Show HN: Q3Edit – Edit and play Quake 3 maps in the browser

28•drdator•3h ago

I've been building a level editor for Quake 3 that runs entirely in the browser: Radiant-style layout, brush and patch editing, CSG, terrain sculpting, and entity editing. It opens and saves .map file and you can play the maps you build directly in the browser using a webassembly build of ioquake3.

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bishopdynamics•1h ago

This is awesome! Great work! I love playing around with these older game engines that have source available, its really neat to explore how they work, and fiddle around with it.

If you haven’t already, Fabien’s write ups of the various ID engines are a joy to read: https://fabiensanglard.net/quake3/index.php

Shameless plug: I also like to play around with old game engines: https://github.com/bishopdynamics/Continuum

SaltyAstronaut•1h ago

Very cool! Would love a way to implement and play on the browser as well. Fingers crossed for that one..such a good game and very nostalgic.

carlosjobim•34m ago

Here you go: https://dos.zone/mp/?lobby=q3

oldquakedays•1h ago

back when I was in high school, my friend and I used Quiver [0] to make quake maps on macos - it was very fun. to think that quake networking worked under those old school modem conditions/latency is kind of wild. id3 truly were miraculous developers.

I remember asking someone who worked at my high school for a map of the school and remember thinking it would be fun to recreate the school... in quake... and probably model my least favorite teacher as a monster I could chase...

it's somewhat scary to think back about this - especially since Columbine happened the same year. there was no risk from me (absolutely no way or interest to access guns - we were teenage dweebs in a country with strict gun laws) but thinking back I'm glad I never finished my maps or shared them.

[0] https://www.macintoshrepository.org/6370-quiver-1-2-quake-ed...

phendrenad2•23m ago

Very cool. Are you compiling the maps with q3map2?

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