Gonna be super boring. What map making tool you enjoy using the most and what animal would you associate it with, like personality wise?
[narrows eyes]
This is part of the conspiracy to get me a fursona, isn't it? It won't work. I'm telling you all, it won't work! Not that I'm unwilling to have one, but it's too much trouble. You gotta work out all the details and draw them and commission artists and put them in front of everyone else and say "hey everyone this is my fursona " and worry that it will be treated as an idealised self where every detail of it will be used as some kind of insight into the most guarded aspects of your being, and
sorry, where was I?
I think in terms of usability, my favourite tool is the private build of DarkRadiant that we use on Skin Deep (which includes some custom bugfixes and renderer tweaks, like translucency for tool textures). It doesn't look quite as nice as Trenchbroom, but it feels a little more feature-rich, and is generally very customisable. I've become a lot more amenable over time to the 'one orthogonal viewport that lets you cycle between the axes' style of layout—a far cry from Hammer's trio of orthogonal views, but really, I'm only ever focusing on one at a time. The 3D viewport also lets you preview particle emitters in real time, which is an extremely welcome feature when you're not sure whether smoke06.prt is a tiny little puff or a giant belching smokestack.
