half life map conversion?

[bers3rker]

Ive saw images here with maps from half life under the quake engine.How can i convert those to quakes bsp format?

[Baker]

The long answer is yes with a ton of effort, Google for a Half-Life map decompiler and prepare to invest a ton of time and energy working through all the incompatibilities (field name differences, etc. etc.) and recompile.

The short answer is basically you can't because the Half-Life supports a lot of things that Quake doesn't.

The best place to start if you wanted to try such a thing would be to ask questions at Func_Msgboard in the mapping help thread.

The better answer is that it is FAR faster and easier to add Half-Life map to a Quake engine than the onerous trial and error decompile and recompile process you'd be facing trying to convert the maps.

[bers3rker]

No,i cant,the engine im using doesnt support it.Its not for PC.
Is there any way to convert it?

[Baker]

You don't need to convert them.

Make a sub folder like c:\quake\halflife and put Half-Life's pak0.pak in there.

Load up DarkPlaces and type "gamedir halflife" and then map c1a0a and DarkPlaces loads the map.

Other engines that support Half-Life maps include Qrack (although I'm not sure if Rook released that version yet?), FTEQW, ezQuake and FuhQuake.

(DarkPlaces and FTEQW's Half-Life map support is a little better than the other engines.)