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Jackhammer 1.0 Public Alpha - New Level Editor

Posted by Scrama on 2013/12/26 08:51:06

Jackhammer is a brand new level editor for games with a quake-style BSP architecture. The aim is to develop a convenient cross-platform tool capable of incorporating the best features of existing editors, such as Valve Hammer Editor, Q3Radiant and others. Despite Quake and Half-Life having been released a long time ago, the large community have arisen around, still developing mods and games on their bases. However the existing editors suffer from fundamental disadvantages their users are well familiar with. Jackhammer does aspire to be the universal level design tool for classic games. But not only the classics! The editor shall become a key development tool for the Volatile3D II engine, that is why its second name is Volatile Development Kit.

Jackhammer is being developed since August 2013, that means the editor is very young. But the team of professional programmers and testers is ready to present the public alpha within four months. Despite not all the functions being implemented, not all the planned games being supported and only a small extent of the new ideas being realized, today you are able to download, install and evaluate Jackhammer in action. Please don't forget that alpha is the first, quite a raw version, and may contain some issues. We are interested in a vast testing of the editor and grateful in advance for your comments and suggestions! In addition, you can provide Jackhammer with financial support, donating funds for the further development.

This version supports Quake, Quake II and Half-life.

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DOWNLOAD - Win32 now, Linux in future.

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Cool!

#1 posted by SleepwalkR on 2013/12/26 16:36:16

Great to see more level editors with support for Quake. Are there any plans for a source release?

Cool...

#2 posted by FifthElephant on 2013/12/26 17:15:46

I'll have to give it a whirl at some point. Not sure I can go back to 2d view mapping since TB, but I'm sure I could still find uses for it. :)

#3 posted by Vondur on 2013/12/26 18:02:55

it's awesome indeed. also cool to see russian fellow here ;)

#4 posted by Joel B on 2013/12/26 21:09:59

Out of curiosity: what's your goal for that engine you're working on? Anything beyond that Wolf3D reboot (Wolfram)?

#5 posted by necros on 2013/12/27 02:11:36

wow, wasn't expecting to see a new editor! From screenshots, looks like it is meant to emulate WC/Hammer?
I'm glad that WC users now have a modern alternative that they will be comfortable with and they don't need to fiddle with to get working on modern machines.

Rip Worldcraft 3.3

#6 posted by Breezeep_ on 2013/12/27 02:52:21

this must be the modern edition of worldcraft/hammer

#7 posted by Scrama on 2013/12/27 03:12:28

> Are there any plans for a source release?
Yes, GPL in future
> cool to see russian fellow here
allways here )
> what's your goal for that engine
DeusEx-like game at first
> looks like it is meant to emulate WC/Hammer?
yes, some ways

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