games you can map for?

Post by **redfella** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:57 pm

Hey everyone....

I fell of the face of the internet about 6 months ago... but I'm back now so its all good. I spent a bunch of time catching up on video games, books, movies, home repairs, and other things. I also took a stab at c++... which I am still trying to devour. I haven't mapped, however, in about 18 months. But now that I'm back I got some good ideas about what I want to do, mapping wise.

Im thinking about mapping for something else besides q3. Can you guys name every and any game that you know of that you can modify on the computer? Im talking about ALL games here... not just FPSes. And they dont even have to be new games.... Basically any game that you can map for, list it.

That would help a bunch.

-Cheers.

Post by **Fjoggs** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:26 pm

Games I can map for:
Quake4
Doom3
Rtcw:ET
Quake1
Quake3
Warcraft II/III
Starcraft

Post by **pjw** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:31 pm

One game that has been a horrible mapping addiction for me for the last few months is Trackmania Nations. It's a racing game and a free download. The editing is tile-based, but you can really do some very creative things. You can also edit intro and replay movies and that's fun too. Another attractive feature is that you have a finished level in a few days, instead of a few weeks or months.

Free download here: click me!

There's also a thriving track base available on this site, which includes over 22,000 tracks, each complete with records, replays, and awards given.

If anyone likes it, check out my tracks. [/shameless self-pimpage]

Post by **hemostick** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:49 pm

I say grab DOSBox, run DEU on it and slap some .wads together for doom/doom][

You may want to pick your favourite unreal game and give UnrealED a shot, too. It's a pretty good editor.
I suppose you may want to have a look at Farcry, too, for a completely different take on level building (prepare some pain medicine, though).
Warcraft 2 is fun too.

Post by **Scourge** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:50 pm

hemostick wrote:I say, grab DOSBox, run DEU on it and slap some .wads together for doom/doom][

I was just fixing to mention that. :icon31:

Post by **Kat** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 12:02 am

pjw wrote:One game that has been a horrible mapping addiction for me for the last few months is Trackmania Nations.

Noooo don't do it, don't download this becasue you'll end up having wayyy too much fun!

I grabbed this version of the game when it came out (as pjw knows) and it's actually a lot of fun to edit and create tracks for. Dead easy to pick up as well (I've got some tutes on me site covering some of the basics).

If you want a 'quick' editing fix, this can't be beat.

Post by **wviperw** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 12:45 am

Add me to the list of Trackmania victims.

Post by **d3mol!t!on** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 12:53 am

Call of Duty 2.

Post by **seremtan** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 12:58 am

Half-Life 2 is the shit to map for :icon14:

or there's all those RTS's that come with funtastic built-in editors, like AoE, AoK, RoR, Empire Earth, AoE3. the AoE3 editor is a pain to use though, completely counter-intuitive

Post by **Caffeine** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 1:07 am

- Cube 2: Sauerbraten. You can edit maps in-game, even cooperatively with other people online. That's quite impressive... but the game isn't.
- Infinity Engine games (e.g. Baldur's Gate, Planescape: Torment, Neverwinter Nights, etc). If you're learning programming and like the older IE games, then you might find GemRB interesting as well.
- Wesnoth.

Also, if you're already familiar with Q3 mapping, then you might be interested to know that Tremulous went standalone recently and Western Q3 plans to. Both could use more maps.

Post by **Hipshot** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 3:31 am

Heroes of Might and Magic 5
Sim City 4

Post by **Captain** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 4:00 am

Started with WADs for Doom, Doom II, and Heretic.

Then I got into Heroes of Might and Magic III.

Now I'm a vet modder/mapper for Star Wars Battlefront II.

Post by **Anwulf** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 5:06 am

Doom, Doom II, Heretic, Q1, Q2, Q3, Morrowind.

I'm now trying to resist dl'ing Trackmania, but is it designed for nvidia cards only?

Post by **Kat** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 5:23 am

Nah, it's the usual 'the way it's meant to be played' guff. There are a couple of specific enhancements that only kick in for nVid cards but it runs perfectly on ATIs or any other card. It's not much of a performance hogger unless you turn the GFX right up.

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 6:46 am

pjw wrote:One game that has been a horrible mapping addiction for me for the last few months is Trackmania Nations. It's a racing game and a free download. The editing is tile-based, but you can really do some very creative things. You can also edit intro and replay movies and that's fun too. Another attractive feature is that you have a finished level in a few days, instead of a few weeks or months.

Free download here: click me!

There's also a thriving track base available on this site, which includes over 22,000 tracks, each complete with records, replays, and awards given.

If anyone likes it, check out my tracks. [/shameless self-pimpage]

Downloading now.

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 6:52 am

Well I think the download froze....ffs.

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 8:06 am

When I decided to try the link through IE.
Now it's frozen at 57% done.

Post by **Survivor** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 10:27 am

Tremulous has about 7 official maps and currently 4 betas and i'm trying for my lousy alpha. Could use some nice maps.
http://tremmapping.pbwiki.com/ for the info concerning it's mapping and http://www.tremulous.net for the site.

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 1:42 pm

FragaGeddon wrote:When I decided to try the link through IE.
Now it's frozen at 57% done.

Well I got it downloaded. Now it won't install without causing corruptions.

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 3:28 pm

Well I decided that I would try and download it again.
Now it's stuck at 27%.
Thank fuck I'm also downloading it from a torrent.

Post by **Pext** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 5:08 pm

doom
quake engine
quake 2 engine
quake 3 engine
warcraft 2
starcraft
warcraft 3

Post by **pjw** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 5:33 pm

FragaGeddon wrote:d/l issues

Sorry man.

Hope you get it worked out.

I guess I should also do the obligatory Starforce warning here. TMN does install a version of Starforce despite the fact that it's free. Some people have had problems and issues with Starforce. TMN has never given me any sort of trouble, but ...just sayin'.

Post by **obsidian** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 5:46 pm

I haven't touched a level editor in the last 3 months or so. Been busy working on stuff for print in Illustrator and xhtml/css stuff for web. But I still have that game developer itch in the back of my neck that I'm just dying to scratch.

FragaGeddon wrote:
FragaGeddon wrote:When I decided to try the link through IE.
Now it's frozen at 57% done.
Well I got it downloaded. Now it won't install without causing corruptions.

Well, whatever it is, it's on your side. I just downloaded and installed it without any problems with [cough]Firefox[/cough].

I tried playing online... I suck. Need practice. Plenty fun though, it's like one of those Hot Wheels track sets that you had when you were a kid, except in 3D and you're actually driving the car.

Someone care to start a Q3W Trackmania server?

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 6:22 pm

Well I already have startforce due to playing the gemo of Toca 3.
Well another 5 hours for Nations & another day or for Sunrise.
I also wrote an email to the webmaster since that was the only link I could find in contacting them.

Post by **Captain** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:18 pm

pjw wrote:
FragaGeddon wrote:d/l issues
Sorry man. Hope you get it worked out.

I guess I should also do the obligatory Starforce warning here. TMN does install a version of Starforce despite the fact that it's free. Some people have had problems and issues with Starforce. TMN has never given me any sort of trouble, but ...just sayin'.

Starforge - don't install this game if you're running games on Daemon Tools.