Compiling error with entity modding

[KyleFan]

Hi everyone!

I've just got introduced to entity modding and I wanted to experiment with it but something always goes wrong.

So I've read these tutorials:

 

I think I've done everything as the tutorials say but I get the following error:
"Error opening C:/Program Files/GtkRadiant-1.4/filename.ent: No such file or directory"

The directory exists and there's no spelling mistake, I double checked it, and both the .bsp file and the .ent file with the same filename are in that directory so I have no idea what the problem is.
Can someone help me with this, please?

[Circa]

You may need to run radiant and q3map2 as admin so they have permissions to read and write to the disk. Right click on their exe files and go to the Compatibility tab and check the run as admin box.

[KyleFan]

Thank you for answering! Well, it worked... sort of. Now I get a different error: filename.bsp is not a IBSP file.

Can you help me with this too?

[KyleFan]

I'm still struggling with the same problem. I tried looking for an answer all over the internet with no luck. I was trying to mess around with the bsp file in Hex Editor, I noticed it is an RBSP file, so it makes sense that the error says it's not an IBSP file. In Hex Editor I changed it to IBSP, then tried again recompiling with -onlyents. I got a new error which says my IBSP file is version 1 not 47. So this is probably not the way I should do it. If anyone could help me with this, I would be very happy.

[mjt]

I suggest you try entity modding with NetRadiant Custom - You'll have to add a custom compile command in the build menu options of Radiant to add the ability to entitymod from that menu.

It seems your setup is calling q3map2 with too little information - usually GTK Radiant and NetRadiant Custom have the full paths to the games and q3map2 to call compiling / decompiling. It also supplies the q3map2 command line with some additional information, such as the gameprofile to use. I suspect you don't tell it which profile to use and thus it assumes you're trying to compile / entitymod for the default Quake 3 format which is IBSP. While I see some of that in the scripts posted in the tutorials you linked, maybe that's a start to verify you're doing everything correctly.

[KyleFan]

Thanks for the tip!

I finally managed to make it work! Turned out, I made more than one mistake. First, I don't know how it happened, but I had a GTK Radiant version which didn't even support Outcast and Academy. Now I have one that does. Second, I just realised I messed up saving the .ent file properly. It was "filename.ent.txt". Basically it was a standard text file with .ent considered as part of the filename. But my Windows only showed "filename.ent" so I thought I did it right.

I can't thank you enough for pointing to the right direction!

After months of failures I can finally make progress.