first .bsp play test, trouble with textures, limbo mode etc

(Tofuy) #1

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  1. i’d say about 80% of the textures didn’t seem to load. is this because i did the cheap quick .bsp -meta compile or are they not loaded somehow in my etmapping game folders?? i did a clean install for my etmapping et.exe about 2 days ago.

  2. when i hit L to go to limbo from spectator, the game freezes permanently. is this because i haven’t made a command map yet??

  3. anyone have a favorite tutorial on capture the flag maps, making the .pk3, or caulk??

edit: :banghead: “i’d say about 80% of the textures didn’t seem to load” wouldn’t this be because of my clean install?? if radiant sees the textures because they’re in my game et install that doesn’t mean they’ll load if i don’t have them on my map et install. oy vey i feel 1/2 stupid and 1/2 smart for figure it out. but this raises another question:

should i collect all the textures i use and have them be a part of the .pk3?? if so, anyone have a good tutorial on that?? i was looking through the stickied tutorials and saw the et mappers bible thread. this says not to do this. hmmmm… if the map is 1.5 mb why not?? will it cause some kind of conflict??

(Aikon) #2

  1. I’d say they aren’t in your ETMain anymore, you should check it in your .map file in radient if the textures show up. If these are custom textures, always make them by a power of 2!

  2. Do you have an info_deathmatch, info_intermission, team_bluespawn and team_redspawn in your map? Cause these are the spawns and without these the game won’t work.

  3. Check out the tutorials @ www.wolfensteinx.com/surface

(Tofuy) #3

yeah the surface tutorials are really nice. thanks! anyone else have input?? (yup i have all the spawns mentioned)

(thore) #4

i bet you have entered mapcoordsmins and mapcoordsmaxs in your worldspawn correctly AND did a /generatetracemap command… ?

(Ifurita) #5

My list of favorite tutorials

http://planetwolfenstein.com/4newbies/maplinks.htm

Tutorials I’ve written (including making pk3s and cap objectives)

http://planetwolfenstein.com/4newbies/mapping.htm#tutorials

(Tofuy) #6

oooo! thanks for the responses thore and ifurita! :notworthy: this forum is super helpful! i really do appreciate it, a lot.