Level Editor

The TeamSpec Level Editor is the program you build TeamSpec maps in. You block out the level with brushes, dress it with props, materials, terrain, water and lights, place spawns, pickups, doors and logic, write the map's gamemode, try it in the game, and export it as a file TeamSpec loads.

This wiki covers every tool, menu, panel and setting in the editor. If you are new, read the pages under Start here in order.

Start here

1. Getting started: install, first launch, and the one setting you need before you can playtest.
2. The interface: what every part of the window is for.
3. Viewport and camera: flying around, the four views, and the 2D views.
4. Selecting and hiding: picking things, hiding them, and moving them with the ghost.
5. Your first map: a walkthrough from an empty map to playing it.

Building

• Geometry: Brushes and CSG, the shape tools (Box, Sphere, Cylinder, Prism, Stairs, Spiral Stairs, Spiral Tower, Arch, Path Brush, Plane) and the editing tools (Move, Rotate and Scale, Clip, Edit Vertex and Edge, Edit Face, Loop Cut).
• Surfaces: Materials and UVs, Displacements, Terrain, Water, Decals.
• Dressing: Props, Prop Path for fences and rows, your own models and textures, the 3D skybox.
• Light and sound: Lighting and lightmaps, Sounds and soundscape.

Gameplay

• Spawn points, mirrored maps for two teams, zones, supply pickups, the world boundary.
• Moving things: doors, moving platforms, payload tracks.
• Wiring a map without code: outputs and logic, buttons, relays, timers and counters.
• Bots: bots and navigation.
• The gamemode: scripting a gamemode (server rules, HUD and bots).

Testing and releasing

• Playtesting: run the map in TeamSpec, or keep a playtest open that updates as you edit.
• Exporting and publishing: build the .tsmap, play it, and publish it to the Steam Workshop.
• Importing Source maps: bring a .bsp or .vmf into the editor.

Reference

• Keyboard shortcuts and how to rebind them.
• Menus: File, Edit, View, Tools, Functional.
• Panels: Scene tree, Inspector, Materials, Props, Snapping, UV editor, Displacement, Terrain.
• Windows: Settings, Map Config.
• Gamemode API reference.
• Troubleshooting and common messages.

Units

Distances in the editor are in meters and angles in degrees, unless a field says otherwise. A player stands 1.829 m tall and 0.813 m across, and can step up 0.457 m without jumping.