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! 

If there were no sprite, the light entity (solid octahedron) would also change color depending on its color key. That's similar to Radiant's behavior. 

This is caused by not allowing for over a certain number of .wad files. Hammer allows up to 5, apparently Jackhammer only allows for 1. Ideally the number should essentially be unlimited but realistically 10 should be more than enough.

I like to segregate my textures into categories. For example generic (hint, skip, clip, trigger, solid black and so on) skies and liquids, animated, blue and grey, brown and green, tech (or base) and so on. Mainly this is to keep from having repeat textures in the texture browser without having to make a custom wad file for each map ahead of time. 

Jackhammer allows for as many WAD files as you wish. However Q1 compilers distributed with Jackhammer (that are capable of handling map format 220) can't read more than 1 wad file, this is a limitation of original Id's Quake compilers.