Etqw quick map wizard v1 02

README

QW Quick Map Wizard by [TFA]Violator
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Inspired by Mordenkainen's excellent start tutorial, I've made a little app to create the necessary files to make a new map. It requires .NET 2 framework to run.

The About box contains links to Mordenkainen and Sebultura's tutorial posts in this forum.

1) Extract the zip to a folder.

2) Run MapWizard.exe

3) In 'game path' type in the path to a folder to save the files in (e.g. F:\QW\base). To be safe, don't use your actual retail game folder, but make a copy or use the SDK base path. For testing, the files should be zipped up into a pk4 and placed in the game 'base' folder.

4) In 'Map filename' type in the short name of the map. This is used to generate the various files (in Mordenkainen's tutorial it was 'tut1')

5) In 'Map name' type the name of the map as it should appear in game ('Tutorial 1')

6) In thumbnail levelshot, type in the thumbnail image to use for the map ('area22') - this gets put into pakmeta.conf as the tga file to use for 'server_shot_thumb')

7) Click 'OK' and it should make the skeleton map files and folders

The 4 settings are saved in the 'MapWizard.exe.config' file.

It creates the following files -

pakmeta.conf
script\main.script
script\maps\<mapname>.script (blank)
maps\<mapname>\<mapname>.world (empty)
mapinfo\<mapname>.md


Shouts
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Mordenkainen for starting the ball rolling :)
Sebultura for his great tutorial
MrLego for info on commandmaps etc.


Version History
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1.02  2/12/07
Added blank levelshots
Added default material file including levelshots/cmd map

1.01  24/11/07
Fixed saving settings when changed
Writes blank world file
Added readme :)

1.00	24/11/07
First version



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Distribution / Permissions 

This application may not be reverse engineered/modified in any way by anyone else than the author, [TFA]Violator.
The application may be freely used, however it may not be commercially exploited in any way without the author's consent.
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