Level Creation

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

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

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

Alternative to Hammer

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

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

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

A tool for compiling maps from VMF to BSP format

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

Collection of tools useful for mapping with GoldSrc

Small collection of obfuscation techniques for maps

Edit light values inside a Maps RAD file

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

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

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

Standalone Compiler for GoldSrc Maps

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

Hack the colors in WorldCraft

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

Editor used for 007 Nightfire map creation

Useful tool for extracting the contents of BSP files

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

Decompile GoldSrc .bsp files into Hammer .map files.

Quake2/3 map surface generator

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

Open-source library for reading and editing BSP files

Random SP 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.

Custom DLL that supports transparency in Half-Life for Steam

A tool for tweaking hammer settings and using multiple texture profiles

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

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

Q3 .map to HL2 .vmf converter

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

Aids in nthe process of converting GoldSrc maps into Source maps

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

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

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

A GUI tool for embedding custom content

Simple tool for converting world units into Hammer Units

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

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

Free, Opensource, drop-in editor replacement for Hammer

Batch files for killing the compile processes

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

Identifies and archives all dependencies for bsp files.

converts Minecraft files into vmf files

GUI frontend for Source compiling tools

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

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

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.

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

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

Standalone Compiler for Source Maps

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

Edit the entities of Source and GoldSrc games

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

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

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

Simple tool to change VTF versions from 7.5 to 7.4

Analyzes and reports on errors in the map compilation process

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.

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

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

Well made Russian Level Editor for GoldSrc

RandMap is a random map generator for Half-Life

Lists maps for easy maplist.txt

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

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

Valve Map Extractor modified version (Successor to VMEX)

A small collection of FGD's for Source

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

Small tool for generating Random Source Maps

Batch compiler for automating Map Compilation

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

Windows interface that frontends the compiling utilities

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.

ZHLT rebuilt and up to date with latest engine build

The Original official mapping utility from Valve