The Source Engine in 60 seconds 👩‍💻 #tech #softwareengineer #technology #gaming #coding #gamedev

[IronEducation]

Modding with the SDKs for the goldsource, source, and source2 engines was what originally got me into programming.

[CodingWithLewis]

I have SOOOO many hours on tf2 and gmod

[TAPa]

The DNA of the Quake engine runs deep. Source 2 is a direct descendant of it (Quake -> Quake II -> GoldSrc -> Source -> Source 2), as is idTech 7 that runs Doom Eternal, as is every single CoD engine via Quake III, which itself was the engine that ran the famous Jedi Knight series, even Titanfall 2 (which is based on the L4D upgrades to Source) and Apex Legends trace their engines back to Quake

[DerpyFox]

Never forget when it's all started.
The *id* Engene

[Superseth-gy]

I like how John Carmack and his small team just make earth shattering software so consistently

[comput]

Most people don't realize Apex and Titanfall are on the Source engine.

[Colin-qzlu]

the amazing thing is that it is still used in some popular modern games like apex legends wich has amazing movement because of it but it can be a bit janky and buggy sometimes aspecially with audio

[universe-breaker]

*The source 1 engine also supports the vr system since the 2013 steam pipe update to it

[ThrowTop]

source engine is easily the best engine ever made.

[slinc_hd]

Well... Gold source is based 9n thw quake 1 source code wich was tiled in the valve 25 year anniversary documentary

[omnitone]

the minimum requirements for source games make unity shake in it's boots. one pc can play hl2 at 200fps and just barely play a unity game in 720p. when playing a source game, i never have to worry about performance or even appearance.

[RandomPersonLikeMe]

I was fired from my c++ job because i accidentally deleted the game😃

[ts.doctork]

when my friend told me titanfall, including apex legends, was made with source engine i outright just could not believe it

[Vizimech]

This is not accurate. GoldSrc is based on Quake 1 engine with some fixes backported from the in-development Quake 2 engine.

[saladforbrains]

now give me a half life game with source 2 without VR

[plasmaneko]

Something tells me that they are not going to make another source engine...

[wescomvallen.]

Source engine was a great engine, but only Valve uses it. It was made by Valve, for Valve.

[sharkpetro]

The engine didn't split into GoldSrc and Source after Half Life, Half Life's engine, which was modified Quake 2's was already called GoldSrc.

Then with the release of Half Life 2 the engine was rewritten on C++ and was called Source. They were never worked with by Valve alongside each other unless I am missing some of their obscure games.

And Source 2, unlike Source and it's every version, has no relation to Id software's work as it was rewritten from scratch yet again specifically to go away from the old engine architecture that was characteristic of Id software's engines as it no longer provides much benefit while limiting the productivity of the developers. They are putting old Source mechanics into specific Source 2 games so that they retain their gameplay.

edit: Also, Quake didn't introduce true 3D, it was already a thing, it just made real time 3D possible to do with actually big and complex levels by using BSP. What this meant is that developers didn't need to create levels with optimization in mind. All they had to do was create them with BSP in mind so it can do all the work for them. Which btw was already a thing in Doom, just in 2D instead of 3D.

Also no hate, just nerd doing nerd stuff on the internet, love your content! Have a good day.

[ravikiranramachandra]

I never knew about the evolution of game engines😅

[Phone_use-ch]

Speak about Ruby on Rails please :] (I need an opinion)