.Map :: MoHAA Mapping

When im using moh radient and i try to put texture on something, I click the textures menu. All the tutorials show a list of textures there. I have none. It stops at texture lock. What can I do?

Also, when I right click, i dont have all the options that all the tutorials say im supposed to. Any advice?

Possibly your paths are not setup correctly. Check file -> project settings. Make sure 'basepath' points to the folder MOHAA.EXE is in and 'moddir' should be 'main'. Also make sure the entdefs.pk3 file is in the mohaa/main directory.

Yup its all there. Whats next?

edit -> preferences

Make sure 'show shader textures' is checked.

Sorry it took so long to get back to you. I checked and the show shader textures check box is checked. I am getting very frusterated with the MOH Radient. Is there anything else to construct maps with or anything coming out soon?

Oh man I feel so stupid. I just remembered that I added another hard drive to my computer and it was e:. the paths were set to c:. I am sorry for wasting your time. Well now I can see my textures. Now I just have to learn to use them!
Thank you,
David Newton

Ok now I can see the list of textures. When I select a wall of my room and I choose a texture from the texture menu it acts like it loads something and then it just stops. Am I supposed to be able to see the textures in the 3d window?

Yes, you should see textures in the 3D view. There are a series of settings in Radiant that control texture quality, and if you set it too low you won't see them at all. So that's probably what's going wrong. Here's the settings that should work:

view -> render quality -> nearest (or better = lower in the list)

edit -> preferences -> texturing quality -> set it to the utmost right spot.

Well this is the result. I checked the things that you told me to. They were as you said they should be. So I started playing with all kinda settings. What I did was I went view-->texture window scale, and i started playing with those rates in there. Well the texture popped up. This only works for some of the textures that are available. Another thing i did was to add the texture and then move the brush and it would pop up. What is the deal here?

Ok i did some more playing. This is the proceedure i have to go to in order to get some texture on my brushes. I select the brush and choose a texture for it. Nothing happens. I change the texture window scale and the texture pops up. If I want to choose a different texture then I have to go to textures-----reload. I can then choose a different texture and change the texture window scale again to see the new texture. This process sucks. Is this what everybody else has to go through?

hmm wierd - I have MoH Rad setup so that it shows all 3 angles (side, top and front) along with the 3D view - this means that the texture box is a little box that pops up wheneven I hit T. To choose a texture I just load up the appropriate texture group, press t to bring the texture window up, select my face or brush and select a texture - voila one textured brush. My textures are scaled to 50% so I can easily see them.......

I see said the blind man, as he picked up his hammer and saw! I used your method and I seem to be having luck. I was starting to hate mohrad. Isnt there any other progs for doing this? Thanks for your help. If I have any furthur questions I will post them in here so please keep checking this post.
Thank you,
David Newton

Ok Ive gotten past the texturing prob but have more questions. When I hit t and it brings up the texture box, how do i know what to type in? Is it something i just have to memorize? I mean there is like 100 different ones to choose from all under different groups. What do you do? Also when i try to add light by right clicking, I cant right click. It doesnt do anything. So I was reading the tutorials that sergeon wrote and the one about your first room is not there. I am a newbie so I may need some help. Most tutorials say to create a box and then hit the hollow button. They then say dont do it like this if your making a map. What is the best way to do this?
Thank you,
Fig Newton

You can see a list of texture keywords in the 'texture keywords.txt' file in the tools/docs folder. These are all words you can type in in the texture box. I don't know why a right click wouldn't work, make sure you right click in the xy view. The tutorial is right, don't use the hollow function. Just create all brushes you need one by one. And by the way, have you changed your name from David to Fig?