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    AQtion mapping with Trenchbroom! Wow!

Getting Trenchbroom

Get the latest release. Good to watch this tutorial for basics of the tool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gONePWocbqA
Configuring Trenchbroom

First, set the Quake 2 game path to the base AQtion folder in steam. Then go Configure engines -> Path, set that to the q2pro.exe executable in the base AQtion folder.

In Trenchbroom, create a new Quake 2 map. In the bottom-right corner, under mods, double click on action to make it enabled.

After that it should work!
HD-Textures (OPTIONAL)

By default, Trenchbroom will use/show WAL textures. If you want your HD/external textures(png/jpg/tga) to show up in Trenchbroom, find the folder where Trenchbroom is installed. Go into \That-TrenchBroom-Install-Folder\games\Quake2\ and open GameConfig.cfg. Change line 15 in that file to:
"format": { "extensions": ["jpg","jpeg","png","tga"], "format": "image" },
Texture pack

Download here: https://files.aq2world.com/mirror/textures-hd.zip and extract into your Base AQtion\action\textures\ folder
Compiling with ericw-tools

Link to download: https://github.com/ericwa/ericw-tools/releases/tag/2.0.0-alpha2
It's important to pass the -q2bsp cmdline flag to qbsp. These are my buildscripts, configure them as you want:
FAST VIS, FAST LIGHT:
.\qbsp.exe -basedir "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\AQtion" -gamedir Aqtion\action -q2bsp .\%1.map
.\vis.exe -basedir "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\AQtion" -gamedir Aqtion\action -fast .\%1.bsp
.\light.exe -basedir "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\AQtion" -bounce 0 -gamedir Aqtion\action .\%1.bsp

FAST VIS, OK LIGHT:
.\qbsp.exe -basedir "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\AQtion" -gamedir Aqtion\action -q2bsp .\%1.map
.\vis.exe -basedir "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\AQtion" -gamedir Aqtion\action -fast .\%1.bsp
.\light.exe -basedir "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\AQtion" -gamedir Aqtion\action .\%1.bsp

RELEASE:
.\qbsp.exe -forcegoodtree -basedir "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\AQtion" -gamedir Aqtion\action -q2bsp %1.map
.\vis.exe -basedir "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\AQtion" -gamedir Aqtion\action %1.bsp
.\light.exe -basedir "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\AQtion" -extra -soft -gamedir Aqtion\action %1.bsp

Compiling with q2tools220

Get the from here: https://github.com/qbism/q2tools-220
In Trenchbroom, go to Run -> Compile map. Set your shit up like this:

That's it.
Specifics

Sunlight with q2tools220

"The best way i found is to add light as surface property with a fitting value in trenchbloom. The color of the light will be the same color as the color of the texture.
So for instance, i added the light surface property with a pretty high value on the side skybox, and a lower value on the top skybox." -FreeBase