Each kind of FPS-game has its own setup-options and build tools. In these folders, you must specify, for the FPS-games you want to develop for, where you've installed the game, how it should be started and with what command-line arguments it should run.

You must also specify where QuArK can find the specific build tools, which are needed to build (compile) a map to something that the FPS-game can read and understand. On our website you can find file-archives with build tools for the FPS-games that QuArK supports.

A build tool set typically consists of three or four different programs;

• one to convert .MAP files into .BSP files (QBSP, TXQBSP),
• one to optimize the drawing of visible walls/floors in-game (VIS, QVIS),
• one to put lighting into the level (LIGHT, QRAD, ARGHRAD),
• one to create AI pathfinding (BSPC) (not always applicable).

With the release of QuArK 6.2, you now have more control of which build-tools should run, and in what order. There is place for up to nine different build-tools, per game.

With the standard installation of QuArK, these build-tools are set to default values, which definitely does not conform to your own directory-paths. The first thing you need to do, is to tell QuArK where it can find the build-tools, and if you use other named build-tools than the default supplied, you need to change that too.

There is a lot of useful information to be found, regarding the QuArK build-tool configuration, in the fly-over hints. So keep your mouse-cursor steady on an item and read the hint.