Newbie Question on Map Design

(Klaranth) #1

Hi, all,

Got some great ideas for making new maps. Got Radiant installed, and going through the manual: http://www.qeradiant.com/manual/Q3Rad_Manual/index.htm

Noticing the sheer amount of varieties of Goldrush already in existance, I wondered how I could get one of them, preferably the original one, imported into Radiant, to learn from the masters. :slight_smile:

Anyone can tell me how to do that? Is there a place that got the .map files of the original maps?

Thanks in advance for helping another noob on map making. :slight_smile:

(]UBC[ McNite) #2

goldrush comes with radiant ffs

And unless a mapper isn’t releasing the .map of his map, no you can’t get the source files.

The amount of goldrush versions is just a sad development due to tons of wannabe mappers being too lazy or just not capable to create their own, original map and no path to follow imo.

(nUllSkillZ) #3

Goldrush is shipped with Radiant.
So if you have Radiant installed Goldrush is too.
Try just to open a map in Radiant.
May be path is correct.
Normally it should be the installation path of enemy territory and the subfolder maps.

(Klaranth) #4

Thanks. Just found goldrush.map [sheepish look]

So, there is no chance of finding railgun.map or oasis.map anywhere?

And I am not that lazy to do another Goldrush map. I want to see if my own ideas are possible to build into a map, first. :slight_smile:

So, basically, there is no way or program to reverse engineer a .pk3 file into a .map file?

[quote=]UBC[ McNite]goldrush comes with radiant ffs

And unless a mapper isn’t releasing the .map of his map, no you can’t get the source files.

The amount of goldrush versions is just a sad development due to tons of wannabe mappers being too lazy or just not capable to create their own, original map and no path to follow imo.[/quote]

(nUllSkillZ) #5

Actually there is a way to reverse engineer bsp files to map files (not exactly - some information will be lost).

pk3 files are renamed zip files that can be opened with archive programs that are able to read zip files.

(carnage) #6

So, basically, there is no way or program to reverse engineer a .pk3 file into a .map file?

like EB says its posible although reverse engineering is often done by inexperienced mappers and it takes a fairly skilled and exerienced mapper to repair all the damage that reverse compiling does

if you are new to mapping then may i surgest taking a little step back and working on a few more simple maps. Goldrush is a great referance when you want to see how the profesionals do things but the complexity of the map makes it a very bad idea to start learnign by modiflying this map

(Loffy) #7

The map “Loffy’s CTF Prefab 2” has the .map file in it.

This map has two purposes: First, it is a fully functional ctf-style map for 6 vs. 6 matches. Secondly, the map comes complete with all files (incl. the .map-file) for other mappers to use. (Hence the name “prefab”.)

http://www.etmaps-test.de/etmaps/maps/loffys_ctf_prefab2.rar

FIGHT!

//Loffy

(Klaranth) #8

Sadly enough the ideas I have seem far from simple. :slight_smile:

I have no intention to redo any Goldrush. IMO there are too many Goldrush variations already. :slight_smile:
I have other plans and thoughts, and I just wanted to see how things look in Radiant … :slight_smile: