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GtkRadiant under GPL
gnarlin writes "GtkRadiant is now available under GPL license, along with some Quake II tools which never got a chance to be put under GPL before. Head over to the qeradiant website for all the details. GtkRadiant is a level editor developed by id Software and Loki Software. It is used to create maps for a number of computer games."
Radiant is already a very good tool to work with. The version that I used back when I was using it to make a mod for Call of Duty it did have serious crashing errors, though. I hope that fixing these bugs will be the first priority of whoever's interested in working on it.
For what it's worth, GtkRadiant is not exactly the same level editor as the one that was used by ID during the development of Quake: rather, it's a heavily modified version of QERadiant (Quake II's level editor) and Q3Radiant (Quake III Arena's level editor), which were used by ID.
This is a good thing. Despite GtkRadiant retaining close ties to ID the licence on it was never very clear. Indeed if one dug around there were around three or four EULA's that may have applied, and they seemed to contradict each other. It was not even particularly clear whether the development of GtkRadiant was even legal to develop. Other software projects that would have used Radiant as a level editor have been scared to touch it.
Anyway, one may wonder why Radiant was not released under the GPL when Quake II was, or even when Quake III was. I'm assuming that it did not occur to ID to release it under the GPL, because the source code was already available. Finally though somebody noticed this and corrected it.
Note: I may have some or all of the facts wrong, as I am not a GtkRadiant developer, or ID employee. This message was based on my experience as a user of GtkRadiant.
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"It is used to create maps for a number of computer games."
So who has the best modding tools out there?
Found a bug in GtkRadiant ? Submit a bug report at http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/bugzilla/
I could never get the hang of Radiant, Worldcraft was/is so much easier to work with. It's unfortunate because back when I was a mapper, I saw some of the things other mappers were doing with Quake 3, and Radiant, and they were great. I was spoiled with Worldcraft and couldn't make the transition to radiant's clunky UI.
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Honestly, I can't remember which is which when it comes to the *radiant tools.
I'm reasonably sure that the one I toyed with with GTKRadiant, and I found it a little counter-intuitive at first. But only at first; once I started to get used to the way it did things as opposed to the amazingly bad Qoole, it started to flow fairly natrually.
Generally, though, I wonder just what will be done with the code... After all, Quake 3 is positively prehistoric by today's standards. Does the editor support anything current? Would it be worth modifying it to do so?
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Previously you were unable to create a commerical game or game level using GtkRadiant even for your own game engine, unless you had a license from id, which of course was very expensive. Now this this license transition it should be possible for game developers, particularly indies, to use this tool to make indoor scenes.
A Roger Dean map/landscape would be sooo cool!!!
Great! Good to hear that. This sure will make development of gtkradiant faster...
:P
I have allways wanted to run GTKRadiant on native 64bit enviroment in linux...
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is which version of the the GPL? ;)
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