I believe that darkplaces is odd-one-out here, and that most engines will reload the map from disk if you use the "restart" command in console.

I've not tried checking this for darkplaces, but there's a useful command in normal engines called "flush" which forces the engine to reload all the other models off the disk. This can be useful if you're working on a new model/skin instead of a map. Perhaps darplaces has adapted the flush command to affect the world instead/as well, or has a command with a similar name... 

some map loads can be expensive. not reloading everything can reduce load times when you die.
I doubt dp supports the flush command. even if it does, that command never traditionally supported the bsp, just mdl and wavs.
try:
bind p "disconnect; vid_restart; restart"
binding something to vid_restart on its own will probably also work, but be careful about entity changes as they will generally not happen.
if it still takes a while, disable all the bumpmapping stuff so that it doesn't have to be reloaded too. 

Spike's suggestion works well for me. The load times are pretty much negligible with the size and style of maps I am using to test things out, so I'm good.

Thank you for the help. 

In my excitement I forgot to mention the suggested command did not work as given. The restart command failed in that context, because "Only the server may restart." I replaced restart with "map test", which is kind of naff, but workable. I'll just have to always name my test maps test.bsp after compilation, but that's something a simple shell script can do for me.

I'm still good. It's enough to have a command that works for this particular purpose. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhsuZd6_myo 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f_DPrSEOEo 

recent Matthias Worch presentation: meaningful choice in games and leveldesign, Doom, Dead Space 2, Biology, Psycology
https://t.co/v9AYjVqg4q

must read if you are into gamedesign 

 

Someone please hide some eggs in id1 maps. 

I mean actual eggs, so one can search around and collect them all. If you need suggestions for places to hide in, contact me. :) 

what? o_O 

like e1m1red but with eggs in really hard to find places 

Has eggs in really easy to find places...

And when I say that I mean that she puts out... a lot.

And when I say "Puts out" I mean that she really, really likes to have sex with a lot of men, and women, and animals, and plastic toys.

Or not... 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've been insulted by the best... or at least they tried. I have too much of a thick skin and a sense of humor to match so pretty much everything rolls off of my back like water off of a duck.

Now then, back to your mom... Yet again, as usual. 

Your hidden zombie is called Frank, right?

I was thinking to hide him in my current map.

And, of course, your mother said it was a great idea. She gave me a lovely cup of tea and a biscuit. 

And, of course, your mother said it was a great idea. She gave me a lovely cup of tea and a biscuit.

And when he says "Cup of tea" he means that she "Cupped" something else and "Biscuit" is code for... well, you know.

Sorry Spirit, you do know that I'm kidding right? But lets face it, if all moms in general didn't like to get banged, a lot, (sorry I couldn't resist) you probably wouldn't be here and neither would I for that matter.

I'll stop with the your mom is a slutty whore jokes though. I don't want to overplay it. 

 

ijed: Wolfgang. :) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PioR66L8Hq0