Level Creation

Level Design

Name / Purpose	Rating		Engine
Source Compile Analyzer Analyzes and reports on errors in the map compilation process
Half Life Automap Generate a random map for Half-Life based on criteria you set in the application
HL Labyrinth generator This program is a little tool for those that like the Half-Life game, with its amazing kind of enemies and weapons.
Vmex Valve Map Extractor, Decompile BSP maps for source (original version)
BSP Edit View and Edit the Entity information of a compiled BSP Map
Hammer Units Converter (HUC) Standalone units converter
VTF Version Changer Simple tool to change VTF versions from 7.5 to 7.4
Auto Compiler automatically finds mapfiles to compile in the directory it is run
Compile Pal A tool to assist in the compiling of source engine maps
BSP View Preview a map contained in a BSP file.
VBSP h4xed A modified version of VBSP designed to greatly increase the maximum width and length of visleaves.
BSP-Slicer A tool to generate cl_leveloverview from BSP files
Quake Tools Legacy Legacy compilation tools for quake
Sledge Editor Free, Opensource, drop-in editor replacement for Hammer
Twister Generates displacements that would usually take an extremely long time, or just be impossible to do in Hammer.
BSP2MAP Decompile GoldSrc .bsp files into Hammer .map files.
Map Compiler Plugin - Nightfire Displays all options for, and facilitates, compiling maps for Nightfire
HDRVTF Tools supporting the creation of HDR Images for the Engine
vmf parser A small VMF to JSON parser
Plan Shape a 3D Shape Generator for the Quake & Half-Life Map Format
Vgroup (Auto VisGroup'er) This tool can help you by grouping the map into VisGroups based on a grid.
Half-Life SpawnPointEditor This is the barebones program that GFlip uses as it's base
Terragen Older free for personal use version of Terragen for sculpting landscapes
JPHL Map Maker Alternative Map Editor for GoldSrc games
Net Radiant The open source, cross platform level editor for idtech games (GTKRadiant fork)
Valve Hammer Editor Compiler Standalone Compiler for GoldSrc Maps
opt_entdata Optimizes the entities in compiled maps, allowing you to include more entities and also reduce network traffic.
Toolbox Lux RAD Editor Edit light values inside a Maps RAD file
BSP Lib Open-source library for reading and editing BSP files
Half-Life BSP Tools 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
BSP Source Decompile Source .bsp files into Hammer .vmf files. Successor to VMEX
BSPConv Collection of various bspconv exes i have found around the net
BSP Unprotect Decrypt files that have been protected with BSPProtect (commandline)
Instant Lammer Editor Well made Russian Level Editor for GoldSrc
Make VMF Q3 .map to HL2 .vmf converter
MapFool Aids in nthe process of converting GoldSrc maps into Source maps
Hammer unit converter integrates into Hammer and allows conversion of Source Engine units into metric or imperial units.
Custom FGDs GoldSrc A collection of FGD's for GoldSrc
EntEd Edit the entities of Source and GoldSrc games
Gear Craft Editor used for 007 Nightfire map creation
Quake Scene Builder Basic Model viewer for GoldSrc
Automap Random SP map generator for Half-Life
Joiner 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.
Vert Alert Find, display, and optionally round floating point plane coordinates in Source engine .vmf files.
RES File Maker Creates .Res files for Source games running on a server
Revolver Allows you to create interesting 3D shapes without going through all the hassle of vertex manipulation
BSP Level Editor Alternative to Hammer
Cancel Compile Batch files for killing the compile processes
Calliper 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.
BSP Pak Extractor Simplest Pak extractor ever. Just pick a map and click the button
HL Compiled Batch compiler for automating Map Compilation
bsparchive Identifies and archives all dependencies for bsp files.
Super Half-Life Tools Update to ZHLT
Map Lister Lists maps for easy maplist.txt
leakmarker This is a tool for showing leaks in a map made in WordCraft.
VIS2VCD VSIF2VCD is a command line scenes.image extractor/decompiler.
