BSPX

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BSPX is a standard for adding new lumps to id Tech 2, id Tech 3 and GoldSrc BSP files, which are used to add additional features to be used by source ports or custom renderers without breaking vanilla compatibility. As BSPX lumps are placed at the end of the BSP file, they are not loaded by vanilla engines, so a BSP with BSPX lumps is backwards compatible.

Structure

typedef struct {
	char lumpname[24]; // up to 23 chars, zero-padded
	int fileofs;  // from file start
	int filelen;
} bspx_lump_t;
typedef struct {
	char id[4];  // 'BSPX'
	int numlumps;
	bspx_lump_t lumps[1];
} bspx_header_t;

Lumps

Todo: other lumps; see FTE and Ericw-tools source codes

Lump name	Use case	Notes
DECOUPLED_LM	"Decouple" lightmap scale and UVs from texels	Used by Quake II remaster; compile with ericw-tools using _world_units_per_luxel KV in worldspawn or -world_units_per_luxel # in QBSP.
LIGHTING_E5BGR9	HDR lightmaps	Functions similarly to the RGBE8 lightmaps in Source, but with an additional bit of precision per color instead of having the exponent be 8 bits.

External links

• BSPX spec in repo