Alien Swarm Deferred

Alien Swarm Deferred was released in 2012. It's a third-party mod created by Kristjan Skutta a.k.a. Biohazard90. This fork of Alien Swarm has support for deferred lighting and shadows (Similar to Black Mesa). It's among very few Source games that have dynamic shadows not based on projected textures, while still having its source code available to the public. Performance-wise, it is extremely impressive as the mod can support hundreds of dynamic shadows with very little performance impact.

Features

New since Alien Swarm:

CSM

Real time shadows and lighting from Light environment, Light, Projected texture, and Point spotlight entities.

 Blinn–Phong reflection model

New reflections on Phong materials.

Volumetric lighting

Similar to Source Filmmaker.

Source shader editor

Make and edit shader graphs in real-time, in-engine.

Light editor

Edit your map's light entities dynamically.

Media

Phong reflections

Volumetric lights and god rays

Realtime shadows

Light editor

Light editor can be opened with TAB.

Show properties

Edit your currently selected light's properties.

Edit global light

Settings for dynamic lighting and shadows coming from Light environment.

VMF handling

Load, edit and save your VMF's lights.

Debug

• Turn on and off deferred statics
• Render modes:
  • None
  • Light
  • Dept
  • Normal

Availability

• Lambda Wars
• Director's Cut (Initially. Switched to Source 2013)

Bugs

• No hardware filtering support for Advanced Micro Devices

See also

• CSM
• Alien Swarm engine branch
• Phong
• Mapbase

External links

• Download at Google Drive
• GitLab Repository Download Mirror
• 2013MP Port GitHub Repository
• YouTube - Deferred lighting in action.