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Hexen II mapping question

BlackCrucible — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:09:02 GMT

Hey everyone. I'm very close to complete my first level of a Hexen II project I've been working on.

I started with a rider map but there's one problem I can't seem to solve.

When you play the original Hexen II level called Famine's Domain in singleplayer, you can't open the acces to the lower part of the level. When you play a deathmatch game, you can because it is required to end the level since Famine is not there.

Now, I made something similar in my map but it also opens in singleplayer and I've looked at a rider map from Hexen II and there's no different spawnflag or whatever than the ones I used.

Does anyone know how it must be done?

The Hexen II source code

BlackCrucible — Wed, 21 May 2008 12:35:21 GMT

Hi again.

Suppose I want to make a couple of levels and group them together in one .pak file...

Like the original mission pack, there's a directory called portals which contains all information to play the mission pack.
When you load it (with C:\Hexen2\GLH2.exe -portals -width 1024 -height 768 -bpp 32) for example, when you select new game, it automatically loads the first level of the mission pack.

I've looked through the source code but I can't find any lines where it says that the engine loads that particular map when you select new game, your skill and the class.

Basically, I want to include map1.bsp map2.bsp and map3.bsp in one pak file. How do you let the engine know that when your mod is loaded, to select map1.bsp to start?

HIGH RESOLUTION Texture Pack?

TAViX — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:29:58 GMT

[b]Hello guys.
Just wandering, is there any High Resolution Textures Pack made for Hexen 2? Thank you in advance.[/b];)

Hexen II model editor

BlackCrucible — Sun, 18 May 2008 19:44:22 GMT

Hey guys!

I'm looking for a nice hexen II modeling program which lets you view, edit and make hexen II models from scratch. I've googled my *** off but it seems those programs are very hard to find. Does anyone happen to know where I can find such a program?

Play this map?

Hexen Third — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:52:24 GMT

Hi all! :) One question:

how to make to play this map? ;)
http://rudl.quaddicted.com/

no instruction from the developer...

Texture Help

Sven — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:05:31 GMT

I'm working on some external textures right now, and I can't seem to get them to appear in-game for testing purposes. I made a "textures" directory in my "data1" directory, and all my texture files are appropriately scaled, in pcx format, and use the original texture names. Am I doing something wrong or just forgetting something simple? I'm a little new at modding on this engine. Thanks in advance.

HQE Launcher

DevilDriver — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 02:57:11 GMT

Finally i was able to update my launcher to 1.1 :)
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Features at the moment:
-Select Resolution & BPP
-Select Software/OpenGL mode
-Disable/Enable Bloom
-launch custom mod
*all settings are stored in .ini so you can just press enter on your next start and play with your last settings.
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Multiplayer Dedicated/Listen Server:
=-coop
=-teamplay
=-deathmatch
=-listen server
=-hostname
=-maxplayers
* portals multiplayer is supported just type portals in the custom mod field
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Currently working on:
custom ip and port in dedicated server/listen mode.
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Screenshot:
[img]http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/4598/hqelzi2.jpg[/img]
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[url=http://www.hirez.info/files/Hexen/HQELauncher.zip]Download version 1.1[/url]
Install Instructions:
UnZip to your Hexen II folder and start Launcher.exe

The Skybox Thread

Razumen — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 04:29:42 GMT

I thought I'd make this thread for us to share enhanced content for the new engine, cool stuff like skyboxes, colored lighting for the official levels, etc.

Here's my first contribution, a desert sky for the Egyptian hub: [url=ftp://ravenhurst@server1.thefourwinds.net/desert.rar]Download[/url]

I made this awhile back while testing Newhexen's skybox feature, but I don't think I will be using it for [url=http://ravenhurst.raven-games.com]Ravenhurst[/url].

Unfortunately, UQE doesn't let you install default skyboxes for each hub (yet, hopefully this will change) so if you want to use this you must add the following to the worldspawn in each level you want it to show up in: (Quark works good for this)

"sky" "desert"

So it ends up looking something like this;

{
"worldtype" "0"
"message" "410"
"wad" "D:\Hexen2\Textures\RT.wad"
"classname" "worldspawn"
"sky" "desert"
}

Of course, make sure you place the unzipped files into a 'skies' directory in the data1 folder for normal hexen, or the 'portals' folder if you have the mission pack.

UQE Hexen II Tools

Korax — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 15:44:38 GMT

Currently Im busy updating the original modding tools of Hexen II. (MP version)

Development on it is going good sofar and I can report on the progress of these now based on their current state.

UQEHX2BSP: Added log support; What makes this nice is if the tool has a problem and it closes too quick to read, you can check the log file. Added floating point support to be compatible with QuArK (Quake Army Knife).

UQEHX2VIS: Added log support, same as the bsp tool. Also added is a progress indicator, which helps alot with this tool since it can take some time to finish-up.

UQEHX2LIGHT: Added log support, same as bsp tool. Added world minlight (ambient light) option. Added lighting face counter (progress). Added nominlimit for controlling negative lights. Added colored light (HLIT .lit) support. Added world minlight color setting, added pointlight colored light setting.

This is a short-list of changes, but Im working on more features like sunlight and sunlight angle.. almost like the way Quake2 handles outdoor light.

''Archer Models ?''

Bat[BW] — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 06:15:19 GMT

So we have a new archer model ?