Destinations

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Destinations lets you create, share and explore different worlds in VR: photogrammetry scenes, game worlds, or anything else that can be represented by a 3D model.

• Download Destinations - Download Destinations Workshop Tools for free on Steam

Creator Resources

Basics

• Get Started - Learn the basics of creating a Destination – from creating a floor and a light to adding models and teleport meshes.

• Converting a SteamVR Environment - Learn how to quickly turn your SteamVR environment into a Destination.

• Destinations Checklist - Quick checklist to make sure your Destination is ready for the recently added multiplayer support.

Creating 3D Environment Destinations

• Basic Construction - Learn the basics of constructing meshes in Hammer

• Model Editor - Learn to create, view, and edit models with the Model Editor

• Materials - Learn how to use the Material Editor to create and edit materials

• Particles - Learn the basics of creating particles with the Particle Editor

• Importing an Animated Model - Learn how to import a model with animations into Destinations Workshop Tools.

• Triggers, Animation, and Sound - Recreate the Turret Singers Destination and learn how to use triggers, animations, and sound for your own Destinations.

• Adding sound - A guide on adding sounds to your Destination.

Creating Photogrammetry Destinations

• Create a Photogrammetry Destination - Step by step instructions for creating a photogrammetry Destination.

• Advanced Outdoors Photogrammetry - Documents the full cleanup of a near-seamless, fully immersive outdoors scene, including distant geometry and a skydome.

• Advanced Indoors Photogrammetry - Similar to the above, documents the process of creating an indoors scene using the Valve office lobby as an example.

• Photogrammetry tips - Background on the photogrammetry process, as well as tips and tricks for a good capture.

• Regard3D - Regard3D is a free, open-source, multi-platform photogrammetry tool. Page is a brief summary of information from the Regard3D website.

• Adding sound - A guide on adding sounds to your Destination.

Scripting

• Scripting

• Script API

• Creating a Flashlight Tool - A guide to creating tool items using vscript (like the drone, air brush and Ballooninator).

Additional Resources

• Asset Browser - Overview of the Asset Browser - the hub of Destinations Workshop Tools

• Using Hammer - Overview of Hammer - Destinations Workshop Tools's level editor

• Panorama - An overview of using Panorama to create UI

• Destinations Guides on Steam - further guides, tutorials and articles from the community.

Example Content

Content included in Destinations to help serve as examples of what can be done:

• English Church - A scene constructed via photogrammetry that has some information about the process we used to create it.

• Mars - Another photogrammetry scene using publicly available photos captured by the Mars Curiosity rover. Raw images were found on NASA's website here: http://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/.

• Hammer Examples - A template map that can be copied and modified that has examples of some simple things creators can do using Hammer and the other Source 2 tools.

• Turret Singers - A template map with more examples of using Hammer for triggers, animation and sound.

• Arcade Toss - A game created in the Destinations Tools with examples of Hammer entity I/O, Lua scripting, and Panorama/Javascript/CSS.

• Valve Lobby - Visit the Valve office in Bellevue, Washington in Destinations! A photogrammetry scene with information nodes about this lobby space.

• La Pedrera - A scene constructed using photogrammetry from an architectural landmark in Barcelona, Spain.

• Tower Bridge - Another photogrammetry scene, this time depicting London's famous Tower Bridge and demonstrating simulated water (an additive, cube-mapped specular plane with a scrolling normal map above an opaque plane with PhotoScan's projected texturing).