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The TrenchBroom Level Editor
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
- 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 here.

You can download the editor here.

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 issue tracker.

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!

Update: 2.1 here:
https://github.com/kduske/TrenchBroom/releases/tag/v2.1.0-RC1
Features "cool shit".
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While Typing I Realised It Would Be A Terrible Feature Request So Here 
Re: https://twitter.com/kristianduske/status/508004011023540225 "TrenchBroom 2 now has a layer system. Layers can be hidden and locked individually."

Please add some more options:

"Exclude from compile"

"Hide all layers but this one"

Being able to group layers into (multi-level) groups would be great.

Also being able to assign colors to layers/groups.

Can you duplicate layers?

Can you drag'n'drop prefabs from the TB Store into the list????

Maybe check out how QuArK does things, random link to its documentation where you can see some of the GUI and features: http://quark.sourceforge.net/infobase/maped.tutorial.advanced.html#grouptechniques 
Please Go Away 
Feature requests go to the issue tracker, please.

Btw, if Quark does something in one way, then it's very likely I'll choose the opposite direction. Quark is a UI nightmare. 
Hehe 
 
Feature Request: 
Make it possible to request features in this thread. 
No 
I don't have time to move stuff from here to the issue tracker. I really just don't. 
 
moved the first two. the third was already talked about. fourth is not that useful. fifth would just by copy/paste and make new layer. 
Thanks 
Agree on your verdicts. If anyone disagrees, they can open an issue on github. 
 
Thanks necros!

Sleepwalkr: That's like saying iOS is a UI nightmare just because the back button is at the most far away place in the top left. Quark does lots of things very well and editors could oh well your decision. 
 
Which BSP compiler is recommended for Trenchbroom maps? I'm beta testing 2.0 and I sometimes get into situations where my alignment in the editor doesn't match the alignment in the game. Passing in "-oldaxis" just moves the problems to other faces so I'm wondering if there's a specific BSP compiler that is known to work well with TB.

Also, a link directly to it would be appreciated. :) 
Spirit 
Sorry for the tone earlier. I know you like Quark, but I don't like its interface at all. I surely has a lot of useful features, but every time I try to use it, nothing works intuitively they way I expect it. That's why I consider it a nightmare. 
Willem 
that may be a bug actually. i'm taking a bit of a break from testing right now, but i did notice that in some cases, faces at 45 degrees wouldn't match up in game. in fact, adjacent coplanar faces wouldn't match up with alignment either AND once you reload the map, the faces would go back to the old broken alignment. I can't figure out what particular circumstances causes that though. 
 
btw: i am using rebb's txqbsp (based on aguirre's txqbsp) without the old/alt axis switch. 
Willem 
I'm using Tyrann's:

http://www.disenchant.net/

With -oldaxis but haven't run into the problems you describe, since I turned it on. 
I'll Check It Out Soon 
I'm in the middle of a big refactoring right now and can't work on the bugs. 
Tyranns Tools Seconded 
pretty much what I use exclusively. 
 
So help me out please? How do I configure a custom entity so that I can rotate the entity in the editor? I've been bashing on the FGD and whatever else and I can't figure out what allows some entities to rotate (like players and monsters).

I have this:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/161473/MDLBugs/2014-10-04%2015_41_57-wip.map_.jpg

And the FGD looks like this:

@PointClass base(Appearflags) size(-2 -14 -40, 22 14 16) color(255 255 255) model(":progs/decoring.mdl") = deco_ring : "Iron Deco Ring"
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I can't rotate the entity in Trenchbroom. It ignores me. And I don't understand why. :-/

Is it obvious? 
The Origin Of The Entity Must Be In The Center Of The Bounding Box 
As defined in the fgd. 
 
Ahh ... Ok, will try that! 
 
Ha, nice ... that fixed it AND it seemed to resolve the weird lighting problems I was getting in-game. Yay! 
Yay Yay! 
 
You're Not Alone 
That gave me quite a few headaches. 
Status 
I remembered it being submitted as a feature request but what's the status on adding a 2dview and grid? 
Everything Is Being Worked On 
Progress is currently slow due to real life obligations. That is all ;-) 
I Did A Quick And Dirty Helper Model 
This may be useful to users of the editor;

http://www.quaketastic.com/files/helper.mdl

It's just a scaled up and reskinned version of Sock's voreball, colour coded to match the various entity types.

This means you can turn off 'bounds' in the model view to make your screen less cluttered. You will need to add this;

model(":progs/helper.mdl" 0)

To the various entries in your .fgd (not sure if its the same format for .def) replacing the 0 for the corresponding skin - each skin is correctly named inside the file.

I'd share my fgd but its got modded entities inside and I can't be arsed cleaning them out. 
Status Update 
Updates have been slow recently, so before people get worried I thought I'd give a small status update. TrenchBroom 2 has been progressing nicely in the past months until the point where I started to integrate a new feature for layers and groups into the editor.

It turns out that the internal structure I had for representing maps did not lend itself well to this particular extension, so I had to change it significantly. This of course rippled into basically every other part of the editor, and I'm working on adapting all other parts of it to these changes.

Progress on this has been a bit slower in the past two weeks as I am quite busy with real life stuff, too. But I'm still working on it, and it's going forward. I'll start pushing new builds as soon as the editor is back in a usable state. 
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