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Chameleon

Texture replacement editor for the Quake 3 map format

Features

Chameleon is a standalone GUI-based texture replacement editor written in Python and PyQt. Its main task is replacing a number of textures inside a .map file while applying scale factors and rotation to all affected surfaces. It allows you to:

Replace old-fashioned textures with high resolution ones without loosing the alignment
Choose the target shader/texture from a cached database
Create and export replacement rulesets for later use

Dependencies

Python >= 3.3
PyQt4
Pillow

OS	Dependency names
Arch Linux	python python-pyqt4 python-pillow
Debian	python3 python3-pyqt4 python3-pil

Installation

Manual installation

After installing the dependencies, just run chameleon.py with Python.

Packages

OS	Package
Arch Linux	q3chameleon-git

Usage

Always make a backup of your map! It is recommended that you export the updated map under another name instead of overwriting the old map.

License

Copyright 2013 Unvanquished Development

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

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