From: "jaimi" <jaimi@alt.net>
To: <ml@qoole.com>
Reply-To: ml@qoole.com
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 07:59:15 -0600
Subject: Re: Doors and PAK files

Quake 2 bsp's do not contain the textures.

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Boardman <C.H.Boardman@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
To: ml@qoole.com <ml@qoole.com>
Date: Tuesday, February 24, 1998 6:37 AM
Subject: Re: Doors and PAK files


>Hiya,
>
>> Some people just use the default textures with Q1/Q2 and distribute their
>> levels as just a .bsp file.
>> Others have custom textures, or several levels, and have to distribute it
as
>> a pak.
>
>Multiple levels have can go in a pak, sure, but just cos you got new
>textures in a level, it doesn't mean you have to release it as a pak.
>Correct me if I am wrong, but .bsp files contain all the information
>that you need to run the level independent of a pak file, which includes
>textures (inside the .bsp).
>
>regards,
>
>Moon.
>
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