Tutorials and et mapping resources

sock · 2003-06-10 10:45:39 UTC

Version 1.27 (updated: 7th May 2004)

Alot of time has been spent by alot of people answering questions here at this forum. The first thing you should do is search the forums before asking your question. Here is a quick list of useful threads on ET mapping. Please take the time to read these threads carefully:

Online ET Level Designers Reference Manual V1.1

USEFUL INFORMATION threads

Region compiling ** VERY USEFUL ** - http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4537
Using a batchfile to compile a map - http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15984
Easygen Templates - http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2344
How to fix SD radiant’s full model path problem - http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3782

Basic Team doors - http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2088
Constructible Team doors - http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14765
Destructible Team doors - http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1692
Script Mover Team doors - http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5747

ETPro Mapping Information

Objectives outside of the compass - http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8411
Changes to Battery Map via new scripting code - http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6725

Additional Mapping Resources

http://www.paposo.com/ - Milkshape Modeling Tutorial for RTCW
http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13530 - Collection of WW2 posters
MD3 tag exporter - www.planetquake.com/simland/files/md3totag.zip
MD3 tag exporter (Source) - www.planetquake.com/simland/files/md3totag_src.zip
http://www.shadowspawn.net/beta/quake3_mapping_q3map2build.htm - Compiler Application/Front-end
http://www.splashdamage.com/index.php?name=pnPHPbb2&file=viewtopic&t=4805 - Info on a possible place to store screenshots on the net

Mapping Tutorials

http://user.tninet.se/~fzo823r/ - Great collection of tutorials and information
http://www.levelsource.com/redfella/ - General mapping tutorials
http://www.wolfensteinx.com/surface/tutorials.html - Very good collection of RTCW tutorials
http://markoweb.free.fr - Various tutorials for ET
http://www.xezollan.com/swaggers/tut_dyna.html - Image based tutorial on dyno objectives
http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2494 - Command post tutorial (No pictures)

http://www.claudec.com/the_tutorial_Index/q3a/tutorials_entries.shtml - Massive list of Q3 tutorials
http://fps.brainerd.net/Q3Radianthelp.htm
http://quake3.qeradiant.com/tutorials.shtml - Radiant editor tutorials
http://www.nibsworld.com/rtcw/ - Various RTCW tutorials
http://www.planetquake.com/simland/pages/articles.htm - A couple of RTCW scripting tutorials
http://www.clankiller.com/gtkradianttut/index.php
http://theburrow.fragland.net/tutorials/index.htm - Various RTCW based tutorials
http://planetwolfenstein.com/bubbawolf/wolfmapping.html
http://www.planetwolfenstein.com/tramdesign/tutorials/tut_easygen2.html - Easygen (Requires registeration at the TramDesign Site)
http://www.level-designer.de/ - German Mapping page with over 100 Tutorials and Video-Tutorials for the Quake 3 Engine. BTW its in german as well!

http://www.forumplanet.com/planetwolfenstein/forum.asp?fid=6304 - Technical Support forum
http://www.csis.gvsu.edu/~bickelj/quakin/ - Good step by step guide for building a Q3 map (by Quakin)
www.3dbuzz.com - Helpful videos for anyone starting out on q3/rtcw/et mapping

Possible WW2 architecture reference

http://www.filipstadsbergslag.com/bilder/galleri1.html - Amazing pictures of mine buildings (1-6 Galleries)
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/
http://www.ohiotrespassers.com/locations.html
http://www.awm.gov.au/database/cas.asp - For example do a search on bridges.
http://www.historylink101.com/1/world_war_II/battles_eastern_front.htm
http://www.historylink101.com/1/world_war_II/battles_western_front.htm
http://www.historylink101.com/1/world_war_II/battles_pacific_front.htm
http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/History/By_Time_Period/Twentieth_Century/Wars_and_Conflicts/World_War_II/
http://www.mannerheim-line.com/
http://www.v2rocket.com/start/deployment/wizernes.html
http://www.wwiidaybyday.com/
http://www.iwm.org.uk/

http://site.voila.fr/bunkers
http://home.hetnet.nl/~thirdreich-bunkers/
http://www.skalman.nu/third-reich/equipment-bunkers.htm
http://www.bunkersite.com/
http://www.matthewdrew.co.uk/atlantikwall/atlantikwall_html/001_atlantikwall_site/home.html
http://users.pandora.be/bunkers/

A while back I spoke to someone called “some guy i know” and asked him if I could use his list of links for textures and resources. Here is the list with updated information from other users on this forum. If you find any of the links below not working please post and let me know and I will remove them. If you can think of anymore links which should be added to this list then please post in this thread.

