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The TrenchBroom Level Editor
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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Haha 
It's hilarious when your own insulated views on game/technobabble pronunciations get onto the internet. I had honestly never thought about wad vs wod before now.

It's wAd though guys, c'mon now! ;) 
The Ambiguity Of Arnolds Accent 
But John Connor Is Easier To Distinguish 
 
"Dude, stop being a demanding prick and keep mapping with Quest if that is what you want. "

That's not what I want. What I want is to see TrenchBroom succeed and be the best editor out there, and I've been spending my time to help with that. So, sue me for getting frustrated.

Take your useless comments and kindly shove them up your ***. kthxbye. 
 
"Can you take your self entitled attitude somewhere else, please?"

Nope.

Now that I've said "nope", maybe you'll step back and keep quiet now. Thanks. 
North South Divide 
I'm a northerner and say 'wohd' as well. 
 
Nope.

Now that I've said "nope", maybe you'll step back and keep quiet now. Thanks.

Sure. It's your choice. Feel free to keep acting like an angry child. You're winning zero friends here.

Have fun! 
 
If you don't want to hear from the public, then maybe you shouldn't have released the editor to the public. 
 
"oh boy, yes! that's why im here. im looking for more friends.. yes!" lulz 
Deqer 
Deqer 
I sort of agree with your standpoint, but I mean your getting impatient after, like, a couple of days, dude. I mean take a pill man. 
Deqer 
If you have really been mapping for 15 years (which I seriously doubt judging by your general level of maturity and apparent skillset), you should know how this kind of community works, and that being such a colossal, simpering self-entitled little pillock is not really how we play cricket around here.

Let me just re-iterate. This is Sleepwalkr's fucking hobby. He is not getting paid for it, and you are in no position to throw your bottle out of the pram just because he doesn't want to drop everything and concede to your questionable demands. 
 
"oh boy, yes! that's why im here. im looking for more friends.. yes!" lulz
I'm sorry, I thought that my being here you were looking to be a part of the community.

So you're just here to be a dick or ... what? 
 
Rather, "I thought that BY being here..."

Stupid typos. 
You Have Not The Wisdom With Spoons Eaten 
deqer: Constructive criticism and brain-storming is very welcome. You are extending that to trying to force your opinion of "how it should work" and "what it should do" upon the author. Bugs that are high priority or even blockers for you might not be high priority for the author. 
 
Kinn, your post is fluffed and pointless. Quit wasting your time typing.

Yes, I've been mapping since Quake and long before Quake. Doom, Duke3d, etc. -- my level of maturity has no bearing. If my impatience--with someone else that isn't YOU--bothers YOU, then cry somewhere else about it, right? Right.

Hobby or not, paid or not, doesn't matter; we are involved. The editor has been released to us, so, we are involved now.

If SleepWalkR can't handle responding to the public, then maybe he shouldn't have released his editor to the public.

So, having said that, I'm definitely in a position to "throw my bottle out of the pram" as you put it.

I'm not expecting him to drop everything to deal with this issue. If he doesn't want to drop everything to deal with a specific issue, that's fine; then just say so then.

Do I really need to find 100 more people with the same issue to help raise the level of importance on the issue? Do I really need to do that?

It's like websites. You build your website to be compatible on all browsers, otherwise you risk losing a huge chunk of people that would/could/should've used this editor, and could also become part of the community then and assist.

CSG features don't help with that. 
 
"So you're just here to be a dick or ... what?"

Just because I'm here for TrenchBroom only and not for making friends, does not necessarily mean I'm here to be a dick. It just means I'm willing to be a dick if it comes to it. Usually it takes a second person to start the fight though; you know that. You know the expression "takes 2 to tango." 
 
"Hobby or not, paid or not, doesn't matter; we are involved. The editor has been released to us, so, we are involved now.

If SleepWalkR can't handle responding to the public, then maybe he shouldn't have released his editor to the public."

Seriously, what the hell?
The source is open, there's your involvement. 
Lol 
The editor has been released to us, so, we are involved now. We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us. 
 
Hobby or not, paid or not, doesn't matter; we are involved. The editor has been released to us, so, we are involved now.

That is great! Since TrenchBroom is free and open-source software under the GPL3 you can inspect the code, find the bug and write a patch then. I am sure Sleepwalkr would merge it quickly.

Do I really need to find 100 more people with the same issue to help raise the level of importance on the issue? Do I really need to do that?

Yes, of course. Because right now the level of importance seems fairly low. If there are really 101 people who want to map with TrenchBroom but are blocked from that opportunity by this bug, then this would make the bug very important. 
 
Just because I'm here for TrenchBroom only and not for making friends, does not necessarily mean I'm here to be a dick. It just means I'm willing to be a dick if it comes to it. Usually it takes a second person to start the fight though; you know that. You know the expression "takes 2 to tango."

Look, if you come stomping in here all blustering and demanding then you're going to ruffle feathers. You know that, that's why you're doing it. It's got nothing to do with the tango and everything to do with you being a dick.

Being a dick to a guy who spent the last year of his spare time writing a Quake editor which he released for free and is updating on a pretty regular basis. The problem, as it were, is that he's not working on YOUR pet problems. So you're being a dick to him and shitting up his thread.

Nice. You seem like a great guy. 
Make That Three Years ;-) 
 
 
Kinn, your post is fluffed and pointless. Quit wasting your time typing.

I admit my post is completely redundant, because everyone else here already said the same thing that I did. 
 
Make That Three Years ;-)
Oh, well, in that case pull up a chair. I have a list of demands I'd like to scream into your face... :P 
Don't Feed The Troll 
Let him live out his aspergers elsewhere. 
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