ENTITIES (file format)

The information on this page is specific to Enemy Territory: Quake Wars .

Overview

Read while loading the level, contains map entity dictionary for each entity in ASCII text. Similar to the MAP format, minus the brush and patch definitions.

Map Format Syntax

Generally, ENTITIESs consist of entities.

Comments

The ENTITIES file format supports in-line comments.

To start a comment, place two forward slashes. ( ‘//’ ) Everything behind these markers is ignored.

The first non-empty/non-comment line contains the header, which currently consists of nothing more than the version.

For Enemy Territory, the header is:

Version 1

Entities

An entity definition starts by a curly open brace, ( ‘{’ ) and runs on till a matching curly closing brace is found. ( ‘}’ )

The next lines contain the entity’s key/value pairs. First comes the name, then the value. Both are enclosed in double quotes, with a space in between.

After those keys and values, one or more brush definitions may follow.

Note: An entity should at least have a “spawnclass” key, otherwise unpredictable behaviour might occur.

Note: The first entity should have a “spawnclass” key with value “worldspawn”. There can only be one entity with this spawnclass in a whole ENTITIES file.