Slammin' Source Map Tools
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Type	Third Party Tool
Developers	Slartibarty
Engine	Source
Platforms	Windows

Slammin' Source Map Tools are updated and more feature-rich mapping/compile tools for Source.

Slammin' Source comes with an upgraded Hammer editor named Slammin' Hammer 5.2 (not to be confused with Source 2's Hammer 5.x), and improved VBSP, VVIS and VRAD.

Slammin' Source Map Tools are created by Slartibarty.

Tip:You don't have to use Slammin' Source Map Tools's Hammer to use its compile tools. (AKA, you can use Hammer++ with Slammin' Compile Tools).

Specifications

SSE2 support
Max CPU Threads bumped to 32
Cleaned up common code
Large Address Awareness (Can handle addresses larger than 2 gigabytes)

Slammin' Hammer 5.2

Enabled Visual Styles 6.0
Performance upgrades
The entire program now uses the default system font, instead of the dated win9x standard font
Revamped the entire user interface, made the options menu cleaner, and removed obsolete options
Added new graphical options to the 3D View tab, including picmip, MSAA level, etc
Added an option to change the 3D viewport background colour: default is 128,128,128
Removed huge amounts of deprecated icons, cursors and bitmaps
Increased the distance that vertex positions are rounded to integers to 0.01 from 0.05, this fixes some gross vertex rounding issues (or lack thereof)
Say goodbye to the process window, Hammer's built in compiler now feeds compile information to a new exe, meaning no more freezes, and instant compile information on the fly. Hammer cam still be used while a map is compiling
New toolbar, transform tools. Same as the options available in the "tools" menu option, just brought out for ease of access
Texture application window is now more concise, added X and Y buttons that randomise texture coordinates for their appropriate boxes
Texture application window is now host to an experimental "reset" texture button, which resets the texture's scale, shift coordinates, lightmap scale and rotation
Reworked the entire right-hand UI bar to be easier to use
Removed Radial Culling, it crossed me for the last time
Removed Quake, Hexen II, Quake II and Half-Life ( GoldSrc) support
Added support for func_instance_origin, set the in-editor origin point for instances (no keyvalues needed)
Removed support for WAD files
Clamped framerate to 60hz from 100hz (will make this an option)
Extended available automatic visgroup types
The "default animation" keyvalue for dynamic props is now registered and will now automatically play in the viewport
func_detail_blocker entities are displayed accurately in Hammer, with detail objects inside the entities' volume not being drawn
Added "open source" and "explore to source" buttons in the texture browser, selecting a material and using either of these buttons will bring open the material's folder
Certain UI elements such as the entity report dialogue now support resizing
Models no longer share animations with all other model instances present
Multiple precision and accuracy fixes in general, brushes are less likely to crap up, texture coordinates are displayed correctly, etc
Paste & Paste Special shortcuts now properly displayed in the edit menu
Added support for the "boolean" FGD data type

Slammin' Compile Tools

Slammin' VBSP

Note:

Mapbase's

VBSP has most of Slammin' VBSP's improvements, but is needed when using Parallax Corrected Cubemaps^[1]

Proper support for power of 4 displacements
Detail brushes now preserve their smoothing group
Improved brush precision
Added missing content types to csg.cpp
New %compile command for VMTs, "%compileNoShadows", makes a material not receive shadows, only direct light. This is used on water usually
Translucent brushes should no longer cut visleaves if they are world brushes
Any prop with $staticprop can now be a static prop (Ex: physics props)
Increased detail sprites limit
Support for custom lightmappedgeneric shaders
Implemented support for func_detail_blocker
Leaktest is now enabled by default

Commands

Note:This only lists new commands or ones that have been changed.

-noleaktest: Disables leaktest.

-maxluxelscale <integer>: Limits the maximum luxel scale in a map.

-nodefaultcubemap: Disables automatic skybox cubemap generation.

-blocksize <integer>: Allows changing of the size of visleaf splitting "blocks", default is every 1024 units.

-visgranularity <vector>: Allows automatic placement of hint brushes in a map, syntax is "-visgranularity X Y Z".

Slammin' VRAD

enabling -worldtextureshadows and -translucentshadows

-ambientocclusion enabled vs disabled

HDR is enabled by default
Improved displacement lightmap quality
-staticproplighting, -staticproppolys and -textureshadows enabled by default
Transparent textures loaded by VRAD are now bilinear filtered, for more accurate shadows

Commands

Note:This only lists new commands or ones that have been changed.

-ambientocclusion: Enables lightmapped ambient occlusion.

-aosamples <integer>: Sets how many samples should vrad use for its lightmapped ambient occlusion.

-aoscale <float>: Scales lightmapped ambient occlusions strenght.

-softencosine: Blends coloured lighting more so it blends more accurately.

-coring <float>: Scales the light threshold before a luxel is completely unlit, used to save lightmap data, default is [0.5].

-dispchop <integer>: Adjusts the amount of patches generated for displacement faces, default is [8].

-ambient <vector>: When supplied with three RGB values, it will apply a constant light value to every luxel in a map.

-reflectivityscale <float>: Multiplies the reflectivity of textures in a map.

-extrapasses <integer>: Allows changing how many extra passes the map to goes through, default is 4, differences above this value are extremely minimal.

-worldtextureshadows: Allows brushes with an alpha channel to cast texture shadows, much like models can.

-translucentshadows: Enables -worldtextureshadows on $translucent surfaces. As by default only $alphatest surfaces cast baked shadows.

-final: Has been completely reworked, -aosamples is set to 32, -extrasky is set to 16, extrapasses is set to 8 and large disp sample radius is enabled.

Slammin' VVIS

Note:The commands have not been changed.

Minor code cleanup

Compatibility

Note:Slammin' Source Map Tools should work fine with all

Source 2013 games

Branch	Compatible	Note
Mapbase	YES	Devs recommend Mapbase's VBSP^[1]
Source 2013 Singleplayer	YES
Source 2013 Multiplayer	YES
Team Fortress 2 Counter-Strike: Source Day of Defeat: Source Portal	YES	required
Source Filmmaker	YES^[confirm]	required
Black Mesa 2012	YES	required
Garry's Mod	NO
Postal III	NO
Left 4 Dead Left 4 Dead 2	NO
Alien Swarm	NO
Portal 2	NO
Dino D-Day	NO
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive	NO
Black Mesa: Definitive Edition	NO
Insurgency Day of Infamy	NO
Strata Source Portal 2: Community Edition Portal: Revolution	NO