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Chapter 1 ✦ gmax — The Possibilities

You can find all the excruciating details on the Tempest game pack in Chapter 23,

“Making Worlds with Tempest for Quake III Arena.”

Figure 1-1: Tempest has its own toolbar full of commands that are unique to

building Quake levels.

The Tempest game pack is still available for download at the Discreet site,

www.discreet.com/products/gmax.

If you look closely at Tempest, you’ll see the rough edges. Many Quake content cre-

ators use other tools to create their nightmares, but Tempest is still extremely use-

ful as a first look at gmax and provides a quick and easy way to get your feet wet.

Flight Simulator 2002 Professional Edition

When Microsoft released Flight Simulator 2002 Professional, it was heralded in the

burgeoning gmax community as the first gmax-compatible game. Flight Simulator

users were excited about the possibilities that gmax offered, but many of them ran

into a steep learning curve that sent them running back to their standby content

creation tools.

In the Flight Simulator arsenal of tools, gmax is just one of many unique SDKs that

enable customization. The integration with gmax consisted simply of an export fea-

ture that converted the gmax file into a format that Flight Simulator could use.

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