Guide: General BSP stuff I

[jitspoe]

I plan to do this at some point, but I've been pretty busy with other stuff.  Maybe I'll do something after build16 (if that goes smoothly).

[Burt_Gummer]

A couple quick questions:

How exactly do you change the way the texture is facing on a brush?  If you look in the antiochseige_beta2 map, you will see that on the bridges connecting to the side towers, it kinda has a

\\\\\\\\\\\ texture going across it.  The bridge is angled.  I've checked out the stuff at http://www.gamedesign.net/node/11 but it didn't help much.

Also, was there an official final release of build 15?  All I can find in the /files directory is the build 15 pretest 1.

[Matze]

Theres never going to be a full release of build 15.

Next version would be Build 16 then.

[GreenAffairz]

shouldnt you have pb2 in C:\ as well, for me Pb2 went to C:\games automatically, when i moved the bsp editor to C:\ and pb2 it worked

[jitspoe]

You're supposed to edit the batch files to reflect the install location of paintball2.  I probably should have set up the batch files to default to c:\games\paintball2.

[BlingTricka]

hey, i need some help.. ive made maps for a while now but have never had this problem.. i try to set certain textures on my map as "slick" under "ctrl + s" and they will not stay when i click add contents. I try it on glass texture, which on some other map of mine it works just fine (like ice). and the snowy/marble texture (like in pbcup). this will not work under slick. a map of mine i made also has this as slick. any reasons why it will not work with this map?

[jitspoe]

There are two different types of flags: surface flags and contents flags.  I think slick is a surface flag.

[BlingTricka]

Yeah, I still can't get it to work though.. I click add content after checking the "slick" box under surface and when i hit esc on the keyboard to close off the current selection the once checked box is now unchecked yet again. Why is that?

[jitspoe]

Try "Add Flags" instead of "Add Contents."

[dan003400]

when i click on export then the last one at the botom (high quality) and then it says something like is it ok to save adn i click yes then nuting happens. i have gotton this to work before in the past but all of a sudon it wont work???

why?  jit plezzz help

[dan003400]

all of a sudon it wont let me export ?? when i click on (high quality) then it says is it OK to save i click yeas then nothing happens after that

why?

[dan003400]

can u make your own texture , like what programs open WAl files so that i can edit them???

[jitspoe]

Your paths probaably aren't set up right.  There's a text file included with the bsp pack that tells you what all you need to edit to set up your directories correctly.  As for wal files, there's a program called wally that can edit them.  You can find it on google or download it here: http://dpball.com/files/mapmaking/  - you also need the .pal file on there.

In the future, please don't make multiple posts in a row.  Use "Modify" instead.

[TinMan]

You need to have the map saved C:\bsp\quake2\pball\mapfiles\ to compile it I'm pretty sure, otherwise it says it can't find the map.

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[edhillbilly]

wee bit of a problem.... when i try to download step 1, the download goes fine, but when i try to run it... it says something like 'not suitable to run MSDOS..." and so on. so is there another client to use? ANSWER ME!!! PLEEASE!!

[jitspoe]

Is this after you've unzipped it, or when you're trying to unzip it?  What OS are you running?

[Idem]

hi, i have a couple of q\'s:

• how do i make flags and how do i outline both the base and the actuall capping area? anything different about the white flags?
• to make windows should i use a couple of different brushes for that wall or just one big one with a chunk cut out of it?  is this what subtracting brushes is about?  if so could someone explain the basics of that then
• how do i outline the base and cap areas on a seige map, is the cap area just automatically where the defenders are killed?
• how do i add custom textures to my maps?

thanks to anyone who can answer

[jitspoe]

- To make flags, just use a "flag" entity.  Use the "teamnumber" key to specify the team.  A teamnumber of 0 will be a white flag.  For the capable area, you need to create a brush then convert it to a "base" entity.  Also use the "teamnumber" key for that.
- Brushes can't be concave, so you have to make a wall with windows out of multiple brushes.
- For siege, put base entities outside of the base.  Defenders who touch it will be killed.  Offense will have to take the flag to the base entities.
- Custom textures are kind of complicated.  A tutorial is probably in order for those.

Note that with base brush entities, they can only be rectangular, not at angles or in odd shapes.  Just the min/max of the brush entity is used.  See the docs page for more info on entities.  It's a bit outdated, but it should help.

[Idem]

thank you jitspoe but i have another question

how do i edit the sun brightness and other properties?

[jitspoe]

http://arghrad.planetquake.gamespy.com/manual/sun.html