J.A.C.K. 1.1.1212 Available in Steam Store
News 25 commentsJ.A.C.K. (previously known as Jackhammer) is a brand new level editor for games with a quake-style BSP architecture (Half-Life, Quake, Hexen II, Quake...
J.A.C.K.: My Favorite Level Editor
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You are an old-school level designer, or just decided to become one, but tired of limitations of Valve Hammer Editor? Radiant seems to be too complex and unusual? Wanna use new cool features? Seeking for a user-friendly level editor for Half-Life, Quake, Quake II, or Quake III? It's time to test our new level editor, J.A.C.K., previously known as Jackhammer, in action! News, updates, tutorials, discussions and much more.
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Half-Life: Dead Zone page on ModDB
Half-Life: Dead ZoneHere is the Half-Life: Dead Zone mod for Half-Life 1 on ModDB page.
How did I make this absurdly large map fit Half-Life?
XDM 8 commentsUnsettling results of benchmarking XDM on a slow machine. Is it really that bad?
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J.A.C.K. major update: 1.1.2800
Perilous Warp 8 commentsNew versions of J.A.C.K. editor have been in beta status for ages, and now the time has come to publish a major update for all our users!
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I hope this doesnt sound rude but are there any plans to like ever open source J.A.C.K? it could really help to contribute to J.A.C.K and add new features quicker, as well as help this project which is rewritten goldsrc like engine from scratch but has issue of J.A.C.K not being opensource to add new model support to it Github.com Many thanks if it ever happens
I have a question, at this point do you think its worth learning to mod Half-Life 1? Like it looks super fun to be able to inject your creativity into essentially making your own HL game, which is awesome. But is it JUST that, or are the skills at using JACK and Milkshape and all that non transferrable and redundant?
I'm just wondering, cos id LOVE SO MUCH to make a HL1 mod, a very ambitious one probably knowing me. But I have almost no experience, last time I made a map it was like 20 yrs ago on Worldcraft (anyone even remember that?) and recently ive just been learning about reskinning models and the amazing fact Half lifes folders are malleable, you can just move and rename stuff and have aliens as scientists or you can take models from mods and change up the whole game to your choosing. Thats dope. Anyway, what you guys think about learning JACK now?
Both Freeware and Steam versions have been updated to 1.1.3773!
Store.steampowered.com
Jack.hlfx.ru
Any plugin API references?
Nope, not yet.
Dang! Really excited to have plugins in J.A.C.K tho.
Any updates on the horizon?
epic like EPIC like VERY EPIC, a lot better than hammer
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Still no non-steam version :(
...just download the version from the J.A.C.K. official site?
The Windows download for J.A.C.K. on the official site just downloads an HTML file, not the actual program.
Download it from the Valve Developer Union