Tools and Resources to help make Mods in the Source Engine Last edited 1 week ago2024-12-27 15:23:27 UTC

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General Modding / Mapping for the Source Engine

Map Editors

Note
Dont use the VHE.
You should instead use an Editor like Hammer++, which vastly improves the UX and UI of VHE.
Note
This version of the VHE Tools are called Hammer 5.2 (not the be confused with the Source 2 VHE).

Compilation Tools

Note
You dont have to use the Slammin' Source Map tools with the Slammin' Hammer Editor, you can as an example, use the Slammin' Compilation Tools while using Hammer++.
(Page not finished yet, but will be in the coming Days)

9 Comments

Commented 1 week ago2024-12-27 17:24:47 UTC Comment #106575
@Tarek

I am not sure if this page is a very good addition to the wiki. We already have a Tools and Resources page which you could extend with Source-specific tools, but I would highly advise you to consult admins about this first.
Commented 1 week ago2024-12-27 17:41:47 UTC Comment #106576
Yea I wrote that under my forum Post, if it would be better to just integrate it, I shouldve consulted the Admins, but I didnt even know how to contact them, Ill ask the admins to delete the page or integrate it depending on whether or not the admins want it to exist or not.
Commented 1 week ago2024-12-28 13:33:38 UTC Comment #106579
@Admer456
I have asked Logic, and he said its fine to have a seperate page, which is why I will keep working on this for now. Please let me know any further feedback you have.
Commented 1 week ago2024-12-29 14:41:15 UTC Comment #106585
I propose the page be renamed to Tools and Resources (Source)
Commented 1 week ago2024-12-29 16:27:37 UTC Comment #106586
Sure, but we should then rename the other page Tools and Resources (GoldSrc) or smth like that...
Commented 1 week ago2024-12-29 23:55:00 UTC Comment #106587
I very much disagree. If anything, I think we could split the Tools and Resources page into a GoldSrc section and a Source section.
"TWHL is a site that focuses on GoldSrc"
Not really. This is The Whole Half-Life, and even the tagline is "Level design resources for GoldSource, Source, and beyond".
The prevalence of GoldSrc content and guides has more to do with the userbase than the site itself.

The work gone into compiling this list of resources is of course appreciated.
Commented 1 week ago2024-12-30 09:10:47 UTC Comment #106588
While your argumentation is correct,
User posted image
Logic and Trick told me to put a small info at the top
Commented 1 week ago2024-12-30 15:58:14 UTC Comment #106589
I have asked Logic, and he said its fine to have a seperate page, which is why I will keep working on this for now.
Alrighty, nice then.

Tarek, this is good work so far. I have some feedback about capitalisation:

Yours:
These are provided with every Install of a Source Game, along with the VHE.
Proper:
These are provided with every install of a Source game, along with VHE.
Most words are not capitalised in English, only personal names and brand/company names are, e.g. "Microsoft Visual Studio" is capitalised, but "Microsoft's code editor" is not capitalised because that's not a branded name, that's just a generic couple of words.

Also please write GoldSource instead of GoldSrc, since that is the convention on TWHL Wiki, even if people sometimes write just GoldSrc (or me personally: GoldSRC) in the forum threads.
Commented 1 week ago2024-12-30 16:38:41 UTC Comment #106590
Thanks, English is my second language and ive never had proper capitalisation and in german, we write almost every word capitalised. as for GoldSource, ill change them once I am working on the page again.

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