Where Is Half Life Bsp File Format Info?

ViPrViPr Resident naysayer Join Date: 2002-10-17 Member: 1515Members
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i want to see how Natural Selection maps would look with Doom3 type shaders which i'm trying to make in my program. i can't find any info on the format. i need to know the bsp format info so i can load half-life bsp files into my 3d engine.

btw does anyone know if there is a BSP to 3ds converter because i can load 3ds files pretty well.
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  • FireStormFireStorm Join Date: 2002-11-06 Member: 7390Members
    look at <a href='http://www.planethalflife.com/botman/bsp_tool.shtml' target='_blank'>this</a>.
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  • ViPrViPr Resident naysayer Join Date: 2002-10-17 Member: 1515Members
    where did this guy, who made these programs, get the info from?
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  • ElvenThiefElvenThief aka Elven Thief (ex. NS Programmer) Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8754Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    If you ever download Valve's SDK for mod making on the Half-Life engine, I do believe that it comes with code specific for compiling bsp files and that sorta stuff. Been a while since I've looked into it, and it's quite a hefty download, but you might get more info there.
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  • ViPrViPr Resident naysayer Join Date: 2002-10-17 Member: 1515Members
    oh. no i can't do that. i just can't ever understand other people's source code.
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  • FireStormFireStorm Join Date: 2002-11-06 Member: 7390Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--ViPr+Apr 3 2003, 01:55 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (ViPr @ Apr 3 2003, 01:55 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> oh. no i can't do that. i just can't ever understand other people's source code. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    That's bad... Veeery baaad <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

    The guy who made these programs released the source code. And the source code of the BSP compilation programs is included in the SDK. Also, I think you can get the source code of the new tools: ZHLT.

    But I suggest you to download the bsp tools sources.
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  • ViPrViPr Resident naysayer Join Date: 2002-10-17 Member: 1515Members
    i got pretty far without using other people's source code. i don't like source code. i just like documents explaining things in english. i'm pretty sure there was an explanation somewhere of half-life's BSP format and i think i saw it once but now i can't find it again. i know there's plenty of source code that could help me with plenty of things if i could understand source code. the complete source code to quake1 and quake2 has been released and those games's map formats are supposed to be similar to half-life's.
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