Skybox not showing in map

[fifthelephant]

Hey guys,

I'm currently making a map but for some weird reason the skybox doesn't seem to show up. I don't think I've done anything inherently wrong with it.

www.dropbox.com/s/hhh00hhjxxngitl/q2map1.map


This is the map file (less than 100kb). I'm kind of lost as to what to do.

[grieve[Q2C]]

check the face - flags for the sky brushes, "sky" has to be set.

[fifthelephant]

Thanks for this, I'm still a bit unfamiliar with Quake 2 editing. I thought I simply had to put it as a sky texture as in other Quake engine games. Sadly Trenchbroom doesn't support setting flags on surfaces yet so I had to edit the file in notepad (by copying the information from an identical map in quark).

So Trenchbroom doesn't really support Quake 2 yet but there is a new version coming soon with Quake, Hexen 2 and Quake 2 support (as well as other engines soon) so hopefully this will pour some more life into Quake 2 as it has recently with all the awesome new Quake 1 releases. Can't wait for you guys to try it!

[fifthelephant]

Here's what I have so far btw, I have included the .map file as well as the .bsp!

www.quaketastic.com/files/single_player/maps/q2map1.zip

Just for a little background on who I am, I made Q-Deck for Quake 1. It's probably one of my best maps.
www.quaddicted.com/reviews/fesp1.html


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Screenshots -




www.quaketastic.com/files/screen_shots/q2-tb2-1.jpg



www.quaketastic.com/files/screen_shots/q2-tb2-2.jpg



www.quaketastic.com/files/screen_shots/q2-tb2-3.jpg

[Null]

Aug 12, 2014 16:09:59 GMT -5 fifthelephant said:

Here's what I have so far...

Hey, really cool map fifthelephant! We could use more quake1 to quake2 map converts around here! Can't wait to see the final map

Aug 12, 2014 16:03:21 GMT -5 fifthelephant said:

So Trenchbroom doesn't really support Quake 2 yet but there is a new version coming soon

If you like, you can try my Trenchbroom Quake 2 addon in the mean time. It works fairly well:
leray.proboards.com/thread/3529/trenchbroom-quake2-addon

[fifthelephant]

Aug 13, 2014 18:02:12 GMT -5 Null said:

Aug 12, 2014 16:03:21 GMT -5 fifthelephant said:

So Trenchbroom doesn't really support Quake 2 yet but there is a new version coming soon

If you like, you can try my Trenchbroom Quake 2 addon in the mean time. It works fairly well:
leray.proboards.com/thread/3529/trenchbroom-quake2-addon

That's really neat!! I'm sure SleepwalkR (kristian duske) will get a real kick out of this... I'm actually using a beta of TrenchBroom 2 to make this, it has native Quake 2 support now. I'm sure it wont be long until it's publicly released, the beta is fairly stable.
www.dropbox.com/s/r8ttfw6r9p5c4hg/tb2.jpg

[Null]

Can you provide the link to the beta?

Also, could you ask SleepwalkR to add support for compiling maps from UI, and if there's a leak, reading / displaying the leak information: (it's just a simple list of vectors)

somemap.lin

240.000000 832.000000 -64.015961
161.378235 768.207031 -15.955073
161.788269 768.162170 -0.229032
216.000000 744.149475 16.000000
160.000000 960.000000 31.999996
152.000000 976.000000 240.000000

How Qoole99 reads them:
const char *Quake2::GetLeakFile(const char *docName) const {
static char leakPath[256];

ASSERT(docName != NULL);

if (!LFile::ExistDir(mapDir))
return NULL;

sprintf(leakPath, "%s\\%s.lin", mapDir, docName);

return leakPath;
}

Object *Quake2::LoadLeakFile(const char *docName) const {
LFile leakFile;
QDraw::OutputText("Loading leak information: %s... ", GetLeakFile(docName));

if (!leakFile.Open(GetLeakFile(docName)))
{
QDraw::OutputText("Error.\nThere's no leak file.\n");
return NULL;
}

char *inLine;
float x, y, z;
Vector3d v1, v2;
Vector3d posVec;

// Read the first point.
while (!leakFile.EndOfFile()) {
if ((inLine = leakFile.GetNextLine()) != NULL &&
           sscanf(inLine, "%f %f %f", &x, &y, &z) == 3) {
v1.NewVector(x, y, z);
break;
}
}

Object *rtnVal = new Object;
Object *pNewSeg;
Geometry *pSegBrush;

// Read the rest.
while (!leakFile.EndOfFile()) {
if ((inLine = leakFile.GetNextLine()) != NULL &&
sscanf(inLine, "%f %f %f", &x, &y, &z) == 3) {
v2.NewVector(x, y, z);
pSegBrush = Geometry::MakeSegment(v1, v2);
pSegBrush->CenterGeometry(posVec);
pNewSeg = new Object;
pNewSeg->SetBrush(pSegBrush);
pNewSeg->SetPosition(posVec);
rtnVal->AddChild(*pNewSeg, false);
v1 = v2;
}
}

if (rtnVal->GetNumChildren() == 0) {
delete rtnVal;
rtnVal = NULL;
}
else {
rtnVal->SetBoundRadius();
}

QDraw::OutputText("OK.\n");
return rtnVal;
}

[fifthelephant]

Null, I wish I could freely share the beta or the link to it, but you need to request access by speaking to SleepwalkR over on the Trenchbroom thread at Func_Msgboard. He really is looking for bug reports and feedback though, which you also need to register at the Trenchbroom Github for as well.

I'm sure he'd love to have some more experienced Quake 2 mappers on board though, I feel like I can only be of so much help.

[fifthelephant]

Also, the editor does have pointfile support already. In terms of built in compiler support, it's a great idea but I doubt it's high on the priority list at the minute.