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<p>This is based on [https://web.archive.org/web/20150320181618/http://files.volved.com/qsr/qoole250_cd/rust/tutorials/utilities/utilities.html qbsp3, qvis3, qrad3] parameters. It should be the same and maybe somethimes updated :)</p>
<h2>KPBSP</h2>
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<p><strong>Command Line Parameters:</strong></p>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-noprune</strong></td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">If false, combine brushlists of child nodes. Results in larger BSP file and longer compile time.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-glview</strong></td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">Write "&lt;mapname&gt;.gl" file. Dumps the number of points in a plane, the points used to define that plane and the total light on that plane.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-nodetail</strong></td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">Doesn't include any detail brushes in the bsp. good for getting an idea of what vis will be processing.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-fulldetail</strong></td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">Make anything with content a detail brush.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-onlyents</strong></td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">Only vises entities. Good for when you only make changes to the entities of a level.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-nomerge</strong></td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">If true, do not merge faces that share the same edge on the same plane.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-nowater</strong></td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">Remove water, slime, lava brushes</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-nofill</strong></td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">Not used in code. It doesn't do anything.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-nocsg</strong></td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">If true, does not try to reduce intersecting brushes into non-intersecting brushes (does not call ChopBrushes in csg.c). Your BSP file will be larger with this option on.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-noweld</strong></td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">If true, use vertices from dvertexes array. If false, create vertices from a hash table.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-noshare</strong></td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">If true, do not throw out identical edges.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-nosubdiv</strong></td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">If false, subdivide faces that are larger than -chop size.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-notjunc</strong></td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">If true, do not break edges on tjunctions. Setting this to true will decrease compile time. This option should not be used for a final compile.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-noopt</strong></td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">If true, only go thru 1st compiler pass in ProcessWorldModel.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-leaktest</strong></td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">Just tests for leaks (really fast, skips alot of seal-dependent processes).</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-verboseentities</strong></td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">Prints entity sub model information if verbose is also true. Verbose must also be true to use this information.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-threads</strong> xx</td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">Used for computers that have multiple processors.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-v</strong></td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">Verbose mode. Prints everything that is going on to the user. Doesn't effect the qbsp process.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-chop</strong> xx</td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">If a face is greater than this size, then it will be subdivided unless nosubdivide is true.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-block</strong> xx</td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">Block_xl &amp; block_yl should be no less than -4. Block_xh &amp; block_yh should be no greater than 3</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-blocks</strong> xx</td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">I have no idea what this does.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-tmpout</strong> abc</td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">Not real sure what this does but I think it saves a temp copy of the bsp file to the directory specified.</td>
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<h2>KPVIS</h2>
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<p><strong>Command Line Parameters:</strong></p>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-fast</strong></td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">Vis the level very quickly. Good for testing a level. Make sure you do a vis -level 4 though when releasing a level.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-nosort</strong></td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">If false, sort portals in increasing value of mightsee variable.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-threads</strong> xx</td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">Used for computers with multiple cpus</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-level</strong> xx</td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">Not used in code</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-v</strong></td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">Verbose mode. Lists everything that is going on to the user. Doesn't affect the vis.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-tmpin</strong> abc</td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">Not sure what this does, I believe you can specify where the bsp file is to vis. I have not tested it though</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-tmpout</strong> abc</td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">Saves a copy of the bsp file that is produced to the directory specified. Not tested.</td>
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<h2>KPRAD</h2>
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<p><strong>Command Line Parameters:</strong></p>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-dump</strong></td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">Dump lighting information to files "bounce0.txt" and "bounce[bounce-1].txt".</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-bounce</strong> xx</td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">Bounce determines the amount of times a light will bounce. By default bounce is 8, after about 38 or 40 it does not make a difference.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-v</strong></td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">Verbose mode. Lists everything that is going on to the user. Doesn't affect the vis.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-extra</strong></td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">Take 5 samples instead of 1. Makes lighting smoother. Takes longer to compile.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-threads</strong> xx</td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">Lets you specify how many threads you want it to use (really only good for multiple cpus).</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-chop</strong> xx</td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">Fast light testing, setting it to -128 will give 1/4 the number of patches to calculate but will result in the loss of "light detail" but be around 4 times as fast (guessing). Another use of it is for a large level with a lot of surface area. Looking in the code it has this "#define MAX_PATCHES 65000 // larger will cause 32 bit overflows" A level I was playing around with, caused an error in qrad "to many patches" or something like that, so I tried -chop 128, and this reduced the number of patches that qrad has to calculate and all was fine. Default 64.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-scale</strong> xx</td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">Smaller number equals dimmer light over entire map. Used to normalize light. Default 1.0.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-direct</strong> xx</td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">Used to scale direct light intensity. default .4</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-entity</strong> xx</td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">Used to scale direct light intensity on the entities. Default 1.0.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-glview</strong></td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">Write "&lt;mapname&gt;.glr" file. Dumps the number of points in a plane, the points used to define that plane and the total light on that plane.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-nopvs</strong></td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">If on, doesn't check the PVS bit. If this is on the compile will be faster.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-ambient</strong> xx</td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">Sets an ambient light level. Very cool. You can light a level without even using light entities. Looks like shit though. The best use of this would to be to set a very low value for ambient like .2, which would get rid of all the very dark areas of your map. Anything value greater then 1 is way too bright. Default 0.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-maxlight</strong> xx</td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">Maximum amount of light a face can receive. This is to insure that faces are not too bright. <strong>default</strong> 196. <strong>max</strong> 255.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-tmpin</strong> abc</td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">Not sure what this does, I believe you can specify where the bsp file is to vis. I have not tested it though.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;"><strong>-tmpout</strong> abc</td>
<td style="border-color: #e7c258; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px;">Not real sure what this does but I think it saves a temp copy of the bsp file to the directory specified.</td>
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