Hello there.
I have downloaded 3d GameStudio A8 (free edition) recently (yeasterday), and have encountered a couple of problems & questions:

1. Why specifying negative texture scaling in texture settings is not possible anymore? It made it much easier to make the texture tile seamlessly at corners and edges.

2. Is it possible use NOFILTER for map entities (wmb) or level itself? This flag seems to work perfectly fine with models but map entities

3. How to achieve 'beam' rotation for a entity? That is, change .roll while keeping the old .pan & .tilt so the entity is facing the camera. A perfect example of the effect that I am searching for, is railgun projectiles in Quake 3. (basically, expecting answer in either math or code)

4. A bunch of issues, which happen with default build settings.
Turbulence textures do not work. They just do not move. For example, standard.wad/*waterblue is 'swirling' in texture panel, but acts like a normal texture both in-game and when using walk-thru in editor. I remember having a similar problem when using A7, but cannot remember what I steps I took to solve it.
Additionally, passable blocks do not seem to be passable (or are not detected as ones with c_trace\c_move) after building map. This does not apply to entities for some reason.
Disabling build flag 'Create Meshes' solves two above problems, but allows player walking through walls (c_move).
So, basically, this question is about the following: can someone provide a screenshot of 'right' build settings?

5. (perhaps wrong forum for this question...) I am getting a strange feeling the WED config is getting saved in a wrong way. When running WED, normally I shift Back & Side views a bit to left, and place Object Properties window in the bottom-right corner of te screen. After closing & opening WED, view positions get screwed up. Either 3d view takes 3/4 of screen while everything else is down-scaled, or Back & Side views are set to their original position while their height is increased (so I dont see bottom side of view window, unless I move one up, and make it smaller). Why does it happen, and is it possible to make WED to *not* resave configuration?

Well, that's all. Thanks in advance.