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NetRadiant is a brush-based 3D game level editor with support for many games like Xonotic, Unvanquished, and more…

Xonotic map in NetRadiant

Xonotic map in NetRadiant

Unvanquished map in NetRadiant

Unvanquished map in NetRadiant

Smokin' Guns map in NetRadiant

Smokin' Guns map in NetRadiant

Maintained by a community of gamers, mappers, modders and game developpers, NetRadiant is free and open source and run on various operating systems like Linux, Windows, macOS and FreeBSD, learn more….

Updated builds

Updated builds

   |   Thomas Debesse.

Builds were updated, see the download page! They’re built for Linux, Windows (32 & 64-bit), macOS and FreeBSD. They have native or native-like apperance on all systems and macOS application supports both Light and Dark theme (NetRadiant selects the right one at sartup). Xonotic mapping support package is not required anymore: in-PK3 symlinks are now supported as well as dds/ prefix. Q3map2 can bake IQM models, NetRadiant camera field of view is modifiable, and Linux NetRadiant binary is clickable. [Read More]

Unhardcoded engine path

Unhardcoded engine path

   |   Thomas Debesse.

It’s now possible to use some keywords in NetRadiant gamepacks to set engine folder that may differ according to the user configuration. For example it is possible to set paths using %ProgramFiles%, ${HOME}, ${XDG_DATA_HOME} and other things like that in a way the string is rewrote according to the user environment. Maybe one day this feature will be usable for game user directory too, we’ll see! Note: this feature may not be implemented in other Radiant so a gamepack making use of this feature is specific to compatible editors like upstream NetRadiant. [Read More]

More game packs

More game packs

   |   Thomas Debesse.

More games packs are now shipped, games like Warfork, AlienArena, UrbanTerror, Quake Live, Soldier of Fortune 2, Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force… Some repositories were created to store some fixes for them. [Read More]

User path change

User path change

   |   Thomas Debesse.

On Windows the user directory is now saved as %AppData%/NetRadiant (for example: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\NetRadiant) which makes more sense and avoids conflicting with NetRadiant Custom directory to prevent each other to rewrite the same configuration files (NetRadiant Custom is another NetRadiant fork). The old directory was named NetRadiantSettings in the same parent folder. If you were not using other NetRadiant fork or you know your configuration is fine, you can recover your configuration by renaming the folder NetRadiant. [Read More]

DDS prefix

DDS prefix

   |   Thomas Debesse.

Games like Doom3 and Xonotic expect a dds/ prefix for DDS images. For example a TGA image named textures/castle/brick.tga would be stored as dds/textures/castle/brick.dds when distributed in DDS format. The feature to also look for a given image path in dds/ folder was implemented both in NetRadiant level editor and the q3map2 map compiler. DDS format is DirectDraw Surface, a compressed image format tailored for GPUs (graphics card can process them compressed in memory). [Read More]

IQM models in q3map2

IQM models in q3map2

   |   Thomas Debesse.

The q3map2 map compiler now supports IQM models and can bake them in BSP when compiling maps. Until now, only the NetRadiant editor had IQM model support, the editor was able to render them but to get such model included in a map one had to use them as misc_anim_model to let the engine render them, and it was not possible to compute lightmaps for them. Now that the map compiler also supports this model format, it’s possible to bake such IQM model in geometry and compute lightmaps for them. [Read More]

GTK3 debut

GTK3 debut

   |   Thomas Debesse.

It’s now possible to build NetRadiant against GTK3 by setting the GTK_TARGET build option to 3 instead of 2. This is only expected to work on Linux, FreeBSD and Windows (upstream GTK3 for macOS looks to not be ready for our needs yet) and is still buggy. The effort to port NetRadiant to newer versions of GTK is a long time effort started years ago. It’s nice to see some results! [Read More]

Clickable Linux binary

Clickable Linux binary

   |   Thomas Debesse.

Because of a bug in a common Linux desktop component, the NetRadiant binary was not clickable on some Linux systems: user had to run NetRadiant from command line, not from the file manager (the binary was wrongly detected as a shared library!). This is worked around by producing the binary with another format that is properly recognized as binary by file managers and then clickable. [Read More]

macOS debut

macOS debut

   |   Thomas Debesse.

It’s now possible to build for macOS with bundling of libraries. It relies on a custom branch of GtkGLExt which is a bit buggy (euphemism) but fortunately most of the bugs can be worked around. That build does not require X11 (XQuartz), it’s a native GTK build with non-X11 OpenGL. A Mojave-like GTK theme can be bundled with both light and dark variant, the editor selects the theme variant at startup according to the current desktop preference. [Read More]