Counter-Strike: Global Offensive engine branch

The Counter-Strike: Global Offensive engine branch was introduced in 2012 with the release of Template:Game link. 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

LightmappedGeneric and 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 LightmappedGeneric shader.

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.

Other improvements

Todo: Document these, this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Availability

• Template:Game link
• Template:Game link (earlier version)
• Template:Game link (earlier version)

Source code for this branch is not available. However, authoring tools exist for custom content.

• Template:Game link