Bring on the mods! Valve has announced that the Source SDK now supports The Orange Box. You know what that means, right? It means that new content Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Team Fortress 2, and Portal will be here soon enough. Included in the SDK are:
- The Hammer World Editor, which provides the capability of creating custom levels for Source engine-based games
- Valve's custom Faceposer tool that allows users to produce choreographed sequences in the Source engine
- A model viewer that allows artists to preview models and their animations quickly and easily
- Source code that allows mod makers to create their own game based on Half-Life 2 or Half-Life 2:Deathmatch
- All of the tools required to make build custom textures and models for Source engine games
Head on over to Steam for the download, and don't forget to take a look at the release notes while you're at it.
Do any of you creative types have plans to utillize the new SDK? Some maps for Portal or Team Fortress 2 would be greatly appreciated right about now.
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6:00 PM on 11.07.2007
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Specially since i am getting new computer and orange box this weekend.
I think it would be a HUGE win for Microsoft (and Valve) if they could figure out how to get fan-created maps onto Xbox Live, either through XNA or some other means.
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Hands are a bit big, he's using the default animations for our m14 (which is super sexy) to test the shotty out ingame. Anyway with the updated source code I can finally start implementing ironsights and other crap, but I kinda have to study for my exams too :(
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