Level Design

Note:Most of the stuff here are placeholder taken from Half-Life: Alyx Workshop Tools for now. Not all pages are fully created yet.

Counter-Strike 2 Hammer Navigation Hammer Overview Basic Construction Creating Your First Room Prefabs and Instances Mesh Entities Lighting Visibility Addon Sounds 3D Skybox Creation Map Extensions Importing Source 1 .vmfs and assets to Source 2 Post-Import Cleanup Hotspot Texturing Light Cookies Compiles and Post-Compile Cleanup

Triggers Buyzones Bombsites References List of CS2 Skyboxes - List of Skyboxes and their Light settings used in official CS2 maps. List of CS2 Soundscapes - List of Soundscapes found in CS2. Decompiled CS2 Maps - Decompiles of official CS2 Maps to be used for research. External Links Source 2 Viewer - Formerly known as VRF; Is able to open VPKs, compiled vmaps and decompile compiled assets (including maps and materials).

Hammer Minimum Specs

Hammer now leverages GPU accelerated raytracing to both preview and bake lighting for Counter-Strike 2 maps, drastically speeding up compile times, even on lower end hardware. As such, a GPU capable of raytracing is now required for Hammer to be fully functional.

GPU Minimum Specs:

• Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 (or Quadro/Titan equivalent)
  • Confirm:Some GTX 10 and 16 cards does support raytracing, at the cost of performance or longer compile times due to lack of RT cores. Does Hammer use GPU accelerated raytracing for cards that lack RT cores?
• AMD Radeon 6600XT (or other RDNA 2 cards)
• Intel Arc series^[confirm]

GPU Recommended Specs:

• Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti+ (or Quadro/Titan equivalent)
• AMD Radeon 6800XT+ (or other RDNA 2 cards)
• Intel Arc series^[confirm]