Research into .MAP format

The python script dumps the 3D and texture information into a .json file that the webgl uses.

You are welcome to the .json files if you wish but they don't have formatting like the .map files. Basically a big numeric text dump.

I can talk to my son and ask him about the Python script and how hard to change the output to something easier to read if you wish.

Possible to dump the basic_map posted in this thread to the json format?

Yup I can get my son to export it

I also spoke to my son tonight about changing the output file. I asked him if he could change the output to something more readable to make it easier to convert to .map format.

He has the last few exams this week for school but as soon as he is free he will look into this.

Thanks, gotta start small can't dive into MissionA when can't look at an existing .MAP file.

Well technically you can. Any map that you make in Worldcraft when it compiles to a .SCN will also generate a .MAP file with it.

However I understand what you mean. Easier to start off with a basic map and then experiment the whole way with the same file. Makes reverse engineering easier.

Looking at the Basic map, .Map file, it seems like valve has us covered on how it works, Valves Map Format I am pretty sure is the same formatting for swat as the formatting on that article.

Looking at the Basic map, .Json file that I was able to figure out a way to format so mildly more readable. We are given a lot of possibly unneeded data to convert it in a .Map file. The basic map file holds the entities, the textures, the plane(3 vertices that form a quad), and texture information such as the offset, the rotation and the scale. The basic json file holds textures, uvs, cell information, faces, vertices, entites.

So it could be possible to convert the json file to a map might be able to get away with just using the texture, vertices and the uvs from the json file but I don't know how to translate the uv's into offset and scale and if I can easily convert the vertices to planes with 3 coordinates.