Subj : RE: Graphic Card Upgrades
To   : Bob Worm
From : dingo
Date : Thu Jul 10 2025 21:43:55


On Wednesday, July 9th Bob Worm said...
 BW> Ooh, you just unlocked another memory for me. I started doing some level 
 BW> editing for Quake / Quake II but found I had no imagination and made 
 BW> rubbish levels. My best friend had the knack for making interesting

My nephew has gotten into doom, doom 2, quake, he likes making places in minecraft so I learned how to use "Trenchbroom" today to make Quake levels, hoping to teach him how to use it and make a level together.

"Brushes" are strange, I knew that when I was a teenager but I didn't really understand why, but I do now, that you can only make polyhedrons (bricks/etc) and then "slice" them with an infinate plane, so this is why you can't have a single face in the shape of a gear, or that a doorway has to be made of many separate cubes..

I got pretty far for day 1, and then some obscure error in the qbsp thinks I have "0" brushes, spent forever looking for leaks that aren't there,
re-surrounded everything in a giant box to be sure.. I'll start from scratch again tomorrow, maybe. I'm remembering just how much *tenacity* i had as a young teenager to learn how to use all that stuff, I really wanted to make quake levels, I think at least one map found its way to ftp.cdrom.com and I got to play deathmatch with friends on our own levels and that's kind of a special thing, I can really see why roblox and minecraft have done so well, they smoothed away all the bumps in making, publishing, and playing your own "levels" with friends.







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