Please Note: Always check the copyright information before using other people’s textures. I will tidy this thread up every now and then and merge all posts into one.

Potential Texture & Architecture Sites

Skies (environment maps) and possibly textures

http://amethyst7.gotdoofed.com/env.htm
http://aqmd.action-web.net/res/skies.shtml
http://brimstone.brimstone.com/quake2/local/env/
http://freshteam.telefragged.com/team/kanaeda/arctic.zip (snow and ice textures and skyboxes)
http://www.geocities.com/-harlequin-/quake/
http://www.planetquake.com/speedy/stuff.htm
http://quake.stuff.gen.nz/
http://teamhuh.net/raven/Skybox.htm
http://www.geocities.com/-harlequin-/quake/
http://www.metacreations.com/products/bryce4
http://www.planetquake.com/warehouse/custom2.html
http://www.telefragged.com/soup/envmaps.htm
http://www.schloerb.com/Dreamscape2/
http://www.mayang.com/textures/
http://www.animax.it/

Texture and other image tutorials and manuals

http://phong.com/tutorials/
http://rainworld.com/oe_99/forge/ps_tut/
http://wastedyouth.org/
http://www.candeekis.com/alltutorials.html
http://www.digital-eel.com/surface/text.htm
http://www.eyeball-design.com/fxzone/tutorial.htm
http://www.eyeball-design.com/page09.htm
http://www.eyewire.com/
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20010523/hajba_01.htm (reducing “patterning” on tiled textures)
http://www.gormly.com/ericsfx/
http://www.grafx-design.com/psp_tut.html
http://www.gurusnetwork.com/tutorials/photoshop/index.html
http://www.handson.nu/
http://www.heppler.com/shader/
http://www.loonygames.com/
http://www.pinoy7.com/psptutorials/default.htm
http://www.pinoy7.com/tutorials/default.htm
http://www.planetphotoshop.com/
http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/cottages/qbranch/
http://www.qeradiant.com/manual/Q3AShader_Manual/index.htm
http://www.quake3world.com/editing/guides-textures.html (links to texture tutorials)
http://www.soulburn3d.com/

http://www.german-usa.com/fonts/ German True Type Fonts
http://actionfx.com/ (Photoshop addons)
http://pixologic.com/
http://www.daylongraphics.com/products/leveller/ (commercial terrain builder, demo available)
http://www.gimp.org/ (free image editor for Linux and Windows)
http://www.i-tex.de/ (shareware texture creation program with lots of features)
http://www.metacreations.com/products/bryce4 (commercial, for creating skyboxes)

Sound Libraries

http://www.sounddogs.com/ Online sound effects library
http://www.sfx-gallery.co.uk/ Sound libraries

Sock
:moo: z0r

sock · 2004-04-12 11:39:21 UTC

All additional links have been added to the top post. If anyone has any useful/reference thread/sites which need to be included in this list then please post a reply with a link. All other posts NOT related to the topic will be deleted, please use the main forum for any general help queries. Thank you.

Sock
:moo: ing

Ragnar_40k · 2004-04-16 16:35:21 UTC

Images of Ruins (among many others):
A website about Frankfurt am Main during WWII. All text is in German, but just click around. Under “Topographie” on the left you find maps of the city with clickable links to related articles. Under “Krieg und ZerstÃ¶rung” (War and Destruction) at the top you find lots of photos. You can zoom into most images twice - first by clicking on an image, second by clicking “Bild nochmals vergrÃ¶ÃŸern” (Zoom in again). Click again to go back. At the bottom of most pages you will find a link called “Weitere BeitrÃ¤ge zu verwandten Themen” - click this to see a list of related articles for the current topic.

Pictures and stats of german tanks and other vehicles:
Panzer Waffe 1939 - 1945. A website with a list of all German tanks, esp. with their Sd.Kfz. numbers (which helps searching further informations). Additionally photos for nearly all vehicles. The only drawback (for non-Polish speakers) is that texts are in Polish.

3D-Models of vehicles:
3D-Models of tanks, s.p.-guns, airplanes and many other. Some are for free. Read (and observe) the License agreement.

Mapping ideas:
Articles about the Battle of the Bulge (or in German the “Ardennenoffensive”) . A good source for mapping ideas, e.g. http://users.skynet.be/bulgecriba/smith.htm.

Sounds, photos, videos and other art:
LeMO (Lebendiges virtuelles Museum Online - animated virtual museum online). Website about German history from 1900 - 2000. All text in German. To get directly to the image/audio/video galleries use the Suche (search) function. Most entries are listed with a date/year, so it should be easy to find WWII related stuff.

