexec.cfg but the track doesn't play.

When I tried any other track, they work.
I typed in "cd info" to see what was happening, and it said that the track is paused 

What engine?
Do you actually have a track 11?
Does it work if you load it while a map is loaded?
CD or files? 

So I understand the general wisdom is never do it, however I would like to know if there are any particularly instances of it that can be okay or must be avoided and such... the BSP I'm trying to put together atm is doing my head in :E 

it's not inherently bad.

Example: you want to make a cross shape. You can do this with only two brushes, keep everything lined up to the grid. no problems. The only potential weakness to this example is you won't have control over which brush will determine the texturing on the intersection -- so the wood grain may end up going vertical or horizontal on that spot. (in actuality i think qbsp always uses the brush face of the later brushes in the map file, when two brushfaces are coplanar and overlapping like that.)

Main thing to avoid is things being off-grid or sloppy on the part of the brush that is inside other brushes. You should still keep things clean and on-grid even if they are buried. 

It's fine. I do it loads! id software did it loads. It's a good way of saving brushes. 

what metl said. if you have two brushes intersecting and their faces are sloped, you have to remember that the intersection will create vertices, and if those vertices (which are generated at bsp time) are not on the grid, they will be snapped to the grid and this is usually what causes all those weird problems like falling through the world or just plain bsp failure. 

What engine?
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JoeQuake

Do you actually have a track 11?
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Quake sees track 11 as track 10/the last track;
try "cd play 2" in the console - it plays the Q theme

Does it work if you load it while a map is loaded?
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Yeah the song plays if I'm ingame (both menu & loaded level), but I have to type in "cd play 11"

CD or files?
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CD 

BSP snaps vertices to the grid, e.g. uses integer coordinates? That's ludicrous - why does it do that? 

But is it because Quake .bsp doesn't support float?