For map making you might be interested in Qodot. It's a plugin that let's you use Trenchbroom as your level editor, which while nowhere near as powerful as Blender, is super easy and straightforward to use. It's also quite similar to Hammer which Fistful of Frags definitely used.

[–] Ti_Ka@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I love fistful of frags.

Ayy same, kinda XD. I loved it for a long time but the updates (for a long time now) are just really odd and I feel like the game has massive potential that it just keeps not tapping into properly. Nothing else like it really exists, the closest might be Hunt: Showdown but that is also a Extraction Shooter/Battle Royal so still really different.

For map making you might be interested in Qodot.

Ive seen it before but while it is probably easier im not sure if its a good idea. Fistful of Frags is horrendously outdated for the most part so i at least a bit want to try to modernise it. And going from blocky HL2 style maps with hammer to even blockier Quake style maps with Trenchbroom feels like a downgrade lmao. (But to be fair i haven tried it yet so i might be wrong there).

I think ill try with blender for now. E.g. enabling snapping and quad view gets blender closer to hammer in feeling already (at least from what i remember from using hammer a bit forever ago). Otherwise i hope i can make it somewhat usable using import flags on blender objects and mayb having to write a tool script in godot to replace specially named empties form blender with instances of gameplay related scenes or sth.

[–] ChildEater@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ayy same, kinda XD. I loved it for a long time but the updates (for a long time now) are just really odd and I feel like the game has massive potential that it just keeps not tapping into properly. Nothing else like it really exists

I havent played in years so if they added some weird stuff I have no idea about it.

going from blocky HL2 style maps with hammer to even blockier Quake style maps with Trenchbroom feels like a downgrade lmao. (But to be fair i haven tried it yet so i might be wrong there).

As a retro shooter fanboy this is heresy.

mayb having to write a tool script in godot to replace specially named empties form blender with instances of gameplay related scenes or sth.

Why did I never think of that. My level designer is gonna be so excited if I ever remember to write something like that myself.

[–] Ti_Ka@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

mayb having to write a tool script in godot to replace specially named empties form blender with instances of gameplay related scenes or sth.

Why did I never think of that. My level designer is gonna be so excited if I ever remember to write something like that myself.

I think this even has some direct support from Godot to automate it. The EditorScenePostImport class is supposed to be used for stuff like this i believe but im not entirely sure (i haven't tried or had to try anything like this yet never mind automate it, i just found this while looking through the documentation on 3D scene importing).