Valve Announce Alien Swarm

[F0xHunter]

in-editor engine viewport

say that again?

[Lindsey]

So is that something like what Crysis and other modern engines do with instant previews?

Course my question is does it actually work or will it be like the lighting preview feature

[Dives]

I'm really liking this game so far. Its gets pretty frantic at times. I dislike how some missions end if your tech guy dies though.

[Dives]

Ok some SDK stuff. They've improved the lighting preview. It now works with light and light_spot entities. No support for light_environment though.


Theres a new toolbar called Foundry that has things like "Send selected entities to engine" and "move engine view to hammer 3d view", but I can't seem to get them to do anything.

[source-maps]

Ok some SDK stuff. They've improved the lighting preview. It now works with light and light_spot entities. No support for light_environment though.


Theres a new toolbar called Foundry that has things like "Send selected entities to engine" and "move engine view to hammer 3d view", but I can't seem to get them to do anything.

is that the normal sdk or hlf2 sdk?

and did they also fix 'displacements not getting lit in lighting preview"

[Gary]

O_o

Must... resist... downloading...

[Dives]

This is the new Alien Swarm SDK.
Displacements work somewhat. They can get strange light splotches for some reason.

[source-maps]

meh.. nothing to get excited about
do want to see the engine view-port tho

[MáØ]

So did a little test, hammer's new lighting preview vs in game (now I know in game will always be better, no need to attack me >.>):

Hammer


Source (2009, Ep2)

[YokaI]

The TileGen mapping system sounds like a great addition to the source engine, however I would like to know if there's any flexibility with what axis you want to be working in.

Currently I am using UDK for a side scrolling game, but my familiarity to source and it's new engine have got me swaying back in this direction once more. Because of this, I was wondering in a "new mod" creation scenario, will modders be given the ability to use tile gen in a different way than Alien Swarm uses it?

Thanks,

P.S. Is there any chance at all you streamlined the mesh/prop-importing process to make it less of a pain?

The source code to TileGen is included in the SDK, so if your mod team has a programmer, you can make it work in any axis you want!

Just thought it would be interesting to share.

edit: I messed around with Tilegen a bit, and it seems like it could be very useful in the right hands. Having said this, I don't really know if it's exactly what I was expecting. I need to play around with it some more later.

[cz_squishy]

I just played 4 hours in one sitting. What can I say? The game's fun and addicting

[city14]

I played with my brother and general vivi for like 20-30 minutes. A lot of fun, but on a 2 person team... we died a lot...

[Jangalomph]

I played for about.. 7 hours.. got to level 24, so addicting. Cant wait to get my hands on these particles >:D!!!!!

[ad_hominem]

So... anyone fancy a game?

[Saxon]

Hells yeah :3

God damn it, I'll never find a job now :<