Research into .MAP format

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.

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AlienAbducter's exporter has a comment about the faces if that helps.

Just want to throw this out here. There is an objtomap converter that I was using a couple of years ago that got me close to what I needed to recreate the maps in WC, but worldcraft lacked the functionality of a true 3d modeling program such as Maya.

I began using maya and the objtomap converter to import my recreated maps into WC.

With this said, is it possible to take this converter for the geometry only and rework it to work. I am not concerned with the entities since we can export them to map for map straight from the scn.

Is this right along the lines of what you guys are trying to do? or did I fail..

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That JSON file lays it all out pretty nice, I think another base_map with 2 brushes could be handy to see how the JSON outputs multiple brushes while keeping the data being worked with to a minimum.

Taking a quick looking at anything tied to textures I wouldn't even know where to start, though I'd say worry about that once geometry is working.

Entities don't seem to change too much between the .map and .json so they seem easy enough to convert.