U Need A Unit Simple tool for converting world units into Hammer Units
VMF Instance Inserter Inserts instances into a map
Half Life Game Level Viewer DirectX based application to open and view Half Life 1 game files (Source Code)
ZPackager this will pack every custom item into your map up to and including map over views
BSP Tools Contains 3 Tools, BSP_View, BSP_Tool and BSP_Slicer all of which perform useful tasks on Half-Life Maps
ToolBox Editor (Quake Engine Map File Text Editor) Modify the entities of a .map file by editing its text
DispEd Create Displacements for your maps
Uncle Mike's VHLT This is an modified version of VHLT v34 by ???? ???? (Uncle Mike) designed for the Xash3D engine (bsp v31)
Mappers Pack Collection of the main tools required for mapping with GoldSrc
BSP Viewer Preview a map contained in a BSP file.
Color Correct Color Correct is a 3DS Max texture plug-in which alters the colors of any texture
Zoners Half-Life Tools (ZHLT) Modified versions of the tools used in the Map compilation process
Hammer VMF Helper Used to take source-css console commands and convert them into .vmf-compatible commands.
Transparency DLL for STEAM Half-Life Custom DLL that supports transparency in Half-Life for Steam
Orbital Studio Batch Compiler Batch map compiler for GoldSrc
Tread3D Multi Game Map Editor that supports Half-life
Sledge JS A collection of JavaScript functions to load Goldsource and Source map files and render them. Not an editor.
Map Protections Small collection of obfuscation techniques for maps
HammerMate HammerMate is a tool I use to save and load the wad texture list for Hammer 3.4 / 3.5.
Worldcraft Hammer Editor Map Compiler 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.
QE Radiant Alternative Map Editor mainly used for Quake 2 but compatible with GoldSrc
Xash studiomdl Modified Compiler with support for large models and textures
FGD Wikifier Create an easily readable version of an FGD (commandline)
Valve Batch Compile Tool Valve Batch Compile tool (VBCT) is a source map Compile tool
Tree Planter This is a tool I made to create huge forests in Source maps (It should work with any source game!)
WinBSPzip This program adds custom content to a BSP. It is a GUI version of Valve's bspzip.
Enigmas FGD Creator A graphical interface for creating and editing Half-Life FGD Files.
WorldCraft The Original official mapping utility from Valve
Valve Batch Compile Tool Standalone Compiler for Source Maps
GenSurf Quake2/3 map surface generator
Nem's Mega 3D Terrain Generator Generates Terrain for Games
HLFix hlfix is a tool that converts Worldcraft/VHE format files (.rmf) to standard .map files
Half-Life Quake3 Map Converter Convert maps between Quake3 and Half-Life
Dispgen This program will create a half-life2 displacement map from a heightmap image.
lumpystuff Simple tool to dump raw data from Valve's map files.
Mapping Tools Collection of tools useful for mapping with GoldSrc
Vmex Mod Valve Map Extractor modified version (Successor to VMEX)
GTK Radiant The open source, cross platform level editor for id Tech games.
Compile Tracker Another great tool from RedMser which tracks Hammers compilation progress even when it seems to hang
VBSP - prop_static Fix This is a modified VBSP that does not delete prop_static entities using models with propdata
EntSpy Entspy is program for viewing and editing the entities of compiled map
Hammer Patch Modification of Source Valve Hammer Editor to fix some issues. Fixes brush vertex precision loss.
Custom Source Tools Similar to ZHLT for Goldsrc, it speeds up compilation for Source
Overview Description Generator makes textfiles to go with your overview pictures from Half-Life maps.
Random Map Creator RandMap is a random map generator for Half-Life
TCG - Batch Compile GUI GUI frontend for Source compiling tools
Transparency DLL for WON Half-Life Custom DLL that supports transparency in Half-Life for pre Steam WON
Hammer Floating Point Tool 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.
Hammer The Official Editor for Valve Games
SlimBSP A slimmed down copy of the Source SDK 2013 map compile tools
Batch Compiler Batch compile Source and GoldSrc Maps
Source Map Generator Small tool for generating Random Source Maps
Badger This is Badger. It's a tool to generate levels for Half-Life 2, Black Mesa.
