Which Source SDK do I download?

[kazuma kiryu gaming]

I want to get into mapmaking so I searched the internet and the Valve Development Community website is telling me to download the Source SDK 2013 and other stuff. I'm really confused because there are like 10 SDKs out there and I don't know which one I'm supposed to download. There's Source SDK 2006, Source SDK 2007, Source SDK (without any year numbers), Source SDK 2013 Singleplayer, Source SDK 2013 Multiplayer, etc, etc. Can someone help out with this?

[Nyaozix]

Do as I do, all of them.

[kazuma kiryu gaming]

Originally posted by Nyao~ ❥ (B-Day in 10 days):

Do as I do, all of them.

I only have 15 gigs of space left

[Nyaozix]

Originally posted by RPTGame:

Originally posted by Nyao~ ❥ (B-Day in 10 days):

Do as I do, all of them.

I only have 15 gigs of space left

Rip, SDK 2007 is my most useful. Sooo... Go on 2007.

[foszlány]

Go to Team fortress 2/bin folder and search hammer.

[kazuma kiryu gaming]

Which one's the best for mapmaking? I literally have no clue on how to make anything in "source sdk"
I already downloaded Source SDK (without any year listed, just source sdk), is that fine?

[kazuma kiryu gaming]

Originally posted by nwbu.:

Go to Team fortress 2/bin folder and search hammer.

Isn't hammer the same thing as Source SDK?

[foszlány]

Originally posted by RPTGame:

Originally posted by nwbu.:

Go to Team fortress 2/bin folder and search hammer.

Isn't hammer the same thing as Source SDK?

Yes

[kazuma kiryu gaming]

Also, another question, can my computer run Hammer/Source SDK?
(Nvidia GeForce GT 730, Intel i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual, 8GB ram)

[kazuma kiryu gaming]

Originally posted by nwbu.:

Originally posted by RPTGame:

Isn't hammer the same thing as Source SDK?

Yes

Okay, so hammer works, I think. What is SourceSDK supposed to do?

[foszlány]

Originally posted by RPTGame:

Also, another question, can my computer run Hammer/Source SDK?
(Nvidia GeForce GT 730, Intel i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual, 8GB ram)

My computer can run it, so yours too.
It doesn't require much. Also if you need help I can surely tell some tricks.

[kazuma kiryu gaming]

Originally posted by nwbu.:

Originally posted by RPTGame:

Also, another question, can my computer run Hammer/Source SDK?
(Nvidia GeForce GT 730, Intel i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual, 8GB ram)

My computer can run it, so yours too.
It doesn't require much. Also if you need help I can surely tell some tricks.

Thanks for the help :) I'll have to read up on the wiki, I'm verry new to this thing

[foszlány]

Originally posted by RPTGame:

Originally posted by nwbu.:

My computer can run it, so yours too.
It doesn't require much. Also if you need help I can surely tell some tricks.

Thanks for the help :) I'll have to read up on the wiki, I'm verry new to this thin

Wiki tells it a bit detaily. Watch UAEKCrash tutorials. They are gold.

[kazuma kiryu gaming]

Originally posted by nwbu.:

Originally posted by RPTGame:

Thanks for the help :) I'll have to read up on the wiki, I'm verry new to this thin

Wiki tells it a bit detaily. Watch UAEKCrash tutorials. They are gold.

Thanks for the help xD

[OLDMAN🎅]

Originally posted by RPTGame:

I want to get into mapmaking so I searched the internet and the Valve Development Community website is telling me to download the Source SDK 2013 and other stuff. I'm really confused because there are like 10 SDKs out there and I don't know which one I'm supposed to download. There's Source SDK 2006, Source SDK 2007, Source SDK (without any year numbers), Source SDK 2013 Singleplayer, Source SDK 2013 Multiplayer, etc, etc. Can someone help out with this?

We're in the process of changing how the authoring tools are distributed for the following games:

Team Fortress 2
Counter-Strike: Source
Day of Defeat: Source
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch

Previously these tools were distributed together in a single package (the "Source SDK" application), which resided in a totally different folder from the games. We're moving towards a model more similar to L4D and CS:GO. The SDK tools are currently shipped with the game by default, so all you need to do to get the tools is launch the game to sync it to the latest build. Please note that the tools are only available for Windows.

Now look in the bin folder. (E.g: [steam]/steamapps/common/Team Fortress 2/bin) You should see several new batch files in the bin folder, which can be used to setup the proper environment and launch the tools:

hammer.bat
faceposer.bat
hlmv.bat
stdudiomdl.bat
vtex.bat

Use these batch files to launch the tools. The SDK launcher is no longer used.

If you have issues getting these to launch, make sure you don't have an environment variable named VProject set. If you do, the tools will use this instead of detecting the correct environment variable. https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SDK_Installation

[spice]

TF2 comes with the tools you need aka the whole ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ SDK itself.

Just navigate to your tf2 install location/bin and click on hammer.exe

Bam, problem solved.