The TrenchBroom Level Editor for Quake

[SleepwalkR]

Today I am releasing TrenchBroom 1.0 for Windows and Mac OS X. TrenchBroom is a modern cross-platform level editor for Quake.

FEATURES
- True 3D editing, no 2D views required
- High performance renderer with support for huge maps
- Vertex editing with edge and face splitting that will not create invalid brushes
- Manipulation of multiple vertices at once (great for trisoup editing)
- Smart clip tool
- Move, rotate and flip brushes and entities
- Precise texture lock for all operations
- Smart entity property editors
- Graphical entity browser with drag and drop support
- Comprehensive texture application and manipulation tools
- Search and filter functions
- Unlimited undo and redo
- Point file support
- Automatic backup
- Support for .def and .fdg files, mods and multiple wad files
- Free (as in beer) and open source (GPLv3)
- Cross platform (Windows, Mac OS X and Linux supported)

Check out a video of TrenchBroom in action .

You can download the editor .

If you would like to give feedback, please do that in this thread. If you find a bug or have a feature suggestion, please submit them at the .

If you are wondering where the Linux binaries are then sorry, but currently there are none. The Linux version has a few problems which I could not fix before this release. I will get working on those right away so that the Linux version should be available in a couple of weeks, too.

Finally, I would like to thank necros for all his work over the past year. Without his tireless efforts, TrenchBroom would simply not exist. Or it would suck.

Alright, enough of this. Have fun with the editor!

[goldenboy]

Looks very cool. Any chance at q3 .map and shader support, or will it stay quake 1 "exclusive"?

Does it output standard Quake .map format or Valve220 format?

[SleepwalkR]

Right now it outputs standard Quake maps. It will read Valve 220 maps, but it will disregard the per face texture axes. I would certainly like to support Quake 3, but I would need someone who knows the format well and who would be willing to test the editor as I'm not familiar with Quake 3.

[andrewj]

For releases you should provide a source zip -- downloading 64MB of git repository is a pain compared with a 10MB (pure guess) source package.

Anyway, congratulations on your 1.0 release, I can see a lot of work has gone into this program. I personally work on a cross-platform editor for a similarly ancient game (DOOM) and know that this can be a rather unexciting and thank-less space to work in.

[frag.machine]

Nice... Great job, looks very intuitive and agile.

[qbism]

After a few minutes of playing, it's a pleasure to use.

Issues:
I couldn't select path_corners except with a selection brush. Most other point entities were easy to select.
When selecting a subdirectory to search for entity models, the selected directory is searched, but the wrong dir name is displayed. One directory above alphabetically is displayed. For example, if I pick "quoth", "qonquer" will display.

Feature request: make clip brushes and similar types about 50% transparent to see what's going on behind.

[SleepwalkR]

[SleepwalkR]

Changes
- Fix issues with texture caching when removing wad files.
- Correctly display long spawnflag names.
- Improve clip plane guessing when less than 3 points are available.
- Fix crash when calling "Center Camera on Selection" when nothing is selected.
- (Hopefully) fix off by one issue in the list of mod directories in the map properties dialog.
- Add option to disable instanced rendering.

About the last issue: If the editor goes bonkers when you activate vertex mode, it failed to properly detect whether OpenGL instancing is supported by your driver. In this case, go to the preferences and choose "Force off" from the instancing mode dropdown list.

[goldenboy]

I would test q3 .maps with this editor; I'm not a coder though and don't know the format itself too well.

Can I suggest looking at Hexen 2 support as well? If this editor supported H2, I would potentially want to actually map for it. The other alternatives (Quark?) for H2 mapping don't suit me at all. The lack of H2 map editors is a major reason why nobody maps for it.

[ceriux]

OMG iv been waiting on this. i cant wait to try it downloading now!

[SleepwalkR]

[ceriux]

does this editor not have a compiler? i havent been able to find the compile option for my map. (iv made a quick test map)

but so far! im loving this more than i ever did worldcraft! amazing work! i love the 3d grid lines, i love how you can see all of the models directly in the editor. i love how smooth it is. it will take me a little bit to get more used to the controls. but i would say my only complaint is the copy/pasting. would be nice if i could just grab an existing object and drag it to a place id like it copied. the only way i could figure out how to copy was ctrl + keys. which pastest the object in a random near by location.

[SleepwalkR]

[Dr. Shadowborg]

[SleepwalkR]