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Total_newb 
if you're on windows then best just using this tool -
http://shoresofnis.wordpress.com/utilities/ne_q1spcompilinggui/

Here's a mapfile I made which has the sunlight set up. As long as you're using tyranns tools it should work right -

https://www.dropbox.com/s/afzmvlm0wvs3spt/sunlight.zip 
So How Are You Editing The Worldspawn, Total_newbie? 
In Worldcraft you just go Edit -> Map properies, then use the UI to change the values.

Check your .map file.

Here are the first few lines from my honey map jam map (with an example of sunlight):

{
"classname" "worldspawn"
"classname" "worldspawn"
"message" "Yellow Brick Grotto"
"_sunlight" "123"
"gravity" "800"
"sounds" "5"
"light" "12"
"_sunmangle" "40 -45 0"
"_sun_mangle" "45 -45 0"
"fog" "0.03 0.025 0.055 0.14"
"mapversion" "220"
"wad" "\program files\worldcraft\textures\skip.hlwad;\program files\worldcraft\textures\honey.hlwad"
{
( 496 0 -512 ) ( 368 0 -512 ) ( 304 -32 -512 ) CITY2_3 [ 1 0.......


Incidentally, I don't know why the worldspawn is declared twice, it just IS. Anyone? Is this an error?

Either way, if you .map file looks like that in your text editor, then something else is going on. If not, try making it like the above... 
It's Working! 
I checked my map file as you suggested, and it turns out I had made a mistake with the _sun_mangle values. Fixed it, and now sunlight finally works.

Thank you so much, FifthElephant and RickyT23!

In response to your question, RickyT23: in TrenchBroom, when you select a brush you can add and edit properties. By default if it is a regular, non-func brush, it only lists classname, spawnflag and wad (if it's textured). Everything else (e.g. "_sunlight") you can then add manually (if you know what it is called).

worldspawn is listed only once in my map file, by the way.

Re: 14057: Thanks, Fifth, but I am on Linux. 
And Thanks Very Much For The Map File, FifthElephant. 
Bizarrely, though, I cannot open it with TrenchBroom (although I can open it in a text editor). 
Oh Wait, No, I Can. 
It's just empty, right?

Sorry; with every consecutive post I must seem like more of an idiot. 
Shouldn't Be Empty 
It's a simple box room. 
Quadruple Derp 
Oh, right. Just needed to rotate the camera almost completely. Yes, it's all there.

Well, as I said, with every consecutive post I must seem like more of an idiot. 
 
it's probably because of where the geometry is. I can't leave what I was working on there, probably going to do something special for the next jam. 
Another TrenchBroom/mapping Question 
Not sure if it should go here or in the TrenchBroom thread ...

Is it possible to flip a brush/selection of brushes in TB so as to get an exact mirror image of it?

I know you can turn it around using alt + the arrow/PgUP/PgDn keys, but I guess all of that just turns the brush/selection in different directions as if it were a real 3D object. Or maybe I'm missing something and there's some magic sequence of twists and turns that produces a mirror image? 
Try Ctrl + F 
That flips it... is that what you mean? 
And 
ALT CTRL F flips it vertically. 
Yes 
That is exactly what I mean. You both rock! :) 
Necros Compiling GUI 
When using this, even though folder preferences are in order and the tools are actually there, I get this error:

'D:\Files\Design\Quake' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Press any key to continue.

What gives? 
 
I haven't used that tool but I'd guess you're trying to use a path that has a space in it, and the tool is cantankerous about that.

Possible solutions if so:
- Rename the folders in the path to remove spaces.
- Put double-quotes around the path in the place where you enter it in the tool; or if the tool uses a config file and saves the path there, try editing that to add the quotes.
- Use DOS-style shortnames in the path.

You can use "dir -x" in a command prompt to see shortnames. 
 
Oops sorry that would be "dir /x". 
 
D:\Files\

what could possibly be outside this folder 
 
D:\NullSet 
 
D:\DiskSpaceRemaining 
 
D:\AntiFiles 
 
it's like when a website url contains /site/ 
Johnny Law 
Thanks man. It was a space. Didn't know the tool wouldn't except that.

@lunaran, yeah man I know. It was either this or misc :) 
 
SvJ, cool!

Lunaran: I'm wondering how deep you're rolling here, since my own website has URLs that contain "site". :-) In my case it's an artifact of using "GitHub pages" hosting and a site that is generated from templates, so that I have both site_src and site (output) trees in the repo. So, ha! 
 
Glad you got it figured out!

I should have just placed all paths within quotations. :(

Actually, I should redo that thing in a real programming language. >_> 
 
You shoud redo the Quake Injector in a real programming language! 
 
Aye, rewrite it in QC. 
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