IW3xRadiant - A Call of Duty 4 Radiant Modification using ImGui

This project is aimed at developers and includes various modifications/additions and was initially built to be used with IW3xo. Running IW3xRadiant and IW3xo enables a live-link between CoD4 and Radiant. You can, however, just use it as a direct replacement for stock radiant.

Project Page (Guide / In-Depth)

https://xoxor4d.github.io/projects/iw3xo-radiant

nightly builds - develop branch

( download and install the latest release before using nightly's )

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Features

Goals:

replace most if not all of the MFC/Windows UI with Dear ImGui
extend functionalities across the board

New features not found within the original cod4 radiant:

completely revamped user interface with docking, tabs, saved layouts and more (Dear ImGui)
play && edit / create && export effects as CreateFX files right from within radiant (makes effectsEd completely obsolete)
d3dbsp loading and bsp/light compilation from within radiant
automatically generate reflections within radiant when compiling the maps bsp
live link (sync. brushes (with collision), camera and worldspawn settings between cod4 and radiant)
3D guizmo to precisely manipulate entities and brushes from the camera window (ImGuizmo)
preview xmodels and drag them directly into the scene using the model browser
a prefab browser with the ability to generate thumbnails (no more guess work + prefabs can be dragged into the scene)
custom lighting shader with normal-mapping, specular highlights, reflections and fog
ability to limit shadow drawing distance when using stock sunpreview (++FPS)
filmtweak support
render actual water instead of case-textures
increased asset limits to allow high poly models
realtime viewports
context aware grid and camera context menus with QoL features
a toolbox featuring all related functions for brushes/patches and more
better surface / property editor (can be integrated into the ^ toolbox)
better vertex edit dialog
better layer dialog
zoom to cursor
toast notifications
editable toolbars, hotkeys, colors
new file dialogs with working default paths
texture window toolbar for quick filtering
custom texture favourite lists that can be created from within radiant (add/remove selected texture to/from the list)
rope/wire generator
sun direction visualizer
a proper console with dvar support (incl. dvar suggestions and autocomplete)
increased undo limit
missing materials are now using a proper invalid_texture material and are no longer invisible
print parsed entity and brush num on map load making it easier to find issues in map files (off by default)
bo3 tool textures (optional)
stamp prefabs
create prefab from selection
terrain patch thickening
extrude selected brush to other brush faces
++ alot more QoL features

Installation

Download the latest release
Copy the bin and map_source folders into your cod4 root directory
Start IW3xRadiant.exe

[NIGHTLY] unpack and replace iw3r.dll within the bin folder
[OPTIONAL] bo3-tool-textures.zip (unpack and place .iwi's into bin\IW3xRadiant\images)

Build / Compile

How to build / compile the project using Visual Studio

Clone the repo! (zip does not include deps!)
Copy everything within the assets folder into your cod4-root folder
Use update_submodules.bat to update submodules
Use generate-buildfiles.bat to build project files with premake
Load the solution (build/iw3xo-radiant.sln) and open the iw3r project-settings to setup paths:

General output directory path -> path-to-cod4-root\bin\

Debugging command -> path-to-cod4-root\bin\IW3xRadiant.exe

Debugging working directory -> path-to-cod4-root\bin\

Build -> Build Solution or run with debugger

How to build the project using VSCode

Install C++ Build tools (msbuild)
Add msbuild folder to the "PATH" environment variable:

%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin

Add COD4_ROOT environment variable with path to your cod4 directory

"COD4_ROOT" "D:\COD4-Modtools"

Clone the repo (zip does not include deps!)
Copy everything within the assets folder into your cod4-root folder
Drag and drop all files from .vscode/tracked\ into .vscode\
Open iw3xo-radiant.code-workspace
Run task: update_submodules or open update_submodules.bat
Run task: generate-buildfiles or open generate-buildfiles.bat

Use provided build-tasks with the option to copy iw3r.dll and iw3r.pdb to %COD4_ROOT%/bin
Run->Start Debugging will build and copy a debug build to to %COD4_ROOT%/bin and launch IW3xRadiant.

Credits

Images

Model Selector / Preview:

Custom Lighting Shader On/Off:

Effect Playback

Effects Editor

Disclaimer

This software has been created purely for the purposes of academic research. Project maintainers are not responsible or liable for misuse of the software. Use responsibly.

warkingous/LMxRadiant