Source SDK Tools Released

[CSN NewsBot]

Update: The SDK Tools have just been released according to the news at Steampowered.com.

Valve has released the Source Software Development Kit (SDK) Tools via Steam. A precursor to the release of the full SDK, which will be released shortly after Half-Life 2 is made available, the Source SDK Tools release offers a comprehensive toolset for starting production on Source-based MODs, including Hammer, XSI EXP for Half-Life 2, compiling tools, the Source Model Viewer, documentation on programming, modeling, building materials, and more. For more information, please visit collective.valve-erc.com

As usual, restart your Steam clients to grab this update if you so choose to work with the SDK materials.[break="old speculation and hope"]According to this page on SteamPowered.com, the Half-Life 2 software development kit, or SDK, will be released later today. Jess Cliffe, in a comment for this very news item, confirmed that a variety of the tools will be released today.

The tools are coming today.

This is certainly great news for all mod makers!

[HowlinMadMurphy]

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Good news. I hope it does come out today, or very soon. Having it for a week before HL2 is released is better than nothing.



UPDATE: YAY! It's live!

[Mobius?]

http://www.steampowered.com/platform/update_history/

[Skoiler]

yay, ill make maps for CS:S sooner than expected

[bullet_head]

Huzzah.

[azz0r]

http://www.dailyrush.dk/features/galler...ages/ss21.jpg

[defuser]

i hope this SDK would be easier to use so i can really learn how to make models and maps easliy...i got tons of ideas but never got to learn

[JaggedArrow]

csn <3 rumors

[gumplunger]

bullet_head wrote..

Huzzah.

Indeed. May crappy recolors be a thing of the past.

[blueflamedazn]

reliable sources tell us that it will be released today..or tomorrow...just...soon.

[PRES_00]

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Delete this

[DeFade]

heres hoping for ios:s soon ;D

[ShittingBasterd]

lol, wonder what IOS would look like for Source.



How 'bout Firearms:Source or NS:S..

[NightSh4de]

defuser wrote..

i hope this SDK would be easier to use so i can really learn how to make models and maps easliy...i got tons of ideas but never got to learn

Your always going to have to model then UV and skin in the same ways.. Your going to have to get "unlazy".

[PRES_00]

The added "tools" section in Steam games earlier anticipated this.

I don't think it'll be a preload but the real download because SDK's don't actually hype a game like HL2. They won't sell more units just because of an SDK.