Level Creation

Alternative to Hammer Editor for Level design

Aids in nthe process of converting GoldSrc maps into Source maps

This is a modified VBSP that does not delete prop_static entities using models with propdata

Some Dev Texture guides to aid with level creation

Q3 .map to HL2 .vmf converter

Tools supporting the creation of HDR Images for the Engine

Create a custom light style for your goldSrc maps

Creates .Res files for Source games running on a server

Inserts instances into a map

This is an modified version of VHLT v34 by ???? ???? (Uncle Mike) designed for the Xash3D engine (bsp v31)

VSIF2VCD is a command line scenes.image extractor/decompiler.

Multi Game Map Editor that supports Half-life

Update to ZHLT

Modified versions of the tools used in the Map compilation process

Valve Batch Compile tool (VBCT) is a source map Compile tool

Custom DLL that supports transparency in Half-Life for Steam

Entspy is program for viewing and editing the entities of compiled map

A nice tool made in 2015 which can come in handy sometimes when a bsp file is too large and wont work in BSPtoMAP.exe

Rotates selected entity types in a map

Small Tool for extracting Textures from BSPs and into WADs. Includes GUI Versions WinTextract & Textract Suite

Basic Model viewer for GoldSrc

Collection of tools useful for mapping with GoldSrc

Color Correct is a 3DS Max texture plug-in which alters the colors of any texture

The open source, cross platform level editor for id Tech games.

Tools to aid in creation of HDR Targa files (command line)

This tool can help you by grouping the map into VisGroups based on a grid.

Allows you to create interesting 3D shapes without going through all the hassle of vertex manipulation

It is another type of solid which is perfect for creating terrain. A plugin for Hammer

GUI Compiler for Source Maps

Analyzes and reports on errors in the map compilation process

This tool blocks Hammer from converting plane coordinates to integers when exporting .map file and thus enables Hammer to output the original floating point coordinates.

Identifies and archives all dependencies for bsp files.

Valve Map Extractor modified version (Successor to VMEX)

A tool for tweaking hammer settings and using multiple texture profiles

Decompile Source .bsp files into Hammer .vmf files. Successor to VMEX

Open-source library for reading and editing BSP files

Useful tool for extracting the contents of BSP files

Quake Army Knife, multi-purpose tool for games based on or similar to the Quake engine

Valve Map Extractor, Decompile BSP maps for source (original version)

Small utility for helping protect bsp maps

Decompiles some BSP maps with most support for Nightfire 007

Legacy compilation tools for quake

View and Edit the Entity information of a compiled BSP Map

Simple tool for converting world units into Hammer Units

Hack the colors in WorldCraft

fixes the annoying Navigation Mesh was built using a different version of this map

Small application for viewing map files, Superseded by crafty

This project is a prototype map renderer for Half-Life BSP files.

This program will create a half-life2 displacement map from a heightmap image.

Collection of various bspconv exes i have found around the net

Small prefab to help protect your map

Frontend wrapper for netvis

Standalone Compiler for Source Maps

Adjust the light levels in a map

Alternative to Hammer

C# Library for working with BSP files (and other similar file formats).

automatically finds mapfiles to compile in the directory it is run

Contains 3 Tools, BSP_View, BSP_Tool and BSP_Slicer all of which perform useful tasks on Half-Life Maps

This tool is used to create the smallest convex brush containing all points in the input file. Input file can be .smd (use its vertexes), .map (brushes and point entities) or .pts file.

A collection of FGD's for GoldSrc

A graphical interface for creating and editing Half-Life FGD Files.

Worldcraft Hammer Editor Map Compiler is a set of .bat files that make the process of compiling and developing .bsp maps from .vmf files an easy and fun task.

Optimizes the entities in compiled maps, allowing you to include more entities and also reduce network traffic.

A small collection of FGD's for Source

Generates displacements that would usually take an extremely long time, or just be impossible to do in Hammer.

Convert .BSP files to .MAP files & Extract files from .PAK or .SIN files

Great little command line tool for creating a backup of your map during the compile process

The Calliper editor (formerly Crowbar) is designed to be a cross-platform, extensible level editor that accelerates the creation of computer game maps, and is targeted specifically at Source engine games.

HammerMate is a tool I use to save and load the wad texture list for Hammer 3.4 / 3.5.

A tool to generate cl_leveloverview from BSP files

List Maker automatically generates your maplist.txt and mapcycle.txt, it can be further used for making lists outside of Maplist making.

Lists maps for easy maplist.txt

Alternative Map Editor for GoldSrc games

A small VMF to JSON parser

Batch map compiler for GoldSrc

OGLE is a rather amazing 3d tool that can extract shapes from 3d scenes being rendered on a computer screen

A modified version of VBSP designed to greatly increase the maximum width and length of visleaves.

A tool to assist in the compiling of source engine maps

Simplest Pak extractor ever. Just pick a map and click the button

Random SP map generator for Half-Life