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[CruelCow]

You're forgetting the sloooow travel home

[Power]

He uses a self-designed battle ambulance to get home, he will be fine.

[Teh Fluff]

TRAILER TIME 

*Eyes suspiciously* How much will it cost and will the little octopus get a hat?

[Hzza]

That octopus will be the next hat/item in TF2.

[Karthus]

There already is an octopus hat from the winter treasure whatever hunt from 2 years ago

[mode_seven]

Hoping for a Portal/Octodad crossover mod.

[r007]

I just hopped into my first community chamber while my code was compiling (), but decided to save it for later. This might be very much fun.

[Mr Chug]

Redownloading as soon as I get internet in my new house. Also might make a level involving as many big jumps as humanly possible.

[Leftism]

"My First Source SDK"

[r007]

I imagine it to feel a bit like "The Incredible Machine" in free design mode, but with more portals and first person action!

[Leftism]

I imagine it to feel a bit like "The Incredible Machine" in free design mode, but with more portals and first person action!

It's more like the actual tedious bits of the SDK (or Portal 2 Authoring Tool) taken out (e.g. the brush (walls, floors, ceilings), water, skyboxes, cubemaps and lighting - although the latter I was most fond of messing with ) are taken out, leaving the player will the nice "front end" stuff, i.e. the bits you'll be seeing and interacting with in the level.

The logic seems to be quite straight forward (right click button..."You shall activate...you!") - I presume (although I haven't built a level far enough in yet) the short fallings, as with the SDK, is the compile time but with a nice editing GUI the need to compile "just to check something" isn't really nessescary.

Me thinks we should have a WDG mini-competition for this but it'll depend on the amount interested I guess. :x

[discordance]

can you take your map into the full editor later?

[Leftism]

can you take your map into the full editor later?

Should be able to.

They're .bsp files afterall.

Just Google ".bsp decompiler" and congrats you have a program which can convert a map into an editable format for any of the Source Engine games!

[discordance]

ok, but no easy export to hammer option yet?

[Leftism]

ok, but no easy export to hammer option yet?

We're bordering lines of copyright infringement.

Technically speaking you're not allowed to decompile maps unless the author has released a decompiled version of their work - (ala Valve and some TF2 maps, iirc). So no, there will probably never be "easy", or official, decompiling programs/options.

Also, using these programs is one of the easiest things to do with the SDK - how much simpler do you want it? Personally, I hink "Select .bsp" and "Select Export Destination" with some decompiling options (default on most do the job) is fine for me and others as well, surely?