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 Re: BSPViewer - cannot load map
Posted by TheSchwartz on Tue Jan 18th at 12:25pm 2005

To save time developing maps I've downloaded the BSPViewer 1.4.0 by Ryan Gregg. But when trying to load a map it comes up with a dialogue saying:

Error loading: mapname

Does anybody know how to use/ set this utility up for HL2?

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 Re: BSPViewer - cannot load map
Posted by Leperous on Tue Jan 18th at 1:03pm 2005

Is this a BSP viewer for HL2, or HL1?



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Posted by TheSchwartz on Tue Jan 18th at 1:05pm 2005

I beleive it should be able to view hl2 bsp files. And if it can be used for viewing loading maps faster thna hl2 some time could be used on more editing... [addsig]



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Posted by omnix32 on Tue Jan 18th at 4:26pm 2005

Why not just decompile the maps you want to look at. That way you can move around and see how things were done in hammer.
I don't know of any bsp view that works for HL2, CS or HL2DM.

IF you found one you could have provided a link so that we could test it and figure it out together.

link to decompiling CS,HL2, and HL2DM .bsp's.

note to use this you will need gcfscape
http://articles.thewavelength.net/657/

JRE 5.0 Update 1
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp
(just the JRE 5.0 not the beans or dev kite)


and the decompiler for HL2
http://www.geocities.com/cofrdrbob/index.html




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 Re: BSPViewer - cannot load map
Posted by Rof on Tue Jan 18th at 4:29pm 2005

According to the author, who should know, BSPviewer is for HL1 maps only.

See the post by Nem, here .
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Posted by omegaslayer on Tue Jan 18th at 11:19pm 2005

HL2 bsps are differently formatted than the HL1 bsps, its like trying to load a halo .map in Hammer, it just doesnt work.
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 Re: BSPViewer - cannot load map
Posted by TheSchwartz on Tue Jan 18th at 11:35pm 2005

Thanx for the info, I just thought I could save some time with this viewer but ok it's only for HL1. If any of you guys know about a fast viewer please let me know... [addsig]




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