Level Creation

Identifies and archives all dependencies for bsp files.

Decrypt files that have been protected with BSPProtect (commandline)

Standalone units converter

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

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

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

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

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

Lists maps for easy maplist.txt

Small collection of obfuscation techniques for maps

Older program used for editing entities within bsp maps

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

Basic Model viewer for GoldSrc

Quake2/3 map surface generator

Simple tool for converting world units into Hammer Units

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

Valve Map Extractor modified version (Successor to VMEX)

RandMap is a random map generator for Half-Life

Free, Opensource, drop-in editor replacement for Hammer

Hack the colors in WorldCraft

Tools supporting the creation of HDR Images for the Engine

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

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.

Multi Game Map Editor that supports Half-life

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

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

Alternative to Hammer

Useful tool for extracting the contents of BSP files

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

Inserts instances into a map

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

Collection of various bspconv exes i have found around the net

Decompile GoldSrc .bsp files into Hammer .map files.

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

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

Convert maps between Quake3 and Half-Life

converts Minecraft files into vmf files

Batch files for killing the compile processes

Small prefab to help protect your map

Batch compiler for automating Map Compilation

Simple tool to change VTF versions from 7.5 to 7.4

Generate mazes for your level in GoldSrc

Analyzes and reports on errors in the map compilation process

Batch map compiler for GoldSrc

Standalone Compiler for Source Maps

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

Editor used for 007 Nightfire map creation

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

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

Update to ZHLT

automatically finds mapfiles to compile in the directory it is run

Small application for viewing map files, Superseded by crafty

Well made Russian Level Editor for GoldSrc

Q3 .map to HL2 .vmf converter

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

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

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

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

Alternative to Hammer Editor for Level design

Adjust the light levels in a map

View and Edit the Entity information of a compiled BSP Map

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

Alternative Map Editor for GoldSrc games

Modified versions of the tools used in the Map compilation process

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

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

A collection of FGD's for GoldSrc

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

The Official Editor for Valve Games

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

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

Modified Compiler with support for large models and textures

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

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

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

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.

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

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

A small VMF to JSON parser

Simple bindings for debugging maps