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A level editor for the Quake engine and related family of games supporting Quake, Quake 2, Hexen 2, and more. The project was started by long time Quake community member [[SleepwalkR]] and maintained by him and [[EricW]] along with community member code contributions. It uses a single 3D view and has optional traditional 2D views, and boasts some very handy vertex manipulation.  [http://kristianduske.com/trenchbroom/ Website]
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Trenchbroom is a recent level editor for Quake programmed and maintained by [[SleepwalkR]]. It uses a single 3D view with no 2D views, and boosts some very handy vertex manipulation.  [http://kristianduske.com/trenchbroom/ Website]
 
 
You can find the source-code here: [https://github.com/TrenchBroom/TrenchBroom Github]
 
 
 
== Features ==
 
'''General'''
 
* Full support for editing in 3D and in up to three 2D views
 
* High-performance renderer with support for huge maps
 
* Unlimited Undo and Redo
 
* Macro-like command repetition
 
* Issue browser with automatic quick fixes
 
* Point file support
 
* Automatic backups
 
 
 
'''Brush Editing'''
 
* Robust vertex editing with edge and face splitting and manipulating multiple vertices together
 
* Clipping tool with two and three points
 
* CSG operations: merge, subtract, intersect
 
* UV view for easy texture manipulations
 
* Precise texture lock for all brush editing operations
 
* Multiple texture collections
 
 
 
'''Entity Editing'''
 
* Entity browser with drag and drop support
 
* Support for FGD and DEF files for entity definitions
 
* Mod support
 
* Entity link visualization
 
* Displays 3D models in the editor
 
* Smart entity property editors
 
 
 
== Tutorial ==
 
 
 
See [[Getting_Started_Mapping]] for a beginner's guide to using Trenchbroom, which also covers a lot of the basics of general Quake mapping. Note that this tutorial is a bit outdated as many things have changed in Trenchbroom 2.0.
 
 
 
== Video Tutorials ==
 
A very comprehensive TrenchBroom version 2 video tutorial series by Dumptruck_ds can be found here: [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgDKRPte5Y0AZ_K_PZbWbgBAEt5xf74aE TrenchBroom 2 Tutorials]
 

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