[How-to] Making Your First Nexuiz Map

[Oblivion]

Ok I made my first map in two hours using this guide. Thanks z! Now I want to know how to make it a proper CTF map. :P It's smaller than I thought it was so, I'll have to scale it.

Can anyone point me to where?

Placing flags, jumppads, spawn points, etc?

Sorry for the low quality of the textures. I play at lowest settings:

[img]http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/5548/angeryk9.png[/img]

[img]http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/4431/76691979ep5.png[/img]

[grasshopper]

well i dont know what you are asking exactly . where to pu t the flags ? and jumpads? . this is really up to you . let your imagination flow . first i would learn the tools nessesary to make maps. they are there and they save alot of heartache . knowledge is power . also i suggest making a few "throw away" maps . try placing different entities all over to see what they do and how they work . experiment with lighting and architecture . see what happens . before you know it you are making maps that put your first one to shame . though the first map is exciting, and you feel proudto have made it , it will ultimately drive to know more about mapping .
scale , or quake units as its called . are a bit tricky in the beginning .try placing a player start entity in a new map and pull the lil fella around using it as comparison to size .
-also , look at these . they will help you get started . just remember in these tuts they refer to quake quite a bit saying things like "now go to your baseq3 folder and..." . when they say that , translate it in to ( nexuiz/data/)

thetuts
[url]http://clankiller.com/games/quake/gtkradianttut/[/url]

[url]http://bubba.planetquake.gamespy.com/mapping.html[/url]

[url]http://cardigan.planetquake.gamespy.com/tips_topmappingtips.html[/url]
vid tut-
[url]http://www.vuze.com/details/3DPFVJ22DUG57YZL5ERYEV3RYUQ6XDT2.html[/url]

-happy mapping-

[Oblivion]

Thankee grasshopper. I was asking for what stuff do I need to do to make a ctf map. I guess I'll just experiment with a dummy map for now. :P

[grasshopper]

ctf map are easy . if i remember off the top of my head its item_flag 1 ( red ) and item_flag 2 (blue) . just place those wherever you want . and it should work .

[Wytry]

Ok, and if I can do this in blender model maps, export to the format .map and complete in the GTK Radiant?

Adapted translator.

[MIK3]

i finished my first map by following -Z-'s tutorial (thnx -Z-) and it worked great up until the compiling step. i made the map then i went to compile it by clicking on: (single) BSP -meta, but a window pops up saying: "The connection timed out, assuming the BSP process failed. Make sure you are using a networked version of Q3Map? Otherwise you need to disable BSP monitoring in Prefs." under all of that is just an OK button.

[Medjay Penguin]

Mike you already said that on [URL]http://www.nexuizninjaz.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=491[/URL].

[MIK3]

i know, i posted it here and waited a while and nobody was replying, so i made a new topic for it.

[Medjay Penguin]

ooh okay. i thought you were distracted.

[jacob]

hey is there a tutorial on how to create race maps?