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Source Engine SDK Released

Posted by Zonk on from the make-your-own-black-mesa dept.

wolrahnaes writes "It's finally available to the public. According to a post on The Valve ERC Collective, the tools needed to create maps and mods for Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, and other Source engine based titles are now available on Steam. Some documentation is available here."

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  1. ...AND VALVE BREATH A SIGH OF RELIEF by hine_uk · · Score: 3, Insightful

    because all those people who can make good games are going to save their asses again. Dont get me wrong, Half life kicked ass and I am sure that half life 2 will kick ass too but the only reason half life is so fondly remembered is due to the number of world class mods that came out. Valve made a good game, amateur coders made their engine a phenomenon.

    1. Re:...AND VALVE BREATH A SIGH OF RELIEF by Cassius105 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I disagree

      the original Half Life was amazing and would of been remembered as a classic without mods

      what mods have done is made it stay popular to this day rather than just being remembered

  2. Forget Mods by superpulpsicle · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The reason why original HalfLife was such a success is because it ran fluidly on every video card. HalfLife 2 with or without mods have quite a steep requirement to climb. If it's anything like Doom III, I'll wait for double-digit patches.

    1. Re:Forget Mods by space_jake · · Score: 1, Insightful

      I dont know half-life 1 ran pretty well on a 166 Mhz AMD K6, with 64 mb ram and a voodoo2 upon release.

    2. Re:Forget Mods by Bollie · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Half-life was released in November of 1998, and it did not run well on the typical gamer system then. I had a P2 400 and 128MB RAM with a TNT2 graphics card and got about 25 FPS in 640x480 after much tweaking.

      I'm sorry, I had a P2 266 with a Permedia 2 chipset graphics card (Creative Labs Graphics Blaster Exxtreme if I recall correctly). 640x480 netted me 25 fps and when I upgraded to a TNT (NOT TNT2) I had 1024x768 at a very decent framerate (probably more than 30, it never jerked). BTW, both were at full detail.

      Maybe you were thinking of a P2 200 and a Riva128?