Ericw-tools

ericw-tools, also colloquially referred to as EricW's tools, is a set of compilers for Quake-style BSP maps. Originally developed for Quake maps, the latest alpha versions also have full Quake II and experimental GoldSrc support.

Important:Ericw-tools uses Quake II-style lighting keys and entities, rather than Half-Life-style. All entities with the prefix light will be treated as light sources.

• Use _sun to make a light a sunlight. To achieve proper outdoor lighting on MDLs, create a dummy light_environment with the _nostaticlight KV.
• Use mangle to make a light a spotlight.
• Use _surface to make a light a texlight

Trivia

• The maps in the Kex Engine remasters of Quake and Quake II were compiled using ericw-tools, and the finalization of Q2BSP support for ericw-tools was developed in-tandem with the development of the Quake II remaster.

External links

• Official website, downloads, documentation, and source code
  • Documentation for latest dev builds
  • Automated builds of latest development versions