Futuza

Was wondering if anyone was interested in adding new tutorials to this guide?  Especially for the missing ones (such as the whole Level Distribution section).  I could maybe write something, but I'm not much of a mapper so you'd all probably get a bunch of MS Paint pictures to explain the concept.  (Will the real mappers please stand up, please stand up?)

Noticed this was slightly outdated.

Here's a slightly better batch script:

@echo off
echo.
echo ==================================
echo == q3map2 ent compiler ==
echo ==================================
::Path to q3map2.exe directory
SET q3map2dir=..\GtkRadiant-1.6.6
IF NOT EXIST %q3map2dir%\q3map2.exe (
echo Could not find q3map2.exe - failed!
GoTo FAILED
)
echo.
echo Type in the name of your maps ent file
echo (without an extension) then press enter
echo.
SET /P map=ent file name:
cls
echo.
echo ==================================
echo == q3map2 ent compiler ==
echo ==================================
echo.
echo compiling map: %map%.bsp
echo with ent file: %map%.ent
echo -------------------------------------------------
echo.
IF NOT EXIST .\output\ mkdir .\output\
SET COPYCMD=/Y && COPY /Y %map%.bsp .\output\%map%.bsp
SET COPYCMD=/Y && COPY /Y %map%.ent .\output\%map%.ent
%q3map2dir%\q3map2.exe -v -game ja -fs_game base -onlyents .\output\%map%.ent
echo.
echo -------------------------------------------------
echo Please review the above text for errors to ensure
echo your entities have compiled correctly.
echo.
pause
cls
echo.
echo Cleaning up...
IF EXIST .\output\%map%.ent DEL /F .\output\%map%.ent
echo.
echo Complete! New %map%.bsp available in output dir.
echo.
start "Output" .\output
:FAILED

You can point it to your q3map2 directory by changing this line

SET q3map2dir=..\GtkRadiant-1.6.6

To wherever you have q3map2 installed.

Also here's the recreated first screenshot (using VSCode instead of Notepad++).

Just wanted to add that if you need more technical details for any of the menu stuff not covered in the basic tutorial, JKA's menus are basically identical to the one's listed in the Quake III documentation located here.

Here: