quake 3 maps

[rebar]

anyone out there have a workflow for making Quake 3 maps in Maya. Can you give me some hints?
Only way i've come up with is maya>polytrans>3dmax>q3Radiant>Q3. Havent tested this yet... am I going in the right direction?
thanks,
Gustavo

[sloraxe]

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maya>polytrans>3dmax>q3Radiant>Q3.

I don

[rebar]

I havent tried this yet. I'm doing my first map now.
I just started looking into it. Got any tips to get me started?
What's milkshake? Is Q3Radiant the way to go for item setup?
Whats your workflow from maya to game?
Well, you get the point, I need some help.
G

[pennywise]

I found that using radiant is the best way to go to build most of the level. Maya is good for making and kind of detail models that you might want to put into your map. As far as I know there is no way to export a maya file to an MD3 for quake, so you have to go from maya obj into milkshape then to MD3.

www.quake3world.com has some great forums and the people are very helpful. The guys from id are on that one alot also

[rhonedog]

http://www.quakerally.com/files/md3export.shtml > http://www.quakerally.com/files/md3export.shtml

What can i say, its an exporter From Maya into quake3. Be prepared for a struggle and KNOW your game stuff. A guy here I work with has gotten this plugin to work for character models, so Im sure it can help you with maps.

AS i said though, its a hard system, but WAY better than exporting to milkshape then out as md3. Best of luck and please email me if you do get a map or 2 imported into the game. I'de love to hear about any snags you hit.

Mike R

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[pennywise]

That is very cool, I have been looking for that for awhile. I had no clue it was out there. I probably will not use it for maps, but it will make adding map models into quake alot better I hope.

Thanks

[rebar]

thanks pennywise and rhonedog for all the info.
I'll be trying different workflows over the next couple of weeks and I'll keep you posted on any results.
thanks again,
Gustavo