Game Editing and Modding Hints & Tips
On this page you'll find basic but essential hints and tips for editing idTech4 powered games (formally known as the 'Doom 3' engine); currently Quake Wars, Quake 4, Prey and Doom 3. Whether you're level editing and designing, building and importing custom models or creating new texture sets for the games listed above, you should find the following Quick Fire Comments® useful.
If you can't see a useful tip listed send it in.
• wglmakecurrent pt4, deleting config (*.cfg) files
• Unable to find default tag file [directory/path]/shadertags.xml. No tag support
• GTK Radiant 1.5 and wglMakeCurrent errors
• General model export check list
• What is 'smoothing', what are 'smooth groups'
• Quake Wars and applying materials/textures to ASE models
• Loading a custom ASE model into Quake Wars EditWorld
• Quake Wars and DDS images/textures
• Quake 4 editor and multicore CPUs - wglMakeCurrent pt2
• Quake 4 portal 'popping'
• Texture 'normalisation' & patch meshes
• Organising frequently used shaders
• Getting brushwork into a 3D app
• 3rd Person Perspective
• Normal maps - TIP : texture space and orientation
• Quake 4 "addon.conf" configuration file
• Creating mapsize data for Quake 4 MP maps
• r_lightdetaillevel [n]
• WARNING: Couldn't load map file
• Using 'inline' models
• Models not loading into the D3/Q4 editor
• 'Overbright' lights
• Texture rotation issues
• Quake 4 MP collision problems
• Quake 4 model rotation problem
• Types of 'surface' in Quake 4
• Custom DDS textures showing as 'black'
• Creating Quake 4 levelshots and map list entries
• Folder structure for MP level editing
• Where are the particle, articulated figures editors?
• Using ASE models in Quake 4
• Useful Quake 4 console commands
• How to test MP maps in Quake 4
• wglMakeCurrent, anti aliasing and Radiant editor
• Starting the Quake 4 editor
• Using GTKRadiant to build a basic terrain
• Condump log.txt
• Converting old maps into Quake 4 and Doom 3
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