Dear fellow mappers
I'm not new to making maps but have not created any successful maps besides a single DoD gg map called PinkStar. (don't think it exists any more) But I do feal confident with using the Hammer editor and creating maps. The problem I have is getting (?) a good idea of a map. You know, layout and settings and so on....
So to battle my urge of publish a map with my lack f imagination I was thinking of converting old maps to tf2.
Any map that could be edited by Hammer will do. Either DoD, CS or TF... maybe other maps to?
I will ofcourse not take credit being the creator of the map but rather the converter. I do respect those who create maps. But do I need any written permissions from the devs of say DoD if I want to reuse one of thair maps?
I also understand that there might be problems with materials used in DoD but not TF2 but I could replace them relative easy.. (ofcourse I have to replace and fix the game spawns and other logic's)
But the first question is, is it acceptable and legally possible to convert old maps to TF2?
I'm not new to making maps but have not created any successful maps besides a single DoD gg map called PinkStar. (don't think it exists any more) But I do feal confident with using the Hammer editor and creating maps. The problem I have is getting (?) a good idea of a map. You know, layout and settings and so on....
So to battle my urge of publish a map with my lack f imagination I was thinking of converting old maps to tf2.
Any map that could be edited by Hammer will do. Either DoD, CS or TF... maybe other maps to?
I will ofcourse not take credit being the creator of the map but rather the converter. I do respect those who create maps. But do I need any written permissions from the devs of say DoD if I want to reuse one of thair maps?
I also understand that there might be problems with materials used in DoD but not TF2 but I could replace them relative easy.. (ofcourse I have to replace and fix the game spawns and other logic's)
But the first question is, is it acceptable and legally possible to convert old maps to TF2?