Half-Life 2 SDK Information

[CSN NewsBot]

A recent news posting over at Half-Life2.net sheds some light on the upcoming release of the HL2 SDK. There are a number of tools being prepared for the SDK, as discovered in the cache file from last night's update.

• Hammer
  
  
• Half-Life Model Viewer
  
  
• Face Poser
  
  
• Scene Manager
  
  
• Various content compiling tools
  
  
• Documentation
  
  
• Source code and examples

The SDK is tenatively set to be released right around the official release of Half-Life 2 on the 16th, but it is not set in stone. Once the tools are released to the public, they will show up under the newly added "Tools" section to the Steam UI.

[The_Expertx4]

Excellent.

[GrimmyD]

yay. bring on ns:source and specialists:source.

[-smash-]

Yay me!

[SteelV]

'bout time!

[Mikemike 2.0]

YAY NS source! halleloojah

[BAILOPAN]

Also note the SDK will include a Metamod for Source.

[CheesyPeteza]

I'll metamod you!!



I hope its as easy to port HL1 mods to Source as they say. NS:Source would keep me going until the other new mods finish their years of development.

[tony_qc]

put %n in ur css name kick pirated version

[DeSpiSe Me]

friggin' sweet

[JTF_Cobra]

Show up in your tools menu, awesome, steam might actually become somewhat useful.

[kerosine99]

can't wait to get my grubby paws on hammer. . . so i can realize how inept i am at creating anything other than a hollow cube.



i wonder how much longer it will take to compile maps now?

[DutchTiger]

Source code and examples

Don't we allready have that?

OK that wasnt funny ;P



Great news :-)

[Cliche]

Is Hammer like er... MC Hammer ?



Don't think my pants are baggy enough

though I can dance like an epileptic idiot

[TuRd-BuRgLaR]

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