Quake3World

Anybody know offhand of a tool that lets you take a top-down, NOT perspective render of a quake 3 level? Ideally from a .map file, but from a compiled map would be fine, too..

You mean a orthographic view shot right? I "kinda" do it, every time I do my overview screens.

I set the fov to 1, the near value to like 5000 and then I just noclip so far from the level that I can see it like a flat plane.

It ends up like this, it's almost 100% perfect... you can see some small angles if you really look.

http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/3452 ... iewyn7.jpg

Looks pretty orthographic to me
I don't know what the dimensions of that map are, but I guess you'd have to go pretty large to have the ingame 3d shot show too much of the Z-faces.

(getting back to this finally) That's perfect, thx!

edit: Setting the near value to cull 'roofs and ceilings' took some time, but generates good results.

By the way: If your level turns out to be quite large and you would have to press space for like 3 minutes to get far away to see the whole thing, then consider adding "g_speed x" to your console cmds, the x standing for a value up to 75000 (or more, never tried to find out the limit). That way you gonna reach the minimum distance REALLY fast!

Hipshot wrote: I set the fov to 1, the near value to like 5000 and then I just noclip so far from the level that I can see it like a flat plane.

Hi!
Can you tell me what is the command for that "near" value?

Yes, its r_znear