Custom mappack Capuzzo released for COOP!

It's a great RTCW mission with tons of superb action, Sage. It's definitely one of my favourite RTCW COOP maps .

gold everywhere !!!!

That looks epic, Nate .

Hey Nate map looks awesome and i loved the work on Wolfx too matey.  I am in a similar boat with regard to maps i desperately would love to learn how to remove and replace map entities i have looked at tutorials and they leave me cold if anyone could come up with a beginners guide to map editing that would be awesome there are a few maps we have problems with that i would love to fix.  Any help you can offer would be gratefully received!!

I'm primary interested in city, for dm and goldrush gametype. It's perfect for that.

@dogster
Hex editing map is simple once you understand few fundamentals.  You also have to note that manipulating entities means you're only able to modify or delete stuff that's movable, destroyable etc but you cannot alter the world, world is what it is so you cannot etc remove a bunker.

In a nutshell you follow this rules:
- There can only be same amount of entities or less, not more or map will crash on load time.
- If converting SP to MP you need to add;
-- Spec spawn point (where spectator starts once player connects)
-- Axis/Allied spawns and respawns
-- Any objective you want (flagpole or documents and trigger_flagonly hook under a brush so game ends once docs are in that area).
- Additionally (if you remove enough of default entities) you can also add locations and any models in you want - stuff like trees, weapons, vehicles..
- Once all is added, you naturally need to alter or create a script so game is playable (checkpoint, obj..).

I've wrote a tutorial years ago, about how to convert SP village map in MP version by hex editing it..once you're comfortable enough with it, it takes you up to 30 mins. to convert any map to whatever you want (and is possible that is). I may still have it around, but it's around 30 pages long, wasn't spell checked and was written in one breath so grammar is surely awful. If you wish I can look if if I still have it.

Actually editing entities is ambiguous at best.

As there's no difference if you edit a map by mod (adding gametype and dropping a rule (flag, spawn point..)) or by altering property of the source, in either cases it's the same. But it's debatable yes. I personally don't see a problem if one edits the map in sense to fix what designer done wrong or to suit his own agenda (new gametype etc) as long as one doesn't claim to be the author of it or does anything that would strip original author out of his credits in any way. But I fully understand that some authors don't want no one to meddle with what and how they done it.

As for entities editing, it applies on all rtcw as well as quake3, (probably even jedi and other q3 powered games) and other games. Brushes are hardcoded so you cannot alter static stuff (world in general), but you can easily hook a trigger under existing brush, alter it's behaviour to achieve your outcome. For example in SP village2, you modify SP end game and hook "trigger_flagonly" entity, which will once documents carrier is there, thru script call the game end, in that sense you can hook it almost under any existing brush in the world. I could easily edit any coop map and change where soldier spawns, it wouldn't make any sense since it's already controlled by ents and other scripts but I could, if I would want to.

As for cappuzo. Tbh it's not a rush thing, I only asked for source because it may take a year or more before I even reach the stage I will want to address mapping so by that time you may be long gone and unreachable. I mean, idea of wolfX later on is to replace all assets..that means that all the default maps will be lost, so I'll have to present new alternatives. I could redo default maps but what's the point? I think wolfX should follow it's idea and present new maps and tries to surpass current ones (mp_beach, mp_base..). While it's pretty much an impossible task to surpass something that's a leading factor for decade, but hey, one has to try I guess.

As for mapping it self. To be completely honest, I don't even want to deal with it at all. I rather see that someone else does it..but I only know handful of mappers and most are either uninterested or are doing other things so I don't even approach them. If you have the interest in mapping for wolfX once it comes to it, I'll gladly accept any help..but like I said, that's quite far atm as well as, I don't really want to bug people that have other things to do..thus given task to my self to do it, once it comes to it.

This went completely of course. I wont really address hexing maps much as it's a topic for it self and we already bloated this one so much..But yeah, we completely misunderstood each other. I neither had nor have any plans to hex any map at all.

WolfX will eventually offer new stuff that mappers will be able to utilize (lightning, physics..), so in that sense and spirit of providing non-property assets there wont be any point any more to use outdated maps that don't utilize that new features (once in). Once, and if it comes to that stage my plans are to create new maps that will naturally also utilize new stuff..now if it's from scratch or by using a map as building start doesn't really matter. I just ran your campaign and saw potential in it, thus I asked. But as far as if it's ET or COOP etc, doesn't really matter to me, as by now you probably figure out, that any source map I would use, would need to be modified from start in order to even use new stuff, so lightning, shaders and stuff would in that sense be completely wiped out and only structures and textures would stay. 

But this is really just thinking way ahead..as there's tons of work that needs to be done before it even comes to a stage, where tackling the maps will come in equation. As far as the whole licensing goes..I'm planning to remove all property assets so it can be freely distributed, in that sense it wouldn't and it doesn't make any sense to take any non-gpl'ed or other wise incompatible way of obtaining a map, as that would be just changing the owner and not getting rid of the initial problem - property license.

But yeah, just by looking at what kinda mess we managed to create here, I think it's best that I just stick to building stuff from start on my own or deal with already released map sources and avoid any further misunderstandings and novels.

P.S. Dogster. I found the editing tutorial I wrote..if you need it that is.

Sent.