BSP Factory Published

BSP Factory has been finally published by Binary People. The program will be officially announced by them probably sometime next week, but it is available for purchasing now for only $14.99, and there's a demo version on the website. Check the link on my signature.

Congratulations. Useful addition to Blitz.

Look forward to trying this one! ;)

Been waiting for something like this, so I can use Worldcraft/Hammer compile it into a .BSP (Halflife .BSP) and then use this program to convert it 100% perfect into BB3D format and lightmap it also.

Just so im clear.

Oh and did I miss the anouncement about BP being redone? cus it look well sweet now ;D.

Well, having purchased BSP Factory, I can say that first impressions are good. It works well, nice smooth work flow, and high quality results.

I tried the demo on one of the supplied BSP's .. Now, my PC isn't slow (understatement, with a 3.2ghz) but after half an hour still nothing had happened, so i assumed it hung up on me...

Tracer

hmm that's very strange... anybody else has that problem?

I'd buy it Jedive, but obviously it needs to work on my system :) so if i can help in any way, lemme know.

Tracer

Tracer - when you import a BSP file, you might need to turn the camera to look at it. Right-click in the blue window after you've loaded one in, and mouse the mouse around until you see the level. Use cursor keys to zoom around the map.

Right-click again to 'release' the camera-look.

Then click 'lightmap', put it on Medium and 1024x1024 and sit back and watch.

Dude, when i import a BSP, the whole program hangs, or is working on something that never ends :)

Tracer

Does that only happens when you execute the bsp examples or also when you import a bsp on bsp factory demo itself?

It's only the import into the factory demo. The examples work fine.

I import one of the BSP's that comes with the demo and then it hangs.

Tracer

Try renaming the 'textures' folder to something else and then import the BSP. Loading a BSP without textures takes MUCH less time. But, even loading it with textures, shouldn't take that long. What are your system specs?

P4-3.2ghz
Intel MB
gig of ram
Geforce FX 5900 Ultra
SB Audigy 2
Win XP Pro SP1

Renaming textures folder resulted in the same thing.. hang up.

Tracer

Whoa.. Nice Spec Tracer.. Very nice indeed

Bloody hell, what does that run like? I was thinking of upgrading to that *exact* spec (maybe a 256mb Radeon 9800 instead of the GeforceFX)

Hmm here is a extremely simple map that should not take longer than 1 second to load: http://www.galeon.com/jedive/storage/test.zip

Tell me if it also hangs your computer.

Oh! And here's a pic of the first beta of BSP Factory 1.1, with a Windows native interface:

Jedive, it seems that wherever you have that picture and test BSP, doesn't want to download for me.

On my specs, yeah, it runs VERY nicely :)

Tracer

Tracer - try this mirror.

That one works.

The arttest one and the demo one coming with the BSP Factory demo are the ones that hang up.

Tracer

tracer would you make a small map of your own and see if it also hangs your computer? This is very strange, and it seems you're the only person with such problems.

sure, will do that tonight.

Tracer

Jedive

Whwn I click on the map properties the properties window doesn't display fully, it seems to only display about the top 60 or so pixels, this is on a custom map but works ok on the demos.
Also it would be nice to be able to use subdirectories within the textures folder.

nice job

okee

That's fixed for version 1.1 okee. About the subdir option, I take note of it.