if i could code, i'd make a little standalone app for stuff like this. it would read ents from a bsp or map and create a little database where you could sort by each attr & search for certain values. or mass-edit stuff like above 

Ah, are those on subsequent lines? And all of the same class?

JEdit is my favourite editor and it can easily do this. It is free, open-source and cross-platform. http://www.jedit.org/

Select the classname. Ctrl-F for the Search and Replace dialog. Copy the line to the "Replace with" form. Use Ctrl-Enter to add a linebreak. Add your new field. "Replace all".

http://s1.image.gd/o/25/258bfa3b7540f0b2484ef75076130ffa21851ee8.png

Make sure it will search in "Current Buffer". You might want to turn regular expressions off, should not be an issue here though. 

Even with \n 

Edit - Select - By Value - Entity Type - OK 

map > entity report > theen you modify the filter, you can search by key/value, class, and select point ents, brush ents or both > then click "Mark", then you close the dialogue and go to the selection tool, you will find all of the marked objects are selected :D 

ftw 

nt 

Fap on! 

don't Prog me RAM!

I know, just foolin'.
But these headlines
looks so stupid. 

yeah, i was thinking of making a program that would just parse the entity list and load it up into some kind of easy to access and modify gui, but since the text editor solution works, i no longer have any reason to do that. :P :P 

I was planning to design a simple language that would allow all kinds of transformations on Quake maps, but it never happened because I didn't know enough about language design. Today that would be called a domain specific language and there are lots of tools that would allow generating such a language very easily... maybe I'll get back to it sometime. 

sounds interesting. look forward to it :) 

http://i.imgur.com/BITmX.jpg 

I cannot recognize the map layout: which map is it ? 

Its COD MW2 isnt it? 

I've played a fair share of duty, but that doesn't remind me of any of the maps. 

And they do have cutscenes 

i don't remember that many corners though 

E1M6.

So much sad truth in that image. :( 

that is soooo goddamn true 

.

Simplifying things to that degree always makes it seemingly convincing. I could just as easily montage a 320x200 DOOM screen next to a 1920x1280 Brink/Rage/Singularity screen and say "See?"

That's too simple.

1993 FPS maps have an entry, an exit, and killing stuff in between just like 2010 ones. Lots of Doom and Quake maps aren't exactly complex. Plus, with Doom's sector based engine creating maps was a lot simpler and faster, but I doubt most people today would buy a sector/sprite based FPS if someone made it.

And I drunkenly played DOOM/2 to death in high school in 1993/4. I remember it. It was unnecessarily easy to get lost in and it often took half a keyboard-massaging hour to find where that last button was while the huge brown pixels started making swirling images behind my sleepy eyes. 320x240 pixels on a 640x480 screen. A lot of the areas look the same in DOOM/2 levels. I especially remember the chainsaw labyrinth, the crate labyrinth in e2 I think, and those horrible city levels in Doom 2.

Of course by now, you know where everything is. But back then, I wormed my way through samey-looking brown corridors in the search for identical looking switches with green and red lights on them, running from pixel pinkies that we called "the big ones" and endless hordes of imps and chaingunners while always looking for health but not finding any.

It was awesome, and it still is, but it wasn't all perfect either. New games also have something going for them.

Rose-coloured glasses. 

 

The 2010 pic would probably look more like this:

http://www.vasanth.in/content/binary/rome_google_earth.jpg 

Back then you were free to get lost. Nowadays you're forced to find the way. If that makes any sense... 

Back then you were free to get lost. Nowadays you're forced to find the way. If that makes any sense...