Jackhammer is a brand new level editor for games with a quake-style BSP architecture (Half-Life, Quake, Quake II, Quake III, Gunman Chronicles). The aim is to develop a convenient cross-platform tool capable of incorporating the best features of existing editors, such as Valve Hammer Editor, Q3Radiant and others. Despite Quake and Half-Life having been released a long time ago, the large community have arisen around, still developing mods and games on their bases. However the existing editors suffer from fundamental disadvantages their users are well familiar with. Jackhammer does aspire to be the universal level design tool for classic games. But not only the classics! The editor shall become a key development tool for the Volatile3D II engine, that is why its second name is Volatile Development Kit.
I am glad to present the latest public beta - version 1.1.700 (changelog). Despite not all the ideas being implemented and not all the functions being completely error-free, you are already able to download almost fully functional version of the editor, install and evaluate Jackhammer in action. Please don't forget that beta may still contain some issues. I am interested in a vast testing of the editor and grateful in advance for your comments and suggestions! Visit the official website for more information.
Copyright notice: Jackhammer is not based upon any existing level design software; it uses neither any proprietary code nor results of decompiling and/or reverse engineering of the proprietary software; reconstruction of design and functionality of VHE is intent because many modders got used to the familiar look and feel.
Thanks XaeroX, really cool update.
You are welcome.:)
an hammer that included features from hl1 hammer and hl2 hammer and options to addons such as cs:go or portal 2 would be very cool tho.
Does it work with Return to Castle Wolfenstein? I mean, if it works with Quake 3, it should, right? :o
Yes, it should, although some RTCW-specific q3map2 compile options are to be specified, to output RTCW map instead of Q3.
this is much easier than Valve Hammer, finally i managed to created something! Thanks XaeroX! :D