New Map Format

[Excalibur]

i dont think hill maps will work all to well in pball not like halo hilly is anyways.
you didn't really double posted your 2nd post was more of a bumb cause if you just modifyed your old post noone would see it as a new post there and would prob never read it.

[jitspoe]

I'll have to tinker around with gmax -- that might work pretty well for what I want to do.

[Eiii]

it'll probably do exactly what you want to do.

[jitspoe]

I wonder what kind of legal restrictions there are on gmax.

[Eiii]

uhhh...none that i know of. you can download exporters for almost anything...md2...mdl...jms...eeeeevrything.

[IronFist]

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[jitspoe]

Heh.

http://www.flipcode.com/cgi-bin/msg.cgi?showThread=COTD-MD2ModelLoader&forum=cotd&id=10

Maybe what I can do is create a compiler that will read in .md3 files.  I'm not sure what the limitations are as far as # of polygons and # of different textures you can use is.  It wouldn't really let you apply surface flags and stuff, tough.  Hrm.

[Eiii]

if we could have a mesh for the ground, and burshes for the buildings, that would be great...and it's pretty hard to make buildings in gmax. or 3dsmax.

[IronFist]

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[jitspoe]

While it wouldn't be hard to combine brushes and meshes in the compiler, it would be pretty hard to make maps like that.  I mean, if half the map is made in gmax, and the other half in BSP or something... it'd be hard to see how it all fits together.