a doom3 compile

There's a BSP process that handles things like the basic player collision files as well as AI collision and navigation (the AAS files). Also, you can run a -ShadowOpt 2 compile which optimizes the shadows that are cast by lights (they're polgyons that add to your tri count; another reason why large overlapping lights can be bad), but the lights still function fully in real-time.

Larger maps can still take a while just due to the number of faces and volumes (AAS again) that have to be calculated, but it's still a very very quick process. Minutes at most.

I know I'm going to regret asking this, because its yet another distraction on my plate of things to do, but whats teh command to get into the level editor?

editor.

You can create a shortcut to it pretty easily as well. Just make a normal D3 shortcut, then add "+editor +set r_fullscreen 0" to the command line. Be sure to add "+set r_fullscreen 1" to your game shortcut, though. Saves the hassle of alt+enter any time you want one after running the other.

congrats kfs, you've distracted me from NW jk

noooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

omG! Fetter if you start mapping for D3 I will honestly kill you!!!>... Honestly!!!... YOu put up such a fight to get me to stop and even KFS was involved...>!!~ You Hypocrit@~!~~!

I'm kidding~ I'll look at it for 5 minutes and put it away! PRMOISE

CDialogTextures::BuildTree() took 2202 milliseconds

WARNING: couldn't create font dlists

WARNING: wglUseFontBitmaps failed (6). Trying again.

WARNING: wglUseFontBitmaps failed again (6). Trying outlines.

WARNING: wglUseFontOutlines also failed (6), no coordinate text will be visible.

GL_VENDOR: (null)

GL_RENDERER: (null)

GL_VERSION: (null)

GL_EXTENSIONS: (null)

QE_LoadProject (doom.qe4)

WARNING: file def/map_intro.def, line 93: Unknown entityDef 'char_labcoat_young' inherited by 'intro_scientist'

Map_New

Entering message loop

ERROR: wglMakeCurrent failed..

Please restart DOOMEdit if the camera view is not working

ERROR: wglMakeCurrent failed..

Please restart DOOMEdit if the Z view is not working

ERROR: wglMakeCurrent failed.. Error:1282

Please restart Q3Radiant if the Map view is not working

ERROR: wglMakeCurrent failed.. Error:1282

Please restart Q3Radiant if the Map view is not working

ERROR: wglMakeCurrent failed..

Please restart DOOMEdit if the camera view is not working

ERROR: wglMakeCurrent failed..

Please restart DOOMEdit if the Z view is not working

Did the camera, z view, or map view not work? And if so, did you restart the editor?

nothing worked. and I restarted it like 5 times. could it be an ATI issue?

Doubtful; I run a 9800 at home with no problems whatsoever. Also know a few people running it on X800s with no problems. nVidia may have a slight performance edge, but the GPU manufacturer shouldn't affect this sort of thing.

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fist map, like ever. please be kind

i still need to do some scripting to make something cool, and feel free to compliment me on my fps

you can do better depth man, I know you can. Nice for a first map, but use what you learned in other engines and apply them to this engine.

A scientist sitting in a big glass tube and the other thing looks like a blue hl teleporter, no way in hell you can get more original than that

i thought it was a gas chamber

After trying doom3 mapping it hurts so bad to go back to non-dynamic light editing in other games. And compiling. D3 you still compile but its like .120381203 seconds long.

I have an X800 and doom3 ed runs fine.

I have it working now, it was some odd command line I had to put in.