Tag: level design
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ask: level design tools besides scythe
Honestly, not really. Trenchbroom is a good level design tool, but it’s for BSP based engines where the “turn it into mesh” step is a compile to .bsp, so that’s not very generally applicable. If we’re talking level design tools that output mesh you could use anywhere, there’s basically two: Scythe and Source 2’s Hammer,…
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being a level design tooling squeaky wheel: through the ages
It’s now been over 10 years since I started getting a reputation for bitching and moaning about the state of Level Design Tools, starting with my first talk-into-mic youtube video, Level Editing In UE4 Needs To Catch Up To Quake 1, and then a bit later the wider-ranging sequel Ruminations Upon The Insidious Ubiquity Of…
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I/O systems for level scripting
This week I built a Source Engine style input/output (I/O) system for level scripting in Sleight of Hand, and if you don’t know what that is or means, you have that in common with most game developers. (Update: It is now available). It’s an astonishingly useful thing to have on any game with level scripting…
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scything around, 12/04/25
I am once again aimlessly enjoying the Unreal level design tool Scythe, which I get to test early builds of. Here’s 40 minutes or so’s messing around today using Half-Life: Alyx textures. It’s really a lot of fun.
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further adventures in scythe
I continue to spend time screwing around in Scythe. It’s so fun to finally be making maps again properly in Unreal. Some of the folks in my discord took to scything on stream and a couple times a bunch of us have just chatted and scythed, it’s a good vibe. All this stuff took no…
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adventures in scythe
I’ve been messing around in the aforementioned Scythe level editing tool for UE5, here’s some of what I’ve been doin’
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a good level design tool finally came out
I’ve been testing a friend’s WIP level design plugin for Unreal for a while now, and while it’s still very early, it’s available now on Patreon and you should support it there. It’s bringing Source 2 style geometry editing to Unreal, allowing level design to properly be a thing again, and I made a video…
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half-life alyx’s level design tools are super great
On Twitter once I did a big thread where I went through Half-Life Alyx’s SDK – so this is Source 2 – and had a big ol’ yarn about ’em. That thread turned into a useful resource for some folks, so I made it a Cohost post, and now Cohost is going away so here…
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ask: level design tools
i have many such opinions but i’ve spent so much time expressing them over the years that i’ve somewhat burned out on it. being extremely correct is not in itself very satisfying