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I recognize your name from the facepunch days. I think you updated my early SWEP templates, which AFAIK were the first "full-featured" template published on the

I recognize your name from the facepunch days. I think you updated my early SWEP templates, which AFAIK were the first "full-featured" template published on the forums and proliferated everywhere. I didn't know you made your own GMod. I wrote a VR GMod clone[1] based on Source2/SteamVR Environments, mostly in lua, with some basic HTML/JS/CSS for Panorama UI components, incorporating the usual art assets updated/ported for Source2 made by kind artists from the community with their permission. My work was mostly to re-write the physics gun and toolgun with UI/controller input bindings to the physics engine and my custom UI. Of course, all of the hard work is credit to the teams at Valve. [1] https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2042998461 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=20429...

andrewmcwatters 5y ago
I'm not sure if I edited yours. I created one of the first ports from C++ to Lua of the Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike: Source weapons that allowed you to mod those. I'm also the author of Planimeter's (previously Team Sandbox's) Half-Life 2: Sandbox reference implementation, which was the first Source engine game to use LuaJIT. We also ported the base code to allow users to use Lua in other games as a Valve Server Plugin. It relied heavily on reverse engineering.
- hnuser123456 5y ago
  Wow, I wish I stayed closer to gamedev. I would love to see (MP) VR dev made more accessible. The Source2 used in HL:A doesn't support MP (and still has many missing tools), and the Source2 used in SteamVR environments is very barebones and an earlier version of the engine. It looks like Garry's S&box is going to be the "most-feature-complete" version of Source2 for modding/additional development. Using Unity for VR seems silly if not used for VRchat where the social scene already is, unless making a new unique standalone title from near scratch. Using UE5 seems tempting, if a bit corporate, but I'm not sure how far their VR/VR-MP integration is, plus UE5 seems overly heavy for VR on typical hardware. Once it's not prohibitively expensive to run raytracing in VR, we're going to see some cool stuff.

andrewmcwatters 5y ago

I'm not sure if I edited yours. I created one of the first ports from C++ to Lua of the Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike: Source weapons that allowed you to mod those. I'm also the author of Planimeter's (previously Team Sandbox's) Half-Life 2: Sandbox reference implementation, which was the first Source engine game to use LuaJIT. We also ported the base code to allow users to use Lua in other games as a Valve Server Plugin. It relied heavily on reverse engineering.

hnuser123456 5y ago
Wow, I wish I stayed closer to gamedev. I would love to see (MP) VR dev made more accessible. The Source2 used in HL:A doesn't support MP (and still has many missing tools), and the Source2 used in SteamVR environments is very barebones and an earlier version of the engine. It looks like Garry's S&box is going to be the "most-feature-complete" version of Source2 for modding/additional development. Using Unity for VR seems silly if not used for VRchat where the social scene already is, unless making a new unique standalone title from near scratch. Using UE5 seems tempting, if a bit corporate, but I'm not sure how far their VR/VR-MP integration is, plus UE5 seems overly heavy for VR on typical hardware. Once it's not prohibitively expensive to run raytracing in VR, we're going to see some cool stuff.