User:SirYodaJedi/Porting Quake DM maps to Deathmatch Classic

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This page covers some oddities about porting Quake I deathmatch maps to Deathmatch Classic. Maps can mostly ported directly with minimal edits, but there are some quirks to work out

Uncompiled map file

Todo: Axial Projection → Valve220

Textures

Todo: porting from WAD2 to WAD3; renaming tool textures

Liquids

Todo: 

• renaming * to !
• setting semi-accurate fog color and density

• WinQuake tints the palette relative to rgb(130,80,50), but only does it half way; perhaps doubling the luma by setting the fog color to rgb(212,171,145) would be more accurate?

Skies

Todo: method using two scrolling func_illusionary entities (via rendercolor)

Lighting

Todo: * light (+ _color) to _light

• model/sprite based lights (the flame models do exist, but they need to be played back at 1/3 speed)

Sounds

Todo: simulating visleaf-based ambient sounds for water and sky

Ambient sounds

The following entities emit ambient sounds, which should be replicated with ambient_generic:

Entity	WAV file (relative to /id1/sound/)	Volume
ambient_suck_wind	ambience/suck1.wav	10
ambient_drone	ambience/drone6.wav	5
ambient_fluoro_buzz	ambience/buzz1.wav	10
ambient_drip	ambience/drip1.wav	5
ambient_comp_hum	ambience/comp1.wav	10
ambient_thunder	ambience/thunder1.wav	5
ambient_light_buzz	ambience/fl_hum1.wav	5
ambient_swamp1	ambience/swamp1.wav	5
ambient_swamp2	ambience/swamp2.wav	5
FireAmbient	ambience/fire1.wav	5
light_fluoro	ambience/fl_hum1.wav	5
light_fluorospark	ambience/buzz1.wav	5
light_torch_small_walltorch	ambience/fire1.wav	5
light_flame_large_yellow	ambience/fire1.wav	5
light_flame_small_yellow	ambience/fire1.wav	5
light_flame_small_white	ambience/fire1.wav	5
trigger_teleport (if spawnflag 2 not set)	ambience/hum1.wav	5

Other entities

• info_notnull - info_target
• misc_explobox or misc_explobox2 - using the source MAPs for b_explob or b_exbox2 (respectively), create a func_breakable with health of 20 and an explosion magnitude of 160.
• func_dm_only - trigger_teleport (doesn't actually exist, but this is what it allegedly would be)
• func_bossgate - func_wall (disappears when all episodes are complete, which in deathmatch is never)
• func_illusionary - func_detail, with at least one face of each brush textured with CONTENTEMPTY (split brushes if necessary. Func_illusionary in Quake doesn't count as an edict after initially being spawned, but this behavior was removed in GoldSrc because they couldn't get it to work with the revamped save system.)
• trigger_secret - trigger_multiple

Entities to remove outright

If any entities have the "not in deathmatch" spawnflag set, then they can be removed.

• monster_* - monsters don't appear in deathmatch
• func_episodegate - appears when an episode is complete, which in deathmatch is never
• trigger_onlyregistered - Shows a message if pop.lmp fails to validate (unregistered). This feature doesn't exist in GoldSrc.