Hey! First-time poster here. I was just wondering what methods there are for decompiling maps into something you can edit or view in gtkradiant. I'm actually trying to see if I can convert the maps into something the source engine (half life 2) can use.
I'm only really interested in a few of the old default maps like Town, Mansion, and maybe Lost Shrine.
My first roadblock was decompiling the maps.mrs file, because it turns out every single game version has their own encryption.
I solved that by just using the old ijji version of gunz. so now I have all of the .bsp files, leaving me with decompiling those.
Now, from what I gather you need to use q3map2 to decompile these bsp files, but the only .bsp files I have seem to be .RS.bsp, which aren't being detected as a working IBSP file.
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong now. If anyone could help I would greatly appreciate it
Update: So from what I can tell, these files are not able to be imported back into gtkradiant, but are instead "Realspace scene files (.rs)", which I believe only the old Worldedit program hosted on archive.org can access. From my research people generally import this data directly to 3ds max and never really bother with bsp formats.
Which sucks for me, because that means my quake 3 to source engine pipeline doesn't work.
So right now I'm trying to see if there's a way to retain the bsp data in a way that source can edit somehow.
I'm only really interested in a few of the old default maps like Town, Mansion, and maybe Lost Shrine.
My first roadblock was decompiling the maps.mrs file, because it turns out every single game version has their own encryption.
I solved that by just using the old ijji version of gunz. so now I have all of the .bsp files, leaving me with decompiling those.
Now, from what I gather you need to use q3map2 to decompile these bsp files, but the only .bsp files I have seem to be .RS.bsp, which aren't being detected as a working IBSP file.
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong now. If anyone could help I would greatly appreciate it
Update: So from what I can tell, these files are not able to be imported back into gtkradiant, but are instead "Realspace scene files (.rs)", which I believe only the old Worldedit program hosted on archive.org can access. From my research people generally import this data directly to 3ds max and never really bother with bsp formats.
Which sucks for me, because that means my quake 3 to source engine pipeline doesn't work.
So right now I'm trying to see if there's a way to retain the bsp data in a way that source can edit somehow.
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