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Hi there

Is there any software that can convert Quake III .bsp files to .x, .3ds, .max, or .ms3d? Preferably with textures intact?

I am using ac3d but the results are far from perfect unfortnately.

Any input appreciated Thanks

there is a BSP->WRL ... you can then use Max to convert that in turn to DirectX
thats how i was doing it about a year ago until i fully understood the format and could back engineer it into whatever format it liked.

Only problem is i've never really made a sucessful DirectX model as they always screw up the textureing (which when you have close to 200 textures for a level is just ridiculous)

Yeah I found a command line utility called 'q3bsp' that converts it to vml, but it didn't work, kept saying couldn't crumple bsp - I fiddled with it for aaaaaaaaages

If you know of a working one tho I'd be happy to hear of it, even without textures it'd b useful Thanks

I'm kinda amazed there's no importer or exporter for 3dsmax

well BSP is a compiled format not a source format...
infact it was designed quite specifically for speed and not to be loaded or saved as a standard format. Converting something to BSP should be the end of its editing life, and it is quite a bugger to actually decompile them as it were.

thats what the .map format is for
and there is another convert which decompiles most BSP formats to thier original .map format - however again there is the problem that Max doesn't contain an importer/exporter ... mainly because of licence issues, but also because you ever tried to work with the Max SDK - it is a bitch, and thats putting it nicely. It's far easier to just use the purpose built BSP editors.

however most of the BSP->whatever format also come with full source, so really all you'd need to do is edit the BSP format data header - setup the new routines of howto handle certain part, like the Spline Patches ... all of which can be found within the Quake3 Tools SDK 1.27h
it is alot more bother than it is worth to be honest, so unless there is a REALLY and i mean REALLY good reason you need A particular BSP world - then i'd suggest just working on a world in Worldcraft, export as DXF and then use Max to texture and Export as a DirectX (^_^)

Ahh I see, prolly won't bother

Its not really important I can get round it other ways, I just wanted a (very) quick fix

Thanks man

if i remember certain channels do freeveiws at midnight for that kinda thing