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Modders for SDK Improvement

Inspired by Pi Mu Rho's "SDK - Soul Destroying Kit?", we are a group of concerned Source engine Modders banded together for the purpose of asking Valve to give the Source SDK the support and maintenance it needs to remain an attractive propostion to veteran Modders and newcomers alike.

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Portal 2 level editor for simpletons?

October 21st, 2011 - Vincent074 | 0 Comments

great news for everyone or catering to the wrong crowd while leaving modding community in the dust?

you decide.

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/10/21/portal-2-update-will-allow-users-to-create-test-chambers.aspx

Valve Planning to Improve Tools?

October 25th, 2010 - windlab | 3 Comments

Just spotted this over at Gamasutra: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/31109/InDepth_Team_Fortress_2_Community_Contributors_FiveFigure_Payoffs.php

"Robin Walker, project lead on Team Fortress 2, said in the short-term, Valve is working on ways to streamline the process of getting user-generated items into the game by improving the tools used to create items [...]

The next step for Valve's user-generated ambitions will be to create a way for users to make and sell a wider breadth of items for Team Fortress -- level designers, server operators, animators, custom UI modders and even guide writers may in the future be able to put their items up for sale. "We would like to figure out how they all can participate in this so that everyone is making the community better in some way, and benefit from that work they're doing," Walker explained."

It may well be only the process of getting models into TF2 is being improved, but I think there's hope for the rest of the tools...even if it has taken / will take forever.
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Pandora Apr 29, 2012 @ 10:53pm

hi every one iam new just join steam and i need help with my hammer editor so when iam open it to make map left 4 dead 2 and get error black grid can some one know how to fix it ?

I put the f.u. in Tofu Sep 26, 2010 @ 3:43am

I truly am behind the cause but aren't they going to update the sdk when the mac sdk comes out?

ProjectLeet Sep 9, 2010 @ 7:47pm

http://www.interlopers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=33491&start=90#p436737 Did what I could at PAX West.

windlab Aug 30, 2010 @ 9:10pm

Remove the space in the word "phoneme" in Theory's link for it to work.

Artfunkel

Aug 30, 2010 @ 4:32am

DORD: there's a fixed phoneme extractor at http://www.moddb.com/engines/source/downloads/windows-vista7-phoneme-extractor-11

[rH] Reepßlue Aug 27, 2010 @ 8:56am

Wish you can port games/mods to the Left 4 Dead 2/Alien Swarm Authoring Tools. But the tools are set to work with vpks and the new engines. I have better luck and less issues with those tools. :/

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