In the editor you define subzones, which are large axial brushes enclosing areas. Jacmoe wrote:I'd be very interested, especially in zone to mesh conversion bit. It won't be a modelling app itself apart from simple level geometry. The focus of the editor is on setting up the layout of your level including spawn points, trigger areas, physics / collision properties of objects and other such things that a 3D modelling program doesn't do well. Ideally, I'd like the application to export map files and compile them with existing BSP compilers as well as my own file formats that people can use to read into there own game engines however they see fit. To be honest, I'm going for a working solution first and an efficient solution second, but I'm hoping I can grow this project into something much more useful for everyone. Im curious if the entire towns are just one big mesh, placed into a terrain, or how that works exactly?ĬrimsonGT wrote:Still leaves me wondering if theres some method of using BSP style method of blocking out a level, without the inefficiency presented with the original BSP format?ĭo you have any links to the articles showing the inefficiency presented with the original BSP format? I'd be very interested to come up with solutions and build it into my application. The towns seem perfectly placed, then it feels like a terrain editor was used outside of them. I will use WoW (despite my distaste) since everyone has a general idea of it. On the topic though of 3d editors, I am curious how games that appear to be well connected pull it off. I am just curious if something similar but more modernized and efficient would not be possible? If this is the case I have no problem trying to get aquainted with Blender or another 3d Modelling package, but I do really favor the whole concept of blocking out the world then placing meshes and entitys around it. After reading a very detailed writeup on the inefficiency of the BSP format, I completely understand why everyones moving away from it. Im just wondering is there no way to modernize this technology as I have really enjoyed using an editor to create the 'shell' of the map, then using 3d Meshes to decorate it.

I saw that Ogre still supports (although I guess its being removed soon) BSP format, although it being from quake so its fairly old.

Since coming to Ogre, this has, to say the least, really thrown me for a loop as it seems everyone uses modelling programs to design their maps, and then uses scene editors to put the meshes together. Back in the 90s it was 2d tile based maps, which then turned into using Hammer for CSS/TF2/L4D, etc. I have always used some type of level editor no matter what game I was designing maps for.

Csg level editor