What map editor do you use?

Just to give me/others good ideas of what software to work with. Of course theres maplet, but outside of that what do you use?

Cartography Shop, 3Ds MAx, Quill, Milkshape, Giles are some of the tools I use - all are very good at what they do.

IPete2.

I use 3ds max to make models, but have never used it to create maps. Can/how do you do lightmaps in it and place entities? any info on using it would be much apreciated.

Cartography Shop/Quill3D depending on my mood at the time =)

Gile[s] all the time because it's soooo good.

TextureMaker.

Fontext.

PaintShopPro.

I found a free program 'light map maker' works good for adding light maps to 3ds maps.

now just to figuer out my entity delema :/

Cartography Shop, Wings 3d, and 3d Studio Max. Wings 3d for more exterior work, 3d Studio Max for interior and exterior work/terrain, and Cartography Shop for when I need interiors.

I suggest looking at the Luminaire tools if you want to do lightmaps in 3d Studio Max.

you should have said 'what map editor do you use 'sucker''
then you could have sounded like mr t

Cartography Shop 4, 3DS Max, MilkShape3D

I use my own at the moment... QoolEdit!!!

maplet for the raw building. 3dsmax 2.5 for interior stuff, where I make the uvmapping with lithunwrap 1.3. and paint the textures in photoshop 6. CharacterFX for animation. And the csp leveleditor to put everything together.

My workflow to make maps is:

Qoole -> BSP Factory -> Gile[s]

Call me cheap, Sure I am. But does any one have a list of free editors? Im shallow, Only buy from giant companys and not lone programers :/

Maplet, and er... Maplet.

:/
I guess I will stick with my outragusly overpriced 3d program!

Is there any reason you can,t use milkshape for maps 0r at
least houses or buildings?

god - use maplet with decorator, that's for free.

I can make Milkshape sing! I can create anything I think of fast. But for some reason I cant make heads of tails out of maplet. I gues its becouse you cant select points, or individual faces, or like a wall, and manipulate it exept rotate. Mabye i just need more tutorials but sofar its just a little too simple. I've seen some awsome games being made with maplet and i can't believe it. Howd they do that?
I have also tried Quark army knife and It works great but Its got allot of things in it I don,t understand, like why my copy doesent work any more. If I had just aprogram like quark but not with all it complicated specs,uttilities, and technicalities I could make Maps.

Agree about Milkshape, it's worth the time investment, and what it produces is rock-solid and 100% compatible with Blitz (unlike 3DS). For statics and because of it's ease of use try Metasequioa, a great editor that's spoiled me for all the others:
http://www21.ocn.ne.jp/~mizno/main_e.html