Ok maybe its me maybe I am a little slow,  but I just don't know how to write a shader file  and this is really annoying me becuase I have my level done and it is actually loading from my skermish menu in game but when I get into the level, only 2 or 3 textures work, and the rest is all back with a white grid.  and to top it all off I screwed up my shader so bad that it takes away all menu textures except for the icons, levelshots, and buttons!

 - HELP ME

Ok I downloaded Q3ase and I read pages of tutorials which ethier told me stuff that didn't help my situation or made no sense to me at all.  I don't understand why this is so difficult I have the directory stucture just as you stated all I want to do is point the game to the location of my textures so they will work on my level...

here are all of my textures names and their location:, I dunno if this will help you help me but it is about the best I can do considering I can't write a shader file to save my life.  - BTW  none of these are animated they are flat textures that just need to work in my game.

 textures/d2l3_gen/metal_platedark.jpg

textures/d2l3_gen/crate_1.jpg

textures/d2l3_gen/crate_1_top.jpg

textures/d2l3_gen/crate_2.jpg

textures/d2l3_gen/crate_2_top.jpg

textures/d2l3_gen/crate_6.jpg

textures/d2l3_gen/crate_6_top.jpg

textures/d2l3_gen/doom_UACwall_nologo.jpg

textures/d2l3_gen/doom_door01_brown.jpg

textures/d2l3_gen/doom_fleshwall_1.jpg

textures/d2l3_gen/doom_teleport_3.jpg

textures/d2l3_gen/ik_ground_pebbles128.jpg

textures/d2l3_gen/j064_walk01.tga

textures/d2l3_gen/j128_met01.tga

textures/d2l3_gen/j128_metpan01.tga

textures/d2l3_gen/j128_metpan03.tga

textures/d2l3_gen/j128_metpan04.tga

textures/d2l3_gen/j384_poster_rustedfaith.jpg

textures/d2l3_gen/j768_poster_ignorance.jpg

textures/d2l3_gen/monitor_depot.jpg

textures/d2l3_gen/posterbase02.tga

textures/d2l3_gen/than_button1.jpg

textures/d2l3_gen/than_button1fx.jpg

textures/d2l3_gen/than_button2.jpg

textures/d2l3_gen/than_button2fx.jpg

textures/d2l3_gen/DOORTRAK.jpg

textures/d2l3_gen/FLAT10.jpg

textures/d2l3_gen/LITE3.jpg

textures/d2l3_gen/LITE5.jpg


I should also tell you when I made the level in Q3Radiant I loaded all of these textures out of my base_custom directory - should this effect my map now that it is in it's own .pk3 with the textures?

EDIT:
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heh - yeah um I re-compiled my level and renamed it to base_custom... and all of the textures worked so I know what my problem is.  Ok well I am off to re-texture the whole damn thing out of the correct folder now :angry:

SON OF A BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-sincerly  ..::WHAT!?  

1st of all when using custom textures it's good to place them in a folder that's named after your maps filename, it makes thing easier for you and you'll avoid to overwrite another custom map textures.

Well the maps looks very good!  

that'd be a bad ass addition to map pack 3

you can just use a succession of images by using the animap keyword - if i'm not mistaken (so check that)

The process of making shaders is simple:
either:
a) do it the hard way (read the shader manual, understand shaders, code them by hand, like a man!)
B) use q3ase (there's special animation support in it for what you want in this particular case)
or
c) stroll about in id's pk3's, and look up the effect you want - and copy it. For example: the flames (in the fx scripts collection) you see in q3 use an animation sequence.
TIP: if you can't find a shader, look up the bitmap it uses, and look for the name in the shader files.