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OpenSource
A utility for loading and rendering many Source VBSP maps together as a single giant mesh. It can be used to see how big the game world is, just for amusement.
Current status
It is not production quality and is not ready for any unprofessional and unsupervised use. It still has a lot of visual and other glitches. See issues. However, it should be generally stable. It does run on Raspberry Pi. The entire Half-Life 2 fits into < 512MiB video memory and renders ~1.5 million triangles at about 10fps.
If you wish, you could check out the old branch for the 5 years old version that was used for Half-Life 1 merging.
What works
- It builds and runs on Windows, Linux/X11 and Raspberry Pi (bare vc libs, w/o X11); No macOS support yet, stay tuned.
- VBSP format version 19 and 20, most of the maps from these games:
- Half-Life: Source
- Half-Life 2
- Half-Life 2: Episode One
- Half-Life 2: Episode Two
- Portal
- Portal 2. Well, somewhat. Its levels are not positioned correctly, requiring a lot of manual config patching, which is not done.
- Basic support for the following map features:
- Face geometry
- Displacements
- Base[0] textures
- DXT1/3/5 textures
- Reading VPK2 files
- Reading materials from pakfile lumps
- Packing textures with ETC1 on Raspberry Pi (packer is very naive and probably broken)
Streaming (OH HOLD)
Development was done almost entirely live.
Stream links:
You can also check out previous streams recordings and stuff planned for next streams.