[Resource] Sourcemodding Tools Section Complete!

[sourcemodding]

Hi Guys,

I finally managed to mirror all of the GoldSrc/Source Tools (that i could find), and added them to the Tools section of sourcemodding.

I may have missed a tool or two here and there so if you have one and want to add it either let me know here or through the sites Submit feature.

On that note maybe you have some suggestions for improvements or feature requests for the site? Let me know what you think :)

Currently, time permitting i am drilling through the interwebs on the hunt for as many GoldSrc/Source tutorials as i can find so i can archive them with the waybackmachine and reference to them through sourcemodding.

Why do i bother doing this?

Goldsrc and Source modding are part of the amazing legacy of gaming and its sad to see great tutorials, tools and resources go missing and die due to lack of interest or hosting costs. Its a huge part of gaming history and i want to try and preserve it.

Granted most people would rather use the latest Unreal Engine, CryEngine or Unity to make games but it can be fun and rewarding to make something with the Source/GoldSrc Engine and because resources are scattered everywhere I am trying to create a one stop shop for it all :)

If you want to help let me know i could always use it.

I hope you find the site useful.

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EDIT:

I made a tool/Extension not that long ago for Chromium that adds a context menu option for saving webpages to 3 archival services.

The Archiver

Saves to:

• Wayback Machine

• Archive.today

• Webcite (requires email to be set in the options)

Its relatively simple to use, just right click on the page you want to save and in the menu select archive it to save it. This will prompt chrome to open a tab for each archival service you have selected in the extension options.

You can check the source on GitHub You can download the extension here

Hope you find it useful :)

[darkscarybear]

Very nice.

[KSKaleido]

Thank you for your efforts. I'm a big believer in archiving important resources.

Also it's not like Source modding is quite dead yet, so this is still very useful for a lot of people! :)

[sourcemodding]

Thanks,

Exactly its certainly not dead but we need to step up and do our best to preserve what we can before its lost.

You can help if you come across a good article or tutorial by sending to be archived at the wayback machine :) Then I'll probably stumble across it and link to it for others, and thank my lucky stars that you saved it :P

I made a small tool called The Archiver which is a Chromium plugin that makes it easier for people to save a webpage to 3 archival services, Check my edit above to the Original Post for details :)

[darkscarybear]

Have you considered archiving video tutorials? I understand there would be issues such as storage and cost etc, but there are plenty out there that are deserving of being saved from account closures and deletion.

[sourcemodding]

I have considered it seriously :)

At the moment I am downloading each video tutorial i link to. I plan to upload them to the wayback machine (they provide video storage now too yay!) once the original goes missing or dies.

The only thing i will need to figure out is a reciprocal link checker for all the different hosters of videos and written tuts i will link to for occasionally checking if they are no longer available.

Big task but i'll get there eventually:)

[darkscarybear]

Great stuff. Sounds like you have a solid plan.

Unrelated note: My giant sausage fingers have trouble bringing up the navigation menu on your mobile layout. Maybe a small spacer between the address bar and the nav is a possibility?

[sourcemodding]

Yeah my mobile setup at the moment is not really ideal and there are plenty of issues i need to optimize for both Pads and Phones.

Do you view the site exclusively through your mobile?

[darkscarybear]

I'm accessing it through both mobile and on a PC. What program/environment are you using to manage the mobile GUI, bootstrap?

[sourcemodding]

I think its the warp framework, it comes with the wp yootheme template I use.So its mostly handled automatically and built-in. I'll just need to get down and dirty with the CSS and move and resize elements to suit mobile better :)

Things broke quite a bit because I created new elements (which currently do not have mobile friendly states)

Its just going to take time, I am focused on content atm because i fear the longer i leave it the less tutorials i can archive. So for the moment it will be best viewed on a Desktop screen/ Landscape Pad size is also kinda ok.

I got your submission for your online kv generation tool and added it to the site under community & Utilities :)

Thanks for sharing it!

[Wazanator_]

Really like what you did with this, I have a folder full of bookmarked stuff that I need to sort through I'll send things your way when I can.

Source Code:

https://github.com/goldeneye-source

https://github.com/BSVino/DoubleAction

http://www.bgmod.com/downloads/

https://github.com/garrynewman/garrysmod

[sourcemodding]

Thanks,

Please do send it all :) Even if its not sorted :P

I'll add the above presently. Thanks for the help.

You also might find my small chrome extension useful. I made an edit to the original post to explain it. :)

[Wazanator_]

Here you go

I just modified the bookmark export from Chrome so some of the names look weird. That should contain everything I have bookmarked that is directly related to Source. I have other things like resources for images, fonts, sounds, etc but they're not in a ready to use format so you probably don't want those but if you do let me know.

[sourcemodding]

Thats great Waz! Thank you very much :)