Quake Army Knife errors (part 1)

Error in console :

SampleTriangulation: no points.

Situation : 

The map renders to fulbright when played.

Problem :

Texture to small on face of the poly.

Resolved :

Scale the texture to 0.5 0.5 or other number.

 

Quake Army Knife 6.6 beta 6 - dragging a group of polys in the panel

 

When you drag a group of polys in the editor panel, you can make a prefab out of them. You either than drag them back in your working place as parts or as a whole.

A prefab is like a real ,,prefabricated section of a object,, that can be put somewhere (a building etc.)

Prefab example in the editor and in its 3D fullscreen view, for Quake 2 Dawn of Darkness mod (minus the object_flame1 and light entity which are added to the prefab - more on this later) :

 

 

Quake Army Knife 6.6 beta 6 - making a group of polys

 

Today we will teach you how to make a group of polys. The tutorials series for Quake Army Knife we will post on Patreon are not on any particular order (tabs, button order etc.), and you can learn better this way.

When you work in the editor, you create a virtual world for a game (Quake 2, Half-Life etc.).

You work with a brush made of poly(s) and a brush is like a ,,real cardboard,, and the poly(s) is the ,,carboard,, walls you can arange. You can also always rename your group or poly(s) parts.

Quake Army Knife tools paths and files short explanation

You may have different tools versions

In Quake Army Knife, click ,,options,, in the uper tab inside the editor, click ,,configuration,, and inside the ,,Games,, line go to ,,Quake 2,, and give path to qbsp310.exe, timvis3.exe and arghrad.exe. They are tools for the editor to work. 

The qbsp makes a bsp file along your map file.

Timvis involves making sure that brushes etc. work within the editor. Errors will be showned in the editor console if not.

Arghrad provides : 

,,Sunlight options, Entity brush models can cast light, provides many more surface light options, Phong shading for simulating curves,,

http://quark.sourceforge.net/download_tools.php

 

 

Some stuff inside a map. file

Some stuff inside a qkm. file 

The .bsp file is the file that your game will use, when you run it. 

If in Quake 2 console you write map your map name, it will run or you can run the map with Quake Army Knife directly. Be sure that in your Quake 2 shortcut, +set game roarke is written in the Target box.

From the editor,  a .map file is the file saved from Quake Army Knife (can be opened later and edited further, but the prefab parts will be saved in the map structure and functions in entities). 

A .qkm file will have the prefab parts and functions like you did it originaly.

.QRK file are used by the editor. You can make your own for other Quke 2, Half-Life etc. mods. My brother and i made Dawn of Darkness mod .qrk file. 

They reside in the Quake Army Knife addons folder (there each game has its own folder, but your .QRK file you made reside in the main addons folder).

Don't mistake a .qrk file with the .qkm file above !

http://quark.sourceforge.net/download_addons.php

Game patches can be downloaded :

http://quark.sourceforge.net/download_gamepatches.php

Quake Army Knife 6.6 beta 6 configuration

 

Quark Army Knife 6.6 beta 6 configuration for games like Quake 2, Kingpin life of crime, Half-Life etc. I waited sometimes in the video for you to read what the configuration has to offer.

Quake Army Knife 6.6 beta 7 compared with beta 6

In the ,,memory,, tab, the Compression Level and Size of compression buffer, those lines were removed.

In Files tab - Textures line, the above was added.

In General tab - OpenGL line, this was added.

 In General tab - DirectX line, the above (in red) were added.

 

 

In General tab - Startup line, the above (in red) was added.

 

In Files tab - ZIP line, this was written.

In General tab - Glide (3Dfx) line.

 

In Map tab - Display line and in the same thing in Model tab - Display line

The above images, represents things added in Quake army knife 6.6 beta 7, which were not in Quake Army Knife 6.6 beta 6.

This was tough, reading and comparing things ... at 2.31 AM

How to add and edit you mod with Quake Army Knife 6.6 beta 7

 

Here i'm using Quake 2 as a short example. After you install your game and tweak your Quake Army Knife configuration, add your game mod by following this video. Quake Army Knife 6.6 beta 7 has a few differences in configuration, but you can use Quake Army Knife 6.6 beta 6 too, if you want.

System we use

P.C. with Windows 10 64-bit system (CPU 3300 GHZ, 8 GB memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 video  card, ASrock Z97 anniversary motherboard, Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS sound  card).