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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 [SleepwalkR]] and maintained by him and EricW 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] | |
| − | You can find the source-code here: [https://github.com/ | + | You can find the source-code here: [https://github.com/TrenchBroom/TrenchBroom Github] |
== Features == | == Features == | ||
'''General''' | '''General''' | ||
* Full support for editing in 3D and in up to three 2D views | * Full support for editing in 3D and in up to three 2D views | ||
| − | * High performance renderer with support for huge maps | + | * High-performance renderer with support for huge maps |
* Unlimited Undo and Redo | * Unlimited Undo and Redo | ||
* Macro-like command repetition | * Macro-like command repetition | ||
Revision as of 22:00, 24 March 2021
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 [SleepwalkR]] and maintained by him and EricW with community member code contributions. It uses a single 3D view and has optional traditional 2D views, and boasts some very handy vertex manipulation. Website
You can find the source-code here: 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 beginners guide to using Trenchbroom, that 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 Note that this tutorial is a bit outdated as many things have changed in Trenchbroom 2.0.
A very comprehensive TrenchBroom version 2 video tutorial series by Dumptruck_ds can be found here: TrenchBroom 2 Tutorials