That is what it means; It's mod time baby.
I'm not sure what you mean with your second question. It shouldn't be any more difficult than accessing the Workshop tab of the Steam page for Alyx.
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The Half-Life: Alyx Workshop is now open
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I'm not sure what you mean with your second question. It shouldn't be any more difficult than accessing the Workshop tab of the Steam page for Alyx.
Uhhh so I updated Half Life Alyx and went to the DLC options per the instructions but not seeing the Workshop Tools to install. Anyone else able to get set up yet?
I like that listed your monitor for some reason but not your actual VR headset lol
I didn't have a DLC tab at all till I restarted Steam. Then the DLC tab was there along with the tickbox to install it.
Prior to that there was also a 2.8GB update I downloaded so check for that too.
Ah strange thought the update had completed when I restarted steam. That did it thanks!
Yeah so for anyone curious, to access the new SFM you have to launch it through the HLA Workshop Tools. Without checking any settings, my projects will load but I can't see anything in the viewports. Guess I'll be messing with it a bit to see if I can work on anything in it and see how different it is. Or maybe you can ONLY use this version for Half Life Alyx stuff right now, idk.
As far as I can tell there are some small UI font changes but nothing else stands out as being very different from regular ass SFM.
As far as I can tell there are some small UI font changes but nothing else stands out as being very different from regular ass SFM.
EDIT: Actually, I guess you could explore that in that one FOO Show episode. Looks ridiculously better there though.
Oh baby....Imagine Campo Santo continue work on In The Valley of the Gods in VR in Source2........the idea of it is making me so excited even though it's not even announced.
I've never loaded mods in VR before, it's literally a whole new thing to me. If I ever want to play anything I Steam VR, I just load it up through my Link and then play it from the in-VR menu, but I've never done any workshop stuff before.
This is enormously exciting!
I played through it on a weaker system with no issues on low.
2600 at stock
16GB RAM
GTX 970 (no OC)
Oculus Quest wireless via Virtual Desktop
Jesus, that's beautiful. Honestly, I'd take an entire Firewatch with those graphics retooled for VR.
So, and I don't mean to seem entitled because I realize it's not for me, but what exactly is the point of the "combat encounter" Valve threw onto the Workshop? Like, what is there to glean from that that modders can't just take from HL:A itself? Not being glib, I just don't understand why it exists and feel like it's probably over my head.
That's really strange. I also have a 3700x but a 1080 Ti instead and had zero problems with Alyx even at high settings with a Vive. I think you shouldn't be running into issues with your setup.
Probably just a basic example map for modders to look at. I remember when Valve shipped the MvM mode in Team Fortress 2 had a similar example map for map makers to see how to set everything up correctly for that mode.
Would it be possible for someone to make a multiplayer mode using these tools? I'd love to see a reimagining of HL2's mp with the gravity gun using Alyx's assets.
Knowing Valve, the answer to your first question is: Yes! Garry's Mod VR here we come.
You know, I dislike a lot of valve's decisions in terms of game development but their community support and tool support is really amazing. I love how everyone knows Source 2 is gonna bring (and is bringing I guess) some of the best experiences in gaming. Can't wait for many other great hits that will come out of this community.
Off to a good start
The juxtaposition between these is beautiful.
But man, I would love to check out that Firewatch area in VR. That game and location seem perfect for it.
This is badass. What an amazingly good start in such a short amount of time. I wonder if there will be a way in the future to make it cut limbs off and such.
I have a very similar system--slightly slower RAM, and I run dual 1920x1200 monitors, but otherwise basically the same--and had a largely trouble-free experience. The main issue was stuttering and textures loading in very low-res; both of these problems went away when I freed up resources by closing other open programs like web browsers. Other than that I don't recall any issues, even playing through Oculus Link to a Quest.
Holy shit, it took less than a day for cool-ass gameplay mods to pop up.
Hopefully SFM2 will be more stable than the original. But I'm more interested right now in seeing the cool maps and new enemies and other gameplay mods and maybe even porting over the original campaigns for HL1 and 2 an-
Holy fucking shit
Holy fucking shit
Yeah it's kind of confusing, you have to enable them from that addons menu and then go to start game and pick the map you want to play.
