Source SDK Hammer Download?

Question

Allright, I own the XBox version of "Left 4 Dead". I know that there's a map maker where you can make your own custom maps, which is cool. However, Its only for the computer is what I am told. I don't want to go buy the SAME game I own for the computer just to make custom maps. Is there any way to get the Hammer Source SDK without buying the game...again?

Answer 1

Hello again there.

Actually, you piqued my interest in L4D modding with your previous question, so i've been looking over the Design Docs they've released, and it looks like you'll need to be able to load the L4D engine and game into the Source SDK in order to create levels that will be adequate for L4D.

Moral: Yeah, you'll need to have Left 4 Dead installed on the computer. Sorry.

I mean, you can definitely get the SDK without L4D, but it doesn't look like you can create maps for Left 4 Dead without the game installed.



For more information, including a link to the Level design Docs for L4D, check here:

http://forums.l4dmaps.net/f6/left-4-dead-tutorials-from-valve-t623.html

And more here:

http://forums.l4dmaps.net/f6/left4dead-mapping-resources-and-links-t70.html



Or anywhere else on http://forums.l4dmaps.net , really.



And really, fellas. The XBox and PC versions of L4D are very comparable. I prefer the PC version because of the more ready availability of nifty tools from Valve, and because I've given up on the console FPS. That doesn't mean the core experience of the PC version is better, just that I can't use an analog stick to aim worth anything. And I really, really can't. And it's not exactly like TF2, where XBox players got the shaft for the longest time. Hey, I wonder if that big TF2 update for the XBox ever got rolled out...

Anyway, just trying to say, don't be ridiculous. Same game, different platform.

Answer 2

You can get the the Source SDK free if you buy any source based game, this includes the really cheap ones like Day of Defeat: Source. By the way, I'd advise you not to knock the PC version, it's just as good as the 360 ver. :)

Answer 3

To answer your question, no.



Why even bother to buy L4D for XBox when the pc version is infinitely superior? If you still insist to play a watered down version of the game then you have to wait for a major update to be released for XBox live.

Answer 4

properly, no you do not ought to have the sport, basically the .mdls, etc. SDK makes use of the path that steam downloads each and every of the sport fashions with a view to insert them into the device. The fashions would be discovered with some looking, alongside with the audio documents, .bsp documents, and .navs. in many circumstances they're downloaded by using to C://.../steam/steamapps/"call"/ (in spite of the fact that, l4d DOES acquire throughout the /user-friendly/ folder, and not by using your call)