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Porting Levels into Source

General Overview of Converting Scenes that Were Not Designed with Source in Mind

Posted by Shawn on May 14, 2016 | Last Updated Dec 30, 2020

Overview on porting scenes and levels from other sources.

port, convert, scenes, games, levels

A Source for New Tools

2016 Year in Review for Wall Worm

Posted by Shawn on Oct 31, 2016 | Last Updated Oct 31, 2016

Halloween 2016 news for Wall Worm and the release of a new MDL Importer for 3ds Max.

halloween, 2016, mdl importer, black mesa

Source 2 Engine

Posted by Shawn on Jan 17, 2015 | Last Updated Mar 7, 2024

Wall Worm and Source 2. Information on Counter-Strike 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

source 2, cs2, engine, half-life: alyx

Source Engine

Posted by Shawn on Feb 12, 2012 | Last Updated May 15, 2015

Articles related to the Source Game Engine.

source game engine

Sky Writer

Posted by Shawn on Feb 12, 2012 | Last Updated Jul 4, 2020

Sky writer allows you to render your 3ds Max scene straight into the Source Game Engine as a HDR 2D sky texture (also known as a cubemap).

sky writer, skies, pfm

Global Settings and Configuration

Posted by Shawn on Feb 12, 2012 | Last Updated Sep 9, 2023

This floater controls global settings for Wall Worm. The settings control some system settings as well as default settings for common tools and actions in Wall Worm.

settings, configuration, paths, config, setup, global settings

PropLine

Posted by Shawn on Jun 30, 2015 | Last Updated Jan 9, 2022

PropLine is a parametric spacing tool that allows you to distribute props along splines in your scene.

propline, distribution, props, spacing

Textures

Posted by Shawn on Feb 12, 2012 | Last Updated Jan 23, 2020

This page details how materials in 3ds Max map to materials in Source. There are two types of materials you can export: model materials and world materials.

materials, textures, vmt, vtf, tga, source engine

ShellVex

Posted by Shawn on May 20, 2015 | Last Updated Apr 22, 2020

ShellVex is a scripted geometry plugin for 3ds Max that allows you to create convex geometry blocks from the polygons (or tris) of other objects in the scene.

brush, bsp, geometry, world geometry, plugin