Mac Level Editor?

[Wills]

Anyone know good map editing tools for Mac OSX? The only one I can find is Hellmaker but it seems pretty dead. I tried downloading the SLADE SVN and compile it myself but mancubus.net is down.... any suggestions?

[TheDarkArchon]

I tried downloading the SLADE SVN and compile it myself but mancubus.net is down

Have you tried again today? Mancubus.net is back up again.

[Wills]

Ok so I downloaded all those files, now I have no idea what to do... CodeLite won't let me compile, not that I really know where to start anyway. Obviously programming isn't my strong suit... Any ideas?

[sirjuddington]

SLADE3 will work on osx if you compile it yourself... which is quite a pain to do. It doesn't have a functional map editor yet, though. At the moment your best bet is just to run a windows VM

[Gez]

All you can do so far in SLADE 3 is look at maps in 2D view, panning and zooming to your heart's content. You can also move existing vertices, lines and things; but it's not very useful since you can't save your changes anyway.

Still, it's a nice map viewer.

[Apothem]

There's always writing your level by hand in a text editor!

[Nash]

This may not be an ideal solution (it costs $$) but a while back, my friend showed me Parallels Desktop running on his Macbook Pro... it was surprisingly smooth and flawless! He was running a Windows-only Digital Audio Workstation software inside PD, and playback on the DAW was perfect. DAWs are known to be very resource-intensive.

I plan on buying PD soon when I start travelling a lot, so I can continue working on my Doom mods on my Macbook Pro...

http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/

[Xtyfe]

Not to bash macs, but paying extra money to use windows programs on an already overpriced computer seems silly.

[Gez]

If you find it silly to pay extra for the privilege of paying extra, then the late Steve Jobs' company is really not for you.

[esselfortium]

Parallels is great. I do all my Doom editing and playing using it, and use OS X for the internet, Photoshop, Reason, and everything else.

[Wills]

Not to bash macs, but paying extra money to use windows programs on an already overpriced computer seems silly.

I have a Mac because I wanted to use my $500 Apple gift card. So :VVVVVVV

[DaMan]

Should've gotten an iPod instead?
Bootcamp is "free" (just have to buy Windows) if you don't mind restarting to use those Windows "apps".