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Destinations lets you create, share and explore different worlds in VR: photogrammetry scenes, game worlds, or anything else that can be represented by a 3D model.

Download Destinations - Download Destinations Workshop Tools for free on Steam

Creator Resources

Basics

Get Started - Learn the basics of creating a Destination – from creating a floor and a light to adding models and teleport meshes.
Converting a SteamVR Environment - Learn how to quickly turn your SteamVR environment into a Destination.
Destinations Checklist - Quick checklist to make sure your Destination is ready for the recently added multiplayer support.

Photogrammetry

Create a Photogrammetry Destination - Step by step instructions for creating a photogrammetry Destination.
Advanced Outdoors Photogrammetry - Documents the full cleanup of a near-seamless, fully immersive outdoors scene, including distant geometry and a skydome.
New: Advanced Indoors Photogrammetry - Similar to the above, documents the process of creating an indoors scene using the Valve office lobby as an example.
Photogrammetry tips - Background on the photogrammetry process, as well as tips and tricks for a good capture.

Animation, Interactions, and Sound

Importing an Animated Model - Learn how to import a model with animations into Destinations Workshop Tools.

Triggers, Animation, and Sound - Recreate the Turret Singers Destination and learn how to use triggers, animations, and sound for your own Destinations.

Adding sound - A guide on adding sounds to your Destination.

Scripting

Updated: Scripting

Script API

Example Content

Content included in Destinations to help serve as examples of what can be done:

English Church - A scene constructed via photogrammetry that has some information about the process we used to create it.
Mars - Another photogrammetry scene using publicly available photos captured by the Mars Curiosity rover. Raw images were found on NASA's website here: http://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/.
Hammer Examples - A template map that can be copied and modified that has examples of some simple things creators can do using Hammer and the other Source 2 tools.
Turret Singers - A template map with more examples of using Hammer for triggers, animation and sound.
New: Arcade Toss - A game created in the Destinations Tools with examples of Hammer entity I/O, Lua scripting, and Panorama/Javascript/CSS.
New: Valve Lobby - Visit the Valve office in Bellevue, Washington in Destinations! A photogrammetry scene with information nodes about this lobby space.
New: La Pedrera - A scene constructed using photogrammetry from an architectural landmark in Barcelona, Spain.

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 * '''[[Destinations/Creating a Destination|Create a Photogrammetry Destination]]''' - Step by step instructions for creating a photogrammetry Destination.
 * '''[[Destinations/Advanced Outdoors Photogrammetry|Advanced Outdoors Photogrammetry]]''' - Documents the full cleanup of a near-seamless, fully immersive outdoors scene, including distant geometry and a skydome.
-* '''[[Destinations/Advanced_Indoors_Photogrammetry|Advanced Indoors Photogrammetry]]''' - Similar to the above, documents the process of creating an indoors scene using the Valve office lobby as an example.
+* '''<span style="color: red">New:</span>''' '''[[Destinations/Advanced_Indoors_Photogrammetry|Advanced Indoors Photogrammetry]]''' - Similar to the above, documents the process of creating an indoors scene using the Valve office lobby as an example.
 * '''[http://steamcommunity.com/games/250820/announcements/detail/117448248511524033 Photogrammetry tips]''' - Background on the photogrammetry process, as well as tips and tricks for a good capture.
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 ==== Scripting ====
-* '''[[Destinations/Scripting|Scripting]]'''
+* '''<span style="color: red">Updated:</span>''' '''[[Destinations/Scripting|Scripting]]'''
 * '''[[Destinations/Scripting/API|Script API]]'''
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 * '''Hammer Examples''' - A template map that can be copied and modified that has examples of some simple things creators can do using Hammer and the other Source 2 tools.
 * '''Turret Singers''' - A template map with more examples of using Hammer for triggers, animation and sound.
-* '''Arcade Toss''' - A game created in the Destinations Tools with examples of Hammer entity I/O, Lua scripting, and Panorama/Javascript/CSS.
+* '''<span style="color: red">New:</span>''' '''Arcade Toss''' - A game created in the Destinations Tools with examples of Hammer entity I/O, Lua scripting, and Panorama/Javascript/CSS.
-* '''Valve Lobby''' - Visit the Valve office in Bellevue, Washington in Destinations!  A photogrammetry scene with information nodes about this lobby space.
+* '''<span style="color: red">New:</span>''' '''Valve Lobby''' - Visit the Valve office in Bellevue, Washington in Destinations!  A photogrammetry scene with information nodes about this lobby space.
-* '''La Pedrera''' - A scene constructed using photogrammetry from an architectural landmark in Barcelona, Spain.
+* '''<span style="color: red">New:</span>''' '''La Pedrera''' - A scene constructed using photogrammetry from an architectural landmark in Barcelona, Spain.
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