SteamVR Environments

SteamVR Workshop Tools lets you create and share different environments for SteamVR Home (formerly Destinations): photogrammetry scenes, game worlds, or anything else that can be represented by a 3D model.

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Table of Contents

Environment Tutorial · Basics · Creating 3D Environments · Creating Photogrammetry Environments
Scripting · Third Party Applications and Source 2 · References · Additional Resources

Introduction	An overview of the various concepts behind the SteamVR Workshop Tools.
Environment Tutorial
Part One: Hammer and Basic Lighting	Covers the construction of a SteamVR Home environment depicting a real place, starting with basics such as building the basic geometry, simple (but effective) lighting, and near-photorealistic materials and physics props.
Part Two: Materials, Details and Props	Covers creating new materials (including an introduction to the Physically Based Rendering system used in SteamVR Home) and adding map details.
Part Three: Creating a Physics Prop	Explains how to build an interactive physics prop including lots of different physics options and surface property sounds.
Basics
Get Started	Learn the basics of creating a SteamVR Home environment – from creating a floor and a light to adding models and teleport meshes.
Converting Destinations	Learn how to move your Destination over to the SteamVR Workshop.
Adding Quick Panels	Learn how to add the Friends, Rooms, and Recent Apps panel to your environment in the Workshop tools.
Asset Packs	Creating and using asset packs.
Environment Checklist	Quick checklist to make sure your environment is ready to upload to the workshop.
Creating 3D Environments
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 SteamVR Workshop Tools.
Triggers, Animation, and Sound	Recreate the Turret Singers environment and learn how to use triggers, animations, and sound for your own environments.
Adding Sound	A guide on adding sounds to your environment.
Adding Lighting	A guide on adding light to your environment.
Adding a Welcome Panel	A guide to adding a simple information panel and globe, and touching on more advanced entity logic and Panorama aspects.
Adding Fog	Learn how to add fog to your environment using the new env_gradient_fog entity.
Adding Overlays	Learn how to add overlays to your environment and models in SteamVR Home.
Precomputed Visibility	An introduction to the new visibility determination system, useful for improving rendering performance in large, expansive maps with multiple rooms and areas.
Light Cookies	An explanation of what light cookies are and how to apply them to your spotlights.
Advanced Interaction	A guide to creating advanced interactions via the point_value_remapper entity.
Creating Photogrammetry Environments
Create a Photogrammetry Environment	Step by step instructions for creating a photogrammetry environment.
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.
Lighting Setup for Photogrammetry Scenes	Describes the basics of setting up a direct light, shadowed materials and ambient light and cubemap reflections.
Regard3D	Regard3D is a free, open-source, multi-platform photogrammetry tool. Page is a brief summary of information from the Regard3D website.
Scripting
Scripting	Writing  Lua scripts for SteamVR Home.
Script API	The Scripting API for SteamVR Home.
Creating a Flashlight Tool	A guide to creating tool items using vscript (like the drone, air brush and Ballooninator).
Custom Tool Creation	Useful techniques when creating custom tool items.
Third Party Applications and Source 2
Blender to Source 2	Step by step instructions for exporting a mesh to Source 2.
References
Entity Guide	Usage of entities in SteamVR Home compared to legacy games.
Shaders	The parameters available for a material are determined by its shader.
Additional Resources
Asset Browser	Overview of the Asset Browser - the hub of SteamVR Workshop Tools.
Using Hammer	Overview of Hammer - SteamVR Workshop Tools's level editor.
Panorama	An overview of using Panorama to create UI.
Panorama Javascript API	Client-side Javascript API classes and functions available in SteamVR Home.
Cloth Simulation	Information on the Source 2 cloth simulation system.
Destinations Guides on Steam	Further guides, tutorials and articles from the Destinations community.