So is there an "effects" "2"? If so, what does it do? 

i never got the light to emit i remember, but i did use the particle field in a speedmap once. The trick with the door sounds might have been freaky to use too. 

Another n00b question:

Is there any way (i.e. edit the RMF or Map file) to add back a camera that you accidentally deleted? I have done this a couple of times now and am tired of "re-piloting" the camera to the last point-of-interest in the map I am currently working on. 

No.

Well, I guess you could edit the RMF file but those aren't exactly human-readable... 

well, effects 2 is for the muzzle flash when you shoot. it is a flash of duration 0.2 seconds. i haven't tried it, but i don't imagine it will do anything as the actual game doesn't start at 0 seconds but more like 0.5 or 0.6 seconds, so you wouldn't be able to see the flash anyway as that would happen at 0 seconds.
it's difficult for me to explain, sorry... 

If you want to go hacking the .effects field in the editor, here's what they do...

EF_BRIGHTFIELD = 1 //silly looking ball of moving yellow dots
EF_MUZZLEFLASH = 2 //short-lived flash of light
EF_BRIGHTLIGHT = 4 //a bright light
EF_DIMLIGHT = 8 //a "dim" light, like on lasers/rockets 

I believe you have the brightfield and dimlight the wrong way around. 

my bad. ^_^ 

stands still...
and just wonders how to get the *.lit file 

first use tyrlite or equivalent program that can compile coloured lights.

then, in the lights, you use _color 'r g b i'
where r is red, g is gree and b is blue while i is intensity.

i think. i haven't done coloured likes in ages. 

i think it's just "_color" "r g b" but that's just from quake2 and quake3 experience. 

According to rpgsp1.map, you use "_color" "r g b" to set the color, and "light" "200" (for example) to set the intensity. That's what works with TyrLite. 

a lot! Couldn't believe my eyes seeing a moving light in Quake1! 

so you've never fired a rocked in q1 then madfox? :D 

you're right. it's q1rad that you use r g b i. i have terrible memory. :P 

but that's coding,not hacking. Never succeeded rocket-jumping without getting su�cided... 

I am not sure one should be mapping for a game before he learns to move around in it. 

Abandon me! 

I jsut downlaoded this and it says it has support for making quake1 maps, however when I load it up and press t for textures there is nuthing to browse, any ideas? 

1) Read the documentation.
2) Put your texture WADs into /Quake/ID1
3) Read the documentation. 

http://industri.sourceforge.net/howto.php 

Tried it out in GtkRadiant 1.04 but after setting the preferences, and turning the wad file into Quake/Id1, the programm ended in a solid brush. 

That sentence made no sence whatsoever. 

His programm ended in a solid brush, what's there not to understand?