Looks good. 

Holy shit that was cool.

I was half-expecting one of the examples to be a curved brush (like the 2d-shaper). To be fair though I am super impressed as it is. 

Some of it looks familiar ;) 

What do you mean, curved? 

From where? 

Yeah I mean like curved (like a bendy corridor or something) 

Baby steps ;-). 

Cool to see something like that implemented now. 

It is very reminiscent of, I imagine, how you would edit a level in doom. I bet if you tweeted this to romero he would literally jizz in his pants. 

rebb, you're right. This has been on my todo list for a long time. Finally gotten around to doing it so that people don't used to the old way of creating brushes when TB2 is done. You can still create simple cuboids in the 2D views though. 

not surprised, but very impressed. slick implementation! needs some lasers though, but yeah, awesome. 

Very nice! 

 

I am not sure who but one of SleepwalkR and Romero made the other his bitch: https://twitter.com/romero/status/573359931274866688 

trenchbroom should be used for every bloody bsp editor... 

 

That's good press! 

http://i.imgur.com/UcglB3o.jpg 

so which engines support q3bsp again? 

DP+FTE (ignoring quake3 etc...) 

 

Cant wait till this is out! Those new brush tools look stellar! Keep up the mad work SleepwalkR! 

So, I've just installed TB again on my Linux system (Linux Mint) after a break of several months, using (as before) this guide: http://andyp123.blogspot.de/2013/03/running-trenchbroom-quake-editor-on.html

Said guide works perfectly, but I understand nothing of it (I just follow the instructions and Ctrl+C & Ctrl+V the commands, but have no idea what any of them really do).

Keeping in mind how utterly tech un-savvy I am, would someone be so kind as to explain how I can switch from what I have now (TB version 1.2.0 Build 460, according to Help --> About) to TB2?

(I know it is still unfinished and probably buggy, but so is TB1 on my system -- and if I were to use TB2, I could maybe give SleepwalkR some meaningful feedback, as opposed to complaining about a version of TB that is no longer going to be updated...)

Thanks in advance, and thanks again to SleepwalkR for creating and constantly improving TrenchBroom!

(By the way, is this the right thread, or should this go in Mapping Help?) 

Feedback for the linux version of TB2 would be very appreciated, as it's practically untested right now. It does build and run, but that's all I have tested.

You need to compile it yourself. First you need to get the sources using git. Open the terminal and cd into some directory under which you want to have the sources. An example would be the ~/Documents directory. You do not need to create a sub directory for the sources, git will do this for you. Make sure you have git installed:

sudo apt-get install git

Then clone the sources:

git clone https://github.com/kduske/TrenchBroom.git

This will create a directory named "TrenchBroom" under your current directory, so if you did cd into ~/Documents, the sources will be in ~/Documents/TrenchBroom. cd into that directory.

Now you have to switch to the branch that contains the actual sources for TB2. You are currently on the master branch, which contains the TB1 sources.

git checkout develop

It should answer with a message such as this:

Branch develop set up to track remote branch develop from origin.
Switched to a new branch 'develop'

To ensure you're on the right branch, issue the "git status" command:

git status

It should answer with a message such as this:

On branch develop
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/develop'.
nothing to commit, working directory clean

Now read the build instructions in the Build.txt file and follow them. If you run into any problems, report back. 

Thank you for the quick and detailed response, SleepwalkR. However, I am possibly even more of a layperson than you assume...

I have already installed TB using the guide I linked to in my previous post (similar to your instructions, but even more detailed), so I am skipping ahead to this part of your instructions:

Now you have to switch to the branch that contains the actual sources for TB2. You are currently on the master branch, which contains the TB1 sources.

git checkout develop

When I do that, I get the following:

error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout:
Linux/BuildNo
Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can switch branches.
Aborting

Help? Please keep in mind I have no idea what it means to commit or stash changes or how to do so. This entire git thing is a mystery to me...