Func_Msgboard: The TrenchBroom Level Editor

Posted by SleepwalkR on 2013/03/01 18:37:12

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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#2405 posted by muk on 2016/12/20 01:47:10

Ive had the outline for an arch tutorial in my head for a few weeks. Lemme whip something up for ya. I think itll make quick sense of the black magic of arches.

Mukor

#2406 posted by dumptruck_ds on 2016/12/20 01:51:47

That would be greatly appreciated. And it seems like we have some new blood on Func who would benefit from this too.

#2407 posted by topher on 2016/12/20 03:03:07

At first i tried this:
http://imgur.com/a/xRJqg
angles: 0�,30�,60�

but i didn't like that the arch is narrow in the top

so i made a 30� brush, duplicate, flip horizontally, and rotate with alt+up
http://imgur.com/a/2edZv

#2408 posted by muk on 2016/12/20 03:07:58

You've got the right idea and it's good to see you trying it on your own before asking for help!

TLDR: Triangles!

http://imgur.com/a/tmtmz

#2409 posted by topher on 2016/12/20 03:11:01

*the angles are:
90� (vertical) ; 60� ; 30�

the brush is 30�/60�

Another Arch

#2410 posted by topher on 2016/12/20 04:06:29

and the textures are aligned! i had to rotate 180� the textures of the two top brushes, but other than that...

i tried cliping in two ways, and in both the textures are aligned too. nice.

http://imgur.com/a/ax8oW

pd: yeah, absolutely no lights yet

Mukor And Topher

#2411 posted by dumptruck_ds on 2016/12/20 07:22:26

Thanks guys - this is really great and the key for me was slicing the inside corner (step 4). What I have been doing is clipping large sections of square shapes and "lifting" the vertices into position.

http://imgur.com/8YZlU6x

Clipping is so powerful when you see it done "correctly." Thanks again.

#2404-2411

#2412 posted by Mugwump on 2016/12/20 07:44:19

Why is this here and not in the Mapping Help thread? It's not Trenchbroom-specific.

Mugwump

#2413 posted by dumptruck_ds on 2016/12/20 07:49:18

My bad for starting it here, I honestly thought I had posted originally in Mapping Help but saw the replies here. Going senile.

#2414 posted by muk on 2016/12/20 08:08:25

Mugwump: Refer to post #2408 in this thread. I gave an arch tutorial that specifically mentions "for TrenchBroom 2". He is 100% in the right to post a response here...cause...well thats where the discussion originated. The tutorial mentions keyboard shortcuts specific to TrenchBroom.

topher: im glad i could be of some help. curved shapes troubled me for quite some time.

#2415 posted by Mugwump on 2016/12/20 08:28:57

Honestly, I don't mind and it's not that big of a deal in the first place, but a) the question could have garnered more editor-independent answers than Mukor's TB-specific reply and b) I know people here can be a little sensitive over this kind of things.

Archie

#2416 posted by mjb on 2016/12/20 12:33:23

Thanks for sharing your technique Muk!

Would have been great to have had this when I was banging my head on how to create them last year!

#2417 posted by topher on 2016/12/20 12:51:10

maybe we went a little offtopic

on topic
"face convex merging"
is this a feature? i didn't see it in the help

this software is very intuitive and full of shortcuts to save time

in a few days and aprox 6 hours of fiddling and some reading i'm getting confortable with shaping this simple brushes

http://imgur.com/a/IIcQ1

Merger

#2418 posted by mjb on 2016/12/20 13:01:19

Convex merge is a fantastic feature and it looks like you already got the hang of it! To be honest, I don't know if I realized face selection would work with merging but I assume it is intended.

Keep going topher!

#2419 posted by ＰＲＩＴＣＨＡＲＤ on 2016/12/20 14:17:08

Is the lag when clipping a large amount of brushes at once a known issue?

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/f8im492wkzjic2a/2016-12-21_00-13-13.mp4

I ask because although I've been living with it for a while (like many tb2 bugs - I'm really bad at reporting in a timely manner...), the more I trisoup for this map, the more of my time it takes up. It'd be nice to at least have a "won't fix" response, but I'm skeptical of submitting an issue because it may simply be something that comes with the territory of the operation...

Clip

#2420 posted by mjb on 2016/12/20 14:52:23

I have encountered this before, sometimes it can happen with just a large brush that I am cutting in half. A bit random at times but infrequent enough that I never regarded it as an issue.

Doesn't hurt to submit an issue regardless.

Yes, Submit Everything

#2421 posted by SleepwalkR on 2016/12/20 16:07:42

Seriously. I'm providing this app for free. The only price you have to pay is reporting the issues you find. Let me decide whether or not they are relevant. Don't sit on issues out of doubt whether they are issues or not.

Windows Build From Today

#2422 posted by ericw on 2016/12/21 01:00:35

TrenchBroom-Win32-2.0.0-Interim-f7fe54e-RelWithDebInfo.7z

Much Appreciated

#2423 posted by mjb on 2016/12/21 01:17:32

Thank you! :D

#2424 posted by ＰＲＩＴＣＨＡＲＤ on 2016/12/21 02:28:31

I have this irrational fear of annoying people by filling up their issue tracker... If I were running the project, I'd be obsessed with getting the open tickets down to 0 at all times...

I need to stop projecting.

#2425 posted by muk on 2016/12/21 04:11:08

Noticing some... aliasing? is that the right word?

Noticing it on the version you just linked Eric.

http://imgur.com/a/MA4IL

JUUUUST opened it up so thats all I have for now. Ill be getting intimate with TB over the next few hours and Ill report back here or go straight to github with anything else.

Yeah Same Here

#2426 posted by ericw on 2016/12/21 04:39:51

on macOS.

Is the "previous build" the one I linked to in November, 3cb0140 ?

Filed An Issue For That:

#2427 posted by ericw on 2016/12/21 04:41:46

https://github.com/kduske/TrenchBroom/issues/1560

#2428 posted by muk on 2016/12/21 04:59:27

Yeah, my bad, i couldve been clearer on "previous build". But yep, the last version you linked me was without the aliasing issue present in the current build.

#2429 posted by muk on 2016/12/21 05:20:19

Well thanks for letting me flex my computer know how!

i figured out I can set up AA for specific programs through my video settings!

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