DM-Reco by Conrad "Justin" Slawinski

Superb. There is lots of ups and downs along the way but progress is inevitable:

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Thanks, Hipshot for checking it out. You have been very helpful for me.

Thanks! I'm happy you like it!

Now terrain blending works (thanks to new compiler and Hipshot's help)

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Here is the shader Im using for candle. I have 2 32x32 textures: fire.tga with alpha channel and fire2.jpg without. In q3ase it is displayed perfectly but in game it doesn't work.

textures/map_reco/fire
{
	qer_editorimage textures/map_reco/fire.tga
	surfaceparm trans
	qer_trans 1
	q3map_surfacelight 8000
	q3map_backsplash 4 24
	{
		map textures/map_reco/fire.tga
		blendfunc blend
		rgbGen identity
	}
	{
		map textures/map_reco/fire2.tga
		blendfunc add
		rgbGen wave noise 0 1 2 0.3 
	}
	{
		map $lightmap 
		blendfunc filter
		rgbGen identity
		tcGen lightmap 
	}
}

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It seems that it emits light as it should but does not give transparency and wave effect. What did I do wrong?

EDIT: I will have test version for beta plays ready by the end of next week!

Thanks, Obsidian! Is there a way to build .aas file? In editor AAS: Compile AAS"C:/GtkRadiant-1.6.4-20131213/bspc" -optimize -forcesidesvisible -bsp2aas "C:/Quake III Arena/baseq3/maps/reco-r3.map" >"C:/GtkRadiant-1.6.4-20131213/junk.txt" BSPC log:optimize = trueforcesidesvisible = truebsp2aas: C:Quake III Arenabaseq3mapsreco-r3.bsp to C:Quake III Arenabaseq3mapsreco-r3.aas And lots of these: (...)two tiny brushestwo tiny brushessplit not on both sidessplit not on both sidessplit not on both sides(...)Tried parent Is this a result of so called T-shapes? I just read that I have to have this in mind from very beginning of the mapping. Shall I start brushwork from scratch? Does detail brushes count? I might remove most of them just for aas compilation??In the end there is no .aas file built whatsoever. I cannot test map in Quake.

I thought this was unneccesary, I 'll do that.

Welcome my dear friend: Gorgo:

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He said that he needed proper stone texture and new set of teeth. Damn. So litlle time to finish this map and fix all bugs.

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Thank you! I try my best to find time between University lectures and tutorials. However layout is basically done. Now its time for lighting, item placement and bot support which can be pretty troublesome...

Amazing how little (32x32 pixels) image can irritate human being... Thank you for this, Hipshot. Small leak might be a result of using external compiler. I should have thought about it. Now I will be able to begin tests.

Sorry for delay. I don't yet have everything sorted out. I had my computer down and plenty of things on my mind but last 2 days I've been mapping like crazy! I can see a lot of submissions are being polished and everything starts looking beautiful ( I will post my opinions as soon as possible) Here are the problems I have encountered.

• I created skybox and I have issue (I tried using the "solution" but It didn't work - Can I have it saved as 512x512 .tga 24 bit?)
• The candles shader is way too bright (with similar settings before it was much darker! Could skybox have affected it?)

textures/map_reco/fire
{
	qer_editorimage textures/map_reco/fire.tga
	surfaceparm trans
	cull disable
	deformVertexes autosprite
	qer_trans 1
	q3map_surfacelight 6000
	q3map_backsplash 4 24
	{
		map textures/map_reco/fire.tga
		blendfunc add
		rgbGen identity
	}
	{
		map textures/map_reco/fire2.tga
		blendfunc add
		rgbGen wave noise 0 1 2 0.3 
	}
}

Its only 32x32 and I read that surfacelight parameter has to be pretty large on those. Im building my map with q3map2-fs

Now time for some screenshots:

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And too bright interior with lots of candles:

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Skybox has black lines on the edges of its cubic shape (see the screenshots). This is the known solution: http://www.quakewiki.net/archives/speedy/tut_sky.htm

However thin black lines still remain. I will try figuring that out. Any help of what could have gone wrong would be great.