Source in Academic Work

This page shows the versatility of the Source engine.

AndrewNeo

AndrewNeo's English Project

The house in this picture is intended to represent a mountainside home in the book Uglies for a Teen Literature class. It is simple in appearance due partially to the mapper's intermediate skill at mapmaking, and largely due to the fact that it was a small project. Instead of drawing the picture by hand, the map was made in Half-Life 2 and taken as a high-resolution screenshot to be printed in a scrapbook project as a piece of art.

ts2do

This project shows quotes from The Great Gatsby in a series of clicks with a camera attached to a moving entity. The quotes are supposed to show the different aspects of Jordan Baker and how she is an example of the new type of woman that emerges from the 1920's.

You can download a copy of it here. Credits for custom models go to ts2do and Spektre1.

Ankhsethamon

The digital version of the prototype, made on Source (Hammer)

The finished physical model

This project consists on a mechanic-electric train that moves with a simple mechanism. For the design I used the Source Engine (Hammer) to plan all the pieces and the materials, as well as their dimensions. Also, I added Phys motor entities to add movement to the wheels, so I could see the behavior of the whole prototype (thanks to the Havok physics). It worked pretty good, and helped me a lot when designing the mechanism. The image on the left shows the Source last-version model of the train, and the one on the right the physical finished prototype.