P2CE Community, we hear you! We love Hammer and know you do too. We've seen your feature requests and bug reports for Hammer.

That's why we're introducing a groundbreaking feature for Hammer: Achievements!


That's right! Get rewarded for using Hammer by crashing it, using it, carving things and more!
Hammer's 21 new Achievements will be available through April 22nd, have fun :)

Finally, 0.9.0 is out! We've made huge progress on major features in this update.
We're proud to announce that DirectX 9 is **gone** and that we've massively increased
map & engine limits!

Thanks to all who tuned into our QnA stream yesterday! We've timestamped the VOD which
can be found here:

After months of hard work by Momentum team members SCell555, Xen and others,
map size and many engine limits have either been increased or removed entirely.
Mappers may now enjoy a whopping 131,072 x 131,072 x 131,072 grid- 4 times larger on each axis than the standard Source engine grid.

Summary of new limits in BSP v25

• Grid size (game units): 32768 -> 131072
  
• models: 1024 -> 65536
  
• brushes: 8192 -> 131072
  
• brushides: 81920 -> 655360
  
• planes: 65536 -> 1048576
  
• vertexes: 65536 -> 1048576
  
• nodes: 65536 -> 1048576
  
• texinfos: 12288 -> unlimited
  
• texdata: 4096 -> 16384
  
• faces: 65536 -> 1048576
  
• HDR faces: 65536 -> 1048576
  
• origfaces: 65536 -> 1048576
  
• leaves: 65536 -> 1048576
  
• leaffaces: 65536 -> 1048576
  
• leafbrushes: 65536 -> 1048576
  
• areas: 1024 -> 65536
  
• surfedges: 512000 -> 8192000
  
• edges: 256000 -> 4096000
  
• LDR worldlights: 8192 -> unlimited
  
• HDR worldlights: 8192 -> unlimited
  
• leafwaterdata: 32768 -> 32768
  
• waterstrips: 32768 -> 1048576
  
• waterverts: 65536 -> 1048576
  
• waterindices: 65536 -> 1048576
  
• cubemapsamples: 1024 -> 16384
  
• overlays: 1024 -> 16384
  
• displacements: 32768 -> 262144
  
• edicts: 2048 -> 8192

Our DirectX 11 backend has finally been completed! The old DX9 backend has been completely stripped from the game, along with its 1.5GB of compiled shaders. From now on, P2:CE and other Chaos games will be DirectX 11 only on Windows, and Vulkan only on Linux (via DXVK).

This effort was made possible by SlidyBat, SCell555 and the many other contributors
to Chaos engine. This work started way back in 2021, it's amazing to see this monumental
task finally completed!

Please report any bugs or other problems you experience with the DirectX 11 renderer
so they can get fixed quickly.

• Increased BSP Limits and version to v25
  
• Removed DirectX 9
  
• Massively improved VRAD texture shadows, previously they were semi-broken
  
• Added fizzler refraction vfx
  
• Added -outdir parameter to studiomdl
  
• Added -aoradius flag to VRAD as alternative to -aoscale
  
• Added support for F12-24 and 102nd keys
  
• Optimized game startup time (Huge improvements for Linux here)
  
• Optimized VRAD, in some workloads ~10% decrease in map compile time
  
• Enabled sentry crash reporting in all GUI tools and compilers
  
• Refactored Panorama file system layout
  
• Refactored Steam Input

• Fix UnlitTwoTexture
  
• Fix sun specular on PBR
  
• Fix studiomdl path handling
  
• Fix crashes when running SP maps in MP
  
• Fix OnSoundFinished for ambient_generic
  
• Fix bad mounting of PLATFORM in Hammer, when using it with mods
  
• Fix crash when world light is in the void
  
• Fix crash when dealing with invalid portal gun hold particles
  
• Fix weapon viewmodels vanishing after entering a vehicle
  
• Fix crash when running buildcubemaps in a map with no cubemaps
  
• Fix PBR fog being inconsistent
  
• Fix PBR projected textures
  
• Fix occasional crash on start due to startup videos
  
• Fix load tools dialog
  
• Fix duplicate loading of tools
  
• Fix toolunload command
  
• Fix broken displacement physics in HL2 maps when running with IVP
  
• Fix occasional crash due to visibility
  
• Exposed some portal laser cvars
  
• Updated DXVK to 2.1
  
• Updated SDL2 to latest

We'll be streaming live at 12:30PM PST today over on YouTube.
Hop in and hang out!

