Reuse old maps

Qwijybo

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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?
 

Kube

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To be completely honest, old maps, without some serious revisions, really don't work in TF2. I know someone remade some CS map for TF2 a little while back, but that required some major layout changes and polishing.

Don't be afraid of pushing out an Alpha of a map you don't feel has a complete vision behind it, iteration makes up the large majority of the creative process. Many of today's most popular maps had quite unrecognizable beginnings.
 

Qwijybo

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I was thinking that old DoD maps might be fun to play with MvM... the scene is there... so to speak..
A devistaed area with craters and so on... but those maps might be hard for the bots
 

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Qwijybo

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But besides that... there should not be any problem with converting DoD maps to TF2_MvM?
No legal thingys or stuff like that...
As stated before, I'm not interested in calming being the creator of the map but just the converter.
 
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