BSPtoEnts tool

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7. June 2010 - 19:51
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Hi,

Introduction wrote:

Here is a small tool to extract .ents files from .bsp files licensed as freeware.
This tool is made for advanced users wishing to contribute in excessiveplus development by providing modified ents files.

BspToEnts Description wrote:


License : FreeWare
Author : Aliminium
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Technology : Java 1.6 and higher
Date : 07/06/2010
Version : 1.0

Features wrote:


Version 1.0 :
Arrow New: Extracts .ents file from a .bsp file into a new created "generated_ents" sub-folder from parent folder.

Arrow New : Extracts .ents files from all .bsp files contained in a folder into a new created "generated_ents" sub-folder.

Install notes wrote:

You need before using BSPToEnts to install java runtime environnement 1.6 or higher ( http://www.java.com/download ).

Then extract the zip anywhere you had like.

Running notes wrote:

As java is platform free, it can be run in any Operating System.

On windows execute genEnts.bat after editing it.

On command line (linux or windows or any system having java 1.6), use :

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java -jar BSPtoEnts.jar bspFilePath [author]
OR
java -jar BSPtoEnts.jar bspFolderPath [author]
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where bspFilePath is a bsp file path
and bspFolderPath is a folder containing bsp files

On other platforms including mac, you must know how to run more than me Tongue

Conclusion wrote:

Use this tool to create ents file from bsp file.

I personnally use it to extract ents from all modified baseq3 maps I did with a simple way.

Enjoy.

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7. June 2010 - 21:59
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Re: BSPtoEnts tool

good job m8 Happy


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7. June 2010 - 22:15
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Re: BSPtoEnts tool

I suppose I won't use it ever propably xD but thx, for sure will be usefull for others.

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24. January 2012 - 5:08
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Re: BSPtoEnts tool

I think the attached file was purged, there's no longer any link. Could someone repost this tool please?

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24. January 2012 - 9:53
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Re: BSPtoEnts tool

try to find it and him at http://www.fun-plus.net/

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24. January 2012 - 9:56
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Re: BSPtoEnts tool

@GrosBedo go here http://www.fun-plus.net/tools/ and u will find it Winking

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24. January 2012 - 13:46
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Re: BSPtoEnts tool

The entities are in readable text format in the bsp file.
You can open it using any text editor which has search & copy/paste capabilities.

1. open the bsp file
2. search "worldspawn" to find the worldspawn entitity
3. after the worldspawn entity, copy all the readable text. (it has to end with "}"
4. paste it to another file and save it with .ents extension

the worldspawn entity looks like this:

{
"classname" "worldspawn"
...
}

But ofc, its easier just to use Ali's tool which does this automatically, find it on the fun+ website
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24. January 2012 - 13:56
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Re: BSPtoEnts tool
epsiplayer wrote:

The entities are in readable text format in the bsp file.
You can open it using any text editor which has search & copy/paste capabilities.

1. open the bsp file
2. search "worldspawn" to find the worldspawn entitity
3. after the worldspawn entity, copy all the readable text. (it has to end with "}"
4. paste it to another file and save it with .ents extension

the worldspawn entity looks like this:

{
"classname" "worldspawn"
...
}

But ofc, its easier just to use Ali's tool which does this automatically, find it on the fun+ website
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go here : http://www.fun-plus.net/tools/tool/bsptoents/ and you will see nothing
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24. January 2012 - 19:26
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Re: BSPtoEnts tool

I use Qfrag 2.2 with Andrew "D!ABLO" Ryder 's editor. You can visually see all entities in a map. You just pick one and change it or delete it. You can add spawn points or move them around. When your done save it. It will create a cfg file with all the entities. Just rename it to a .ent file and your good to go. This is a very useful tool to see x,y,z coordinates of entities in any map.

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22. November 2012 - 10:26
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I prefer not to spoil my OS with such self-made programs. I use old well-known q3map2 (to convert a *.bsp file to a *.map file) and Q3Radiant (to edit a map if I can't use Notepad for such purposes - for example, if I don't know the strict position of an entity).

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