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J.A.C.K.

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Genre: Action, Shooter

Category: Animation & Modeling

Platforms: PC, Linux

Languages: English, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian

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Sep 13, 2015 @ 11:17am

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JACK 1.1.1064 Public Beta Is Out!

July 14, 2016 - XaeroX

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JACK 1.1.111064 Changelog[jack.hlfx.ru]

Today we release the last pre-Steam version, JACK 1.1.1064, with more bugfixes and improvements, both for Windows and Linux. Further, there will be two versions of the editor: the Steam one, commercial, with SteamWorks features and automatic updates, and non-Steam, completely free, although updated not very often. If you experienced critical problems with older versions, don't hesitate to update!

JACK 1.1.855 Public Beta Is Out!

December 23, 2015 - XaeroX

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Our development team wishes you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! As a Christmas gift, we release a new version, JACK 1.1.855, both for Windows and Linux. There are not so many features added, but we believe that all of them are of vital usefulness! As usual, we did our best to improve stability and functionality of the editor, fixing lots of errors and granting your requests. If you experienced critical problems with older versions, don't hesitate to update!

Description

Release date: Q4 2016

What is J.A.C.K.?

J.A.C.K. (Just Another Creation Kit; previously known as Jackhammer) is a brand new level editor for games with a quake-style BSP architecture. The aim is to develop a convenient cross-platform tool capable of incorporating the best features of existing editors, such as Valve Hammer Editor, Q3Radiant and others. Despite Quake and Half-Life having been released a long time ago, the large community have arisen around, still developing mods and games on their bases. However the existing editors suffer from fundamental disadvantages their users are well familiar with. J.A.C.K. does aspire to be the universal level design tool for classic games. But not only the classics! The editor evolves, there are plans to support Source Engine and Unity.

Supported Games

Half-Life (including mods and Gunman Chronicles)
Quake (including mods and some Quake-based games, e.g. Hexen II)
Quake II (including mods)
Quake III (including mods and idTech3 based games, e.g. Tremulous)

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J.A.C.K. is being developed since August 2013. Despite not all the ideas being implemented and not all the functions being completely error-free, you are already able to download almost fully functional version of the editor, install and evaluate J.A.C.K. in action.

Popular Discussions View All (1)

Aug 20, 2016 @ 5:03am

first discussion lol

Zen3001

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Momo Nov 24, 2016 @ 5:01am

Also, as -vG- Lemon said:
"Jackhammer is a great editor, and its multi-use ability puts it above par of its competitors (sledge editor, VHE), but I find it's lacking three main things, however.

1) 3D Manipulation of Geometry
In Hammer editor 4.1, pressing 'x' in the 3D view allows you to resize blocks in that window, as well as perform vertex manipulation actions.

2) Copy and pasting onto the mouse location
As it stands now, all pastes seem to go up and to the left of their original copy. To paste directly where the cursor is positioned, both in 3D and in 2D views, would be an incredible boon to mapping efficiency.

3) Prefabs
Simply put, a prefab system similar to "&i" in 4.1

If these were implemented and game support was extended further (To source era games, perhaps?) I'd definitely throw a few bucks this way."
With these features, JACK would be better than Hammer in every way! And with Steamworks, it would be amazing!

Momo Nov 24, 2016 @ 4:58am

If this gets actual Source engine support, I'll gladly buy it!

CyborgParrot™ Oct 6, 2016 @ 5:00am

I'm Fine with Paying for this, just don't make it Cost $42.

Yeah I'm looking at you HammUEr...

Cloud9 Revenant Sep 19, 2016 @ 3:26am

I also think that the price i MAY be able to afford is $10. J.A.C.K Is already dependable so it's a sure-buy for me!

Cloud9 Revenant Sep 19, 2016 @ 3:20am

J.A.C.K. Would be my main Map Maker if there's .ol (object library) and prefab support. Please add prefab support

[TMI]RastaMan Sep 9, 2016 @ 3:57am

Ого, всё же отказались от старого названия? Когда релиз ждать?

Zen3001 Aug 20, 2016 @ 3:35am

wich features?

XaeroX [author] Aug 18, 2016 @ 10:41am

Don't worry, for those people who doesn't want to financially thank the author for years of hard work, there always will be a free version available, just like now. Although it will miss some steam-specific features.

λxool Aug 17, 2016 @ 3:41am

Bit f misunderstanding here, I use JACK because it is better than hammer. But If it become paid, I think that I'm gonna get back to hammer.

XaeroX [author] Aug 16, 2016 @ 5:23am

If you're happy with normal Hammer's feature set, then of course you can use it. :)

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