Took me 6 hours to figure out why my Quake map kept crashing on load, and it was one missing curly brace in the .map file

Drew Torres · 2026-09-23T08:15:03.220437+00:00

I kept recompiling thinking it was a leak or a bad brush, but the error log just said "parse error" with no line number. Eventually I loaded the map in a text editor and found a stray entity block with no closing brace, fixed it in 10 seconds. Anyone got a better way to debug map parse errors without scrolling through 8000 lines by hand?

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