NEW VERSION OF THE HAMMER EDITOR HOLY FUCK

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http://blog.dota2.com/2014/08/dota-2-workshop-tools/

AND IT'S ONLY FOR DOTA 2

 

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In terms of UI and presentation it more closely resembles something like the UDK. Which is okay but the UDK already came out several years ago and Epic is already making their next engine. Valve's slow compared to their competition in this case, and likely will be til they release a new engine.

AND IT'S ONLY FOR DOTA 2

For now. The SFM was only for TF2 and people figured out how to import content from other games into it. It's likely they'll managed to get it working for other games but it'll be pretty buggy.

 

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In terms of UI and presentation it more closely resembles something like the UDK. Which is okay but the UDK already came out several years ago and Epic is already making their next engine. Valve's a slow compared to their competition in this case, and likely will be til they release a new engine.

For now. The SFM was only for TF2 and people figured out how to import content from other games into it. It's likely they'll managed to get it working for other games but it'll be pretty buggy.

Getting content from other Source games is as easy as dragging and dropping (for models and materials. For maps it usually requires entire recompiles). This is different though. Hammer needs FGD files to know what game it's supposed to be mapping for, and people aren't sure if this new Hammer is compatible with non-Dota 2 ones. Hell, it uses new filetypes and I don't think it uses BSPs anymore i'm tired what the fuck am i talking about. I just finished downloading Dota 2 and the new tools, so I'm gonna dick around with it a bit to check.

This new Hammer also has Source 2 support with backwards compatibility for Source 1.

Get hype, people.

EDIT: Not even two minutes in and I have no idea what I'm doing.

 

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Getting content from other Source games is as easy as dragging and dropping (for models and materials. For maps it usually requires entire recompiles). This is different though. Hammer needs FGD files to know what game it's supposed to be mapping for, and people aren't sure if this new Hammer is compatible with non-Dota 2 ones. Hell, it uses new filetypes and I don't think it uses BSPs anymore

.bsps are the final compiled format iirc, and this editor very likely shoots out .bsps as soon as you compile a map. You can import those into Hammer but they usually come out all fucked up. .vmfs have been standard for saving and loading an incomplete map that you haven't compiled yet.

Bare in mind that Unreal did away with compiling the same year as HL1. A fully completed and tested map can be freely edited in U1, U2 and U3. So if Source 2 still has it I'm going to be a little sad that they haven't coded it out yet.

 

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So this editor is Source 2. Like, actually Source 2. A guy on Facepunch imported a model of Paris into the new Hammer and it still runs.

I think Narry Gewman put it best:

It's not source 2 like, it's Source 2. The build path was dota2_source2_win64build
Think half life source. They stuck all the Source content into source 2. It's all dx11 and shit.

This means that Valve released Source 2 right under our noses.