The Source engine is a 3D game engine developed by Valve Corporation. Its unique features include a large degree of modularity and flexibility, an artist-driven, shader-based renderer, accurate lip sync and facial expression technology, and a powerful, efficient and completely network-enabled physics system.
Source SDK is free
Following the free to play release of TF2, Source SDK has been accidentally released free, and will remain that way.
Posted by INtense! on Jul 4th, 2011
This news comes a little late, but for those unaware due to the recent release of a free Team Fortress 2, the Source SDK will soon become free to use in its entirety, for everyone (confirmed by Valve's Robin Walker in this RockPaperShotgun article). The free SDK was first uncovered in our forums on the 28th of June by an enterprising young man going by the name of Riley, who just happens to be the playtest leader of esteemed Source mods Zombie Panic Source and No More Room In Hell.
This means that all Source mods, made for Valve games (we list around 1,500 for HL2 alone) may eventually be free to play, without requiring you to purchase a Valve game (thou who hasn't purchased a valve game on this site?)
Here is what Robin Walker had to say:
Robin wrote:Yep. That said, your email has triggered a process here that made us re-examine that, and we’re going to just go ahead and make the Source SDK freely available. Thanks for making us better!
When RockPaperShotgun emailed Walker for further confirmation, and he went on to explain:
Robin wrote:We are in the process of getting it all done. It’s a bit messy because we have multiple versions of the SDK, and there’s some dependencies we need to shake out. But yes, the gist of it is that we’re just going to go ahead and make the Source SDK freely available.
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What??
Is valve quitting themselves??
What is happening to them?!
Are they offering EA games and anothers games companies a surrender?
This is soooo strange...
Maybe once they have made a reasonable amount of money off a game, they release it for free since you most likely are going to download it anyways.
Yeah, all those micro transactions (and some not so micro from the crazies) for hats, weapons, paints, packs, mapper support (which is cool, actually) and all that jazz.
mabey there working on a new engine?
A new engine would explain why Half Life Episode 3 is taking so long.
Think about it HL1 on the Gold Source engine in 1998 and HL2 came out in 2004 on the new Source engine. So its logical given Valves history that Episode 3 will be on a brand new engine.
So think about it how could Valve make a new revolutionary engine that's better than Source and other contemporary engines? Can you? Because I cant really come up with anything and thus I can understand why Valve is taking so long with Episode 3. We know they are working on something since we can see their experimenting with games like Portal 1 & 2 with their new features.
The name's been leaked as HL3, though, so that even further strengthens your argument.
Yeah. It'll be HL3 if it's on a new engine, to keep with tradition and all.
It would probaly look live action :P lol no realy!! every new engine valve releases is state of the art!!
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If i'm honest, i think they should use an engine similar to CryEngine 3, it would make HL3 amazing.
Nah. They should make their own engine and not use that over-hyped piece of ****.
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I didn't say use it, I said make something like it graphics and physics wise, and an easier way of modelling out the map, cant you read you thick illiterate twat and it's not a over hyped piece of ****. Open your eyes before you type.
@Pilchy120 CE3? No, if I had to I'd rather have it on the PC flavor of the engine, CE2.
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CE2 is good but in my opinion CE3 is better. :)
That OR:
They're doing massive upgrades to the Source Engine to prepare for a full on Half Life 3.
For example, the graphics of Portal 2 are vastly superior to the graphics in Portal. Also, didn't they say that, for DOTA2, there will be "improved global lighting" and "true cloth simulation" built into the Source Engine?
BUT, then again, only Valve knows what Valve has planned...
ya that dose make sense maybe it will even be better that cry engine 3!! just imagine tf2 in source 3!!
Yeah i mean there was hat mysterious room sized box at E3 2011 that had the HL2 : Episode 3 logo on it and a always closed door O.o?
Looks to me like they're becoming more of a distributor rather than being a developer. Just my thoughts though.
Ding a-ding! New engine!
Gabe Newell said in a recent interview that their not planing on making a new engine. source: Pc Gamer.
However its not necessary true. But we shouldnt expect it in a near future.
