Compile maps launch your map in quake First of all, when making a quake map, you are describing the architecture that players will run around in and try to kill each other. This is done in a drawing program such as Worldcraft, Qoole, Quark, or Deathmatch Maker. For this tutorial, I will focus on the use of worldcraft for making quake one maps. Basics Quake Map files can be in several formats.
All editors can read and write the .map format.
The first step in making a quake one map, is setting up worldcraft on your machine. Install it and don't neglect to tell worldcraft where your quake one directory is. This is, strictly speaking, an infringement on Id software's copyright. They tolerate it because they want us making maps, but don't expect to sell maps containing Id textures without talking to the people at Id first. Extract textures from quake one pak files.