ericwa / Ericw Tools

ericw-tools

• Website: http://ericwa.github.io/ericw-tools
• Maintainer: Eric Wasylishen (AKA ericw)
• Email: [email protected]

Original tyurtils:

• Website: http://disenchant.net
• Author: Kevin Shanahan (AKA Tyrann)
• Email: [email protected]

About

ericw-tools is a branch of Tyrann's quake 1 tools, focused on adding lighting features, mostly borrowed from q3map2. There are a few bugfixes for qbsp as well. Original readme follows:

A collection of command line utilities for building Quake levels and working with various Quake file formats. I need to work on the documentation a bit more, but below are some brief descriptions of the tools.

Included utilities:

• qbsp - Used for turning a .map file into a playable .bsp file.

• light - Used for lighting a level after the bsp stage. This util was previously known as TyrLite

• vis - Creates the potentially visible set (PVS) for a bsp.

• bspinfo - Print stats about the data contained in a bsp file.

• bsputil - Simple tool for manipulation of bsp file data

See the doc/ directory for more detailed descriptions of the various tools capabilities. See changelog.md for a brief overview of recent changes or https://github.com/ericwa/ericw-tools for the full changelog and source code.

Compiling

Requires CMake 2.8, groff, and a compiler with C99 and C++11 support.
Embree v2.10.0+ is required (sorry, no Embree 3.x support right now). The Thread Building Blocks (tbb) library (Embree dependency) may be required.

Tested on:

• Ubuntu 14.04 / Clang 3.5.0
• Ubuntu 14.04 / gcc 4.8.4
• OS X 10.11 / Xcode 7.3
• Windows 10 / Visual Studio 2013, 2019 Community

Ubuntu 14.04 x86_64

sudo apt-get install git cmake build-essential groff

git clone https://github.com/ericwa/ericw-tools
cd ericw-tools

mkdir build
cd build

wget https://github.com/embree/embree/releases/download/v2.17.5/embree-2.17.5.x86_64.linux.tar.gz -O embree.tgz
tar xf embree.tgz
sudo apt-get install libtbb2

cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -Dembree_DIR="$(pwd)/embree-2.17.5.x86_64.linux"
make -j8 VERBOSE=1

Executables will be located in:

• ericw-tools/build/qbsp/qbsp
• ericw-tools/build/vis/vis
• ericw-tools/build/light/light
• ericw-tools/build/bspinfo/bspinfo
• ericw-tools/build/bsputil/bsputil

Credits

• Kevin Shanahan (AKA Tyrann) for the original tyrutils
• id Software (original release of these tools is at https://github.com/id-Software/quake-tools)
• rebb (ambient occlusion, qbsp improvements)
• q3map2 authors (AO, sunlight2, penumbra, deviance are from q3map2)
• Spike (hexen 2 support, phong shading, various features)
• MH (surface lights based on MHColour)
• mfx, sock, Lunaran (testing)
• Thanks to users at func_msgboard for feedback and testing

License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

Builds using Embree are licensed under GPLv3+ for compatibility with the Apache license.