Maps-Half Life

[sheridan1595]

Hi, I'm new to this site, as you'll soon find out. I've noticed there are Maps, in a BSP format for most games. We play Half Life on a Local Network. (LAN). How are these files used? Can the Maps (.bsp) be printed out, how are they to be used?
Any info. would help. I did a search and did not see the info.

Thanks for any help.

CCL

 

[tris-]

http://forums.barrysworld.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=21

best place to ask, i dont think everyone there reads this bit.

 

[Mellow-]

Does it say half life on the door? NO. bugger off.

 

[tris-]

You could of been nice, Mellow-

 

[S-Gray]

Well he could have looked for the Half Life Forum... cant really miss it..

 

[sheridan1595]

no problem

I'll post this on Half life. Just thought it to be more of a general question, that's all.

 

[Deadmanwalking]

I apologize sheridan,

Some ppl just need to keep their hormones in check.

Anyway yeah the Half-Life forum woulb be best

 

[mank!]

Originally posted by Deadmanwalking.
I apologize sheridan,

Some ppl just need to keep their hormones in check.

Anyway yeah the Half-Life forum woulb be best

In comparison to the welcome he could have received, he got off lightly I thought!

 

[tris-]

Originally posted by mank!


In comparison to the welcome he could have received, he got off lightly I thought!

Only because i replyed first before you nasty, nasty men could

 

[bigbb]

Hormones? Not really. There's a warning at the top of this forum for a good reason. People can't present an element of stupidity and not get any flaming reaction, it'd be silly.

Secondly, can you not use American spellings. It really is most irritating.

 

[Shocko]

Originally posted by sheridan1595
Hi, I'm new to this site, as you'll soon find out. I've noticed there are Maps, in a BSP format for most games. We play Half Life on a Local Network. (LAN). How are these files used? Can the Maps (.bsp) be printed out, how are they to be used?
Any info. would help. I did a search and did not see the info.

Firstly, you're not taking the piss? Nm if you aren't...

The "BSP" files, are the maps, as you know. What the actually contain, is a load of information that makes sense to only the game... It tells the game what the map looks like, and wouldn't tell you very much, allthough perhaps "You're not a games programmer". The next thing you need to know, is that allthough the maps for many different games are stored in "BSP" files, the files only make sense to the game that they're intended for, so you wouldn't want to try loading a Q3 map in HL, or vice-versa.

Attempting to print the contents of the BSPs, would give you a load of garbage that would proberbly fill your print-queue up with about 1000pages. I have made this mistake before, however i wasn't attempting to print a binary file, i just passed a binary file through a print-filter and then cat'd it to the printer, and b0rked it up

 

[Mellow-]

The forum is clearly labelled and sectioned off. It's not my fault we have complete idiots roaming in.

 

[~YuckFou~]

There are complaints about not enough players on the servers. I would recommend giving the "new arrivals" a little slack or the servers are likely to remain empty.

sheridan1595
BSP files cannot be printed, they are the map files, the stuff you see when in game. Some servers run custom maps, BWCS2 for example. Lots of maps can be downloaded for your LAN games, you simply put them into your CS maps folder of all the PCs on the lan.

That said you'll get more more info and less flames in the CS forum

(I'm in a good mood tonight)

 

[doh_boy]

Originally posted by sheridan1595
Hi, I'm new to this site, as you'll soon find out. I've noticed there are Maps, in a BSP format for most games. We play Half Life on a Local Network. (LAN). How are these files used? Can the Maps (.bsp) be printed out, how are they to be used?
Any info. would help. I did a search and did not see the info.

Thanks for any help.

CCL

If you need to know/show what the maps are like take screenshots.

ps. or look on the internet for a 'walkthrough' or somesuch for the map.

 

[Will]

Or look in your overview folder, some maps handily provide these.

 

[Mellow-]

Half-Life.

 

[Will]

Originally posted by Mellow-
The forum is clearly labelled and sectioned off. It's not my fault we have complete idiots roaming in.

The irony.

 

[Mellow-]