Red Faction Modding

This will serve as a landing page for all resources related to Red Faction (1) editing.

External Links

Community

• Red Faction Community Discord - Active Red Faction series community with #map-mod-development channel for community development discussion

Downloads

• FactionFiles.com - Custom maps, mods, tools, developer resources
• RedFactionView.net - Custom maps, mods, tools, developer resources

Documentation

RED Level Editor

Red Faction's level editor is RED.

• RED User Guide
  • RED Hotkey Reference
  • RED Menus
  • RED Preferences
  • Brush Mode
    • RED Brushes
  • Face Mode
  • Vertex Mode
  • Texture Mode
  • Object Mode
    • RED Objects
    • RED Event List
  • Group Mode
    • RED Groups
• RF1 Engine and Level Editor Limits
• RF1 Materials
• RED Portals and Rooms

Red Faction File Formats

• Table (.tbl)
• Volition Bitmap (.vbm)
• Volition Packfile (.vpp)
• Red Faction Level (.rfl)

Red Faction Tools

• Official RF Toolkit
  • CCrunch
  • MakeVBM
  • FontTool2
  • MVFReduce
  • 3ds Max Plugins
• Descent Manager Toolkit
  • VPP Builder
  • VPP Viewer
  • VBM Viewer
  • TBL Viewer
  • RF Launch
• rafalh RF Tools
  • V3D Tool
  • MakeVBM (Enhanced)
  • VBM Exporter
  • VF Exporter
  • VPP Exporter

Tutorials

Beginner

• Hello Room
• Beginner Mapping (Daedalus)
• Lighting, Water, and Vertex Editing
• Basic Moving Doors (Video)
• Brush Mode Operators (Video)
• Basic Portals

Brushwork, Environments, and Texturing

• Outside Areas, Fog, Skyboxes (Video)
• Geometry Bending and Twisting (Video)
• Subtractive Geometry and Layering - Start/End of Time (Video)
• Importing Custom Textures (Video)
• Importing Heightmap Terrain (Video)
• Lightmap Smoothing Groups

AI and Entities

• Basic AI Attack and Patrol

Events and Scripting

• Creating Security Monitors
• Realistic Explosions
• Modifying Gravity (Video)
• Toggling Emitters

Lighting

• Fake Volumetric Lighting via Particle Emitters

Multiplayer Specific

• Basic Multiplayer Map
• Dynamic Multiplayer Spawn Points
• Custom Static Meshes in Multiplayer Maps (Video)

Miscellaneous

• Basic Decals
• Basic Liquids
• Basic Skyboxes
• Adding a Moon to a Skybox
• Distributing User Made Levels

Mod Development

• Using Blender for Red Faction Static Meshes (Video)
• Static Meshes from 3ds Max (Video)
• First Person Weapon Models and Animations from 3ds Max (Video)
• Beginner's Guide to Table Editing