I always wanted to try my hand at creating maps for games, i.e. HL2 or whatnot. I was forced to get FormZ for my education, so I was wondering if I could use this instead of, say, Valve Hammer or Blender, to create maps and export it elsewhere.
Instead of Blender, yes, but not instead of hammer. Hammer is a brush based level making program, whereas formz is a 3d modelling program.
The most you could do is make a level and import it as a prop_static, but the lighting would be weird and it would cause a leak.
Well you could just stuff the entire prop_static into a box in Hammer.
Then you’d have a helluva lot of optimization problems.
Pretty much.
The point: Lern2hammer.
I find Hammer MUCH easier to use than 3D modeling programs anyway.
You couldn’t use the program for sole creation of levels, as mentioned, but you probably could create environmental assets that would be too complicated/detailed to make in Hammer and import them to add to your levels.
I am an architecture student, and I do quite a bit of work in things like Sketchup and Revit. Is there a game editor that I can bring those models into to edit and create walkthroughs??
You can export Sketchup to Blender or Hammer. I wouldn’t recommend the latter though- it’s not too pretty.
Hammer.
The problem is that each room in Hammer will look smaller in-game than in real life, so you’d have to scale up the architecture a bit in order to make it look natural.