q2tools-220 release

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Quake 2 map compiler tools with v220 map support, automatic phong, enhancements, and fixes.
https://github.com/qbism/q2tools-220/releases

I'll eventually follow up with screenshots.

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See the release page for a new update. Light intensity tuning, better "-help" for qrad3, and a couple bug fixes.

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"smooth" (phong shading) and "extra' test map examples below. smooth takes an angle threshold parameter. 'smooth 46' will smooth inside angles up to 46 degrees and outside angles 134 degrees and up (180-46 = 134). 'smooth 0' is no smoothing. Interesting angle range is roughly 25 to 65 degrees.

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qrad3 -smooth 0 phongtestmap

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qrad3 -smooth 0 -extra phongtestmap

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qrad3 -smooth 46 -extra phongtestmap

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07-15-2020 release:
Adjustable sample nudge value. This is the fractional distance from face center when extra samples are used (-extra). Higher values are generally smoother. Lower values can sometimes reduce light leakage at small brushes. Default is 0.25, range is 0.0 to 1.0.

Add line number to brush notifications, useful for Trenchbroom's "Select by Line Number" command.

Rebrand tool names so it's easier to compare output with other tools that use the default names.

'Beta' release. Please report issues on github.

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Dev continues. New release 'soon' with_falloff feature thanks to slipyx and looser (but not noticable)texinfo matching for complex maps that hit texinfo limit.

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q2tools-220 04-25-21 release

https://github.com/qbism/q2tools-220/re ... g/04-25-21

Add support for _falloff property on point lights. Adapted from zzsort/blarghrad by slipyx.

Help for maps that hit texinfo limit: Round down vector comparison to 2 decimal places in TexinfosMatch. This reduces texinfo count and still precise enough visually.

Cleaned up extern variables to satisfy gcc10 compiler, which defaults to -fno_common.

BTW, here's a decent build sequence, working in Linux. I put the tools in the game base dir:

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./4bsp -chop 512 -choplight 32 maps/yourmap

./4vis  maps/yourmap

./4rad  -extra -subdiv 32 maps/yourmap

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Release 01-10-22
Improve sky edge fix and make a toggle -noedgefix. Re-enable threads in 4rad. High-res (4x standard) lightmaps for QBSP form. Might be fine with the new sky fix. If banding then leave default of 64.

Located at https://github.com/qbism/q2tools-220 as usual.

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q2tool release 02-19-23 https://github.com/qbism/q2tools-220
Main points: single exe, bugfixes, reverted 4x lightmaps for qbsp (over time preferred the original chunky lightmaps).

Moving forward I'm going to try posting some additional documentation here: https://3v.is/notice/ASqLl2Veho7QL0eX5c