Thanks for the quick reply TomTom.
Glad to see you still stay in touch with Mal.
I got my own entity issue resolved.
It was one of the entity keys.
DMG of 400 works.
DMG of >= 800 doesn't work.
It could be that the magic value of 512 is the cutoff, but I have no idea why Mal even included cutoff checking.
Perhaps it was some accident involved in casting of datatypes in C..?
(or some dodgy coding..
...)
Anyway - I will be moving ahead with getting the RTCW ver finished, and get in touch about how best to incorporate it.
The ET conversion of the map could be more problematic.
I am pretty familliar with most MP entities under gtkradiant and RTCW
But ET entities, (as I've discovered), are mostly different, and ET is not backwards compatible.
Q3MAP2 dumbly compiles it all ok, and nothing suggests it will fail (as it does) with no clues and a big crash of ET.
So I need to find a basic mapping for ET website, and work out what the equivalent entity types are I need to start using.
I think I'll leave all the complex entites for someone with more time on their hands.
But I will persevere, and if I can get it work, I'll include the .map - so others can compile it also, and take it further if they want to, or learn from it.
Craig.