S&box is now an open source game engine
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Re: S&box is now an open source game engine
#2It depends on Source 2, which is not open source.
Re: S&box is now an open source game engine
#3It depends on Source 2, which is not open source.
Originally people thought the Source 2 sdk, was going to be released with Half Life Alyx, but it never materialized.
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#4The comments are hilarious. Every file has multiple profanity-filled rants.
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#5Their site appears down, here's the github repository: https://github.com/Facepunch/sbox-public
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#6Can we use the team fortress 2 release of source?
Oh. It's a modding sdk.
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#7I really struggle to wrap my head around how this engine works. I haven’t used it, but I have experience with Source 1 and its systems and I imagine Source 2 is an extrapolation of that. But I really can’t wrap my head around how they’ve turned it into a scene-based game engine when Source 2 is map-based, how they’ve managed to build a completely different editor that still leverages Hammer maps somehow, and all the other stuff.
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#8For those unfamiliar, the studio behind S&box is Facepunch, creators of Garry's Mod and Rust. Facepunch as a company doesn't get much attention but they're wildly successful. Started as just some guy in a bedroom, now ~$100m/year in revenue (all via Steam), $100m in the bank, ~100 employees and almost entirely a company of game developers (maybe 20% of employees are administrative staff). Still owned and ran by the founder, Garry. S&box (and Garry's Mod and Rust) is pure game developers making things they want to make.
Re: S&box is now an open source game engine
#9It depends on Source 2, which is not open source.
Originally people thought the Source 2 sdk, was going to be released with Half Life Alyx, but it never materialized.
It feels like Valve's management changed a few years (decade?) ago. I remember when they were still shipping SDKs and proper mod support, even for their multiplayer games. Today they are just killing everything that could divert revenue from their cash cow CS2 and shipping a half baked js-based scripting engine for their maps. (And in the meanwhile they kill fan projects like CS:Legacy, which is a whole game and not even a mod, with their army of lawyers. I don't think stuff like this would have happened 13+ years ago).
Re: S&box is now an open source game engine
#10Can we use the team fortress 2 release of source? Oh. It's a modding sdk. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/source-sdk-2013
and also source 1