Third Party Tools
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This is a sorted list of third party tools with brief descriptions. See also: Category:Third Party Tools.
Compiling
- Batch Compile Tool - compile Source .vmf maps outside of Hammer
- CSTBSP - custom BSP compiler
- CSTRAD - custom RAD compiler
- CSTVIS - custom VIS compiler
- Source Compile Analyzer - detects errors in compile logs
Models
- FireSoft Half-Life MDL Converter - convert Source models to GoldSrc models
- FireSoft MS3D to SMD converter
- GUIStudioMDL - GUI for the command-line model compiler in the SDK
- Mdldecompiler - decompile models
- Propper - map compiler to export a model instead of a BSP
- Source Model Compiler - web-based model compiling service
- Studiocompiler - model compiler
Texture/Image tools
See also: Image Manipulation Programs
- 360g - Convert BMP or TGA into VTF, generate VMTs and normal maps
- Fixvtf - convert Episode 2 format materials to Episode 1 format
- HL2Tex - convert TGA into VTF, and create VMTs
- TGAtoDUDV - convert TGAs to DUDVs without needing Steam to be running
- VectorLib - library to draw vector images directly to memory
Video
- AVIKit - Windows library for accessing raw video and sound from AVI
- BSP Viewer - view and export GoldSrc maps
- BSP2MAP - convert GoldSrc BSP maps to .map files
- EntEd - view and edit entity properties of a BSP
- Entspy - view and edit entity properties of a BSP
- Map Analyst - alternative to Bspzip - embed custom content such as materials, models, textures into a BSP
- Packbsp - embed custom content such as materials, models, textures into a BSP
- Pakrat - GUI replacement for Bspzip
- VBSP_h4xed - greatly increase maximum size of visleaves.
Level editing
- Microbrush - a brush editor
- Quark - level editor
- Radiant - level editor
- Vgroup - group the map into VisGroups based on a grid
Misc
- CtxConverter - GUI "wrapper" which removes the default based DOS commands into decompiling and compiling CTX & TXT files.
- DispGen - generate a Displacement map from a heightmap image
- DuctTape - a development integration and project building tool
- GCFScape - open and extract GCF and VPK files
- HLLib - open source programming library which abstracts several Half-Life and Half-Life 2 package formats
- Map Obfuscator - renames all entities with non-descriptive names to discourage decompiling
- Notepad++ VDF languages - VDF highlighting profiles for Notepad++
- Object Viewer - 3D object, material, model, and file browsing
- OGLE the OpenGLExtractor - extract 3D shapes from a 3D scene
- Source SDK Windows Gadget
- VGUI Localization Tool - a tool for easy localize VGUI text files.