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Imp 
I searched for Hexen and ended up on Inside3D.
There is a site for compiling hcc.qc for Hexen and contains a imp.hc

Although the compiling for hexen is somehow different, it has simmilar ways.
I'm trying for a compatible qc.

here's the link at:

Therefore, we have put up an archive containing only the HexenC files here

http://www.inside3d.com/h2tut/h2started.htm 
Hexen Versus Quake Qc 
I transcripted the imp.hcc to a imp.qc
For sofar I have no attackmoves, but things like throwing a lavaball isn't that hard.

If you have a left/right throwing attack mdl of the imp, apart from the code, you can copy the right throwing one in Quark4.07 to make a left throwing one.

It's a little tricky to get the jumping up and down. I used the standfunction for fixed, walk frame for rising up, and the run function for fly. I can't make it land. Also things like the swoop and swpend pose are sitemoves that I still can't stand trigger. 
 
There's an imp.qc posting in the beginning of the coding help thread, iirc. 
MadFox 
The imp.qc code was released in the SOE dev kit so unless you really want to re-code everything, might be worth looking it up. 
Thanks 
I didn't want to recode it, just got curious after finding it on hexen2, then the code in hcc. And finally a half quake qc. 
Thanks Necros :) 
Looks like playing with this will be a giggle :E 
Zqf 
i noticed in that test map you posted, you can hear the grenade launching sound before the explosion.

to remove that, set 'noise' to 'misc/null.wav' which is a "silent sound". 
 
Ooh, thanks. :)

I've yet to try your trick of attaching it to a rotate train, but will soon. 
Please: What Happens If.. 
..I add worldspawn fog in a map and then a user play it in a no-fog engine ?

or much better if a user play it also adding a 2nd fog from options/menu in engines such TomazQuake/Telejano ?? 
Tell Them In The Readme Not To 
 
 
In the first case, nothing will happen.

For the second case, ask Tomaz or Tei. 
Glass And Windows 
So, please correct me if I'm wrong:
To create a window you use a blank water texture and something like a quoth command trigger to set it to the right alpha yeah?

A few little questions:
1 Looking for a wad that has a blank texture like that in it :p

2 What's the performance hit for having a large surface like this? Thinking of having two large rooms which have a huge glass wall between them. 
There Is No Performance Hit 
None whatsoever! Not by modern standards.
As for a good texture, well you could try looking in some .bsp's. You just open the .bsp in TexMex and you can export it to .wad. I think there must be one in Than's last map ;)

http://than.quaddicted.com/files/apsp2.zip

http://http://than.quaddicted.com/

Spirit: There doesn't seem to be a link too this in Quaddicted's SP maps list. 
Also 
To make a window you make a normal waterbrush, and you set r_wateralpha to be 1. And on top of the brush (to make the window solid) you make another brush, which you then make into a func_wall. And you give the func_wall the texture called "skip". Doesn't matter what the texture looks like (but there must be a texture in your wad called "skip") and then you have to run the tool "newskip.exe" after compiling ("newskip mapname" in cmd).

Some modern engines support alpha on func_walls. I believe the key is "alpha" the value represents how transparent you want the func to be from 0 to 1.
The first version works in any engine which supports wateralpha, and you need the info_command entity to make the water transparent. 
 
I think most modern engines support alpha, actually. Including Fitzquake.

Some even support alpha on entities, ie monsters etc.

I use some of the window textures from Quake 2. 
 
hmm, okay, so I was almost there :)

Question for people using Quoth: is there a way to use triggered sounds but not make them loop? or to kill them after looping for a certain period? Retriggering or killtargetting doesn't seem to stop them playing once they've started :p 
 
The looping is a feature of the actual sound file (from what I know). People use some ancient version of Goldwave to toggle the looping flag if they want it. 
 
Dang, okay :( thanks. 
ZealousQuakeFan 
you can still edit the .wav sound and remove the loop markers.. then it will be one shot playing ;) 
 
Or killtarget it before it reaches the loop position. 
 
I wanted to get it to start up, loop a few times then stop. guess I'll have to look into removing the flag then manually loop it with relays. 
ZQF 
How are you triggering your sounds? If you are using qc just trigger the null.wav on the same channel when you want the sound to stop. 
 
I wanted to get it to start up, loop a few times then stop.

play_sound_triggered

use the 'toggle' flag
'wait' to length of the soundfile to loop
no need to set 'impulse', with the toggle flag on, impulse defaults to 7.
set up target/targetname

when you fire the play_sound_triggered, it will play the sound repeatedly until you trigger it again.

if the sound loops on it's own, set 'wait' to 999999 to retain toggle functionality. 
Help!?!? 
Ok so Ive been using worldcraft mapping for a few months, on and off for a little mod im working on. Now bare with me, im not a huge mapper or anything so this may be some really easy fix that I dont know about but here goes: I power up worldcraft and all is normal like usual, I start mapping for a good 3 hours, and then I try to compile my map. Now I left the room for a little because I know that the map takes a little bit to export. But I come back, and it says in the command line:
* Could not execute the command:
"C:\Program Files\Worldcraft\qbsp2.exe" "C:\Users\nick\Desktop\game\game\new"
* Windows gave the error message:
"The operation completed successfully."

** Executing...
** Command: C:\Program Files\Worldcraft\quaketools\vis.exe
** Parameters: "C:\Users\nick\Desktop\game\game\new"

---- Vis 2.31 ---- Modified by Bengt Jardrup

************ ERROR ************
Error opening C:\Users\nick\Desktop\game\game\new.bsp: No such file or directory

Elapsed time : 0:00

** Executing...
** Command: C:\Program Files\Worldcraft\quaketools\light.exe
** Parameters: "C:\Users\nick\Desktop\game\game\new"

----- Light 1.43 ---- Modified by Bengt Jardrup

************ ERROR ************
Error opening C:\Users\nick\Desktop\game\game\new.bsp: No such file or directory

Now I cant compile any map, Ive re-installed wc + Bengt Jardup's quake tools a million times, but it still wont work =[. Has anyone gotten this before? 
Yeah 
Its just the WC compiling GUI (the process window) seems to have a problem with moving the files around.

The solution:

1 (not vital but it helps) Use a windows command prompt to run the compiling tools. The WC process window will freeze sometimes, even if the tool is still running in the background. A windows command prompt is what the tools are designed for.

2 (will fix your prob.) Put all of your tools, all of your .rmf files and all of your .map files and EVERYTHING in c:\quake\id1\maps.

HTH 
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