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OpenRadiant: A Heavily Modified Quake III Level Editor For Any Engine

Posted by kpedersen on 2021/01/02 22:49:26

Hi all,

Level editors for Quake era games such as Worldcraft and QERadiant originally got me interested in game development and even to this day, as a programmer, I find Blender and others a lot less fun than these original tools were. ProBuilder and UE4 brushes got close but I don't find it generic enough to use the same tool for the number of different game engines I typically use.

So as a side project, I decided to considerably hack at the GtkRadiant level editor source code and turn it into a more generic 3D content creation tool. As just one example, rather than read Quake 3 data files, instead it reads from a standard filesystem (as you would expect a normal 3D modeller to do). I have also added a "standard" .obj (wavefront) exporter making it easy to read directly into other modelling tools as part of your build pipeline.

Finally I have replaced the older Q3 lightmap baking stuff (the q3map2 compiler) with my own called "Raptor Bakery" (Or you can use Blender's, Mayas, etc anyway because it exports to .obj).

Basically you can easily port your Quake maps to other engines.

So if you are interested, please check it out. It is free and thought others might enjoy it!

http://thamessoftware.co.uk/openradiant/

Congrats

#1 posted by dumptruck_ds on 2021/01/03 17:48:19

Interesting project. Surprised no one has done this before.

Thanks!

#2 posted by kpedersen on 2021/01/03 20:35:01

I was fairly surprised too. I actually started this project some years ago because I got tired of waiting for someone else to do it!

For a long time I was using it (even in a couple of commercial projects) in a pretty terrible state. I finally got some time over Christmas to polish it up a little.

#3 posted by k20abcu on 2021/01/04 17:18:06

how does the lightmap baking work? Does the program do the unwrapping, and apply it to UV2? how would I use it in Godot, for example, or Urho 3D?

#4 posted by kpedersen on 2021/01/04 19:51:04

Pretty much, it unwraps all the faces, for each fragment it does a ray intersection between each light in the scene and works out the distance, the lights strength and if anything is blocking it.

It is currently set via code to do zero reflections and is multi-threaded so is pretty fast (could even be real time I suppose).

The preview program that it runs to let you test the map then reads this second lightmap in and uses it for shadows. (I have both an OpenGL version and a 100% pure software rendered version I made for a games jam.). If you are familiar with the .obj wavefront format, the lightmap coordinates are stored as an extension as 'vl' entries.

#5 posted by kpedersen on 2021/01/04 19:55:50

Actually I have a nifty video of the software renderer using the generated output here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW6P5hAKeoM

Well

#6 posted by Jaeon on 2021/01/05 04:35:09

I am sure a very few will get use from this but thanks

Sounds Interesting

#7 posted by Cocerello on 2021/01/06 22:06:42

Cannot agree more with the statement about general 3d tools lacking that which some Quake editors have.

#8 posted by oglerau on 2022/01/19 16:52:59

i'm having a lot of fun with this exporting OBJs and then texturing/lighting in Blender. Radiant was always the BEST editor. thank you for this!

Missed It

#11 posted by demoth on 2022/08/05 14:20:31

oh man, that sounds really interesting! There are so many tools now for quake (which is good) that I need a catalog to track them

#12 posted by oglerau on 2022/08/10 15:37:19

it would be nice if you could export not only an OBJ, but also a JSON or XML file containing entity information. kinda like what Tiled does for 2D. plenty of 2D games have no editor and just use Tiled, since it provides general purpose information.

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