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nah, they'll find a way to make it so you have to pay to get those juicy hl2 mods.
Sorry bud, but Valve doesn't pull crap like that, and never will.
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Well, they made you pay for L4D2... full price.
Because its a game? lol
Well they promised they would make you pay for game content updates, they did anyway.
??? what
Valve doesn't really charge for game content, except for tf2 of course. although, everything you can buy, you can just get for free with some patience. they never really demand your money.
but L4D2 is a full game? ****ing L4D2 boycotters....
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Valve never pull crap like that?
Only throwing my 20 euros to the trash. It's not crap. It's AMAZING 'cause it's being wasted by the legendary VALVE.
Don't worry Valve, you are doing the right steps to become ActiValve.
Soon we will pay for DLCs, it will move on to subscription fees, and then we will pay-per-minute for Steam.
Feel free to down this comment, you know it's true.
So because valve is putting all sorts of things out for free and gives free updates that means that soon they will make you pay for everything?
Durr logic error.
Sorry but that makes no ******* sense.
I can hardly even understand your comment to begin with.
Why don't you all shut up arguing like babies and wait and see what valve are doing.
Stop being so damn petty.
??? try looking up review or try it a friends copy of a game before buying it and blaming valve that you don't like it and you can't return it. And why would giving things away free with free updates, cause them to start charging for DLC or sub fees?
"oh no! Valve are giving away a game for free, soon we'll have to pay for DLC!" what????
Meanwhile at Activision...
Maybe because your an idiot.
Haha There not making a new engine, there just upgrading the last one constantly. They will be releasing the current source engine but they probably have a far more advanced version themselves that they are using. Valves Smart.
TBH the whole free to play TF2 is very smart. It will increase the sales on steam dramatically.
I think there will be no Episode 3 for Half-Life 2, I think they are going straight for HL3 since there hasn't been any word on Ep3 for years.
That said, they most probably will use a new engine for HL3.
if they make it on a new engine, i hope it doesnt require DirectX10 or 11 or at least they make it selectable, so you can still play it with newest dx9. they shouldnt all go in for microsofts greed on selling win7.
Well, you can play with Direct X 8 in the latest engine, so if they really do 10 or 11, Im sure theyre gonna support 9
LOL No. If it takes as many years from HL2 to HL3 as it did for HL1 to HL2, then I want it to be the best it can be. Backwards compatibility should be an afterthought.
For your information Dx11 supports dx9/dx10 Gpus, but tessellation only works on dx11 cards, to play a dx11 game with a dx9/dx10 GPU you only need to have vista or windows 7. If you are still on WinXP them is time to update, and BTW you don't need to "buy" the OS. ;)
Making a dx9 render with dx11 features on top only makes the engine harder to maintain and the dx11 features to run bad. A pure dx11 engine runs much faster them a dx9 engine and supports the same features plus more.
Valve has said that they will not create a new engine for a long time to come and just make improvements on the Source engine.
Well it only managed to shake the CS off its throne, on which it was sitting since the beginning of steam. Oh and yeah, there's the quadrupling of sales and players. xD
Aperture Science = Exaggerated View of Valve
@Triden007 they still earn more then they can spend, just think about how much money they earn with the Tf2 store and the Portal 2 store (not that i own portal 2, not that i ever will. So i dont know if the stuff in there is free) Think about that, they have no reason to sell Tf2 anymore, because everyone has it. And they'll still earn good on the store.
Are you trolling or just stupid?
NO YOU MORON WHY WOULD YOU THINK GABE WOULD STOP VALVE ITS HIS SOURCE OF MONEY. VALVE IS THE GREATEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED IN HIS LIFE.
TF2 fulfilled it's profit margin by a long, long way. Why not make it free?
and the most strange thing is that THEY ARE MAKING DOTA 2 what are these guys problem
EA is Valve games retail publisher. Valve is developer.
That explains why no Valve games have an EA logo on them.
Man if only someone had posted about this last week Moddb.com
;)
I missed that, sorry I know i'm late to the party