Level Creation

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

Displays all options for, and facilitates, compiling maps for Nightfire

A tool for tweaking hammer settings and using multiple texture profiles

Generate mazes for your level in GoldSrc

Another great tool from RedMser which tracks Hammers compilation progress even when it seems to hang

Map Resource Extractor (MRE) is a small program that reads the VMF, and only copies the content that has been used in the map.

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

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

Generate a random map for Half-Life based on criteria you set in the application

Convert Worldcraft 3.3 Maps into the Radiant Format

Frontend wrapper for netvis

Alternative to Hammer

converts Minecraft files into vmf files

Update to ZHLT

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

Alternative Map Editor for GoldSrc games

A tool to assist in the compiling of source engine maps

Batch files for killing the compile processes

Aids in nthe process of converting GoldSrc maps into Source maps

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

A small collection of FGD's for Source

Small tool for generating Random Source Maps

Small collection of obfuscation techniques for maps

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.

Alternative to Hammer Editor for Level design

Some Dev Texture guides to aid with level creation

DirectX based application to open and view Half Life 1 game files (Source Code)

Used to take source-css console commands and convert them into .vmf-compatible commands.

Batch map compiler for GoldSrc

Find, display, and optionally round floating point plane coordinates in Source engine .vmf files.

Alternative Map Editor mainly used for Quake 2 but compatible with GoldSrc

Create a Map using color information through 2D

Generate forests within your maps based on surface type

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

Batch compile Source and GoldSrc Maps

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

Joiner is a little application that reads in a template .vmf file and produces a new .vmf filled with supports based on your template and customised settings or config.

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

Simple bindings for debugging maps

Create Displacements for your maps

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

hlfix is a tool that converts Worldcraft/VHE format files (.rmf) to standard .map files

Open-source library for reading and editing BSP files

Alternative Map Editor for GoldSrc games

A collection of FGD's for GoldSrc

Simple tool to dump raw data from Valve's map files.

Decrypt files that have been protected with BSPProtect (commandline)

Small prefab to help protect your map

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.

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.

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

Older program used for editing entities within bsp maps

Valve Map Extractor modified version (Successor to VMEX)

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

This is a tool for showing leaks in a map made in WordCraft.

A GUI tool for embedding custom content

This is the barebones program that GFlip uses as it's base

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

Useful tool for extracting the contents of BSP files

Preview a map contained in a BSP file.

Removes entity names from your map and helps prevent people from stealing your work

Identifies and archives all dependencies for bsp files.

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

Analyzes and reports on errors in the map compilation process

View and Edit the Entity information of a compiled BSP Map

Editor used for 007 Nightfire map creation

Random SP map generator for Half-Life

Tool for compiling Maps from hammer

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

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

Custom DLL that supports transparency in Half-Life for Steam

Collection of tools useful for mapping with GoldSrc

The open source, cross platform level editor for idtech games (GTKRadiant fork)

integrates into Hammer and allows conversion of Source Engine units into metric or imperial units.

GUI Compiler for Source Maps

Custom DLL that supports transparency in Half-Life for pre Steam WON

Collection of the main tools required for mapping with GoldSrc

Basic Model viewer for GoldSrc

ZHLT rebuilt and up to date with latest engine build

Simple tool to change VTF versions from 7.5 to 7.4