I’ve written up a Makefile to replace bspc. It also does the appropriate level image mutilation using ImageMagick’s “convert” utility and creates (and installs) the pk3 file. A few notes on its use…
- A couple variables need to be edited for your system and map. PKG is the map name.
The levelshot must be in png format, named “${PKG}.png”, must be bigger than 512×512, and should be 4:3 aspect ratio. - If the .map file is newer than the .bsp, it will generate a new bsp.
- Unlike the bspc script, this expects to have its own directory. I like using ~/rtcw/${PKG}
The map I’ve been toying with is named ‘de’, so I have ~/rtcw/de/ holding de.map and de.png. When I do ‘make pk3’, I get de.pk3, and in the game, I do “/spdevmap de” in the console.
Figuring out how to generate the bsp was a bit of a pain, the GtkRadiant source is an ugly mess and the docs for q3map2 are rough following if you don’t already know what’s going on. I ended up having the q3map2 shell script append $* into a tmp file so I could look at it…
Still no luck finding a terrain generator/converter… I may end up writing one… I’ve some ideas for ‘useful’ cli tools to automatically generate chunks of map that’d otherwise be extremely tedious.
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