Quake III Arena level editors

Editor programs

Garux's NetRadiant
NetRadiant (extract Q3A support into the radiant folder, place these textures into the Quake 3 Arena baseq3 folder for the editor: common-spog.pk3, extract scripts.zip)
GTKRadiant 1.6
GTKRadiant 1.5 (place these textures into the Quake 3 Arena baseq3 folder for the editor: common-spog.pk3, extract scripts.zip)
GTKRadiant 1.4
QuarK
Any program that can export Quake 3 Arena map files, for example Blender or 3ds Max.

Other useful programs

Terragen
EasyGen (Video tutorial)
New Paricle Studio
Q3map2Toolz
Q3map2GUI
Npherno's MD3 Compiler and MD3 Viewer
Q3ASE (Q3A Shader Editor)
Any ZIP file archiver to create pk3 files, for example 7-Zip.

Defrag

jobh.txt List of jump overbounce heights
gobh.txt List of go overbounce heights
water obs List of water overbounce heights
pads.zip Console pad distance generator
Gambit's DefragPad generator and more
defrag.ent To be able to see Defrag entities in GtkRadiant 1.5.0 you need to place the file defrag.ent into the directory: GTKRadiant1.5.0/q3.game/baseq3/defrag.ent
template.defi Example defi file

External editing tutorials

Haos Redro mapping tutorials
bubba's arena
quBit and p00nie's tutorials
Quake 3 Arena Weapon's Factory Arena Tutorials
Surface Group's Tutorials
Tremulous Mapping
Advanced Portal and Hinting Optimization Tutorial

Resources

CG Textures
Texture library

Miscellaneous

Q3map2 wikiQ3map2 is a command-line map compiler that is part of radiant.
Q3map2 shader manual
Q3A_Common_Error_Messages_v1_5.pdf
aasfix2
texture_list.zip 3.55 MB (2009-11-13) Shader and texture list of all pk3 files. The texture list is usefull to find the pk3 file by texture or shader name.
mapfilename.arenaExample arena file
pk3structure.txtExample for the pk3 structure
Cinema 4d Quake map exporter
Rocket Arena 3 (RA3) Map Tutorial and Guide
q3a-example-maps-2004-12-06.tar.gzbaseq3 md3 models and maps: terrademoQ3, q3dm17, q3dm1, q3dm7. (4.59 MB, MD5: 52c3b29a7d83fce298843f513d249ed5)

Custom texture packs