Q3Map2 compiling & Common Error Messages

The following text is a collection of Questions & Answers in relation to common error messages that occur during the process of compiling maps and levels with either Q3Map or the updated Q3Map2 for use in any game powered by the Quake 3 engine.

It was originally posted on the Quake3World level editing forums before the big f.u.b.a.r. of late 2004. Thanks to a forward thinking chap (thanks scourge34) a copy was saved and all was not lost..! It's an ongoing resource that has been gathered over a number of years by several helpful and dedicated individuals from the Quake3World community. It's not a complete list of all the possible error messages that might crop up, but a comment on the more frequent problems that arise from editing and creating content for games based on the Quake 3 engine.

Common Error index

• ERROR: wglMakeCurrent failed.. Error:[value]

• MAX_MAP_EDGES

• idCollisionModeManagerLocal::ChopWindingWithBrush:

• MAX_SURFACE_INFO

• SV_SetBrushModel: NULL

• RtCW SP Shader overflow bug

• ERROR: PicoLoadModel: Failed loading model [path]

• ERROR: line 0000: parsed 1. #IND

• compiling with -patchshadows

• WARNING: models/mapobjects/kmlamp_white.tga has empty alpha channel

• brush plane with no normal

• MAX_VISIBILITY_EXCEEDED

• Requested feature was omitted at compile time

• stylenum == MAX_SWITCHED_LIGHTS

• Line 178 is incomplete

• UnmatchedToken "({)"

• ERROR: MAX_MAP_BRUSHSIDES

• AllocWinding failed: MAX_POINTS_ON_WINDING exceeded

• Error MAX_MAP_LIGHTING

• MAX_SUBMODELS exceeded

• Chose a 0 valued axis

• mixed CONTENTS_DETAIL and CONTENTS_STRUCTURAL

• Over bright (full bright) map

• The installshield engine (iKernel.exe) could not be installed

• Excessively long compile times

• MAX_POINTS_ON_WINDING

• ****ERROR*** [insert error message here]

• LoadTGA: Only type 2 (RGB), 3 (gray), and 10 (RGB) TGA images supported.

• Missing textures in game

• Warning RE_Add Poly To Scene: Null Shader

• ERROR: Backwards Tree Volume

• sp_worldspawn: the first entity isn't 'worldspawn'

• multiple crossing points for patch - can't clip

• RE_LoadWorldMap: maps/[mapname].bsp not found

• Shader_max_vertexes hit in FillCloudy Sky Side

• choose 0 valued axis

• MAX_MAP_PLANES

• MAX_LEAF_FACES

• MAX_MAPFILE_PLANES (max mapfile planes)

• ERROR: Line {Insert line number here} is incomplete

• MAX TW VERTS

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