He's not exactly what you'd call a captivating writer. I find his writing, both on rocketry and software, to be clear, well reasoned and as easy to read as the subject allows. When the content is also of interest, that makes for good reading, IMO. Just because you aren't interested in the topics do...

http://www.planetquake.com/code3arena/
might help a bit

Here's a quick example of the hint/subtlehint thing I mentioned: http://www.worldwidegaming.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=30 The common shaders distributed with radiant have gone back and forth between including 'surfaceparam hint' in the common/hint shader. It is desireable t...

Indeed, almost all the disk usage of q3 is in the assets, the code is only a few megs.

If you have an idea of what assets you will want beforehand, you could include only those. This isn't such a hard thing, if you know what sort of theme you are making beforehand. But disk space is cheap too...

Cross posted from q3map2 forums. Download: http://www.worldwidegaming.org/developer/reyalp/q3map-reyalp-2.zip Info: You can use the keys _patchmeta and _patchsubdivisions to control how patches in a given entity are compiled. More details in the readme. This is experimental, use at your own risk. Th...

Kat wrote:yup, that's the problem I meant, water changing becasue it reads the nodraw 1st.

In that case, yes. You could make a prio -1 nodraw and use it on water, fog etc. Of course, you could also make nodrawfog and nodrawwater and get the same result.

Also, remember that quake3 was designed around hardware that only did texture mapping in hardware (with 2 texture units, if you were lucky). Taking advantage of modern video card features requires engines to be written differently, and opens up a whole lot of options. A q3 engine map showing 30k tri...

interesting.. so I guess this solves (at least in part) the old fog and water brush problems? If you mean having the contents change because you have, say nodraw on a side of your fog or water brush, yes. If that isn't the problem you are referring to, maybe you could describe it in more detail. My...

If you are getting 'entity leaked' it means you have an entity whose origin is in structure. This isn't the same as 'map leaked', and as far as I can tell, isn't really a problem. Some entities will not do what you want if they are embedded in structure.

Nice work obsidian :icon14: Another thing I found useful, is to have two different hint shaders, one with surfaceparam hint, and one without. This gives you finer control of how far your hints split (brushes with surfaceparam hint split before normal brushes). I call the one without surfaceparam hin...

I posted this over on the q3map2 forum, but it might be of interest to some people here as well. http://www.splashdamage.com/index.php?name=pnPHPbb2&file=viewtopic&t=11906 Problem: Some shader keywords (such as nonsolid, *clip, liquid, and so on) affect the contents of a brush rather rather ...