Level Creation

Level Design

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

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