Level Creation

Multi Game Map Editor that supports Half-life

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

Open-source library for reading and editing BSP files

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

ZHLT rebuilt and up to date with latest engine build

A small collection of FGD's for Source

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

A tool to generate cl_leveloverview from BSP files

GUI frontend for Source compiling tools

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

Small collection of obfuscation techniques for maps

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

Create an easily readable version of an FGD (commandline)

Modified Compiler with support for large models and textures

Some Dev Texture guides to aid with level creation

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

This program adds custom content to a BSP. It is a GUI version of Valve's bspzip.

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

The Official Editor for Valve Games

Modify the entities of a .map file by editing its text

A GUI tool for embedding custom content

Preview a map contained in a BSP file.

A collection of JavaScript functions to load Goldsource and Source map files and render them. Not an editor.

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

automatically finds mapfiles to compile in the directory it is run

Preview a map contained in a BSP file.

Edit the entities of Source and GoldSrc games

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

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

Decrypt files that have been protected with BSPProtect (commandline)

This is a tool I made to create huge forests in Source maps (It should work with any source game!)

Collection of the main tools required for mapping with GoldSrc

Decompile GoldSrc .bsp files into Hammer .map files.

Compiler and Decompiler rolled into one tool

Small tool for generating Random Source Maps

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

BSP2OBJ is a command-line utility capable of converting Quake, Quake 2 and Half-Life map files into OBJ meshes

Well made Russian Level Editor for GoldSrc

Tool for compiling Maps from hammer

Tools supporting the creation of HDR Images for the Engine

This program will help you to manage all your customs files, for your maps , texture, models or mods

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

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.

Standalone units converter

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

Editor used for 007 Nightfire map creation

Batch map compiler for GoldSrc

Batch files for killing the compile processes

Aids in nthe process of converting GoldSrc maps into Source maps

View and Edit the Entity information of a compiled BSP Map

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

Alternative Map Editor for GoldSrc games

A slimmed down copy of the Source SDK 2013 map compile tools

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

Generate mazes for your level in GoldSrc

Rotates selected entity types in a map

Create a Map using color information through 2D

Quake2/3 map surface generator

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

Identifies and archives all dependencies for bsp files.

This is Badger. It's a tool to generate levels for Half-Life 2, Black Mesa.

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

a 3D Shape Generator for the Quake & Half-Life Map Format

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

Collection of tools useful for mapping with GoldSrc

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.

Legacy compilation tools for quake

Basic Model viewer for GoldSrc

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

Batch compiler for automating Map Compilation

A tool for compiling maps from VMF to BSP format

Generates Terrain for Games

Free, Opensource, drop-in editor replacement for Hammer

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

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

converts Minecraft files into vmf files

Crafty is a 3D object, material, model and file browsing utility for Source & GoldSrc Maps.

Standalone Compiler for GoldSrc Maps

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

The only native Mac OS X level editor for Quake 1

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

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

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

A tool for tweaking hammer settings and using multiple texture profiles

Small prefab to help protect your map

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

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

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

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

Batch compile Source and GoldSrc Maps

Standalone Compiler for Source Maps

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

Older free for personal use version of Terragen for sculpting landscapes

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.

Modified versions of the tools used in the Map compilation process

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

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

Random SP map generator for Half-Life

Modification of Source Valve Hammer Editor to fix some issues. Fixes brush vertex precision loss.

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

Convert Worldcraft 3.3 Maps into the Radiant Format

Lists maps for easy maplist.txt

Small utility for helping protect bsp maps

RandMap is a random map generator for Half-Life

Adjust the light levels in a map

Small application for viewing map files, Superseded by crafty

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

Inserts instances into a map

Map viewer for Valve's GoldSrc engine (needs to be compiled)

C# library that will parse Quake/Half-Life MAP files

A tool to assist in the compiling of source engine maps

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

This program is a little tool for those that like the Half-Life game, with
its amazing kind of enemies and weapons.

Edit light values inside a Maps RAD file

Creates .Res files for Source games running on a server

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

Alternative to Hammer Editor for Level design

Q3 .map to HL2 .vmf converter

GUI Compiler for Source Maps

Frontend wrapper for netvis

Simple bindings for debugging maps

Collection of various bspconv exes i have found around the net

Similar to ZHLT for Goldsrc, it speeds up compilation for Source

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

Update to ZHLT

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.

A collection of FGD's for GoldSrc

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

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

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

The Original official mapping utility from Valve

Alternative to Hammer

Analyzes and reports on errors in the map compilation process

GUI Compiler for Half-Life Maps

Generate forests within your maps based on surface type

A small VMF to JSON parser

Alternative Map Editor for GoldSrc games

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

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.

Create a custom light style for your goldSrc maps

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

Great little application for viewing skys used in game

Simple tool for converting world units into Hammer Units

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

Windows interface that frontends the compiling utilities

Valve Map Extractor modified version (Successor to VMEX)

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

this will pack every custom item into your map up to and including map over views

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

Custom DLL that supports transparency in Half-Life for Steam

Create Displacements for your maps

Simple tool to change VTF versions from 7.5 to 7.4

Convert maps between Quake3 and Half-Life

Hack the colors in WorldCraft

Useful tool for extracting the contents of BSP files

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

Decompiles some BSP maps with most support for Nightfire 007

makes textfiles to go with your overview pictures from Half-Life maps.