Importing quake maps into SecondLife

Has anyone tried this?

I've written code to import buildings into secondlife from an arbitrary specification, however the best I can do with quake maps is a pretty prim heavy solution.

Primitives and the quake map specification are not very compatible.

I play Counter-strike all the time. Until I came to SL I really didnt think a lot about map making in CS. But after being in SL, I am always looking at CS maps and disecting how they could be made with the SL tools. I always thought of trying to make a mini scale model of some of those maps, but have never been motivated enough to try. The one thing that stands out in FPS mapping is the texturing, a lot of detail put into that on the better maps.

The old ghetto in Sage (Miroslaw Bukowski) was the closest I have seen in SL that compares to a FPS map. I loved that place and still miss being able to walk around there.

I know some one created team fortes classic in sl, q1 was made up of mostly boxes. So sl can handle it. To do some thing like q3a, sl would ahve to support complex shapes and meshes. Right now it dosen't, plus if you import anty textures from a copy righted game, that draws up legal issues.

with a friend we used to create a perfect replica of de_dust map from CS, we where copying shapes from the valve hammer editor, i even had don a lil distance converter, not sure if i still have it

Quake maps (.MAP files) are your best bet - they contain the least polygons (none have been split yet), and as far as I can remember only convex shapes ('brushes'). Map files are also simply text files with numbers and texture names in, the only major difficulty would be converting the values; I think they specify the plane equations for the brushes rather than the final polygons / shapes.

I implemented .MAP already, unfortunately the problem is that they don't map well into SL primitives.