TrenchBroom

TrenchBroom is a modern cross-platform level editor for Quake-engine based games.

• Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shcAvnYp9ow
• Website: https://github.com/TrenchBroom/TrenchBroom
• Discord: https://discord.gg/WGf9uve
• Mastodon: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@trenchbroom
• Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/trenchbroom.bsky.social
• Video Tutorial Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgDKRPte5Y0AZ_K_PZbWbgBAEt5xf74aE
• Manual: https://trenchbroom.github.io/manual/latest

Features

• General
• Full support for editing in 3D and in up to three 2D views
• High performance renderer with support for huge maps
• Unlimited Undo and Redo
• Macro-like command repetition
• Issue browser with automatic quick fixes
• Point file support
• Automatic backups
• .obj file export
• Free and cross platform
• Brush Editing
• Robust vertex editing with edge and face splitting and manipulating multiple vertices together
• Clipping tool with two and three points
• Scaling and shearing tools
• CSG operations: merge, subtract, intersect
• UV view for easy texture manipulations
• Precise texture lock for all brush editing operations
• Multiple material collections
• Entity Editing
• Entity browser with drag and drop support
• Support for FGD and DEF files for entity definitions
• Mod support
• Entity link visualization
• Displays 3D models in the editor
• Smart entity property editors
• Supported Games
• Quake (Standard and Valve 220 file formats)
• Quake 2
• Quake 3 (partial, no patches or brush primitives yet)
• Hexen 2
• Daikatana
• Generic (for custom engines)
• More games can be supported with custom game configurations

Releases

Binary builds are available from releases.

Compiling

Read BUILD.md for instructions.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for more information.

Credits

• Qt
• FreeType
• FreeImage
• TinyXML
• miniz
• Assimp
• Catch2
• CMake
• vcpkg
• Pandoc
• Quake icons by Th3 ProphetMan
• Hexen 2 icon by thedoctor45
• Source Sans Pro font

Changes

See releases for latest changes.