The quake 1 maps released under gpl ( http://www.mediamax.com/theromero/Hosted/quake/ )


So are they useable for nexuiz?

Short answer: http://www.forums.alientrap.local/viewtopic.php?t=1044
The long answer: they need to be retextured, scaled up a bit and ideally converted to q3bsp before they are usable...

Redoing a map as a Quake 3 map is preferred but is harder. Each face in the .map file has two extra values so you have to go through adding two zeros to each set of face values. A massive find and replace operation really.

The values will be like:
n n n n TEXTURE
Quake 3 maps need:
n n n n n n TEXTURE

So a good solution is to replace all faces values with:
0 0 0 0 0 0 CAULK

for *nix-Systems there exists a tool called "rpl" which crawls through plaintext-files and replaces one string with another.

as I have no clue how these values are constructed and which values MAY appear. but this might help a bit.

an example (has to be edited to REAL values):

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rpl -Ri -xmap "0 0 0 0 CAULK" "0 0 0 0 0 0 CAULK" *

which does the following: going through each directory recursively, and changing "0 0 0 0 CAULK" to "0 0 0 0 0 0 CAULK" - BUT only if the file-ending is .map (and the i stands for case-insensitive)

or with plenty of different texture-names:
create a file textures.txt with the names inside (one per line) and do:

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for i in `cat textures.txt` ; do
   rpl -Ri -xmap "0 0 0 0 $i" "0 0 0 0 0 0 CAULK" * ;
done

ZyanKLee wrote:

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for i in `cat textures.txt` ; do
   rpl -Ri -xmap "0 0 0 0 $i" "0 0 0 0 0 0 CAULK" * ;
done

That will only change any line that is all zeros and only for caulk, you can't count on that. What you need to do is replace ALL textures with CAULK and ALL texture numbers with zero. This will reset the textures to caulk and then you manually retexture everything. Doing it programmtically is not reliable enough as the textures are not simply equivalent to each other.

ok, I have a look into it, and see if I could present you some script - in the meantime you could give me a list of possible values for "texture", so perhaps the process of replacing everything with caulk could be automated

ZyanKLee wrote:ok, I have a look into it, and see if I could present you some script - in the meantime you could give me a list of possible values for "texture", so perhaps the process of replacing everything with caulk could be automated

That's what regular expressions are for

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perl -pi.bak -e 's/^(\([0-9\.\- ]+\) \([0-9\.\- ]+\) \([0-9\.\- ]+\)) [^ ]+ ([0-9\.\- ]+)$/\1 common\/caulk \2 0 0 0/' foo.map

seems to work, but there are a lot of warnings "Doom3LightRadius: failed to parse default light radius"...

Edit: for all poor souls who don't have perl: http://kadaverjack.planetnexuiz.de/tmp/ ... verted.zip

KadaverJack:
http://xkcd.com/c208.html

dmn_clown also already converted them to the q3 map format some months ago too

http://openarena.ws/board/index.php?topic=476.25