Converting Problems ( .obj / .3ds -> to -> .bsp or .map )

[Rust7]

Hey Fellas' !
It's been a while.

I re-discovered an old project of mine, and I ran into deadends multiple times.
I though it will be a good time to ask any hardcore quakers/defragers/mappers around here, maybe there is a solution to my problem, which is the following:

I have 3 "levels", in .obj and in .3ds format ( don't ask reason, its a long story )

I want to use these in GTKRadiant, but since it cannot load or read these formats, they should be converted somehow into .map or at least into .bsp ( which then can be converted to .map - as far as I know )

Do any of you know a way to do this somehow?

I'am interested in any method.
( They do not load with misc_model, they quite large also )

Would be better in .bsp at least.

Thanks!

[sjuk]

Glad to see you, rusty treasure ! )
Can you attach the plan of your defrag maps' universe, which you drew by hand years ago? Or remind in which of your .pk3s it was placed in /textures folder?
Areas of verdant dephts were not much presented in your released maps yet.
And also would like to see a map from you made in chtonic plumy violet environment (as Shao Kahn's Outworld, presented in 1990s' MortalKombat: Conquest tv series)

[Rust7]

Glad to see you, rusty treasure ! )
Can you attach the plan of your defrag maps' universe, which you drew by hand years ago? Or remind in which of your .pk3s it was placed in /textures folder?
Areas of verdant dephts were not much presented in your released maps yet.
And also would like to see a map from you made in chtonic plumy violet environment (as Shao Kahn's Outworld, presented in 1990s' MortalKombat: Conquest tv series)

It's on r7-tornal, the latest version of it, called "Rust Mountains".

[Le another black niger]

method: using radiant, which can load both these formats

[GlueDrinker]

I have 3 "levels", in .obj and in .3ds format ( don't ask reason, its a long story )

I want to use these in GTKRadiant, but since it cannot load or read these formats, they should be converted somehow into .map or at least into .bsp ( which then can be converted to .map - as far as I know )

Do any of you know a way to do this somehow?

As I told you, what you're asking for cannot be done: once the brushes are turned into triangles, there's no way to go back. A tree cannot be turned back into a seed and eggs cannot be uncooked.

What you _can_ do is take the .map files I sent you 2.5 years ago and use them as reference to rebuild those maps again. Import them and draw new brushes aligned with the old geometry. As you proceed, delete the old converted/scrambled brushes.

[Rust7]

method: using radiant, which can load both these formats

Nothing loads in, as I import them.

As I told you, what you're asking for cannot be done: once the brushes are turned into triangles, there's no way to go back. A tree cannot be turned back into a seed and eggs cannot be uncooked.

What you _can_ do is take the .map files I sent you 2.5 years ago and use them as reference to rebuild those maps again. Import them and draw new brushes aligned with the old geometry. As you proceed, delete the old converted/scrambled brushes.

I forgot about this, but okay. By the way, I don't have those .map-s anymore, backtracking these inside my e-mail was also a failure, probably deleted accidently.

[Le another black niger]

Nothing loads in, as I import them.

Can't be true, send the models to try.

cannot be done

It can, even with texture alignments: compile with autoclip, decompile, wrap merge brushes back.

[GlueDrinker]

I forgot about this, but okay. By the way, I don't have those .map-s anymore, backtracking these inside my e-mail was also a failure, probably deleted accidently.

I just sent you those files again.

cannot be done

It can, even with texture alignments: compile with autoclip, decompile, wrap merge brushes back.

Well, try then. Even if this method succeeds, topology is probably going to be a mess as the original brush structure is lost. The 'clean' way is to rebuild the maps.

[Rust7]

I forgot about this, but okay. By the way, I don't have those .map-s anymore, backtracking these inside my e-mail was also a failure, probably deleted accidently.

I just sent you those files again.

cannot be done

It can, even with texture alignments: compile with autoclip, decompile, wrap merge brushes back.

Well, try then. Even if this method succeeds, topology is probably going to be a mess as the original brush structure is lost. The 'clean' way is to rebuild the maps.

Thanks, I'll take a look at them, as soon as I can

The thing is, nothing "appears" after a massive loading time.

[Le another black niger]

both 3ds and obj work, models are not fairly large

1.png

compiled, decompiled

2.png

selected something

3.png

merged

4.png

snapped

5.png

i suspect that this would be the fastest way to go