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| ====== Importing Maps from other Games/Editors ====== | ====== Importing Maps from other Games/Editors ====== | ||
| - | FIXME This text is out-of-date. | + | If you have already made worlds for other games (e.g. Half-Life, Quake3 or Doom3), |
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| - | If you have already made worlds for other games (e.g. Half-Life DeathMatch), | + | |
| you possibly wish to convert them for a Ca3DE MOD, like the //Ca3DE DeathMatch MOD//. | you possibly wish to convert them for a Ca3DE MOD, like the //Ca3DE DeathMatch MOD//. | ||
| You save a lot of work by doing so, and in general, porting "foreign" worlds to Ca3DE is easily done. | You save a lot of work by doing so, and in general, porting "foreign" worlds to Ca3DE is easily done. | ||
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| - If you are very experienced, you might solve many mismatchings directly by loading the ''map'' file into a text editor. | - If you are very experienced, you might solve many mismatchings directly by loading the ''map'' file into a text editor. | ||
| * Although Ca3DE ignores unknown entities (e.g. entities left from other games), and fills-in default values for unknown properties, it is still best to do the conversion carefully in order to avoid unexpected results. For example, be specially careful with ''func_wall'' entities: you'll have to reset their //rendermode// properties (translucent, blue becomes invisible, ...) //explicitly//! | * Although Ca3DE ignores unknown entities (e.g. entities left from other games), and fills-in default values for unknown properties, it is still best to do the conversion carefully in order to avoid unexpected results. For example, be specially careful with ''func_wall'' entities: you'll have to reset their //rendermode// properties (translucent, blue becomes invisible, ...) //explicitly//! | ||
| - | * The worlds have to be //re-textured//. Re-texturing can either be done with the "Replace" tool of CaWE, or (if you are very experienced) directly within the ''map'' file with a text editor, or even with a Perl script. | + | * The worlds have to be //re-textured//. Re-texturing can either be done with the "Replace" tool of CaWE, or (if you are very experienced) directly within the ''cmap'' file with a text editor, or even with a Perl script. In most cases, you'll have to work with the "Edit Face Properties" function though, replacing textures by hand. |
| - | * Note that it is //not// advisable to use textures from WAD files other than the WAD file you have made yourself with ''MakeWAD.exe''. Foreign WAD files do not contain any new-style multi-image texture information (normal-maps, specular-maps, ...), and you had to manually extract their contents somewhere into the ''Games/MyMOD/Textures'' directory hierarchy, or else the engine cannot find the textures when loading your world. | + | * Copying models and textures from other commercial games to Ca3DE is (usually) a copyright infringement. Please make sure that you only use those materials with Ca3DE whose author you are, or whose author gave you permission to use that materials with Ca3DE. |
| - | * Don't forget to change the name of the sky (environment) map. | + | |
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