SteamVR/Environments

SteamVR Workshop Tools lets you create and share different environments for SteamVR Home: photogrammetry scenes, game worlds, or anything else that can be represented by a 3D model.

These tools are currently only accessible by opting into SteamVR Beta. To launch SteamVR Workshop Tools, go to the SteamVR Status Menu > Workshop > Create / Modify an Environment.

Creator Resources

Basics

• Get Started - Learn the basics of creating a SteamVR Home enviornment – from creating a floor and a light to adding models and teleport meshes.

• Bring your Destination to SteamVR - Learn how to move your Destination over to the SteamVR Workshop.

• Add SteamVR Quick Panels - Learn how to add the Friends, Rooms, and Recent Apps panel to your environment in the Workshop tools.

• SteamVR Home Environment Checklist - Quick checklist to make sure your environment is ready to upload to the workshop.

Creating 3D Environments

• Basic Construction - Learn the basics of constructing meshes in Hammer

• Model Editor - Learn to create, view, and edit models with the Model Editor

• Materials - Learn how to use the Material Editor to create and edit materials

• Particles - Learn the basics of creating particles with the Particle Editor

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

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

• Adding sound - A guide on adding sounds to your environment.

• Adding lighting - An unofficial guide on adding light to your environment.

Creating Photogrammetry Environments

• Create a Photogrammetry Environment - Step by step instructions for creating a photogrammetry environment.

• Advanced Outdoors Photogrammetry - Documents the full cleanup of a near-seamless, fully immersive outdoors scene, including distant geometry and a skydome.

• 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.

• Lighting Setup for Photogrammetry Scenes - Describes the basics of setting up a direct light, shadowed materials and ambient light and cubemap reflections.

• Adding sound - A guide on adding sounds to your environment.

• Regard3D - Regard3D is a free, open-source, multi-platform photogrammetry tool. Page is a brief summary of information from the Regard3D website.

Additional Resources

• Asset Browser - Overview of the Asset Browser - the hub of SteamVR Workshop Tools

• Using Hammer - Overview of Hammer - SteamVR Workshop Tools's level editor

• Panorama - An overview of using Panorama to create UI

• Destinations Guides on Steam - further guides, tutorials and articles from the community.