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Article #283273Re: Making new Q2 maps?
From: EvilBill
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:02
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:02
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Captain Trips wrote: > Rose wrote: >> I was thinking about making some new maps for Quake2. I have already >> downloaded Quark and its a very powerful program but I can't figure >> out how to save an actual map so that I can use it in Q2? >> >> I just thought if I saved it as a .pak file that I would be able to >> use it in Q2 - but so far that doesn't seem to be happening! > > Rose a .pak file is just a container. It is basically a .zip file which > is not packed. You can open it with winzip and other programs. This is > just to be able to put together packages which you can then distribute. > For example you can put some models in there or more than one map. The > filetype of a quake map is .bsp > It's a zip file in Quake 3, but in Q2 it uses its own proprietary format. Google for PakExplorer if you need a way to edit Q2's pak files! -- * 404 Error: Weapons of Mass Destruction not found. Please reinstall regime and reboot. EvilBill's Dominion - Diablo stories, Quake videos and more! http://www.devlinwright.co.uk Now with Forums: http://www.devlinwright.co.uk/forum/
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: EvilBill <quake2lives@gmail.com> Newsgroups: alt.games.quake2 Subject: Re: Making new Q2 maps? Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:02:15 -0400 Lines: 26 Message-ID: <6kg0gcF6tc3lU1@mid.individual.net> References: <g8se4k$20a$3@registered.motzarella.org> <gbdilc$4gf$1@sagnix.uni-muenster.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: individual.net aU6yhOqZuMi/nq3ltdw4MAmWXZfkpdljCx4j+APajUEb+rpcmC Cancel-Lock: sha1:YX7hqBESicOWISe6Md71Z6K7TTs= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) In-Reply-To: <gbdilc$4gf$1@sagnix.uni-muenster.de> Bytes: 1996 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit