worldcraft

I''ve found that making the editor for a game is MUCH harder than writing the engine itself. There are layers upon layers of geometry manipulation and what not that is associated with making an editor like worldcraft.

hey andre,

i came across the file format for worldcraft .map files and how to parse them. can''t remember exactly but do a search on google for .map file format pdf. it''s by a student in norway.

i can try to find the link for u if u can''t

-=code=-

To do it the "easy" way, why don''t you just re-create your models/map files in TrueVision or 3DS Max? They might be expensive, but there is still [cough]KaZaA[cough]...

With trueVision you would be able to directly export your model/map to .X files. And the .3DS files Max Creates can also easily converted to .X files with the program that comes with the DirectX SDK. (or search for a tutorial on how to directly read a 3DS files )

And to convert a X-file shouldnt be that big of a problem...

i hope this helped you in a way..

Ones again... life goes on...

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Original post by SturmNacht
To do it the "easy" way, why don't you just re-create your models/map files in TrueVision or 3DS Max? They might be expensive, but there is still [cough]KaZaA[cough]...

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Less of that.

Andre, here's the document -=Code=- was talking about. Really excellent description of how to sort out a Worldcraft .map file. I'll be using it myself shortly to write a parser. There's also some source code at his site for a similar tool that stores polygons in his own file format.



[edited by - NeverSayDie on December 11, 2002 6:42:59 AM]