Hi all, fellow mapping enthusiast here

Hi all,

just wanted to say "hi", I am super new to Xonotic and want to build my own maps for the game.
I have quite some mapping experience (built tons of maps for counterstrike source) and also spent quite some time during the last 8 years doing gamedevelopment using the Godot game engine.
Lately I just wanted to get back to "simple" mapping without all the hassle of programming the actual game and stumbled over Xonotic. The game looks and feels great and I wanted to give it a try

Currently still struggling a bit with setup to get everything going, but am hoping to get my issues resolved with the help of the community here!
There doesn't seem to be a lot of activity here, but it also doesn't seem to be super dead!

Cheers to all

Hello and welcome!

Great to see a new mapper among us

Feel free to check out the mapping wiki: https://gitlab.com/xonotic/xonotic/-/wikis/home#mapping
It’s not quite complete yet, but it covers the setup, whether you’re using NetRadiant or NetRadiant-custom (which is a popular fork of the former).

If you’re using the pre-compiled version of NetRadiant available at https://netradiant.gitlab.io/, I’d also advise you to update the Xonotic gamepack, as this version is now 4 years old.
The latest pre-compiled version of NetRadiant-custom should already include the latest Xonotic gamepack.

Hi,

thanks for the welcome! Regardig the gamepack - I am still a bit unaware of this concept..
I downloaded it and it mainly seems to contain updated entity definitions? And I would only overwrite those files that I already have in my "netradiant_1.5_xonotic/gamepacks/xonotic.game" drive?

But it does not contain any new textures etc?

Hi,

Yes, the gamepack consists mainly of entity definitions (but not only). Some of these were problematic and have been fixed in the updated gamepack. Other entities definitions were added post-0.8.6 and will only be relevant if you use Xonotic autobuild (nightly Xonotic builds).

The textures are located in the game directory (in data/xonotic-<timestamp>-maps.pk3), not in the gamepack.