It just dawned on me just now.

Current answer is no.

I strongly oppose this. One of the reasons we're developing for Hexen and not for Hexen II or Heretic II is because creating a map with the DOOM engine is a lot easier than doing it with a genuine 3D editor. It might be just me, but I've done some cool (hey other ppl said that!) maps for Heretic / Hexen and my only attempt to make a Hexen II map some years ago resulted in frustration and giving up. Also, I always hated that junk engine Carmack calls "leading edge" (Quake I-III, most probably the new DOOM engine as well)... while in Jedi Knight or Unreal I could enjoy really large-scale environments, in the Quakes you're always confined to a corridor or a small room and all you see is walls, walls and walls. Like walking in a tomb. I want real outdoor environments and that's where the ages-old DOOM engine has an edge over anything Carmack coded since. I don't want to lose this capability.

That's why you keep it backwards compatible.   That way you don't HAVE to use the quake style maps though if you need it for a certain area you got it to fall back on.  <br><br>You are outside use the doom map.  Walk around in an outdoors area in the older faster format which would be much simpler to design.<br><br>Then you step into lets say a cave it would switch over your map to a bsp 3d map.<br><br>And yes it is tougher to design in 3 dimensions though you can do a whole lot more as well.  And all those games lacked one the gameplay doom had.<br><br>Basically what I'm saying is we WON'T loose that it will stay just have the engine support 2  seperate map format types.<br><br>It could possibly make this the most flexible doom port availible without a question.

Hmmm... if it would be done in a way that you can import BSP maps from other games (like Hexen II and maybe even Heretic II), then it'd be interesting, as we're planning a Hexen multiplayer mod where we'd rebuild Hexen II (and possibly Heretic II) maps in Vavoom.

Well, from rendering perspective adding support for quake bsp models shouldn't be that hard. The problem may be with implementing physics. But it's an interesting idea and BTW I also had this idea. So who knows, maybe after year there will be support for quake bsp models.