Quake Map Format

The Quake .map Format is a plain text file which contains definitions of brushes and entities to be used by QBSP and it's related compiling tools to create a .bsp file used by Quake as levels. They are generally created by level editing software.

Structure

{
 entity
 {
  brush (optional)
 }
}

Brush definition

( 128 0 0 ) ( 128 1 0 ) ( 128 0 1 ) GROUND1_6 0 0 0 1.0 1.0

Entity definition

{
 "classname" "light"
 "origin" "0 128 64"
 "light" "255"
}

A simple map

{
 "sounds" "1"
 "classname" "worldspawn"
 "wad" "/gfx/base.wad"
 "worldtype" "0"
 {
  ( 128 0 0 ) ( 128 1 0 ) ( 128 0 1 ) GROUND1_6 0 0 0 1.0 1.0
  ( 256 0 0 ) ( 256 0 1 ) ( 256 1 0 ) GROUND1_6 0 0 0 1.0 1.0
  ( 0 128 0 ) ( 0 128 1 ) ( 1 128 0 ) GROUND1_6 0 0 0 1.0 1.0
  ( 0 384 0 ) ( 1 384 0 ) ( 0 384 1 ) GROUND1_6 0 0 0 1.0 1.0
  ( 0 0 64 ) ( 1 0 64 ) ( 0 1 64 ) GROUND1_6 0 0 0 1.0 1.0
  ( 0 0 128 ) ( 0 1 128 ) ( 1 0 128 ) GROUND1_6 0 0 0 1.0 1.0
 }
}
{
 "classname" "info_player_start"
 "origin" "256 384 160"
}