Level Creation

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

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.

Inserts instances into a map

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

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

Hack the colors in WorldCraft

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

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

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.

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

Create Displacements for your maps

A collection of FGD's for GoldSrc

Alternative to Hammer Editor for Level design

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

Simple bindings for debugging maps

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

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

Custom DLL that supports transparency in Half-Life for Steam

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

Tools supporting the creation of HDR Images for the Engine

Older program used for editing entities within bsp maps

Preview a map contained in a BSP file.

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

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

Rotates selected entity types in a map

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

Create an easily readable version of an FGD (commandline)

Q3 .map to HL2 .vmf converter

The Original official mapping utility from Valve

Basic Model viewer for GoldSrc

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

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.

GUI Compiler for Half-Life Maps

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

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

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

ZHLT rebuilt and up to date with latest engine build

Small application for viewing map files, Superseded by crafty

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

Standalone units converter

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

Edit light values inside a Maps RAD file

Valve Map Extractor modified version (Successor to VMEX)

Batch files for killing the compile processes

Update to ZHLT

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

Well made Russian Level Editor for GoldSrc

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

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

Older free for personal use version of Terragen for sculpting landscapes

Tool for compiling Maps from hammer

Free, Opensource, drop-in editor replacement for Hammer

Generates Terrain for Games

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

Alternative Map Editor for GoldSrc games

Modified Compiler with support for large models and textures

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

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

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

Convert maps between Quake3 and Half-Life

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

Random SP map generator for Half-Life

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

Alternative to Hammer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A tool for tweaking hammer settings and using multiple texture profiles

Batch compiler for automating Map Compilation

Frontend wrapper for netvis

Small utility for helping protect bsp maps

Alternative Map Editor for GoldSrc games

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.

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

Decrypt files that have been protected with BSPProtect (commandline)

Standalone Compiler for Source Maps