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Revision as of 07:06, 21 August 2021
The Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 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 .Features
New since the Portal 2 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
LightmappedGenericand WorldVertexTransition now support diffuse Phong reflections.- Vertex lighting for bump mapped 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
LightmappedGenericshader. - Lightmapped_4WayBlend
- A displacement shader that can blend four different materials together by luminance.
- Prop combining
- 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 firstperson weapon lightning.
- Firstperson 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.
Availability
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Insurgency (earlier version)
Day of Infamy (earlier version)
Source code for this branch is not available. However, authoring tools exist for custom content.
