BSP trees, BSP Factory?
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| Hi! Can anyone suggest a tool to create BSP trees for Blitz3d? Google did not lead to anything useful. I've heard of "BSP Factory" but cannot find it (seems Binary People are not offering tools any more, and there was some controversy over that). I would like to investigate BSP Factory - can the author provide a demo or sell me a copy to explore? Is there anything else available for this purpose? Thanks. |
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| http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=35223 Get in contact with Jedive, he is a very friendly guy who can help. I am sure he has a demo he can provide you with to play around with. BSP Factory (BSPF) is a nice tool but be aware you won't gain any of the speed gains that the BSP-tree format can offer, such as occlusion. Natively Blitz3d supports Quake 3 BSP - however, as I'm sure you're aware, there are licencing issues associated with using this format. BSP Factory is purely a Half-Life BSP to -> .b3d model conversion tool. It does do a few other tricks, such as lightmapping. But ideally you should use it as a tool to convert your maps (with or without prefabs) to a useable Blitz format. Half Life .bsp's can be 'compiled' from .map files using free tools such as Zoner's Half Life Compile tools I hope that helps, perhaps if you are looking to implement a proper occlusion system, you might also consider a forthcoming tool called PortalPal. Might be worth e-mailing the author if you are interested :) |
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| martonic, can you receive a 2mb file in your email account? If so, i will send you the BSP Factory demo to your email account. Sorry for the delay in replying. |
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| Jedive, Please email to: marty@... Thank you! |
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| I have sent BSP Factory v1.1 demo to that email address. Hope you like it. |
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| Got it, thank you! |
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| Sorry to hijack this thread (again). Jedive, didn't you get my mail? |
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| This last three days I've been reinstalling everything on my computer (I changed my hard drive). I have seen your mail just yestarday, and I have downloaded the beta. Now, BSP Factory uses BVM2. I'll tell you about any bugs I may found on it on your website forums :) Thanks for adding me to your beta-tester list. |
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| Hay Martonic, can you email me the copy of BSP factory that Jedive emailed you? He's been trying to send me it for three days and for some reason it won't go through. Email him if you want confirm that. :-) |
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| That's ok Martonic. You can send it to him. It's strange, I have been sendgin big files with my gmail account to many people, but sswift hasn't received any of the two emails I sent him with BSP Factory :( |
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