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EWTOOLS-BSPINFO(1) ericw-tools EWTOOLS-BSPINFO(1)

NAME

ewtools-bspinfo - print basic information about a Quake BSP file

bspinfo - print basic information about a Quake BSP file

SYNOPSIS

bspinfo BSPFILE [BSPFILES]

DESCRIPTION

bspinfo will print various info about each .bsp file:

  • BSP type
  • list of BSP lumps, the number of objects, and the total size in bytes
  • list of BSPX lumps and their sizes in bytes

For the purpose of previewing lightmaps in Blender, it will also pack the lightmaps into an atlas and output the following:

  • mapname.bsp.geometry.obj containing the BSP faces plus the lightmap UV's
  • mapname.bsp.lm_0.png, mapname.bsp.lm_1.png, etc., containing a lightmap atlas per used style number

For debugging, the bsp is also converted into a JSON representation and written to mapname.bsp.json.

AUTHOR

Kevin Shanahan (aka Tyrann) - <http://disenchant.net>
Eric Wasylishen
Based on source provided by id Software

REPORTING BUGS

Please post bug reports at
<https://github.com/ericwa/ericw-tools/issues>.
Improvements to the documentation are welcome and encouraged.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2017 Eric Wasylishen
Copyright (C) 2013 Kevin Shanahan
Copyright (C) 1997 id Software
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later
<<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl2.html>>.

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

July 29, 2026