Module to parse Quake 1 .MAP

LeBoogle · December 30, 2021, 3:30am

Howdy,

This is a module to parse Quake 1 .MAP files, for those who don’t know what Quake is, I’d recommend searching it.

I wrote this module because I was bored, it will probably never serve a purpose to anyone, but it might be interesting to look at anyway.

If someone smarter than me was to use it to actually generate maps, that would be pretty cool.

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/TheBoogle/6defaf8511cc620c0f563908a608ca25

ExampleMap.lua

return [[
{
"spawnflags" "0"
"classname" "worldspawn"
{
( 256 64 16 ) ( 256 64 0 ) ( 256 0 16 ) mmetal1_2 0 0 0 1 1
( 0 0 0 ) ( 0 64 0 ) ( 0 0 16 ) mmetal1_2 0 0 0 1 1
( 64 256 16 ) ( 0 256 16 ) ( 64 256 0 ) mmetal1_2 0 0 0 1 1
( 0 0 0 ) ( 0 0 16 ) ( 64 0 0 ) mmetal1_2 0 0 0 1 1
( 64 64 0 ) ( 64 0 0 ) ( 0 64 0 ) mmetal1_2 0 0 0 1 1

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ParseMap.lua

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-- ParseMap.lua
-- Written by: LeBoogle (Boogle#4509)
-- 12/29/21

-- Module/Function to parse Quake .MAP files
-- This may have issues, not sure entirely. It seemed to do well with E1M1 from Quake 1 though.

-- Example Usage
-- require(ParseMap.lua)(YourMapData)

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I’m not 100% sure this is accurate, and it may be missing important things. I based this purely off of the Quake wiki’s information.

Anyway, enjoy.