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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Not Loading .mdl Files

#51 posted by Lava Croft on 2013/03/02 11:58:17

Maybe I have done something wrong, but TrenchBroom will not find/load any .mdl files from either the Quake paks or the progs folder.

Other than that, this editor is a fantastic piece of work. Now on to adding support for Quake2 and Quake3! :)

What Does It Say On The Console?

#52 posted by SleepwalkR on 2013/03/02 12:01:49

#53 posted by JneeraZ on 2013/03/02 12:02:37

It would be nice if Q2 and Q3 support were segregated well. Most editors wear all the games on their sleeve and it's annoying to see menu options and flags all over the place that don't apply to the game you're editing.

Not Loading .mdl Files

#54 posted by Lava Croft on 2013/03/02 12:13:00

Apparently TrenchBroom selected Quake\id1 instead of just Quake\. Solved!

Not Loading .mdl Files

#55 posted by Lava Croft on 2013/03/02 12:13:35

Actually, it only loaded player.mdl. It did not load anything else...

#56 posted by Spirit on 2013/03/02 12:27:29

Same crash as Quaketree on a Windows 7 with Intel GMA 3150 with ancient drivers. I will reboot into nvidia (it's an optimus system).

#57 posted by Spirit on 2013/03/02 12:35:16

Works fine with the nvidia.

Placing "Preferences" in "View" seems weird to me. "Edit" would be more normal.

Random

#58 posted by Spirit on 2013/03/02 12:43:43

Loading wads quickly says "loaded" in the console but then it stalls for a moment before the wad appears in the list (thumbnails I guess). Maybe add a message, I thought it crashed.

When you have toggled "group" in the wad view, make the wad name clickable and extend it into a list of all the loaded wads to let the user quickly jump to a wad.

Lava Croft

#59 posted by SleepwalkR on 2013/03/02 12:49:49

Please open an issue at the issue tracker and post the console output there.

Willem

#60 posted by SleepwalkR on 2013/03/02 12:50:26

Good point! The interface must adapt to whatever game you are working on.

Sleepwalker

#61 posted by Lava Croft on 2013/03/02 13:25:58

The issue seems solved once I pointed TrenchBroom to Quake\ instead of id1\. I don't recall if I set it to Quake\id1 or if TrenchBroom did. I will stick with my being at fault for now. Thanks a bunch for the editor, awesome work!

TrenchBroom 1.0.2

#62 posted by SleepwalkR on 2013/03/02 13:33:50

Changes
- Fix issues with texture caching when removing wad files.
- Correctly display long spawnflag names.
- Improve clip plane guessing when less than 3 points are available.
- Fix crash when calling "Center Camera on Selection" when nothing is selected.
- Add option to disable instanced rendering.

About the last issue: If the editor goes bonkers when you activate vertex mode, it failed to properly detect whether OpenGL instancing is supported by your driver. In this case, go to the preferences and choose "Force off" from the instancing mode dropdown list.

Thanks everyone for the bug reports.

Addendum

#63 posted by SleepwalkR on 2013/03/02 13:47:07

Also fixed an "off by one" error in the mod list of the map properties dialog.

Unable To Load Mdl

#64 posted by DxC on 2013/03/02 16:40:57

Loading 'progs/player.mdl' (searching C:\Quake\ID1,C:\Quake\ID1)
Unable to find MDL 'progs/player.mdl'

as a example - I saw others fixing it by pointing TrenchBroom to Quake\ instead of id1\ I have no idea how to go about this. So any help or being pointed towards a solution would be great - I am looking forward to using this as been using Quark for so long a change would be wonderful!

Are Your Pak Files All Lowercase?

#65 posted by SleepwalkR on 2013/03/02 16:54:59

And yes, you have to set your Quake directory in the preferences, but it looks okay from the log output. Can you post the contents of your id1 directory please?

Contents

#66 posted by DxC on 2013/03/02 16:59:27

GFX
glquake
MAPS
progs
SOUND

there are the folders

GFX.WAD
PROGS.DAT
QUAKE.RC
qwprogs.dat

Are the side files in the folder also.

Contents

#67 posted by DxC on 2013/03/02 17:05:02

GFX
glquake
MAPS
progs
SOUND

there are the folders

GFX.WAD
PROGS.DAT
QUAKE.RC
qwprogs.dat

Are the side files in the folder also.

There Are No Pak Files

#68 posted by SleepwalkR on 2013/03/02 17:15:23

TrenchBroom will only read models from pak files, not from the directories. You will need the standard pak files.

Contents

#69 posted by DxC on 2013/03/02 17:32:54

GFX
glquake
MAPS
progs
SOUND

there are the folders

GFX.WAD
PROGS.DAT
QUAKE.RC
qwprogs.dat

Are the side files in the folder also.

Two Feature Requests?

#70 posted by quakis on 2013/03/02 17:35:47

Duplicate brush and paste EXACTLY where previous brush is. Just an alternative to copy & paste really. This is super useful to save even a few seconds, no need to align x/y/z when I just need it nudged to the left/right a few times. Pretty sure Radiant/DarkRadiant has this, but it's been a while since I last used them.

Texturing from the texture window without needing a face selected. I choose my texture, and start clicking at random faces and they'll be assigned there. Kind of like WC/Hammer (iirc)

Otherwise, I am loving this editor. Still messing around with it but workflow is pretty fast already. It honestly feels a bit smoother and quicker to use than Radiant varieties I've tried.

Quakis

#71 posted by SleepwalkR on 2013/03/02 17:43:13

Duplicate in place is already on my todo list.

As for the texture application issue, TrenchBroom has something similar builtin. Look at the section "Working with Textures / Mouse Shortcuts" in the documentation.

Dude

#72 posted by RickyT33 on 2013/03/02 18:03:47

I think I'm going to play with this :)

Looks really cool.

Video just blew my mind.

Contents

#73 posted by DxC on 2013/03/02 18:07:19

GFX
glquake
MAPS
progs
SOUND

there are the folders

GFX.WAD
PROGS.DAT
QUAKE.RC
qwprogs.dat

Are the side files in the folder also.

We Get It Dude

#74 posted by oh, that person on 2013/03/02 18:08:18

Thanks!

#75 posted by DxC on 2013/03/02 18:08:33

No idea why it keeps posting that iv even restarted my browser and it still insists on doing so.. >.<

anyway thanks Ill try track down the original Pak files they should not be so hard to find!

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