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BSP (a Quake editor)

You are victim number since November 2, 1996 -- Count by Myrddin Emrys.

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Download BSP Beta 0.666 (Updated 1/7/97 at 11:00 p.m.)
Don't forget to download the Necessary Run-Time Libraries: RTL (first time downloaders only!)

What's new/fixed:

Version 0.67b, approx. 1/23/97

• This is the first release using a new compiler. There may be problems so treat this as more of an alpha. Here's what's new:
• Flyover hints enabled.
• Multiple camera positions, saved to .map file. Use Ctrl-Left and Right Arrow to move between cameras. Left mouse select and drag to move them. XY Views have a button to switch cameras.
• Current group name is listed next to Camera Button in XY Views.
• Killed all known memory leaks.
• Multiple texture .wad files should load correctly.
• Most BSP color settings moved to new heading in new bsp.ini
• 3D Control look for dialogs enabled.
• Let me know if:
• You still have the texture browser button creep occurring
• The 3D view crashes upon entry into flat or textured preview
• Anything else happens that is strange
• BTW, I will be making the edit field, etc. sizes customizable soon, so don't send me messages about "cut-off" fields in win 3.1 and (? NT).

Version 0.66b, 1/7/97

• Settings for bsp_font and bsp_font_size are now enabled in bsp.ini. For those win 3.1 users who have been having problems (esp. with edit boxes), please let me know if the new settings solve the problem. For now the controls don't resize, so if you pick a lame font/size combo, things may look aweful. I would stick to sizes below 12.
• True multiple wad support:
• set multiple startup wads in the bsp.ini by setting default_wad key, e.g., default_wad=wizard.wad;base.wad
• set multiple .wads in BSP by setting a key to a semicolon separated list of .wad files. Do not put spaces between wad names and semicolon (beginning or trailing), for now at least.
• I think I finally solved the texture browser button creep problem. Let me know if the buttons move off the window anymore.
• Hitting "Make Entity" when no brush is selected will place the type of entity listed in the entity browser so long as the type is a fixed-size entity (ie a monster, etc. rather than a plat). The new entity has its origin at the current 3D camera position.
• I added a status gauge thingy to the texture loading just for Plucky.
• The buttons/fields in the windows should not flicker any more during screen updates (nor should they disappear during mouse dragging).
• The .map file now stores the favorite textures so you don't have to reset them every time you edit a .map. This made more sense than storing the favorites for a .wad.
• First frame of texture/flat preview should be quick again (binary search, so searching will not be the cause of slowdown...)
• Other stuff that I can't remember.

Version 0.65b, 1/1/97

• Happy New Year
• Please note that rendering of the first frame in flat/textured for large wad's is really slow (2 minutes). I am getting ready to add multiple texture .wad support and the data structures are in flux. Thus, searching is not optimized, and this is making it very slow! I will be fixing this in the next release. After the first rendering, the speed should be much quicker...
• Fixed bug where loading any .map with a new texture wad (beside the default) would crash. Sorry about that...
• Added a favorites and frequently used texture palette to the texture window. Set whether to use either, the size of the textures, and the number of thumbnails in the bsp.ini. There are also buttons to dynamically show and hide the sections. The texture browser now provides a flyover description of the texture under the mouse, including its size information. To change the favorites list (which defaults to the first 10 textures in the .map's wad), left mouse drag the current texture from either the frequent use palette or the main texture palette to the frequent texture you want to replace. You can duplicate entries, though I don't know why this would be desirable. The frequent area shows the most frequently used textures in the current .map file. Hit the "Calc." button to calculate/recalculate this at any time. The textures are shown in most to least order from left to right.
• Let me know if it would be desirable to save the "favorites" list for either a particular .wad file, or for a .map file and why one is better than the other...
• I rearranged some of the edit menu stuff to make it more logical and not so long.
• I totally redid the Texture Settings stuff. It is now a dialog that you can invoke right after starting BSP. Use the mouse to choose the best looking thumbnail (this only matters, by the way, for 16bpp and 24bpp users). Hit the "Save" button once you find the right settings. This will set the entries in bsp.ini for you. You will need to restart BSP to see the changes in effect. I hope this helps, as the overwhelming number of users having problems with BSP send me messages about the textures being green/blue/purple. At some point I will put the rest of the settings into a Preferences dialog box (one of my New Year's resolutions)...
• Dragging of very small brushes using a very small grid should be operative now.
• Added ability to use an arbitrary scale. Mininum is 1% and Max is 1600%. If you put in garbage, the display will go to 1%.

