what map editor do you use and recommend

[tmg]

I stopped mapping to work on adding features I wanted to the game DLL. I then ended up unsatisified with what was possible with the game DLL, and started working on KMQuake2 when the Q2 source was released.

And I'm sure I'm not alone in being thankful that you have made such an awesome source port Knightmare

It's all I use for my maps

[omni]

Now I'm getting the feeling that I'm the only one who has ever mapped with bsp (I never have in this game)
Only in quake based game that I mapped with bsp and my question is does it work here it's just I'm quite skilled with it and I like using it.

[67steinip]

I recommend GTKRadiant, i use to use QuArK and i thought that was top notch since before that i used Quoole ( lets face it, that editor is out of date ), but i mapped Newcloud in GTKRadiant and i can't even open up QuArK anymore, the 3D view is much smoother in GTK and the enviornment once you remember the N for Entity and T for Texture and S for Properties it's just gravy.. hands down the GTK Radiant of all those 3 i have tested

[67steinip]

Mar 22, 2011 10:16:27 GMT -5 Le Ray [Q2C] said:

Yes, I used Tread3D and Maric taught me everything I know. He created a great tutorial for it and that's where I learned all of the tricks. It's very easy to use.

Mar 22, 2011 13:19:03 GMT -5 Wixen1 [Q2C] said:

Yep, that tutorial was simply awesome. But it is sadly gone now.
-W1

Im not sure if this is the exact tutorial but i got a little archive that i downloaded way back.. Maric-Q2-Tutorials

Mapping with Maric

It was a HTML Site that included some links so i downloaded the entire website for the tutorial



Files included are

index_files
mwm1_files
mwm2_files
mwm3_files
mwm4_files
mwm5_files
mwm6_files
mwm10_files
mwm11_files
index.htm
mwm1.htm
mwm2.htm
mwm3.htm
mwm4.htm
mwm5.htm
mwm6.htm
mwm10.htm
mwm11.htm
mwm12.htm

And you can fetch the .rar archive over at
www.steinip.net/aq2/maric_q2_tut.rar

it's about 5mb

EDIT: i am not sure why but steps 7 through 9 are missing, i have no idea why.. but this is all i have people can go through this to pick bits out if they want, little is better then nothing at all

EDIT 2: I know why, i must have gotten this from Wixen's website because i am missing the EXACT! same pictures and pieces of the maric site...

[Wixen1 [Q2C]]

Well, thanks for trying 67steinip
-W1

[67steinip]

I used Qoole when i was first starting out, it is so not made for anything higher then like Windows XP and it's not that good, i mean it is missing a lot of functions as to what you can really DO in today's mapping world, However QuArK is also nice, a bit laggy for my taste i did one map in it and it never sat well with me. It wasn't until i opened up GTKRadiant that i really hit my stride, a really smooth visual enviornment, easy on the eyes, good functions to create hollow boxes and materials you need. It is in my opinion the best mapping program out there. Qoole is outdated and shouldn't be considered a mapping program today.

If you ask me, GTKRadiant hands down

EDIT: I realize now that i have already posted my reply to this thread but oh well this one is more thorough anyways

[uzi9mmauto]

[quote author=

Making a playing map was 8 months later...
Here is my first Q2 map.... Margaal5 ( 2oo3)


----> here margaal5 <----

[/quote]

DEACONTOMB is gone- No margaal5.zip Map
Could you PLEASE resubmit a link to your map.
Thanks! (Im gonna post where everyone can post their maps long term in a bit)

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Jul 21, 2013 21:42:14 GMT -5 uzi9mmauto said:

[quote author=

Making a playing map was 8 months later...
Here is my first Q2 map.... Margaal5 ( 2oo3)


----> here margaal5 <----

DEACONTOMB is gone- No margaal5.zip Map
Could you PLEASE resubmit a link to your map.
Thanks! (Im gonna post where everyone can post their maps long term in a bit)[/quote]

oh..no problem....

----> here you go <----

[luzifer]

I usually used Qoole as it is quite easy to use but I changed to Jackhammer 1.0 .
It is still an alpha, but very stable and nice to use. You can get it at moddb.com
Dont have the link right now, just use Google, its easy to find.
I like that editor very much, the allignment of brushes to the grid is very precise, that what Qoole lacks imo. It has more features to come, I cant wait for the next release. Try it, you will like it.