Hexen II egypt map [in progress]

[WhiteMagicRaven]

YouTube - HeXenticGames's Channel

kethoth (17 hours ago)
I'm interested in making singleplayer maps for Hexen 2.

[Hareton]

It is me.

[rudl]

@hexenII mappers.

If you run in troubles, I might be able to help
just send me a mail to rudolf89-at-edumail.at

There are 3 or 4 map editors around

woldcraft, bsp, and quark.
I and i think there is an editor called thread3D around or so.
I would recommend bsp

Entities are difficult in HexenII because there is really no documentation.
However, there are a lot of parallels between quakeI and HexenII.

I used to map with quark but it has a lot of glitches. And on default settings, almost every compile error related to brushwork is quark related. Because of a lot of evil stuff quark does. For example quark etp, dezimals, rotation angles, negative brushes...

I think I posted it on uqe forums some time ago unfortunately the old forum is gone XD

However:

check don't write floating point coords
and Use InegralVertices as Threepoints
You may also want to set the map output format to classic quake
Don't forget to add the -watervis command to the bsp tool
I also recommend to stay on the 16 units grid, and only in some cases 4 or 8

I think I have to install Quark again^^ but i guess I won't really have too much time till summer break. Studying architecture is very very time consuming.

Great to see some new hexen2 stuff

-rudl

PS you may want to take a look at rudl.quaddicted.com if you not already know. It's a bit outdated XD sry. Today I would really make the brushwork from scratch, because there is a lot of evil stuff in it

[Hareton]

I already starded using Quark and I will stay with it for now, bsp editor looks weird.

There is documentation for entities: THE EYE OF HORUS - H2 Entity List

How to access original Hexen 2 maps in editor?

[rudl]

QuArk can open .bsp files but it will look strange^^

No the hexen2 map sources are not released

bsp is a cool editor. Not that intuitive, but rock stable and works well.

[Mathuzzz]

I heard that Hexmaker doesn't allow to make hub maps. Can it be done in Quark?

I didnīt try it myself, but yes, Quark allows it.

[WhiteMagicRaven]

@rudl I remember your posts in old quake-engine forum, you created very good village map =)
@Hareton To open original maps you need to decompile it, read more here Hexen II

BSP2MAP v0.12 for Hexen II (22K)
Hexen2Quake .bsp Converter (20K)
Be sure that hexen2 maps is heavy modified quake bsp format and after decompiling or conversion it drop (miss) some elements from map

[WhiteMagicRaven]

These programs are converters, but how to get maps from .pak files?

Look here
Quake Terminus

[Hareton]

rudl, your alfa mission crashes for me in the sewers. Maybe it's because I use Korax port.