Map Resource Extractor Map Resource Extractor (MRE) is a small program that reads the VMF, and only copies the content that has been used in the map.
Source Map compiler GUI GUI Compiler for Source Maps
RipEnt Older program used for editing entities within bsp maps
UComplier Compiler and Decompiler rolled into one tool
QUARK Quake Army Knife, multi-purpose tool for games based on or similar to the Quake engine
BSP2OBJ BSP2OBJ is a command-line utility capable of converting Quake, Quake 2 and Half-Life map files into OBJ meshes
Trimesh It is another type of solid which is perfect for creating terrain. A plugin for Hammer
Map Viewer Small application for viewing map files, Superseded by crafty
Map Obfuscator (IID) Removes entity names from your map and helps prevent people from stealing your work
Nightfire BSP Decompiler Decompiles some BSP maps with most support for Nightfire 007
Nav Fixer fixes the annoying Navigation Mesh was built using a different version of this map
Map Performance Menu Simple bindings for debugging maps
Mapster Frontend wrapper for netvis
MicroBrush Alternative to Hammer Editor for Level design
Forest Generator Generate forests within your maps based on surface type
Map Backup Great little command line tool for creating a backup of your map during the compile process
WinBSPc Convert .BSP files to .MAP files & Extract files from .PAK or .SIN files
BSP Library C# Library for working with BSP files (and other similar file formats).
Hammer Launcher A tool for tweaking hammer settings and using multiple texture profiles
Maplist Generator List Maker automatically generates your maplist.txt and mapcycle.txt, it can be further used for making lists outside of Maplist making.
MazeGenTool Generate mazes for your level in GoldSrc
Prop Rotate Rotates selected entity types in a map
Sky Viewer Great little application for viewing skys used in game
WorldCraft Color Editor Hack the colors in WorldCraft
wc33mapconv Convert Worldcraft 3.3 Maps into the Radiant Format
Map Protector Small prefab to help protect your map
Custom Batch File Manager This program will help you to manage all your customs files, for your maps , texture, models or mods
Map Parse C# library that will parse Quake/Half-Life MAP files
Half-Life Level Compilation Controller (HLCC) Tool for compiling Maps from hammer
BSP Viewer - Solokiller This project is a prototype map renderer for Half-Life BSP files.
Custom FGDs Source A small collection of FGD's for Source
Textract Small Tool for extracting Textures from BSPs and into WADs. Includes GUI Versions WinTextract & Textract Suite
The Compilator GUI Compiler for Half-Life Maps
Map Extractor Useful tool for extracting the contents of BSP files
OGLE the OpenGLExtractor OGLE is a rather amazing 3d tool that can extract shapes from 3d scenes being rendered on a computer screen
Crafty Crafty is a 3D object, material, model and file browsing utility for Source & GoldSrc Maps.
GoldSrc Map Viewer Map viewer for Valve's GoldSrc engine (needs to be compiled)
Custom Lightstyle Generator Create a custom light style for your goldSrc maps
VNIX Map Protector Small utility for helping protect bsp maps
Custom ZHLT by vluzacn (VHLT) ZHLT rebuilt and up to date with latest engine build
ToeTag The only native Mac OS X level editor for Quake 1
SourceCraft converts Minecraft files into vmf files
Q2 Beaver Windows interface that frontends the compiling utilities
Maplist Generator List Maker automatically generates your maplist.txt and mapcycle.txt, it can be further used for making lists outside of Maplist making.
JackHammer Alternative Map Editor for GoldSrc games
Mapping Dev Texture Guides Some Dev Texture guides to aid with level creation
Map Analyst (MAN) A GUI tool for embedding custom content
Darkulator Adjust the light levels in a map
HDR Targa Tools Tools to aid in creation of HDR Targa files (command line)
DrawMap Create a Map using color information through 2D
Hazard Team Compile Tool A tool for compiling maps from VMF to BSP format
BrushGen 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.

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