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Left 4 Dead Mod Tools Released
by Nick Breckon, May 15, 2009 5:20pm PDTThe software development kit for Valve's zombie shooter Left 4 Dead were released to open beta today.
The SDK mod tools are now freely available to all owners of the game through Steam.
Valve has also released SketchUp Source tools, which allows modders to create content for the Source engine using Google SketchUp.
The full list of kit features follows:
- Updated Hammer, the Source level editor
- Suite of command line compiling utilities, such as studiomdl and map compiling tools
- Updated Particle editor
- Updated Faceposer
- Example maps
- Example models: common Infected, a breakable prop, and explosives
- A set of example particle effects
A Wiki for the tools has also been posted by Valve.
Comments
Jesus fucking christ, this game could have been sooooooooooooooooooo huge, I hate to use a stupid gaming journolist term but the engine and game could've been a platform damnit, the kind of things they could've done with it would be huge!
The ongoing persistent support Valve offer to their games, ensures the community remains vibrant, it ensures the customers get value for money, ensures loyalty to valve and of course it ensures ongoing sales for years to come.
The non chargable DLC route is fantastic.
See: TF2 model
See: Burnout Paradise
See: Half Life 1 / 2 (CS etc)
See: Diablo 2, free online - continued patches, ongoing sales many masny years later
Here's my previous post on the topic.
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19732780#itemanchor_19732780
FWIW, I played Survival mode for 2 nights, it could have done with some small, simple tweaks, features, options to greatly extend its life, it really doesn't feel very fleshed out for something we waited so long for :/
NOTE: I totally got great value for money from L4D, it really was a fantastic single player / co-op extravaganza, like an awesome movie, campaign rocks! but sadly I really feel its true potential has been ignored.
goddamn this should've been out much, much much sooner - it's fucking mid May.
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