https://www.youtube.com/live/PmLjYCVYb08

A small hotfix for P2CE:

• Fixed crash loading certain valid textures
  
• Removed unnecessary campaign-related assets from release
  
• Added empty ChapterBackgrounds.txt to override Portal 2's
  
• Added compile tools benchmark scripts
  
• Don't load mounts.kv if -nousermount or -safemode is passed to the game
  
• Added brae's get_hammer_content and get_latest_js_types scripts, and ported them to PowerShell
  
• The convert_bik_to_webm PowerShell script should now work on UNIX platforms
  
• Update install_hammer script's downloaded dependencies

Another major update to P2:CE. Here's what we've been doing recently:

• Added Volt[github.com] (VPhysics wrapper for the Jolt physics engine)
  
  • Enable it by adding -jolt to your launch arguments
• Added sentry integration for automatic crash dump uploads
  
• Fixed incorrect entity deletion over level transitions
  
• Exposed sv_rollangle and related as cheats
  
• Simplified SendTable sorting algorithm
  
• Third-person camera is smoother when snapping to angles
  
• Exposed cl_draw_player_model
  
• Added a cinematic camera toggleable with cam_smooth
  
• Strip more CS:GO code from P2CE
  
• Fixed VGUI looking in bin/<os>/ for the platform folder
  
• Use stderr for debug strings on Linux
  
• Re-encoded all webm videos in p2ce/media/
  
• Added bik -> webm PowerShell converter script
  
• Added elevator frame section armless model
  
• Added autumn foliage assets
  
• Reverted game instructor font to Portal 2's (die Stratum 2)
  
• Remove AI upscaled duct texture
  
• Added HL2/EP1/EP2 vehicle scripts, weapon scripts and new weapon manifest
  
• Added skill configs and skill manifest from HL2/EP1/EP2
  
• Make Black Mesa maps loadable
  
• Weapon manifest is now loaded from the MOD path, and only when necessary
  
• Removed support for encrypted weapon scripts
  
• Allow empty ChapterBackgrounds.txt instead of falling back to background01
  
• Removed +mat_dxlevel, et al restrictions from launcher

• Fixed NPCs not being able to fire weapons
  
• Don't link base weapon classes to entity name and don't precache them
  
• Removed textures making the super physgun white
  
• Updated Schrodinger cube model

• Added commands to print, wipe, reload, and save persistent storage
  
• Fixed text wrapping and label sizing
  
• Move fonts.conf to platform and strip CS:GO stuff from it
  
• Background maps now fully work with Panorama
  
• Added MapLoaded and MapUnloaded events to allow it to fade out to the background map

• Fixed About dialog
  
• Fixed crash on shutdown
  
• Pulled in latest AngelScript changes
  
• Set model compiler in postcompiler back to studiomdl

• Implemented multiple views support for DX11
  
  • Hammer should work with DX11 now
• Added distort and hologram render effects
  
• Fixed 4wayblend shader trying to use non-existent texture
  
• Ungrab cursor on shader error on Linux
  
• Use a better algorithm to pack lightmaps
  
• Added BC7 format for VTF, re-enable ATI1N and ATI2N formats
  
• BCn can be encoded on Linux now
  
• Make BCn -> RGBA8888 conversion faster
  
• Texture loading no longer fails with lightmapped_4wayblend shader on DX11
  
• $seamless_scale now behaves correctly on angled surfaces
  
• Added $seamless_scale to lightmappedgeneric and other relevant shaders on DX11
  
• Fixed static prop runtime lighting calculation
  
• Use SIMD accelerated conversion for RGBA8888 based image formats