Well, it looks cool Deathrock. But I'd be more interested in a map that you've designed yourself from scratch. --- I know I once took dm6 from q1 and altered it. It was cool at first, but no one wanted to give up the original dm6 thus my map never became popular and was never played. yeah, i know i...

OK. Link to screenshots:
http://img143.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=2 ... 902314.jpg

here i tried to give to the gameplay even more balance, giving extra routes from weak places (and more room to tdm with 4+ players in each team)
download link: http://depositfiles.com/files/ae1i7841w
any feedback&advice is good...

My intuition tells me that there is a valid reason for the splitting up of coplanar faces (aside from the compiler not being able to make "human judgments"), and that the most "optimal"-looking configuration might not account for all the things the engine needs to do with the ge...

Yes, i see it in the log, but it does nothing in any case i tried. If somebody knows, please show an example map & compiler version & command line, where q3map2 DOES merge some brushsides (with exactly the same textures&texcoords, of course)

(q3map2 doesn't merge any faces) If by face you mean brush side then I think it does, actually. really? what version? what command line? i always saw all splits where they were in map when toggle r_showtris in quake 3 Well, if you find building things in Radiant to be difficult, moving to a modelin...

Models is a good thing
and i know, it's even possible to make models from map brushes - compile them to bsp, then decompile to ase
but it's a sequence of too many dumb operations, maybe i just need to know a simple and noob friendly model editing program

yes, it is visually the same, but... sometimes we need to choose between extra drawing faces (q3map2 doesn't merge any faces) or intersecting brushes (but with no intersecting faces, of course) as i know, all 2 choices leads to no good of course, we can build more complicated brushes that do not int...

Is it possible to create a level, operating with BSP faces, but not any brushes? What tools are required? May it be better than just using flat bezier patches + invisible solid brushes in any radiant-like editor? I'm just asking this because i'm afraid on many unnecessary or non-optimal face splitti...

Yes, there is brush primitives (aka alternative texture projection)

"vis on terrains rarely hides anything from view ever. I don't think there's nothing wrong with the map itself. Q3 is just not designed for terrains."
OK, I know. I just asked if there is a "hack" to improve it.

Hello, friends! I'm starting my first terrain map (not first map at all). And i get stuck with the Vis optimisation, everything i tried doesn't give any useful result, Q3 draws a LOT more tris than really needed. Can you, please, help me with caulk/hint/etc.. placement or point some articles to read...

Please, post a working link to MBSPC!