Counter-Strike: Global Offensive engine branch: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 12:59, 22 July 2022

The CS:GO engine branch was introduced in 2012 with the release of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. It is the latest Source 1 engine branch available and succeeds the Portal 2 engine branch.

Note:This engine branch has been upgraded over time, so some games or mods on this engine branch may not have all of these features. Many features are exclusive to

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

Features

New since the Portal 2 engine branch is:

Real-time dynamic shadows: env_cascade_light provides dynamic, high-resolution cascade shadow mapping for the outdoor light of light_environment.
Lightmapped Ambient Occlusion: VRAD can now bake ambient occlusion into the lightmaps for a map, leading to enhanced realism.
Bump mapped decals: LightmappedGeneric decals now support bump maps.

Newer Features

Phong reflections on Lightmapped materials: LightmappedGeneric and WorldVertexTransition now support diffuse Phong reflections.
Vertex lighting for bumpmapped static props: Static props with bump maps can now receive vertex lighting, better blending them into the environment. All static props also now receive better lighting.
Anisotropic reflection emulation: Brush shaders can now emulate anisotropic specular reflections using new parameters.
Bump map blending for LightmappedGeneric: Two bump maps can now be blended together for high-frequency and low-frequency bumpmap variation on the LightmappedGeneric shader.
Lightmapped_4WayBlend: A displacement shader that can blend four different materials together by luminance.
Prop combination: VBSP now supports combining selected static props during map compilation, increasing performance and lowering draw calls.
Increased engine and compilier limits: The engine now supports more entities, more models and more displacements.; Note:Document all of the increased limits.
New first-person weapon lightning.: First-person weapon view now support more detailed lighting
Other improvements: Todo: Document these, this is just the tip of the iceberg.; Todo: Celisej: soon add more.