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{{distinguish|Foundry|desc1=for communicating between the engine and [[Hammer]]}}
{{confusion|It is '''not''' an [[Engine Tools|engine tool]], but instead simply a one way link from {{hlfaceposer|4|nt=0}} to the engine.}}


{{faceposer|4|nt=0}} ''Foundry'' is a feature present in {{asw|4}}'s {{faceposer|1|nt=0}}, it accessible in the ''"Foundry"'' menu, with the ''"Play scene in engine"'' action. It does not require loading the [[Foundry]] DLL, as it is not an engine tool; it instead uses the {{wiki|Windows API}} to send commands to the engine.

== Overview ==

When running the action, {{faceposer|2|nt=0}} will check if a scene is loaded, and if it's the case, it will rebuild [[scenes.image]].

{{faceposer|1|nt=0}} will then send 2 commands to the engine :
:* The first one is {{cmd|scene_flush}}, which reloads [[scenes.image]].
:* The second is {{cmd|load|alt=load faceposer\scenename}}, where <code>scenename</code> is the name of the currently loaded scene in {{faceposer|2|nt=0}}.
::{{note|Because the {{cmd|load}} command loads save files, it is assumed this feature is supposed to be used with {{cmd|scene_vcdautosave}} {{since|{{asw}}}} {{modernConfirm}}. But {{cmd|scene_vcdautosave}} doesn't save in the {{path|faceposer}} folder, and it doesn't name its saves by the scene name {{modernConfirm}}.}}
:::{{modernConfirm|How is the save supposed to be loaded then ? Creating the save manually doesn't even seem to work because of the backslash.}}
::{{note|Because {{asw|4}} doesn't support saving/loading, using a game such as {{portal2|4}} is required to get a bit of this feature working.}}

{{bug|Due to how the function for sending the commands to the engine is coded, the window indicating the engine is not running will pop up as much time as a command is run, so twice in this case.}}

The feature does nothing afterwards, therefore it can be considered unfinished.


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