necros0 / trenchbroom

A modern Quake level editor.

TrenchBroom

TrenchBroom is a modern cross-platform level editor for Quake.

• Website: http://kristianduske.com/trenchbroom
• Downloads: http://kristianduske.com/trenchbroom/downloads.php

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
• Full documentation
• Free (as in beer) and open source (GPLv3)
• Cross platform (Windows, Mac OS X and Linux supported)

Compiling

• Windows: You need Visual Studio 2010, read Windows/Build.txt for instructions
• Mac OS X: You need XCode 4, read Mac/Build.txt for instructions
• Linux: You need Code::Blocks, read Linux/Build.txt for instructions

Contributing

• Bug reports and feature suggestions are welcome. Please submit them at https://github.com/kduske/TrenchBroom/issues
• If you wish to contribute code or improve the documentation, please get in touch with me at [email protected].
• All help is appreciated!

Changes

TrenchBroom 1.1.1

• More natural snapping when resizing brushes
• Remove limit on maximum mip texture dimensions
• Don't fall back to software renderer on OS X

TrenchBroom 1.1.0

• Keyboard customization
• Restrict to X or Y axis when moving objects
• Limit face points to integer coordinates
• New duplication options (drag to duplicate and duplicate in specific direction)
• New information bar at top of 3D view
• Moved search field to information bar
• Improved precision and stability of vertex tool
• Select objects by line number
• Brush resizing feels more natural and snaps more accurately
• Autosave when the applicaton exits
• More brush filtering options
• Better performance for view filters
• Clip tool remembers last clip side
• Clip tool adds new brushes to parent entities of clipped brushes
• Clipped brushes remain selected after deactivating the clip tool
• Double click on brush selects all brushes belonging to the containing entity
• Shift + double click on brush to select all of its faces
• Paint selection
• Show entity angle in 3D view
• Camera tracks for point file navigation and center on selection
• Show compass in 3D view
• Buttons for texture flipping in face inspector
• Hotkeys to activate inspector tabs
• Smooth camera navigation with WASD keys
• Customizable texture browser icon size
• Render skip / clip / hint / trigger and liquid brushes semi-transparently
• Numerous bug fixes

TrenchBroom 1.0.9

• Fix the rotation tool handle position

TrenchBroom 1.0.8

• Fix the rotation tool
• Allow snapping faces to the grid when resizing brushes
• Improved major grid line shading (rebb)
• Fixed umlauts in About dialog

TrenchBroom 1.0.7

• Emergency bugfix

TrenchBroom 1.0.6

• New text rendering system (faster and fewer glitches)
• Brush drawing now more accurate (see docs)
• Option to use integer plane point coordinates
• Recompute vertices after every change to brush geometry
• Major lines of the grid are rendered thicker
• Read write protected map files
• Don't crash when trying to save a write protected file
• Internal Worldspawn properties set to read only
• Fix 3D view focus issues on Windows
• Drop invalid brushes in parser instead of crashing
• Always autosave (don't wait until the map is changed)
• Keep more autosaves and save only every 10 minutes
• Don't show rotation decorators for invisible entities
• Documentation updates and fixes

TrenchBroom 1.0.5

• Fixed a crash when undoing edge and face move operations.
• Improved map loading speed.
• Improved accuracy of vertex computation.
• Added antialiasing for grid lines (rebb).
• Thin out grid lines after a certain distance (rebb).
• Draw thinner grid lines for small grid sizes.
• Added face shading depending on view direction (rebb).
• Fixed a performance problem when editing face attributes.
• Place initial brush in new maps and make the camera look at it.
• Position pasted objects so that they line up with objects under the mouse cursor.
• Added option to use Alt+MMB to move the camera forward and backward.
• Fixed parsing of color values in FGD files.
• Improved Quake.fgd and Quoth2.fgd.
• Updated and fixed some errors in the documentation.

TrenchBroom 1.0.4

• Improved Quake.fgd and Quoth2.fgd.
• Improvements to clipboard pasting.
• Fixed a crash bug when loading maps with invalid brushes.

TrenchBroom 1.0.3

• Fix off-by-one bug of mod list in map properties dialog.
• Snap vertex coordinates if close to integer coordinates.
• Add logging on all platforms.
• Properly merge spawnflags when loading fgd or def files.
• Properly set the size of point entities from fgd files.
• Fix crash bug when clipping all selected brushes.