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TyrUtils

Here I have packaged together the set of utilities I use for making my Quake maps. Brief descriptions below:

light - A modified version of id's original light tool. Used for lighting a level after the bsp stage. This util is also known as TyrLite; see the included tyrlite.txt for detailed usage instructions.
vis - Standard vis util; creates the potentially visible set (PVS) for a bsp. This version had been slightly modified from id's version to reduce the compile time a little.
bspinfo - Simple util to print out some stats about the data contained in a bsp file.
bsputil - Tool for working with a bsp file. Not sure where this one is going, but for now all it can do is extract the entities lump from a bsp file into a text file. Might add a bsp -> wad extractor at some stage too.
qbsp - A modified version of Greg Lewis' TreeQBSP, which is in turn based on id's original qbsp tool. Used for turning a .map file into a playable .bsp file.

Current version: 0.4

The current development code is now kept in a Git repository.

git://disenchant.net/tyrutils (also browseable via the gitweb interface)

Other Stuff

Here's some other useful stuff. I didn't make these, but I'm providing a download here because over time they have become more difficult to find as their creators have abandoned them.

BSP - This is the editor I use to make all my maps. It has it's share of problems, but I'm so used to it that it never really holds me back. Long since abandoned by the author, there will be no more updates. You can download the last version that Yahn released here:

BSP v0.93b

Update 2006-07-02 - Someone else (Ben) who managed to get a copy of the source code from Yahn has decided to continue to work on the editor. Visit the re-incarnated BSP Headquarters to check out the latest developments.

BSP Tutorials - These are a series of tutorials written by DeadMeat that used to be available on the now defunct BSP Headquarters. I'm not sure if these are the final versions, but now that the site has gone, it's all I have. The tutorials are divided into two sets: