SDK Beta Changelist

Changelist for current Source SDK Beta.

Current Known Issues

• Cannot create shortcuts to Hammer, Faceposer, and Model Viewer.
• Linux makefiles shipped with the SDK are incomplete and will be updated in the next release.
• The Particle Editor is not presently included in the Source SDK.
• Updated SDK shaders are not presently included in the Source SDK.

Update Jan 24th, 2008

Enhancements

SDK Launcher

• There is now a drop list that allows the user to switch between engine versions. No need to specify engine version as a launch option.

SDK source code

• Modders can now create single player and multi-player mods based in the HL2:Episode Two source code when the engine version is set to The Orange Box.
• It is still possible to create mods based on HL2:Episode One using the legacy version of the Source Engine.

Faceposer

• New menu option allows the user to build a scenes.image file. This allows users to add custom scenes to Orange Box games.

Hammer

• Two new lighting preview modes are available.

Note:3D Ray-traced Lighting Preview can cause Hammer to run slowly for complicated maps.

Bug fixes

Hammer

• Fixed crashes that began as a result of a Source Engine update the week of 1/7.
• Hammer lighting preview renders some scenes completely dark.

SDK Launcher

• The %VProject% env var is again being dynamically set when you change the current mod in the SDK launcher.

Content Creation Utilities

• There is no longer a need to add -nop4 to the command lines of studiomdl and vtex.

SDK source code

• Client and server DLLs are now being copied to mod's 'bin' directory after build.
• Create Mod Wizard now adds App IDs 420 (HL2:Ep2) and 440 (TF2) to the mod's gameinfo.txt for SP and MP mods respectively.

Previous release archives

• January 17th, 2006