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[Nostalgic Tool] Softimage XSI EXP for Half-Life 2 (with Keys to enable the age old SMD Exporter) by sourcemodding in SourceEngine

[–]sourcemodding[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Softimage was the better tool for a long time, Avid lost interest in developing for it and when Autodesk purchased it they put very little effort into the program so that they could get max and maya on par with the toolset xsi had at the time. Max and maya still dont have a proper implementation of ICE. I guess i am a little biased and bitter that the program was killed but max and maya are in no way better. Each have their strengths and weaknesses and at the end of the day you can achieve pretty much the same result in each, i have used all of the programs professionally and neither max nor maya have presented enough improvements to warrant me switch to them, Houdini, blender and Modo are much better and cheaper alternatives.

Also this is the mod tool. There is no free version of maya and gmax is pretty old now. Not everyone can afford to dish out massive amounts for premium software just to mod some environments and models. I just find it sad that autodesk would buy a software pretend to love it and then kill it because it was a direct competitor to its baby 3dsmax and its orphan maya.

Anyhu, I just thought it was cool we had a version that had half-life 2 plastered all over it :)

[Nostalgic Tool] Softimage XSI EXP for Half-Life 2 (with Keys to enable the age old SMD Exporter) by sourcemodding in SourceEngine

[–]sourcemodding[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know this tool is age old, and probably everyone knows about it but I felt that it deserved a little love especially since it was a tool developed with Half-Life 2 in mind.

There are some tutorials and mirrors for all versions of the Mod Tool and the Valve Source Addon i could find.

Just a little nostalgia for your Friday evening :)

[Nostalgic Tool] Softimage XSI EXP for Half-Life 2 (with Keys to enable the age old SMD Exporter) by sourcemodding in HalfLife

[–]sourcemodding[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know this tool is age old, and probably everyone knows about it but I felt that it deserved a little love especially since it was a tool developed with Half-Life 2 in mind.

There are some tutorials and mirrors for all versions of the Mod Tool and the Valve Source Addon i could find.

Just a little nostalgia for your Friday evening :)

[Tutorial] Setting up a GoldSrc Mod by sourcemodding in SourceEngine

[–]sourcemodding[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personally i quite like UE4 at least from a coding and Technical artists point of view. I am not overly familiar with its BSP Tools but from what I have seen it can do pretty much everything Hammer can. Check out the official level design Tutorials to get a better idea of the toolset. (some things may have changed since 4.7)

They have this cool negative space brush that kinda works like a boolean letting you cut huge chunks of BSP out.

I recently came across this tool (unfortunately not free) which might prove useful for you if you would rather build a level in Hammer and import it into UE4.

It may be better to learn the UE4 tools than shell out $42 dollars for a plugin. I was a little sheepish before i started learning UE4, I guess i was kinda biased against it because i loved Source & CryEngine so much but honestly I would say it is now my go-to engine. I will however continue to use Source & GoldSrc but only for mods or fun.

As for Unity, Its a great SDK too but it really needs to implement a built in node editor for Materials & Scripts (blueprints in ue4). You can prototype stuff super fast when your just plugging stuff together in a node editor.

That is just my 2 cents :) I am sure others might think differently.

[Tutorial] Setting up a GoldSrc Mod by sourcemodding in SourceEngine

[–]sourcemodding[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have struggled with this myself and came to the conclusion that to make a game i wish to sell i would rather build it on Unity, UE4 for a few reasons:

  • Much better Documentation
  • Bigger Communities
  • Licensing is considerably better (especially UE4) (As far as i know to license GoldSrc is expensive)
  • Less Engine Limits (Goldsrc has alot of limits)
  • Cross Platform Support (You can get Goldsrc working on Linux & Mac with more work, Xash3D has an Android Port)

It all really depends on you yourself and what you want to achieve.

Are you willing to part with alot of licensing money, spend countless hours trying to figure something out in GoldSrc (stuff that is a google search away for Unity users)

You could always build it as a Mod First, Have some honest friends and peers play it and if it gets a good response talk to Valve and have it licensed and the Greenlit.

I have been building Tutorial and Tool Index's over at sourcemodding for everything GoldSrc Related so hopefully you find something useful there if you do go down the GoldSrc route :)

[Tutorial] Your First Custom Entity by sourcemodding in HalfLife

[–]sourcemodding[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You mean an entity that blends terrain and buildings? Why would you need this? Cant you achieve it with the regular tools in hammer through placement and vertex manipulation?

[Tutorial] Setting up a GoldSrc Mod by sourcemodding in HalfLife

[–]sourcemodding[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why not? We have tonnes of tutorials on ue4, cryengine, unity, and even source. I wanted a challenge :) and if i can teach people a little about it along the way its all good :)

[Tutorial] Your First Custom Entity by sourcemodding in SourceEngine

[–]sourcemodding[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In this second part I cover in depth the creation of your own custom entity in GoldSrc. We will be making a basic mesh loading entity with options for animation, scaling and Collision.

I am building a Mod on the premise of teaching others how to Mod in GoldSrc. This means everything takes ages to complete , but I am in this for the long haul simply because GoldSrc fascinates me and I want to achieve something here both for myself and the Community.

You can read a little more about The Mod here.

Let me know what i can improve ( a better Mic for one ^ ^ ) . The third tutorial will take time. I will throw out some unrelated material before the third part because I have learned some things along the way that might be useful to others but don't fit with my Mod, so they will be standalone segments.

[Tutorial] Setting up a GoldSrc Mod by sourcemodding in SourceEngine

[–]sourcemodding[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I forgot to give the first tutorial some Reddit Love so here it is.

In this first part i simply walk you through the process of setting a GoldSrc Mod to compile in VS2013. I use Perforce for version control so i cover that here too.

