bsp to map file for gtkradiant 1.5

(Nexus242) #1

hi

i was wondering how to change a bsp to a map file for gtkradiant 1.5 because i got a pre-beta trickjump map and looks really fun! but when i pressed L, the limbo menu is broken. i know how to fix the limbo problem but i need to make it to a map file!

help is always appreciated. thanks!

(KeMoN) #2

This topic has already been discussed. Have a look at this thread. :slight_smile:

(Kic) #3

Here
create on deskop new txt file and write ( for convert for example battery_b2.bsp )

   q3map2.exe -game et -convert -format map battery_b2.bsp

Drop battery bsp file and this txt file with text into GTK Radiant folder - in folder with q3map2.exe !!!
Rename this txt file on bat ( Newtextfile.txt - Newtextfile.bat ) , rename extension txt on bat !!!
double click on Newfile.bat and woala battery_b2-converted.map will be created in folder where is q3map2.exe

I hope you understound

Please sorry my English . Iam czech

Kic

(Nexus242) #4

so i create a txt file with that code and drop the bsp file in the gtkradiant folder which is in q3map2.exe folder

i’ll give it a go.

(Nexus242) #5

i tried it but no map file. it just opens it, is that normal?

(Nexus242) #6

after much scurying around, i got it to run but it gives me two files srf and another bsp!

maybe there is something wrong with your code.

(ailmanki) #7


good luck

(KeMoN) #8

Nexus the link I sent you directs you to a thread where we already talked about it.
It works perfect with that code:

q3map2.exe -convert -format map -map *TheNameOfTheMapYouWantToConvert*.bsp -game wolf

Just have a look at the other thread :wink:

(Nexus242) #9

ok i’ll give your code a try…

thanks for the link too, but at the start they were talking about the subject and then the subject changed a bit :P
(Nexus242) #10

it still didn’t work :frowning:

if it works for everyone else, therefore i have concluded my computer just cant decompile bsp files. i even tried oasis. thank you for all your help! but in the end something so simple to some, aint to me.

but just to let you know the steps i took:

  1. made a text file.
  2. renamed it “whatever”.bat
  3. copied your code
  4. put in the map name
    5.“set the open with” with the q3map2.exe
  5. after clicking, less than a second later…
  6. i got a bsp file (a lot smaller)
  7. i got a srf file
  8. when i compared the sizes of the text file and the NEW bsp file (in properties)…
  9. i look at “space on disk” and they are the EXACT same! (even though the bsp was about 260Kb but the actual bsp file is 15Mb)
  10. so i have decieded to try at another time as for trying too much will leave a cluster of useless files in any folder concerning gtkradiant, so as i learnt from worldcraft 3.3 when i was trying to make a map for swat 3 :S

one more thing, i have tried 3 slightly different codes, the results were the same from steps 6-10

(IndyJones) #11

-game wolf… isn’t that for rtcw?
add new line with ‘pause’, then the screen will not disappear until u press a button.

(ducks) #12

Step 5 is wrong - don’t do it!. Just run the .bat file as if it were an .exe.

(By using “set open with” you’re telling q3map2 to compile your .bat file, which is nonsensical!)

Just double click on the .bat and the command inside will run.

(stealth6) #13

[QUOTE=IndyJones;250087]-game wolf… isn’t that for rtcw?
add new line with ‘pause’, then the screen will not disappear until u press a button.[/QUOTE]

I also thought it was -game et

(Kic) #14

It always works for me.
Copy my code, only change name of map , rename txt on bat ( Newtextfile.txt - Newtextfile.bat ) - rename extension txt on bat !!!
double click on it in folder q3map2.exe ,here you must put also bsp file .
Map will be quickly created
and here is something http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Q3Map2#Decompiling_into_a_.map

sorry my English

(Nexus242) #15

well there is something i have to admit and its quite embarrasing, when i renamed the txt file to “whatever”.bat its still a txt file “whatever”.bat.txt

i know what to do but thats the only thing i dont know.

so how to turn a txt file into a bat file? sorry for the really nooby question. <:(
(stealth6) #16

Open up windows explorer (used for looking through you hardrive etc)

-Press alt
-Tools
-Folder options
-View
-Hide extensions for known file types
-Make sure this box is NOT ticked
-OK

(Nexus242) #17

Thanks so much stealth!!! everything works fine now!!! and i have solved the limbo problem now and have played in the TJ map which wasn’t as fun as a thought but it is a pre-beta map.

thanks!!! XD