TAR

TAR
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Type	Third Party Tool
Engine	Source
Platforms	Windows

TAR(Terri Auto Radar) is a tool for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. This tool can generate radars for maps using brushes and entities in the VMF that belong to specific visgroups.

Installation

Copyfiles

1. Download it from the download page below.
2. Copy everything in /bin_content/ to your csgo installation's Counter-Strike Global Offensive/bin/ folder.
3. Copy everything in /hammer_content/ to your csgo installation's Counter-Strike Global Offensive/csgo/ folder.
4. Create a directory in your csgo installation's Counter-Strike Global Offensive/bin/ folder named tar.
5. Copy everything in /AutoRadar2.0.4/ to your csgo installation's Counter-Strike Global Offensive/bin/tar/ folder

Command Sequences

1. Add a new compile profile in the expert compile mode of Hammer
2. Set its name to [TAR] Generate Radar
3. Set the executable to: $exedir/bin/tar/AutoRadar.exe
4. Set the args to: -g $gamedir $path/$file

FGD

1. Go to Tools > Options in Hammer
2. In the tab Game Configuration (that you are in by default), next to Game Data files click Add.
3. Find tar_entities.fgd and select it.

Usage

To get a rudimentary radar image, it is sufficient to fly around the map in Hammer, to select every brush or displacement that should be considered "ground" and to assign the visgroup tar_layout to them. When the previously created [TAR] compile option is run, it will create the necessary radar files for the map at the right place, including the radar image which is saved to /csgo/resource/overviews/<mapname>_radar.dds.

Tip:If you can't open a DDS file, adjust the Output Mode keyvalue of a tar_config entity to also get a PNG file.

All brushes and entities that are part of the following visgroups will appear (or hide) some colored area on the resulting radar image. The brush entities func_buyzone and func_bomb_target are also regarded, if existent.

For further customization, read through the effects of the other visgroups and the KeyValues of the tar_config entity.

Tip:To avoid something being drawn, it is sufficient to QuickHide it.

Visgroups

Name	Works with	What to add	Description
tar_layout	Brushes, Displacements	Walkable ground	Everything in this group will generate a filled area on the radar with a color that depends on the z-height.
tar_overlap	Brushes	Walkable ground that has walkable ground underneath, for example on de_mirage, the wooden balcony on A site	Like tar_layout but yielding striped areas. This is drawn on top of tar_layout.
tar_cover	Props, brush entities, ...	Everything that is "cover" such as crates and so forth	Like tar_layout but using a different gray color gradient by default. This is drawn on top of tar_layout. Bug:tar_cover that is underneath tar_overlap is not drawn.  [todo tested in?]
tar_mask	Props, Brushes	Everything that is not playable area inside one of the above visgroups such as columns or clip walls	Everything in this group is "cropped" from the radar image yielding the radar background at the positions of these objects. For this purpose, skip brushes can be really useful.

Note:func_instance is never drawn.

Note:When a brush or entity is copied (e.g. by shift-dragging), it inherits the visgroup. Remember this in case you encounter weird changes to the radar image.

Tip:If the existing brushes and entities are unfitting for these visgroups, there is always the workaround to create and use skip brushes instead. For example, this can be used to avoid having to split existing brushes only for the radar.

Entities

For further customization of the radar image, there are the following entities.

Icon	Classname	Description	Keyvalues
	tar_config	Contains numerous keyvalues for the configuration of the radar image. There should be at most one.	Color Scheme (colorScheme) <choices> 0: Dust 2 1: Mirage 2: Overpass 3: Cache 4: Inferno 5: Train 6: Nuke 7: Vertigo -1: Custom Scheme -2: Use auto-gradient entities Custom low level color (customCol0) <color255> What the color of the radar should be at the lowest points of the map Custom middle level color (customCol1) <color255> What the color of the radar should be in the middle of the map Custom high level color (customCol2) <color255> What the color of the radar should be at the heighest points of the map Background Image (background) <string> /Counter-Strike Global Offensive/bin/tar/textures/<image.png> Ambient Occlusion (enableAO) <choices> 0: Disabled 1: Enabled Ambient Occlusion Size (aoSize) <float> How far should ambient occlusion sample, in units. Shadows (enableShadows) <choices> 0: Disabled 1: Enabled Outline (enableOutline) <choices> 0: Disabled 1: Enabled Outline width (outlineWidth) <float> How big should the outline be Cover Color (zColCover) <color255> Color of the cover Secondary Color Cover (zColCover2) <color255> Secondary height-based cover color Outline Color (zColOutline) <color255> Color of the outline AO Color (zColAO) <color255> Color of the ambient occlusion Buyzone Color (zColBuyzone) <color255> Color of the buyzones Objective Color (zColObjective) <color255> What color should objectives be? Objective outline (ObjectiveUseStripes) <choices> 0: Normal 1: Stripy Visgroup: Layout (vgroup_layout) <string> Name of the visgroup that specifies the layout of the map Visgroup: Mask (vgroup_negative) <string> Name of the visgroup that specifies subtractive brushes of the maps layout (use on walls) Visgroup: Cover (vgroup_cover) <string> Name of the visgroup that specifies the cover of the map. Chuck all yr crates in here Visgroup: Overlap (vgroup_overlap) <string> Name of this visgroup that specifies overlapping parts of the map DDS Format (ddsMode) <choices> 0: DXT1 (standard) 1: [csgo unsupported] DXT5 (transparency) 2: [csgo unsupported] BRG888 (uncompressed) 3: [csgo unsupported] BRGA888 (uncompressed) Output mode (outputMode) <choices> 0: Radar .DDS⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ | .TXT 1: Radar .DDS, .PNG | .TXT 2: Radar .PNG⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ | .TXT 3: Radar .DDS 4: Radar .PNG Sampling (ssaam) <choices> 0: Off 1: 4x SSAA 2: 16x SSAA 3: FXAA (recommended)
	tar_color	If the Use auto-gradient entities parameter in tar_config is set, then this entity's color parameter is used for tar_layout and tar_overlap at this entity's z-height.	Colo(u)r (_light) <color255>
	tar_map_divider	Makes multiple map levels. In-game, a player below this entity will see the lower radar image and a player above it will see the higher one. Useful if there is too much overlapping.	Mins (mins) <vector> Maxs (maxs) <vector>
	tar_max	Overrides the maximum/minimum height of the map. There should be at most one of each. Everything that is above/below this entity will have the same color on the radar image, no matter the z-height.
	tar_min

See also

• Download Page
• Gitbub Page
• Tutorial by TopHATTwaffle
• Creating a working mini-map
• JERC