Strata Source

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Strata Source, formerly known as the "Chaos Engine", is a third-party Source engine branch using licenced code. It is a modified version of the CS:GO engine branch that combines the features of both CS:GO and the Portal 2 engine branch, along with many improvements that bring Source close to modern standards. This engine branch is still in active development.

Features

Feature list from the Strata Source Wiki
New since CS:GO engine branch:

Native DirectX 11 renderer

Support for DX11 by default

DXVK support on Linux for both DirectX 9 and 11

64-bit support

Support for 64-bit. 32-bit has been dropped

PBR shading

Uses shaders to attempt to more accurately simulate real-world light

Ported Portal 2 engine branch features

Including but not limited to World Portals and Portal gun

Backwards compatibility with BSP v19-20, as well as native BSP v21 support

Backwards compatibiltiy with TF2/HL2 branch models

Source 2013 uses a different model format, now supported

.webm video support, replacing older Bink videos

Increased framerate, lower file sizes, and easier to author

Many improvements to Linux support

Fully cross platform engine tools and utils

Steam Audio

Many improvements to the Hammer level editor

Many code quality improvements (Refactors, cleanup and C++20)

Sentry crash report integration

Availability

Portal 2: Community Edition

Main article:  Portal 2: Community Edition

Portal 2: Community Edition is a mod of Portal 2 that is intended to function as a base for community mods. The Portal 2: Community Edition team (abbreviated as P2CE team) consists of:

• Agrimar (programmer)
• Aly November (Artist, Level Designer, Modeller, Texture Artist)
• Andy (Level Designer)
• Baguettery (Artist, Level Designer, Media Designer, UI/UX Designer, Web Development)
• Craftablescience (Department Head, Programmer)
• Darvil (UI/UX Designer, Web Development)
• Erin (Department Head, UI Developer, Programmer)
• Ferni (Level Designer, Media Designer)
• Frosti (Level Designer, Modeller, Texture Artist)
• HankyMueller (Puzzle Designer)
• HugoBDesigner (Puzzle Designer)
• JJl77 (Department Head, Programmer)
• JoLoZ (UI/UX Designer, Web Development)
• LauraWebDev (UI/UX Designer, Web Development)
• leops (Programmer)
• Luke18033 (Level Designer, UI/UX Designer)
• Mystical Λce (Department Head, Level Designer, Public Relations)
• Obsolete (Level Designer)
• Orinji Neko (Composer)
• Ostojλ (UI/UX Designer)
• Ozxybox (Programmer)
• pivotman319 (Quality Assurance)
• Smaed (Programmer)

Momentum Mod

Main article:  Momentum Mod

Momentum Mod is a standalone game focused on the movement gamemodes of all Source games. The Momentum team consists of: Template:ModernTodo

Portal: Revolution

Main article:  Portal: Revolution

Portal: Revolution is a mod of Portal 2: Community Edition that focuses on the area of time in-between Portal and Portal 2.

Custom Content

Source code for this branch is not available, however Authoring Tools exist in each game provided in this list.

See Also

• Strata Source's Wiki
• Mapbase