Version 0.62b, 12/24/96

• Wireframe outline in 3D flat and textured preview. Set the colors in the bsp.ini. I added a button to the button bar and a menu option to toggle the outline on and off.
• Selection of brushes in 3D flat and textured preview. Finally, the _exact_ brush you click on will be selected. This is cool.
• Perspective for 3D view is more in line with that of the wire frame 3D view.
• Leak search option under Edit menu. SAVE YOUR MAP FIRST. This compares adjacent brushes looking for faces that almost adjoin and prompts to "equalize" them. See the bsp.ini settings added for a fuller explanation. There are some tolerances that can be adjusted for this (if you're brave enough). It's pretty cool, but does not catch all leaks, of course. If you choose automatically to seal the leaks, you won't be prompted. Otherwise, you will be prompted and the 2D views will be centered on the two potentially "leaky" brushes. Let me know if you have suggestions on how to improve this functionality.
• Texture moving in the 3D view:
• Ctrl Drag on current face (yellow wireframe outline): Adjust texture shift values (S,T). Current values displayed in upper left corner during drag.
• Shift Drag on current face: Adjust scale values (SX, SY). Current values displayed in upper left.
• Ctrl Shift Drag on current face: Adjust rotation angle (R). Current angle displayed in upper left.
• Leak file .pts processing reduced to 2000 points for now.

Version 0.61b, 12/19/96

• Multiple texture wads (without having to wait when switching maps). I don't know how stable this is if you open a ton of different texture .wad files... but it seems to work okay for me.
• Export current group or export visible groups button added to Groups Window. If you export a group that does not have an info_player_start entity, one is added to the .map file that is written. If you export only entities (and no world brushes), light will crash trying to compile your level and quake will die, too. But why would you want to do this anyway?
• Added an option to bsp.ini to turn off the querying of wall thickness for making/extruding rooms. If set to 0, then gridsize is used by default (the _old_ way, go figure).
• Ctrl Dragging, in the XY Views, away (i.e., not on a vertex (which is rotation) and not peforming a connect entities operation) from the selected brush will drag the "current" (yellow) plane of the brush. Use Numpad 7/9 to cycle through faces of current brush.
• Leak file processing (the .pts files that qbsp.exe creates) can now be loaded under File | Leaks | Load .pts. The leak trail is shown in yellow on the 2D XY views and on the 3D view. Leak data is displayed until you choose File | Leaks | Stop, or load another leak file. I have limited the number of points to 32000. Let me know if more are needed.

Version 0.60b, 12/12/96

• Smoother mouse interaction
• Free rotation of selected brush in XY Windows. Ctrl-left click on one of the yellow vertices and drag mouse to rotate. Other vertices work sometimes (still tweaking this). Rotation occurs around the selection's centroid. Rotation is restricted to 1 degree increments.
• Fixed cloning bugs where wrong entity would be updated.
• Alt-B now sets current brush textures. Alt-F sets current face texture
• Selected Brush View should be centered.
• Fixed incorrect default info in ents.qc for one of the entities (said 1000 when it should have said 100)
• A bunch of other stuff I did about 1 month ago and now have forgotten
• BSP.ini option to turn off the crosshair cursor in XY views
• WorldCraft-like Shift-Left mouse and hold cycling of potentially hit brushes for selecting brushes. Great idea Ben!
• BSP.ini setting for cycling delay
• BSP.ini setting for number of brushes to display when dragging multiple brushes (to speed up processing put in a limit. A -1 means use all selected brushes).

Some links...

A new screen shot, 12/19/96 (click to see at 1280 x 1024 -- Not working, I'm out of space for this Web Page and can't upload the full image...argh.)

• Work in progress
• Master to do list as of 12/12/96 (I will update this soon)
• Undo
• Don't force camera position to be "centered" in 2D view panes? Thinking about it...
• Prefab Ramp
• Rendering in XY and SBV windows
• Shearing in SBV window
• Change entity type
• More robust Leakfile handling
• Jump to specific coordinates
• Multiple, offset copies
• Constrain camera to "look at" a specified point/brush
• Default file names to .map if none specified
• Embedded group hierarchies
• Revolve object from data file
• Constrain motion to certain axes
• Prefab "fence"
• Extrude brush from 2D set of points created with mouse
• Add pitch angle control to 3D view like the yaw control
• Select all within brush, ignoring height (like partial/total select, but don't worry about height)
• Use 360 instead of angle 0 ???
• Gravity walkthru of level.
• Lighting in preview (not for a while...)
• More "canned" items: tunnels, bridges, doors, teleporters, etc.
• Drawing / Rendering Speed (partly done) Optimize/optimize/optimize...
• Any suggestions?

If you have questions or comments, e-mail me, Yahn Bernier, at

bernier@atlanta.com