i was bored and ppl started asking how i make maps that fast:
i made these in only 2 days
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http://www.mediafire.com/?xz3qu0tzxnmTUTORIALto start with you need the textures of pball:
startup bsp.exe and press L if im correct pball must stand in that box that pops up. then click ok.
now the textures will load:
sellect your ground texture and then make a box in the top view.
adjust it to your needs. then sellect your wall texture and make the wall go into the sides of the ground box.
when making another wall do the same with that wall box and make it cross the other wall to:
now make 4 walls.
when done press esc and shiftclick the ground texture X (its in the middle of the box) and press space (this will copy the box and make a new one. now drag this one to the top off your walls and make it cross eachother so there wont be any gaps.
this is how it should look like now:
http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/9803/step1cr0.pngnow its time to make a spawnpoint: if you know this skip this part.
make a box and drag it to place now press the E key. now select in the options for info_players_start and click create entitie( or some like that).
now drag it into place so its perfect.
ICE tutorial:
to make ice you need to sellect the SWITZSNOWFULL texture and press S. youll get a new screen with alot of options. Sellect "slick". now make your box that you want to be ice. when you done with ice make sure you deselect slick.
WATER tutorial:
choose your water texture and then make box. done xD
PAINT tutorial:
choose your water texture go to the surfaces menu (press S) and sellect slime. Draw. and done xD
HILL tutorial:
to make hills you draw a box in your room and then click on the corners of the box and drag that point to its place.
TELEPORT tutorial:
MOST IMPORTAND ONE
:P:P
to make a teleport create a box, put it into place, go to entity menu (press E) and sellect the misc_teleporter
then click create entity, now drag it to place perfectly. now it becomes important. keep the teleport sellected and click the + in the enity menu.
as key you typ: target and as value you typ: teleporter1 this becomes your first teleporter.
now go to the place where the teleporter needs to go and create a new box now in the entity menu sellect misc_teleporter_dest and click create entity.
now keep it sellected again and click the little + again now at key you do: targetname and as value: teleporter1
to make more then 1 you just make new teleporter's and teleporter_dest's and with each pair you just do another value like: teleporter2 or teleporter3
.BSP map file tutorial:
if you know this SKIP.
click on "export" in the maintoolbar and click on qbsp.bat now it asks you to safe the map: click yes.
now just name it
now if you go to bsp/pball2/quake2/pball/mapfiles
you will see your map. but its in .map so we cant use it
now go to "export" again and click qbsp.bat again
now check the mapfiles again and now you see your bsp file.
(dont know this happens in windows i use ubuntu(linux)).
now go test your map and have fun mapping
cheers tornado.
got more problems just mail me. ( frans_penders@hotmail.com )
ill be gone at the 14th of juli for 2 weeks dont get mad if i dont mail ya
PS: this aint a tutorial from the net. i pissed my mom off by typing this tutorial