Help on making an simple room

(Bamchen) #1

I know that i’m a dumb ass, but please forgive me.
I tried the tutorial from the help menu and that works untill i want to ad textures.
The tutorial says:
“That wall will do just fine. Then decide what wall surface you want to apply the texture to. Hold the left-CTRL and the left-SHIFT key down and then left click on a wall. The wall will turn red.”
I think i clicked the walls a 1000 times but nothing gets red or something.
WTF am I doing wrong?

(joop sloop) #2

you have to use the 3D view window for applying textures to surfaces. so ctrl + shift + left click on the surface you want to texture in the 3D window. Hope that helps

(Bamchen) #3

Well, i tried doing what you said but it still doesn’t work.
And gues what, I tried to left shift,left Alt click it, and it worked.
It seems to me that the tutorial included with the GTK Radiant 1.3.8 doesn’t match with the actual things you got to do.
For exemple: step 9 says: Compile it.
In the BSP menu, select “bsp_fastvis�. Wait patiently for the program to finish three phases of compile: bsp, vis, light.
In the BSP menu isn’t a button that says bsp_fastvis. Pretty weird?!

Is there someone with a working tutorial?

(Bamchen) #4

I think I fixed everything now (think!) but when i trie to play the map ET says (something like) unable to play map. Set your gametype to 2 to play the map correctly.
What do i do?

(sock) #5

Set your gametype to 2 to play the map correctly.
What do i do?

bring down the game console (` key, top left of keyboard) and type the following command:

g_gametype 2 (followed by the enter key)
devmap <your map name here> (followed by the enter key)

Sock
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(Bamchen) #6

thnx, gonna try it now

(Bamchen) #7

well, it works, up to a certain point.
I don’t get the error anymore, but here is the next problem.
I get the map of Europe on the left and al the way on the right it says my computer is loading the map (just like joining a normal game)
i’m connecting to local host (seems normal to me) but than it says “awaiting challange…0”, and it does nothing.

am i really that much of an ass, couse i really feel like one.

(TFate) #8

Try using /map instead of /devmap. If /map works correctly, it means you have too many .pk3 files in etmain.

(sock) #9

well, it works, up to a certain point.
I don’t get the error anymore, but here is the next problem.
I get the map of Europe on the left and al the way on the right it says my computer is loading the map (just like joining a normal game)
i’m connecting to local host (seems normal to me) but than it says “awaiting challange…0”, and it does nothing.

This can fixed in two ways …

First make sure your base etmain directory is not littered with loads of crap pk3 files. You should develop maps on a seperate tree and not use the same one you play the game with. Everytime you connect to custom servers or download maps it adds more pk3’s to your base etmain folder. Create your content with a clean tree.

Second, make sure you have the correct entities in your map so that it will work in game.
Try this sample map : http://www.planetquake.com/simland/ldr1_1/samplemap01a.htm

If that sample map does not work then its the pk3 issue. (first point)

Sock
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