Oh, and the measurement things you're displaying are fucking awesome! 

The editor aligns entities to the surface under the mouse if you drag an entity from the entity browser, yes. It doesn't do this for other objects (yet) because I'm still uncertain as to how I can do this properly. But it's on the feature list.

Regarding Quake 3, it depends. I am certainly going to keep it open for extensions to other games, but since I don't map for Quake 3 myself, I'd have to work closely with someone who is familiar with Quake 3. This will not happen in the near future though. I plan to do a complete rewrite of the internals in C++ in order to port it to other platforms once the current code is stable and has all necessary features. Once that's done, multi-game support is surely an option. 

Sorry about the Mac. So I take it you switched to Windows then? I guess that makes sense for a gamer / designer such as you.

In fact, an iPad version has surely crossed my mind. I have tried to keep memory requirements low for the editor, and once I start redoing it in C or C++, it will be even less hungry. The thing I still see as problematic is that you obscure the stuff you want to edit with your finger as soon as you start editing it. I am not sure how to solve this properly, but yeah, it would surely be interesting to port TrenchBroom to the iPad just to see how it turns out.

On the other hand, I am writing a PhD and I have a family, so this is not going to happen soon ;-) 

I have never been so jealous of Mac owners before (or jealous of Mac owners at all until now.) 

please please do not name the download TrenchBroom-latest.zip but use a version number of something. 

ewwwwwww.. I hope you don't :) 

call it Trenchcoat? 

I would greatly prefer doing it in C, but I think that polymorphism could make adding support for other games easier. 

So you can see when it gets updated? 

can't use this on 10.5.8? (intel) 

No, it's 10.6 only for now as it uses some features that are available only in 10.6. I'll put 10.5 support on the to-do list. 

well, don't do it on my account only if it's a lot of trouble.

my mac isn't really good enough that i'd want to use it as a primary mapping device (it's a 4 year old laptop).
but i was mostly intrigued with the 3d only mapping.

i have a tendancy to maximize the 3d viewport in sikkpin's QE3 a lot these days when working on complex organic stuff so i was interested in seeing that mapping style done 'properly'. 

I'll look into it anyway ;-) 

Looks good SleepwalkR. 

lol Spirit.
I am only now learning how intense the "archiver's impulse" really is. It's extremely useful: hell without it, we wouldn't have classic literature. So props.

SleepwalkR: uhh, holy shit man. Awesome. Great idea with no 2d views as well. It should lead to less blockish/halls&rooms Quake maps (damn that first shot of Necros' map is a great example too). 

 

It looks totally amazing. And i'm impressed with your "3D only" design goal. 

for archival purposes / finding old versions. with this naming scheme you can only provide one version and it is going to be multiple versions (yay, confusion). old versions can be useful sometimes. 

Will do that once there's a new version. 

Will probably give it a try on my gfs mac at the weekend. No chance of a windows or linux port? 

An iPad version would be awesome! 

There will be ports to other platforms, but it will take time because I need to port significant parts from Objective-C to plain C. 

For a IPad version, I want to make Quake stuff on planes! :) 

Great work! The camera-only editing approach reminds me of an old level editor for DOS called GEOMETRY by Billy Zelsnack (anyone remember Prax War 2018? ;). I use to live by GEOMETRY for mapping. It took me a long time to switch to a Windows editor because I was so resistant to giving up DOS back in those days.

QUAKE editing/mapping/modding (and more generally id Tech) is a difficult thing to do outside of Windows. I'm an old schooler that has converted to using Mac's.

I've been fascinated with editing on the Mac because QUAKE was originally developed on NeXTSTEP (precursor to Mac OS X).

Oddly enough, I wanted to learn the proper ins and outs of programming and decided to try to get a QUAKE editor ported to Mac OS X -- starting with the original NeXTSTEP QuakeEd sources and eventually mixing various code bases (QE3/QE4/QE5, Radiant, etc). No intention to steal any thunder from SleepwalkR and TrenchBroom, so I'll save my editor banter for another thread at some point.

Some random questions for SleepwalkR:

How are you loading textures? I couldn't get my WADs to load, but that might be because I created them with qlumpy (which I think uses a different miptex format than what typically gets extracted from BSP files).

Did you build TrenchBroom from scratch or use anything as a starting point?

Is the "back end" code (rendering, core editing) Objective-C or C?

Any thoughts about open source?

My years of using QuakeEd/Radiant make me really resistant to different keyboard shortcuts. Thought about allowing people to customize the keyboard shortcuts?

I've tinkered with Willems ToeTag and I'm really happy to see TrenchBroom (and any other QUAKE editing/apps) being developed for Mac OS X! 

How are you loading textures? I load them directly from the wad files. I used these docs as a reference.

Did you build TrenchBroom from scratch or use anything as a starting point? It's from scratch. I purposefully did not use existing code because I wanted to approach problems with original ideas.

Is the "back end" code (rendering, core editing) Objective-C or C? Currently it's a mix of Objective-C and C. Math functions and performance-heavy code is pure C, but the rest is Objective-C. I plan to reduce Objective-C to an absolute minimum because it's slow and not easily portable.

Any thoughts on open source? Yeah, the source will be published under the GPLv3.

Thoughts about allowing people to customize the keyboard shortcuts? I am torn about this. On the one hand, I can totally understand that you would want to customize the shortcuts so that it matches your habits. On the other hand, I have kind of a daddy-knows-best approach. Apple doesn't let you customize keyboard shortcuts either, and for a reason: They have put a lot of thought into how the user interacts with their apps, and the same goes for TrenchBroom. That said, if you have suggestions or find the keyboard layout idiotic, I'm all ears. It's important for me to allow the users to edit maps quickly and efficiently, so if you think that I should approach it differently, then be sure to let me know.

That, and getting keyboard / mouse customization right is difficult. In summary: it may eventually happen, but it's not very high on my list right now.