Post by Abnessor aka Findoff in Custom Maps and Editor tips

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I want try to generate some large map out of prefabbed rooms, and think it's too big for single level.

How about transition-hub functional like q2?

I think it's not implemented now(And I'l be happy if i just miss it), but as game with already good save functional, it's views not so hard for me.

Me be with engine evolution for next project? (I am not request this now, just curious about... Because a really large maps with backtracking is my passion. Zortch already good at this, but i want moar and bigger)

mutantleg1 year ago(+1)

I'm afraid that is beyond the engines capabilites 😔

you can make prefabs though:
- select a bunch of entities
- enter console command: SP [prefab name]
- now in menu option 3 (props)
- you can add them in with a little menu (hold Q or E)

prefabs are just little maps (.xtmap) themselves so you can edit them or add maps manually to the quadmacro folder

I wanted big levels too - the prison was planned to be a giant complex taking place in more than one levels
(it still is but .. well mostly in my imagination) and I was worried that E1M1 was too small and in general people will
just whizz through the game and going to be made fun of for it ..
but turns out for most people even this little first map was an incomprehensible maze 🤔

for the next engine evolution I want it to have better optimization for multi-story levels (e.g. right now the occlusion culling is 2D only)
I guess that also means larger levels 🤔 but I don't have hubs planned (mostly because I don't want mandatory backtracking like the Q2 hunt for the powercubes crap - and I just don't have the resources to make a bigger game)

Splatpig631 year ago(+1)

So it is possible to also turn some prefabs into items? Because I did turn some custom meshes into prefabs and for some reason they don't appear in the item menu or number 3 menu.

mutantleg1 year ago

I'm sorry I remembered wrong:
there is a seperate command SQ that only saves a single quadmesh as prefab and only that makes a screenshot
for the ones saved with SP you need to make a screen yourself and put it in the quadmacro folder for the editor to see
(I forgot that I used to just do the two commands in sequence to get around this -- I guess the editor could also use a patch 🤔

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