If you haven't noticed yet, when resizing brushes, if you attempt to resize on a grid size larger than where the brush's edge lies (say grid at 16 with an 8x8 brush), then dragging the edge will move it in 16 unit increments rather than snapping it to the current grid size.

While this is great, it would be nice to have a toggle for this similar to the way texture lock works (Increment Lock?). 

SHIFT+A doesn't make the texture application window go away when that window has focus (i.e. just entered a value). You have to click on the main window and then you can hit SHIFT+A to close the pop-up window. Also, this same bug prevents you from just pressing "Z" to move the camera view unless you, again, click on the main window. 

- Windows version upgraded to Qt 4.8.5 (Linux version uses Qt 4.8.1).
- Decal casting and rendition.
- Compile in Expert Mode.
- Face splitting by Ctrl+F in Vertex Manipulation mode.
- General texture brightness setting.
- Smooth slope option in Arch tool.
- Digits now scale at viewport's center, not zero coords (i.e. Hammer-like).
- Texture window keeps aspect and doesn't fit small textures.
- Align to view for all the selected brushes/faces (Ctrl+Shift+A or a corresponding item in Tools menu).
- Seamless texturing optimized.
- Alt+RMB analogue is Ctrl+Shift+RMB (Alt is reserved by Ubuntu).
- The same is for texture moving by mouse using Alt+LMB+move (Ctrl+Shift+LMB+move).
- Keep old configs option in the installer (however now it is recommended to overwrite them and setup from scratch!).
- Window with a list of hot keys and their corresponding commands in the Help menu.
- HUGE amount of bug fixed and improvements.

And finally a native Linux version! (hell yeah) 

Thanks for making a Linux version!

Is it possible to get a tarball as well as the installer? I don't trust .run files on my working machine. I like to install this kind of stuff manually. 

Oh, ok, there will be an option in future.
However, you can trust runs from the official Jackhammer website. It does not require superuser rights and installs files into the home directory. If you are still suspicious, you can look through the head of the run file and examine an installation shell script that is invoked - it's quite straightforward. 

 

But not on the priority list.
I don't even know a man who makes maps for these games and uses Mac OS X as a primary OS. 

but not many, yes. Although, shouldn't that just be a matter of compiling for OS X, since you're using QT? Or are there non-portable parts of your codebase? 

Yep, there are some platform specific parts that do not rely on Qt. Not much, but still important.
Btw, Qt also has some OS-specific issues that should be carefully avoided, and that is what native tests are needed for. 

This is starting to look very appealing to a Worldcraft/Hammer user like myself... 

Well, if you decide to release an OS X version, I can do some testing. Would be interesting to see what the competition is up to ;-). 

^^Karate Tiger soundtrack in the background... 

Jackhammer can only compete with other modern VHE clones, and AFAIK there are none supporting Q1 and/or Q2.
People that aren't stuck to VHE firmly probably don't find this editor useful. And c'est la vie. 

I'm really happy that there are still other people working on editors for Quake 1, and I support any attempt to bringing those editors to as many platforms as possible. 

Can you please tag your release files with the version number? For example:

jackhammer_alpha_win32_.exe -> jackhammer_alpha_1.0.155_win32.exe

jackhammer_alpha_linux.run -> jackhammer_alpha_1.0.155_linux.run

And for proper timestamps it would be ace if you did not use content-disposition but plain and simple normal downloads. :P 

Installing Jackhammer 1.0.155 to: "/home/me/captain/jack"
Do you wish to continue? (y/n) y
Copying files...
Generating desktop file...
------------------------------------------------------------------------
All done. Thank you for installing Jackhammer.
./install.sh: line 89: return: can only `return' from a function or sourced script


When I try to launch jackhammer.sh I get "error while loading shared libraries: libQtCore.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" but I do have "/usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4 " (which is libQtCore.so.4.8.5). 

Please replace in jackhammer.sh the following line:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$dirname
with:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$dirname
Did this help? 

Strange text parsing on the board...
The replacement certainly must be:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH : $dirname 

put spaces in long strings of characters :) 

(!) 

Then post #40 can be probably deleted. 

I finally sat down and tried it. I have to say that as a Radiant user, it is quite hard to get used to this editor. Radiant feels more efficient to me.

I'm still glad I tried it. 

This looks exceptional, DLing it now. 

After all the years.


Thank you 

Neat feature I found. The editor uses a light bulb sprite instead of a box. The bulb changes color with the RGB entered in the _color key GREAT!