Scythe Map Editor

Scythe Site (w/ Quick Start Guide) Launched

I recently launched the Scythe Editor site.

Making it easier to explain what Scythe is to people, but also for helping onboa...

Scythe v0.5.0 Build (Win64)

The big tool this version is the Auto Lightmap Tool, which static lighting users should love.

I also have a few big quality-of-life changes in here for those of you who are using Scythe in pr...

UE 5.6 Out of Preview - Updated Scythe Build

UE 5.6 just officially released! I've re-compiled Scythe 0.4.1 to work with it.

Let me know if you have any issues in the Scyt...

Scythe v0.4.1 Build (Win64)

Even though this is a minor patch, a lot of crash fixes and refactoring was done, especially in the hotspot editor. Sometimes refactoring comes new crashes or regression, so report any in the 2025-05-21 23:18:36 +0000 UTC View Post

Scythe v0.4.0 Build (Win64)

Massive update to UV/Texturing in this one. This is probably about 2.5 months of work, as I was working on this a bit right before I had surgery back in November. I've also attached 2 hotspot textu...

Scythe Tutorial (v0.3.0) - Apartment Hall

A more advanced tutorial where I start from absolutely nothing except materials and we make an apartment hall.

Unreal Materials to follow along: 2025-03-25 23:56:29 +0000 UTC View Post

Scythe Tutorial (v0.3.0) - Your First Room (Blockout Basics)

This is meant for complete beginners who are just opening Scythe for the first time. I walk through how to make a few different rooms by blocking them out, then finish with basic texturing.

I...

Scythe v0.3.0 Build (Win64)

New Features

Double-Click Support:

• Double-click faces to flood-fill select.

• Double-click edges to select edge loops (including...

  2025-03-18 04:15:37 +0000 UTC View Post

Scythe v0.2.0 Build (Win64)

What's New in v0.2.0

• Added Smooth Edges (set smooth/hard normals)

• Added Duplicate Face

• Added Collapse

• Added Flip Triangle Edge

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2025-02-24 04:13:15 +0000 UTC View Post

Scythe v0.1.0 Build (Win64)

What's New in v0.1.0

• Edge Extrude can be done by holding Shift + Dragging the selected boundary edge

• Push/Pull can be done by holding 2025-02-03 01:58:52 +0000 UTC View Post

Your First Room in Scythe (v0.0.7)

Here's a getting started guide on how to make rooms in various ways, then I show you how I make a hall with a door to a room and texture it all.

I realize I need a better mic.

Scythe 0.0.7 Build (Win64)

For Unreal Engine 5.5 on Windows only. No source included, just the binaries.

Let me know if there's any issues getting it working.

Scythe Status (0.0.7) (UE 5.5 Only)

Scythe isn't production ready yet, but here's what it's currently capable of and also some of its downsides so you see what the limitations are.

2 Minutes of the Block Tool

Showing the progress thus far on the block tool. If you're watching this and thinking "but it's not 1999, we don't make rooms out of blocks". You'll be able to do this with single plane rectangles ...

Block Tool + Auto-Texel Density

No special materials used, the UVs are all auto-world aligned to grid.

Fit Texture to Face

Boy this is a useful one. I added a way to maintain the aspect ratio so if you want to just stretch a wall to fit perfectly vertically, it'll keep the ratio and look beautiful in all directions. 2024-08-12 04:23:38 +0000 UTC View Post

Justify Texture

Turning a block into a room

It's still quite limited to what you can do right now, as this is all technically one mesh being extruded and sliced up, but it's still pretty fun and cool so far.

Cool what you can do with j...

Auto-Texel Density

Some may not care about texel density, but I think it's important to get "close enough" to what the size should be on a face when you first apply a texture.

If you were making a minecraft-lik...

Connect Selected Edges

Hotkey'd to 'V' since you'll be doing this a lot. Part of the bread and butter.

Selection Sizes with multiple selections

You'll never be able to go without this.

Selection Sizes Preview 1

Ever wanted to know how big something was in Unreal?

Initial Texturing Tools

Texture like it's 1999.

Shift + click face extrusions

Shift + Click and drag face extrusions in UE editor. The mesh preview gets a little buggy after a bit, but it's working.