The Source Engine is a 3D game engine developed by Valve Corporation. Its unique features include a large degree of modularity and flexibility, an artist-driven, shader-based renderer, accurate lip sync and facial expression technology, and a powerful, efficient and completely network-enabled physics system.
The Source engine was first shown to the world by being the power-horse behind the hugely anticipated Half-Life 2 which was released in late 2004. Since then the Source Engine has been upgraded with the release of such titles as Half-Life 2: Lost Coast, Team Fortress 2 and the Left 4 Dead series to name a few.
Whilst it has been years since the release of the Source Engine they haven't yet unveiled a 'next-generation engine' as the Source engine is always updating and is just as relevant in the gaming world today if not more than when it debuted in 2004. It has been aided by the release of the free Source Development Kit (SDK) which include such features as HDR for developers to use in their projects. Hence the reasons stated we have yet to see 'Source Engine 2'.
On July 10th 2012, Valve released the 'Source Filmmaker' - a freeware client to allowed anyone to make movies inside the Source Engine. More information on the Source Filmmaker can be found here.
Below you can find a list of amazing features that the Source Engine boasts:
We are back with the last update for this year! Please share your feedback with us!
First thing we introduced is Steam Rich Presence. Now whenever you see your friend playing Treason, you'll see what map they are playing and how many players they have on their server while also being able to join them by clicking RMB on them in friends' list and then "Join Game", as long as they are not playing on a LAN server.
Next big thing we added is a server creation UI. Initially we wanted to make a fully working lobby system with players being able to create their own lobbies with their own settings, but unfortunately it turned out to be impossible in our current situation so we decided to at least bring a common Source server creation UI to the game, although with a prettier layout, which functions almost the same to the lobby system, except you will still have to deal with port forwarding or using virtual LAN software.
And the last of our big changes is a change to pre-death state. Whenever you get killed with a live Doctor on the server, you enter a pre-death state with a brain icon that will slowly drain until you are rotten and can no longer be resuscitated by the Doctor, but it looked really wonky. So we made it look prettier by showing the player when they are being revived, by linking the view to your actual body and by making sure that you cannot die when you are being revived, so that last second Doctor arrival can still save you. We've also made it so that calling for help brings you slightly closer to death by t_pre_death_use_penalty seconds (default: 2), so that you cannot spam the help sound infinitely or you could skip pre-death state quickly if you want.
Full list of changes
Stability
Gameplay
UI
Maps
New map: Cold
Castle
City
Classic
Clues
Dust Ode
Dust 2 Ode
Hotel
Island
Simple
Temple
Tower
Villa
Voorgoud
Thank you for sticking with us! Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
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An extreme first-person shooter in the heat of the Vietnam War.
Where is the control panel for weapons firing speed and accuracy spread? I added dual pistols to the game and I want to make some changes. And why is my game screen has black borders covering both sides despite saying full screen?
How to fix the error: Support for total conversions are not available using the source engine.
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The most best Engine in universe
Hi, how i can found people for work with battle royale on source engine?
To bad this engine was not coded to count beyond the number three.
man, i love source :3
can anyone link me an up to date tutorial on how to make mods for the source engine beyond going into source sdk and clicking create a mod the best link I have found so far is the my first mod article in the valve developer community however for the prepare the solution section I got very confused as the only version of visual studio I have is 2015 but it only goes up to 2012
check crimewarssource youtube vids
Source 2 HYPE
http://www.polygon.com/2015/3/3/8145273/valve-source-2-announcement-free-developers
HYPE is real!