Your level editor must be compatible with your game engine.. iow if you use bsp trees in your game you will need a bsp level editor.

Austrian Coder wrote:
i have wirrten much parts of my little engine, and now i want to test it with some real levels.
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Oh and at the moment im am very felible with the levelformat.

Sounds like you haven't done your planning. Level editors are very case specific... I don't know of any good free editors that can handle both indoor and outdoor enviroments. Maybe you just need a 3D editor?

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[edited by - Herr_O on June 2, 2004 8:40:30 AM]

A little more info on your engine would be helpful.
I assume it is a polygon-based rasterizing engine (probably built on OpenGL or DirectX).

In which case, you probably want to implement a Quake III .bsp loader for indoor areas, since that is probably the widest-spread indoor level format, (if you are developing on Windows there are several good .bsp editors, a couple on Linux, but none for Mac), Then perhaps a simple height-map based outdoor terrain engine.

I personally prefer non-polygon engines, and tend to write my own editors (and modellers).
Also, how about in-engine level editing, specifically I am thinking of the Cube engine (www.cubeengine.com), which has on-the-fly level editing (even in multi-player)!

Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes, the ones who see things differently.

[edited by - SwiftCoder on June 2, 2004 8:47:33 AM]