Badger

Note:This page contains information copied from Hai's website.

Badger is a procedural level generation tool suite that can output levels for Half-Life 1 and Black Mesa Source.

Abridged feature overview

Scope

• targeting Half-Life 1/Opposing Force and Black Mesa/Half-Life 2
• support for extracting and creating regular texture Q1 and HL1 .wad files

Scripting interface

• types and functions for most .vmf data including planes, powerful texture projections, brushes, entities, connections, displacements
• reading and writing of HL1 .map and HL2 .vmf files
• .svg-based cue system
• voxel space-based CSG so whole levels can be carved and then brushes synthesized from that
• "spatial cluster tree" data structure for supporting quick spatial lookups
• general file access and compression support

Script library highlights

• axis-aligned box layouting
• spline and NURBS calculations
• seamlessly textured extrusions along arbitrary paths
• "transformed geometry" for defining a model once and getting its main transformations with fitting texturing for free
• "shaky layout" layouting approach
• "graph plan" for generating e.g. hexagonal mazes
• model system and model library for Half-Life 1
• "Gen12" level generation framework that combines layouts with randomized parts, skins and game plans; deathmatch levels built with it for Black Mesa
• "GenPrefabs" level generation framework that supports a tree of transformed parameterized prefabs, used in conjunction with the .svg-based cue system to build levels for Half-Life 1

SVG blueprint for a Half-Life 1 reference level

Half-Life 1 objects and transformations used in generated levels

Generated Black Mesa Source deathmatch level

Entity setup for a game of life animation on the floor in BMS

Curvy BSP geometry

External links

• Project page (Download)