Func_Msgboard: Hexen II Original Source Maps

Posted by Inky on 2019/12/23 12:08:58

Hello everybody! :-)

For about one year I'm working on a very ambitious mission pack for Hexen II. I learn new things everyday but the best lesson is of course to look at what the elders did. Maybe I don't use the right tool, but the bsp decompilation tool I use (Quark) is very user unfriendly and hard to use/understand.

So I wondered... John Romero released the original map files for Quake some years ago. Do you know whether Raven did the same for Hexen II map files?
Or have you heard about a friendly and simple decompilation tool compatible with Hexen II?

Thank you so much in advance for your precious feedback. :-)

@inky

#1 posted by madfox on 2019/12/24 17:39:59

Hexen2 files can be opened with Quark but there's no way to convert them to map files. I did some fail attempts with winbspc_1.4 and they all crashed on Win7. The result would be a mesh anyway as winbspc only converts as if, with lots of chunks pressed into a big cube. Clearing that up would be a waist of time although I did once with some maps.

I don't think you can find the original maps on the net as Raven isn't that generious as Quake.
I think.
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#2 posted by Six-Shoota on 2019/12/24 20:46:37

Quik search for decompiller :
http://pa3pyx.dnsalias.org/stuff/bsp2mph2.zip

@Six-Shoota

#3 posted by Inky on 2019/12/25 09:56:50

Wow! Never managed to find that, and even better: seems it works!
Thank you so much ! :-)

#4 posted by ws on 2020/01/02 20:44:20

thanks for posting that six-shoota. ive been wondering how they created complex objects that both move and rotate, like the levitating coffin in the first level. can likely get to the bottom of it now.

#5 posted by stevenaaus on 2020/09/09 09:26:54

For about one year I'm working on a very ambitious mission pack for Hexen II
Good luck :)

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