Placeholder .MAP resources

#1 Most HL levels can be converted fairly easily. There are a few prefab sites still up, with levels available for anyones use. Many require only credit for legal use, even commercially. Most of the textures used however, are copyrighted, so if you plan to keep them, be sure you retexture all the levels.

The conversion method I use:
Open the .map in quark, HL mode. (Use WC to convert rmf to map if needed). Click on 'select entities only' and grab the whole map. Click on new group, and this should place all entity bound brushes into their own group, no longer bound as an entity. This way, you can keep the doors, windows and other func_wall stuff. Move that new group out of the way, and then select/delete all the rest of the entities. This should remove all those now empty func_walls, lights (not the same as torque uses), player_starts, etc.
Resave it, close it, and switch quark to Torque mode. You should now be able to open the map as a torque map. Retexture if needed, readd any lights using proper torque lights, and export. It should work fine now.

#2 Thanks Erik! I can't wait to try that tonight!