Victory! thanks plan b & misantropia. it was compiling to the wrong file. when i made arenas.txt, i put the arena name as "test1.map" when it should have been just "test1". because of that, quake looked for test1.map.bsp. first time that happened, i renamed test1.bsp to test1...

;) yup, i do one of the 'final' BSP compiles in the bsp menu. with the textures - if i use a model like the "STORCH" from the tutorials, or one that is part of the standard pak0 - it should have the texture in there already, right? or do i also need to include it in my pk3? and if quake is...

i'm sure the answer to this is really obvious, but after days of scouring the web i'm gonna break down and ask: when i import md3 models int GtkRadiant as misc_model entities, they work fine; but they don't show up in-game. other basic things (brushes, textures, etc) work ok; and the entities seem o...