Importing Maps/Models from Blender possible?

[MorbusKobold]

I wonder if there is a way to import Blender Models or make Maps within Blender as i find it easier to make 3d Stuff there.

[Jessica]

There is no built-in way for J.A.C.K. to turn a 3D model into a map file, however you may want to look at these:

Using Blender to make a brush-based map for Quake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymaQ6u2R8dQ
It's a very long video, but it does show the full process of creating a Quake map in Blender. Even if you're not using Quake specifically, you'd export to the same format and be bound by the same rules.

The method used in this video was exporting to OBJ and then using https://bitbucket.org/khreathor/obj-2-map to convert it into a map. This map file can be compiled or loaded into J.A.C.K./other editors.

See some of the comments on that video, some of the replies might be useful.


.map exporter for Blender
https://github.com/c-d-a/io_export_qmap
I think this is based on the first link's method, but skips the step of having to go to OBJ first.
This would let you export a map file straight from Blender.

Note that you need to be careful of what you do in Blender. I'm not sure if the exporter handles any of these cases, but I'm pretty sure that you can't have missing faces or concave shapes. Everything must be convex.