Level Creation

The Official Editor for Valve Games

The Original official mapping utility from Valve

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

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

Standalone units converter

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

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

Preview a map contained in a BSP file.

A tool for compiling maps from VMF to BSP format

A tool for tweaking hammer settings and using multiple texture profiles

Some Dev Texture guides to aid with level creation

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

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

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

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

Alternative Map Editor for GoldSrc games

Free, Opensource, drop-in editor replacement for Hammer

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

Decrypt files that have been protected with BSPProtect (commandline)

A tool to assist in the compiling of source engine maps

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

Standalone Compiler for Source Maps

Small prefab to help protect your map

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

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

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

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

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

Small collection of obfuscation techniques for maps

View and Edit the Entity information of a compiled BSP Map

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

Collection of tools useful for mapping with GoldSrc

A collection of FGD's for GoldSrc

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

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

RandMap is a random map generator for Half-Life

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.

Open-source library for reading and editing BSP files

Analyzes and reports on errors in the map compilation process

A small collection of FGD's for Source

Collection of various bspconv exes i have found around the net

Simple bindings for debugging maps

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

Adjust the light levels in a map

Generate mazes for your level in GoldSrc

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

Q3 .map to HL2 .vmf converter

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

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

Lists maps for easy maplist.txt

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

automatically finds mapfiles to compile in the directory it is run

Generates Terrain for Games

Tools supporting the creation of HDR Images for the Engine

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

Modified Compiler with support for large models and textures

Useful tool for extracting the contents of BSP files

Editor used for 007 Nightfire map creation

Custom DLL that supports transparency in Half-Life for Steam

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

Hack the colors in WorldCraft

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.

Quake2/3 map surface generator

Collection of the main tools required for mapping with GoldSrc

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

Valve Map Extractor modified version (Successor to VMEX)

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

GUI Compiler for Source Maps

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

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

Small utility for helping protect bsp maps

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

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

Alternative Map Editor for GoldSrc games

Rotates selected entity types in a map

GUI frontend for Source compiling tools

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

A tool to generate cl_leveloverview from BSP files

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

Compiler and Decompiler rolled into one tool