Resources:Tools

This page is work in progress!

Besides Radiant a mapper requires many other tools: image editors, sound editors, text editors and so on.

Image tools

NormalMapper for mac

[Download from Custom Map Makers]

Terrain generation

Terragen

Terragen classic is a windows or mac only application. The good news is that the app works perfectly well under wine so Linux users can use it also. The classic version is a free download though a little limited in it's rendering dimensions, it's fully functional and worth a try.

Download from [Terragen Official Site]

For more information about how to use Terragen to make skyboxes for your map, see the topic Making sky box images with Terragen

Misc tools

FFMPEG

ffmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to convert audio and video. There are versions for Windows, mac and Linux.

It's a command line tool which may deter some people but if you need to convert video to .roq (the format used in q3 maps) there's very little else available.

ffmpeg can also be used to convert audio formats to the 22k wav format required for Urban Terror maps.

• How to make ROQ video files with FFMPEG

PovRay

Povray is a command line ray tracer capable of producing amazing output with a few simple text files. PovRay can be used for the following

• Make scenery, there is a city scape macro
• Make foliage
• Make skyboxes

You can download PovRay freely for all platforms, the current version is 3.6 [PovRay Download Page]

For more information about making skyboxes with PovRay see the topic Making sky box images with PovRay