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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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SWEET. 
Ah awesome. Yea was having some trouble with this lately 
Ummm Virus Scanner Now Hates TB??? 
Ok that is weird. Now for some reason my Virus protection software thinks TB is an evil thing and kills it after a second or so. 
Which Scanner Is That? 
I built it on my Windows 7 virtual machine - maybe it's infected? What does your scanner say is specifically wrong with it? 
Cant Check Right Now 
It just removes it outright without telling me at the moment. The current scanner I have expired. So it scans and does all the usual but I cant check the logs... 
Bitdefender 
Sorry scanner is bitdefender 
If It Just Removes The File 
without telling you anything about it, how do you know it's your virus scanner? 
Hmm 
trendmicro HouseCall and windows defender don't find any viruses for me. maybe you can whitelist it with your scanner? 
 
virustotal's static check was clean as well. Maybe the title is triggering some children protection mode? ;) 
Its The Scanner 
It also made it so that I could not extract the file from the zip into any folder anymore either. It just hates the file.... But I removed the virus scanner software and installed another one and now it works fine... also works fine at work. I dont know but my home PC virus protection freaked out and deleted the EXE and did not allow me to put it back. Was very strange. 
-1 And -2 Dont Work For Func Secret Doors? 
It just goes sideways and never up or down... but this works for func doors normally... I don't get it. But it has the flag to move down first and then in a direction which I don't want. Needs to shift back then up or down... confusing 
Angle Key... -1 And -2 For Up Or Down Direction 
 
Secret Doors Fucking Suck 
The Way _color Works By Default 
is poor IMO

It should be done with a scale of 0-255 for each colour choice. That way when lighting is compiled you get smooth blends between colours. 
Secret Secret Door Keys... Wtf Haha 
Thanks Onetruepurple! 
Secret Doors 
The angle determines the direction of the second move, the first move is always to the right of that unless you change the spawnflags. 
TrenchBroom 1.1.4 
Changes
- Fix crash when updating graphics resources (ericw)
- Fix vertex drift issue leading to grid snapping problems (ericw)

Download: http://www.kristianduske.com/trenchbroom/downloads.php 
 
"Fix vertex drift issue leading to grid snapping problems"

Tested, looks good so far.. this is one of the biggest problems I was having with TB1 (that seemed to be fixed in TB2), lots of brushes with crazy decimal values (like 63.989801 rather than 64 units, this usually happened with duplicating or copy and pasting) 
Awesome 
Hope that's the last of the drift bugs. For reference, there were different bugs depending on whether you used "force integer plane points" or not:

For maps with "force integer plane points" turned off:
v1.1.2 fixed rounding brushes to integers when opening a map (with a random chance each brush would be rounded)
v1.1.3 fixed copy & paste rounding to integers, when they shouldn't

For maps with "force integer plane points" turned on:
v1.1.4 fixed a bug where the editing tools (vertex editor, clip tool, copy/paste from other maps, etc) weren't rounding the results to integers when they should have. The next time you loaded the map, all brushes get rounded to integers, so the brushes with decimal coordinates would get messed up. 
Bugs Fixed 
now all trenchbroom needs is texture alignment like in hammer mostly for arches and or things like curved floor trims which is in trenchbroom 2.0 / 2.1???

an ability to create a 8,192 by 8,192 unit box because world size limitations which i found out the hard way and created a 8,192 box world centered in hammer after my map was all buggy <.<

a prefab creation tool like hammers arch creation but also with spheres, spikes, and cylinders

maybe a grid option which is also in trenchbroom 2.0 / 2.1??? not that i care for overview / side view grid like in hammer but an option would be nice for some

and uhm.... hmmm.... i cant think of anything else just add those things and trenchbroom will be perfect 
 
What this, or Jackhammer, really need is a good prefab system. Like, a real one.

In Hammer, you can place instances of external MAP files into your level and they are copied in as if they are real brushes before compile time.

This allows you to do neat things, like build a destroyed building sitting straight up and down but place an instance into your level rotated into position. So it's easy to work on but more interesting to play on/look at in the game itself.

Just a thought. With these editors having damn near perfect texture lock these days, I'd say the time has come! Let the prefabs fly! 
 
A prefab browser in TB would be awesome. I think with TB especially though that SleepwalkR will probably be trying to keep as pure and simple as possible, quite often you find with editors that they continually add bloat. It gets to the point that unless you were from the beginning that the tools become extremely difficult to learn, this isn't so with TB. 
 
Hammer has an entity called func_instance. You place it and then use the file browser to point it at a MAP file. It then shows a preview of that MAP file in the level itself but you can't edit it - just move it and rotate it. To edit, you double click the entity and it opens a new editor with that external MAP file in it.

IT'S SO GOOD. 
Instancing Is Definitely Coming 
TB 2 will have proper groups that can also contain entities. From there it's a small step to having instance support. 
 
Nice! 
TB1 RGB Colors Not Floats? 
Any chance of getting this for the original? Right now the color picker always goes float and some compilers do not like them.

For now I just type them in manually. 
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