Hi everyone !

I tried to import a Quake Live map in GtK Radiant or to play it with Q3. I hit to many problems, and now some aren't resolved, I don't know why so I decided to request some help by posting here.

I took the exemple of the map trinity from Quake Live. Here are the following steps I did :

1 - Finding the Quake Live maps
"C:\Users\-\AppData\LocalLow\id Software\quakelive\baseq3\trinity.pk3"

When I tried to extract it, to open it with an extractor or to load it in Q3, it didn't work.
So I took this application

2 - Quake Live Decembler
<a href="http://paul.fg.free.fr/quakelivedecembler.zip" class="bb-url">http://paul.fg.free.fr/quakelivedecembler.zip</a>

And make the batch file to run it

[quakelivedecembler.bat]
quakelivedec trinity.pk3 trinity.zip

I have now the trinity.pk3 file from Quake Live and a trinity.zip file. When I try to rename it into a trinity.pk3 to load it in Q3, it still doesn't work. I decide to extract it to load it in GtK Radiant at least.
I found a .bsp and with my last post, don't take it as a problem. I make a .bsp decompiler :

3 - [bspdecompiler.bat]

set Q3MAP_PATH="D:\Games\Quake 3 Arena\GtK Radiant\q3map2.exe"
set Q3_PATH="D:\Games\Quake 3 Arena\"
set MAP_PATH="D:\Games\Quake 3 Arena\baseq3\trinity\maps\trinity.bsp"
set GEN_OPTIONS=-fs_basepath D:\Games\Quake 3 Arena\GtK Radiant -game q3
rem
%Q3MAP_PATH% -convert -format map 
%GEN_OPTIONS% -v %MAP_PATH%
pause 

Now I hit a big problem

bsp has wrong version number 47 should be 46

Some people on the web say this kind of code for decompiling don't work good and advise this form

4 - [bspdecompiler2.bat]
"D:\Games\Quake 3 Arena\GtK Radiant\q3map2.exe" -game q3 "D:\Games\Quake 3 Arena\baseq3\trinity\maps\trinity.bsp" rem -convert -format map -v"

Or something like that, didn't remember well but remember it didn't work better. Always having this error

bsp has wrong version number 47 should be 46

I searched a while on the web and found this

5 - Unofficial Q3 BSP Format
http://www.misofruit.co.kr/seojewoo/programming/opengl/Quake3Format.htm

So I decided to manually put the .bsp "version 47" file to a .bsp "version 46" file. I installed a free Hexa Editor and changed the IBSP value from 47 to 46 (2E to 2E).

6 - Changing IBSP47 to IBSP46
http://imageshack.us/f/811/bspg.png

Now I can decompile it with the decompiler.bat, it works! And I can load it in GtK Radiant. But one problem persists. With my new trinity_converted.map file, I put into his folder "/maps/" and build a Q3 .pk3 (.zip -> rename it to .pk3).

Problems :
- I have a real Q3 .pk3 now (no?), but I can't load it in Q3.
- When I load the trinity_converted.map with GtK Radiant, almost all textures don't be loaded and cause the impossiblity to make a new .bsp file with GtK Radiant.

Solution ?
- I don't know what to do to going forward now

Thanks for helping, it mays be useful.