Songs from WWII:
Songs from WWII (including German folk songs, marshes etc.). Most with lyrics and a .mp3. Some with .midi files. I guess most will know the song “Ob’s stÃ¼rmt oder schneit” (das Panzerlied, the tank song) from the movie “Battle of the Bulge”. Remember that some songs might be banned by law in Germany (e.g. the Horst Wessel Lied).

onwar.com has alot usefullstuff, e.g.:
Chronological day by day index of WWII
Maps from WWII
Tanks of WWII (some with 4-view drawings: front, back, top and side)

PS: The http://www.skalman.nu/ page has moved to http://www.axishistory.com/

Chruker · 2004-04-25 17:54:53 UTC

A note on appendix C - the common textures. The clipmissile texture has the description: “Based on the standard clip brush. Blocks all projectiles.”

But the texture doesn’t clip guns and flamerthrowers. You might wan’t to add that. If people want to block all weapons its clipweap*

jellydonut · 2004-06-07 06:17:57 UTC

:???: i think this forum should be on the list, i had trouble figuring out how to use this function and the forum helped me alot. http://www.splashdamage.com/index.php?name=pnPHPbb2&file=viewtopic&t=2690&highlight=shootermortar

seven_dc · 2004-06-08 16:21:04 UTC

Here you can find perfect pictures of abandoned russian factories etc.
http://www.abandoned.ru/

Lovely Wendie99

thore · 2004-07-05 14:45:56 UTC

texture & architecture

http://digital-eel.com/surface/files.htm
http://www.culturedstone.com/technical/vizable/
http://www.medievalarthistory.com/

don’t work anymore.

[edit]

proposal:

www.findsounds.com
allows to search for categorized sounds by keywords and after you’ve chosen
one you can search for additional sound that are similar to your first one.

HITMAN007 · 2004-07-18 17:52:27 UTC

//Post Edit\

Site in spanish

Tutorials in spanish. www.hitman007.tk
daniel.gobae.com

^^

Zombie13 · 2004-08-18 17:46:25 UTC

You might want to add this site, its in german, but if you click on various industries on the left, you can click some of the topics above the new section, some great photo sourcing to be had here

http://www.dubtown.de/

Zombie

_UBC_McNite · 2004-08-23 18:44:50 UTC

These links are dead too:

http://art.net/Studios/Visual/Jeremy/photo/public_texture/index.html
http://home.telefragged.com/wally/madewithwally/wallymade.htm
http://www.art.net/~jeremy/photo/public_texture/
http://www.dailydesaster.com/eskimo/icepack/textures.htm

Boleth · 2004-08-25 17:58:43 UTC

http://quake3.qeradiant.com/tutorials.shtml

This is also dead

repT_Le · 2004-08-29 17:17:40 UTC

under skies the following dont work

http://freshteam.telefragged.com/team/kanaeda/arctic.zip
http://www.geocities.com/-harlequin-/quake/
http://quake.stuff.gen.nz/
http://www.metacreations.com/products/bryce4

Boleth · 2004-09-01 00:01:02 UTC

could you make a subheading for Scripting tutorials?
Or a page with script examples?
Would be very useful

Get_It · 2004-10-23 01:14:57 UTC

[EDITED]Thanks nUllSkillZ for the link :)[/EDITED]

Warning! Newbie question! Where can i get SD Radiant ?

PS: can’t enter www.castlewolfenstein.com :\

nUllSkillZ · 2004-10-24 11:37:18 UTC

There are some useful tutorials at:
Urban Terror Map Depot: Article / Category / Tutorials

Mr_Tickles · 2004-10-25 16:49:42 UTC

You can Get_It it at the download page on this site, it’s called WolfET_Tool…

Shaderman · 2004-10-26 11:11:07 UTC

I found a (russian?) site with some blueprints, textures and models. I don’t know if they’re free, maybe someone is able to read and translate the terms.

No1_sonuk · 2004-10-27 23:37:39 UTC

Copy the link into the babel fish:

Select Russian to English

Or, you could just click on “English” in the top right.

Get_It · 2004-11-15 20:52:28 UTC

WW2 architecture reference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II - many info and links to articles about many world war 2 locations and images.

jet_Pilot · 2005-01-30 16:46:45 UTC

Here’s an amazing site with information about nearly all WW2 vehicles :
www.wwiivehicles.com
While the site may be less helpful with architecture, it should be a boon to mappers creating vehicle prefabs for use in their maps.