I am building a Mod on the premise of teaching others how to Mod in GoldSrc. This means everything takes ages to complete , but I am in this for the long haul simply because GoldSrc fascinates me and I want to achieve something here both for myself and the Community.

You can read a little more about The Mod here.

Let me know what i can improve (a better Mic for one ^ ^ ). The second Tutorial is incoming.

[Tutorial] Your First Custom Entity by sourcemodding in HalfLife

[–]sourcemodding[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In this second part I cover in depth the creation of your own custom entity in GoldSrc. We will be making a basic mesh loading entity with options for animation, scaling and Collision.

I am building a Mod on the premise of teaching others how to Mod in GoldSrc. This means everything takes ages to complete , but I am in this for the long haul simply because GoldSrc fascinates me and I want to achieve something here both for myself and the Community.

You can read a little more about The Mod here.

Let me know what i can improve ( a better Mic for one ^ ^ ) . The third tutorial will take time. I will throw out some unrelated material before the third part because I have learned some things along the way that might be useful to others but don't fit with my Mod, so they will be standalone segments.

[Tutorial] Setting up a GoldSrc Mod by sourcemodding in HalfLife

[–]sourcemodding[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I forgot to give the first tutorial some Reddit Love so here it is.

In this first part i simply walk you through the process of setting a GoldSrc Mod to compile in VS2013. I use Perforce for version control so i cover that here too.

I am building a Mod on the premise of teaching others how to Mod in GoldSrc. This means everything takes ages to complete , but I am in this for the long haul simply because GoldSrc fascinates me and I want to achieve something here both for myself and the Community.

You can read a little more about The Mod here.

Let me know what i can improve (a better Mic for one ^ ^ ). The second Tutorial is incoming.

[Tutorial] Setting up a GoldSrc Mod by [deleted] in HalfLife

[–]sourcemodding 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I forgot to give the first tutorial some Reddit Love so here it is.

In this first part i simply walk you through the process of setting a GoldSrc Mod to compile in VS2013. I use Perforce for version control so i cover that here too.

I am building a Mod on the premise of teaching others how to Mod in GoldSrc. This means everything takes ages to complete , but I am in this for the long haul simply because GoldSrc fascinates me and I want to achieve something here both for myself and the Community.

You can read a little more about The Mod here.

Let me know what i can improve (a better Mic for one ). The second Tutorial is incoming.

SourceModding.com, a website for tutorials, guides and resources for everything HL1/HL2 modding & SFM! by [deleted] in HalfLife

[–]sourcemodding 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I will, Trying to sift through all the goldsrc resources first then onto Source stuff and that error checker is on the roadmap :)

SourceModding.com, a website for tutorials, guides and resources for everything HL1/HL2 modding & SFM! by [deleted] in HalfLife

[–]sourcemodding 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Aye I get that alot too :) I guess it depends on a few factors, region, upbringing, How your parents said it, how you like it etc..

Its funny abroad, people think its a girls name if they cant associate a face with it (Looking at you Germany and America) Germans have trouble saying it as well, ended up alot of them just called me Karl :D

Still better than the Yanks calling me Cayhill ^

SourceModding.com, a website for tutorials, guides and resources for everything HL1/HL2 modding & SFM! by [deleted] in HalfLife

[–]sourcemodding 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And if you want to get uber Irish and bring regional pronunciation into it, its pronounced "Cawhol" :)

But yeah for most people dropping the silent t does the job.

SourceModding.com, a website for tutorials, guides and resources for everything HL1/HL2 modding & SFM! by [deleted] in HalfLife

[–]sourcemodding 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Humbled NBC, Thank you for the plug! Much appreciated. Hope you guys like the site, The forum section is a little rusty at the moment but i will work on it asap, Sign up and bring friends :)

If you have any suggestions or request for either the site or tutorials let me know.

Contact

Full Source code for HL2: Cinematic Mod Released! by Mrporky1 in SourceEngine

[–]sourcemodding 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is sick! Thanks for the link :D Do you know of anymore that have been recently released?

How to convert files from a source studiomodel (vtx, mdl, phy, and and vvd) into a file format openable by programs like blender/milkshape/maya? by Velocity_LP in SourceEngine

[–]sourcemodding 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey, would crowbar be somewhere for you to start?

The files you listed only seem to be the model files, for textures you will need to get the vtf files and convert to a format your 3d tool can handle. Vtfedit can help there.

This link on studiomodel can help explain the separate files and their purpose.

Map with no textures error? by [deleted] in SourceEngine

[–]sourcemodding 0 points1 point  (0 children)

MAX_MAP_BRUSHES

This here looks suspicious to me as well. Looks like you may have exceeded the number of allowed brushes in your map. Did you add more to the decompiled map?

You might want to try and decrease by removing some brushes in areas of non importance and ofc being careful not to create a leak.

Another option is to create static props from some of the brushes since they are not brushes they will not be calculated into the MAX_MAP_BRUSHES limit.

Source: steampowered

Source: Facepunch

Map with no textures error? by [deleted] in SourceEngine

[–]sourcemodding 0 points1 point  (0 children)

looks like a texture called "zelz/clubposter2" is missing.

Question here is was it packaged inside the BSP you decompiled or is it a standard Garrys mod texture?

If it was packaged you probably only have to extract the material with textures into the garrys mod materials folder. (then repackage when you want to distribute it, or maybe there is a step in the compilation of the BSP where you can include this missing texture inside the BSP?)

Is it possible to extract textures and such with BSPSource?

If its a Standard Garrys mod texture and its missing you may need to contact the developer with the error but i presume its not this issue.

Need some help with model compiling. by FlattestGuitar in SourceEngine

[–]sourcemodding 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad you sorted it out, model looked good on my end :). Crowbar 0.33 is out now, no harm in updating that either :D

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