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+NetRadiant-custom
+=================
+
+The open-source, cross-platform level editor for id Tech based games.
+
+NetRadiant-custom is a fork of NetRadiant (GtkRadiant 1.4→massive rewrite→1.5→NetRadiant→this)
+
+---
+![screenshot](/../readme_files/radDarkShot.png?raw=true)
+---
+
+## Downloads
+
+Ready-to-use packages are available in the [Releases section](/../../releases).
+
+## Supported games
+
+Main focus is on Quake, Quake3 and Quake Live.
+
+Though other normally supported games should work too; See [unverified game configs](/../readme_files/unverified_gamepacks.7z "darkplaces
doom3
et
heretic2
hl
ja
jk2
neverball
nexuiz
oa
osirion
prey
q2
q4
quetoo
sof2
stvef
trem
turtlearena
ufoai
unvanquished
warsow
wolf
xonotic").
+
+## Features
+
+Development is focused on smoothing and tweaking editing process.
+
+#### Random feature highlights
+
+* WASD camera binds
+* left mouse button click tunnel selector, paint selector
+* numerous mouse shortcuts (see help->General->Mouse Shortcuts)
+* focus camera on selected (Tab)
+* snapped modes of manipulators
+* draggable renderable transform origin for manipulators
+* quick vertices drag / brush faces shear
+* shader editor
+* entities creation in camera
+* texture painting by drag
+* seamless brush face to face texture paste
+* keyboard shortcuts are customizable
+* GUI themes, fonts are customizable
+* meshTex plugin
+* patch thicken
+* all patch prefabs are created aligned to active projection
+* filters toolbar with extra functions on right mouse button click
+* viewports zoom in to pointer
+* \'all Supported formats\' default option in open dialogs
+* opening *.map, sent via cmd line (can assign *.map files in OS to be opened with radiant)
+* texture browser: show alpha transparency option
+* texture browser: gtk search in directories and tags trees
+* texture browser: search in currently shown textures
+* CSG Tool (aka shell modifier)
+* working region compilations (build a map with region enabled = compile regioned part only)
+* QE tool in a component mode: perform drag w/o hitting any handle too
+* map info dialog: + Total patches, Ingame entities, Group entities, Ingame group entities counts
+* connected entities walker
+* build->customize: list available build variables
+* 50x faster light radius rendering
+* light power is adjustable by mouse drag
+* anisotropic textures filtering
+* optional MSAA in viewports
+* new very fast entity names rendering system
+* support \'stupid quake bug\'
+* arbitrary texture projections for brushes and curves
+* fully working texture lock, supporting any affine transformation
+* texture locking during vertex and edge manipulations
+* brush resize (QE tool): reduce selected faces amount to most wanted ones
+* support brush formats, as toggleable preference: Axial projection, Brush primitives, Valve 220
+* autodetect brush type on map opening
+* automatic AP, BP and Valve220 brush types conversion on map Import and Paste
+* new bbox styled manipulator, allowing any affine transform (move, rotate, scale, skew)
+* incredible number of fixes and options
+
+
+#### Q3Map2:
+
+* allowed samples+filter, makes sense
+* -vertexscale
+* -novertex works, (0..1) sets globally
+* fixed _clone _ins _instance (_clonename) functionality
+* -nolm - no lightmaps
+* -bouncecolorratio 0..1 (ratio of colorizing light sample by texture)
+* q3map_remapshader remaps anything fine, on all stages
+* fixed model autoclip, added 20 new modes
+* automatic map packager (complete Q3 support)
+* -brightness 0..alot, def 1: mimics q3map_lightmapBrightness, but globally + affects vertexlight
+* -contrast -255..255, def 0: lighting contrast
+* report full / full pk3 path on file syntax errors
+* new area lights backsplash algorithm (utilizing area lights instead of point ones)
+* -backsplash (float)scale (float)distance: adjust area lights globally (real area lights have no backsplash)
+* new slightly less careful, but much faster lightmaps packing algorithm (allocating... process)
+* Valve220 mapformat autodetection and support
+
+###### see changelog-custom.txt for more
+
+## [COMPILING](/COMPILING)