https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/MAP_file_format

Honestly, this is a great article to understanding a MAP-file. For mapping in notepad++ this is a quite valuable resource. Let's ditch Trenchbroom alltogether!





JK, though Trenchbroom is a bit OP for creating, what is essentially a textfile.
Props to anybody, who manages to compile a thing they made in a texteditor. You'd have to be quite bored to do that. 

there was at least one map in 1996 that was made in notepad, before any level editors existed. 

And there is Preach's map that he made by hacking the savegame file: https://www.quaddicted.com/quake_advent_calendar_2013/7-12#th_december_-_preach 

Yep!

I've been looking for that map for the longest time! I have quite a few of my files from around '97 and looked through almost everything to try and find it. I recall downloading and playing it. IIRC it was a rectangular map with a bunch of crisscrossed beams. 

I remember this deathmatch map that was made using WordPad: https://www.quaddicted.com/files/maps/multiplayer/daskull.zip

Can't remember the first SP map like that though.

There's this one https://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/shaft29.html ... where the author comments that it was built "using a tedious coordinates script", but I don't think that's the one we're thinking of. 

The one I recall was very small. Just a room with beams you could traverse.

From the daskull readme:

1 hour, 2 minutes to QBSP,LIGHT,& VIS on a p166 32megs'o'ram Win95

:P 

What a beastly system! 

When picking up ammo, if ammo is for a better weapon you already have and that ammo had run out, do you want to automatically switch to that weapon?

Example: you run out of cells for your lightning gun and are currently using the nailgun, you pick up cells later...like 20min later in a Swampy sized map, should we automatically switch to lightning gun? (note that Quake doesn't do lightning gun if you are underwater nor does it switch to rockets)

Please note that this is original Quake's default. 

no 

 

If I run out of nails but am using my SNG, I'd not want to switch back to the SG. 

never autoswitch 

That was my thinking. Wierd how its that way by default. 

is the autoswitch faster than manually changing weapons? 

It was a fairly basic layout, just a series of rooms connected by stairs that kept going on deeper and deeper. The connecting stairs were always behind locked doors, and once you opened them there would be a big horde of monsters pouring from the other side, just like the big knight ambush in dm6rmx. It was clad in Koohoo textures and there was ample room to fight and retreat, as if every room was an arena of its own.

It was also AD apparently, but at some point a huge spider monster popped up and I audibly said "what the fuck is that?!" in the dream. I think Bal made that custom monster in my dream, the total dick. 

http://quaketastic.com/files/screen_shots/qtfrome2m6.jpg 

Good story, good reply. 

Even if it was by Negke, is Bal still a total dick? 

absolute balbellend 

Especially since all this spider jam talk will likely make him lose interest in his current maps and want to make start something new! 

 

 

Spider jam....I could maybe throw together a vorific arachnaphobic mod for such an event after this halloween thing is over. Probly be able to base it on progs_dump to keep it simple.