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	Source engine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, whilst in theory all Source engine games and mods were able to use HDR immediately after its release the game code required to 'hook in' to the new system was not made available to modders until eleven months later, on August 4 2006.
		As a part of the Source engine's transition to next-generation consoles, multiprocessor optimisations have been added, resulting in faster processing on PC hardware with dual or quad core systems and the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles.
		The Source Engine uses a caching system, whereby the loading of certain resources is handled and managed on the fly, rather than in a single operation behind a traditional loading screen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Source_engine (2569 words)

	Source Engine Beta - Valve Developer Community
		You can use this feature to ensure mods will be compatible with a soon to be released version of the Source engine and report any bugs or compatibility issues before they are released to a wide audience.
		You can also disable the Source engine beta by following the instructions in the Switching back to the non-beta engine section below.
		Source Engine Beta Bug Reports - Report bugs here.
	developer.valvesoftware.com /wiki/Source_Engine_Beta (434 words)

	Powered By Unreal Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Unreal Engine 3 is a complete game development framework for next-generation consoles and DirectX9-equipped PC's, providing the vast array of core technologies, content creation tools, and support infrastructure required by top game developers.
		Unreal Engine 3 is based on the Unicode character set, and has full support for 16-bit Unicode fonts and text input, including importing TrueType fonts into renderable bitmap fonts.
		We run the two meshes through the Unreal Engine 3 preprocessing tool and generate a high-res normal map for the renderable mesh, based on analyzing all of the geometry in the detail mesh.
	www.unrealtechnology.com /html/technology/ue30.shtml (2730 words)

	DevMaster.net - Source - Engine Details
		The Valve Source engine technology, the same used to power Half-Life 2, is now available for license by third party developers.
		Source is a very popular engine, but at its core, it is essentially a series of Quake hacks.
		Source can crash in several instances, and the engine is riddled with anomolies.
	www.devmaster.net /engines/engine_details.php?id=34 (1448 words)

	The Source Engine BSP File Format
		This structure identifies the file as a Valve Source Engine BSP file, identifies the version of the format, and is then followed by a directory listing of the location, length, and version of up to 64 subsections of the file, known as lumps, that store different parts of the map data.
		As I understand it, it seems from the HL2 SDK source that this situation may also occur during the compilation of HL2 maps; however, after the VVIS compile process is finished these adjacent leaves (and their parent nodes) are merged into a single leaf.
		Once the engine knows a cluster is visible, the leaf data references all faces present in that cluster, allowing the contents of the cluster to be rendered.
	www.geocities.com /cofrdrbob/bspformat.html (7255 words)

	Gamers Europe » PC » Review » Counter-Strike: Source (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Whilst the level recreations are stunning compared to the original Half-Life engine versions, they still appear to be a bit angular, and the use of bump-mapping, whilst somewhat effective, fails to create the sense of depth and complexity that Doom 3 managed so well.
		Despite the lack of a true light-source based engine, shadows are surprisingly convincing, and whilst again they don't rival Doom 3, this was an essential engine omission as both Half-Life 2 and CS: Source make extensive use of large outdoor environments where light sources are very hard to recreate.
		Source is bloodier than its predecessor, and the blood flies more convincingly than I've ever seen before, smearing surfaces chillingly (or satisfyingly, depending on whether you were involved in spilling it).
	www.gamerseurope.com /articles/607 (1477 words)

	Source Engine Video Stress Test ExtremeTech - Find Articles
		In fact, the first third-party game to use the Source engine is Vampire: Bloodlines, which should be released this fall.
		The VST is simply a synthetic 3D benchmark using the Source engine.
		It's a flyby through several "rooms" meant to showcase select features of the game engine, but it does not put the same load on your hardware that playing any Source engine based game would.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_zdext/is_200408/ai_n7184072 (830 words)

	Cube Engine Games
		The engine, though designed for simplicity and elegance as opposed to feature and eyecandy checklists, still competes nicely thanks to its novel "6-directional heighfield deformable cube octree" world structure that is the basis for its in-game editing.
		Cube is also smaller in every way, in download, in hardware requirements (runs well on older video cards!), and in source code (the absolutely tiny code base is a very easy start for those wishing to experiment).
		It also has some unique engine features such as the high precision dynamic occlusion culling, and its heighfield based level format.
	www.cubeengine.com (281 words)

	Incoming - Source : a Half-Life² Modification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Incoming Source is raising both the Source engine and the orgional Incoming to new standards.
		A: The Incoming Source development team consists of a bunch of various roles that all tie into (what will be) the main and final package.
		Incoming Source has been in production for over 5 years, and for the past year, I have observed you post new media almost on a weekly basis.
	www.incoming-source.net (2942 words)

	Source Engine Goes 360 - Kotaku (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Source Engine has been available on Pc for ages lol.
		Ya, but unless you got a pretty sweet system, you wont be getting the full beauty of the engine (although the engine still rocks on low end comps).
		The source engine was outdated the second it came out thanks to massive delays and Farcry, and now they want to pimp it for the 360 as a way for the lazier of game devs to get a game to the 360 on the cheap.
	www.kotaku.com /gaming/360/source-engine-goes-360-208051.php (593 words)

	Driverheaven: Counter Strike Source
		Counter-Strike: Source is downloaded through Steam and when installed has a size of 366mb for the beta, quite small for a modern day game.
		When first entering the main game engine the layout and area was quite familiar to me, what was immediately noticeable though was the level of detail provided by the Source engine.
		Counter-Strike: Source is shaping up to be a great advancement on the Counter-Strike franchise, the game play that Counter-Strike players have come to love is still present however the graphics and sound updates add that little extra to the original (Something that was well needed after so many years).
	www.driverheaven.net /articles/Source (1190 words)

	bit-tech.net \| Cinematic Effects in Source (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Day of Defeat: Source - arguably the best multiplayer World War II shooter around - builds a cinematic gaming experience with the help of the Source Engine's High Dynamic Range Rendering capabilities.
		It was the first game released by Valve that showcased their HDR technologies after the delays to the free technology demo level known as Lost Coast.
		However, the current problem with Day of Defeat: Source is that the quality of the scenes rendered is far beyond what was capable in the time period where the game is set.
	www.bit-tech.net /gaming/2005/12/09/source_film_effects/1.html (473 words)

	Genesis3D Open Source Engine
		Genesis3D is an Open Source 3D Game Development Engine, with a license designed to allow use of the game in commercial, or non-commercial applications for free.
		Yes, the engine and all code is released for free.
		The WebDriver is WildTangent's modifications to the Genesis3D engine.
	www.genesis3d.com /faq.php (1015 words)

	Source Engine - Halflife2.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Speaking of Source, it's interesting to note that the game was demoed to us on an nVidia-powered rig that that Activision brought in for the presentation.
		What if source is so dynamic that they already finished the game in thier old source, and now are making source better.
		Then when they finally finish making source better, they could take all the finished work and put it in the upgraded source, and maybe add a few touchups to the graphics and such.
	www.halflife2.net /forums/showthread.php?t=19050 (944 words)

	Source Engine Developed for Xbox 360 - Some Xbox 360 games will have Source engine support - Softpedia
		Valve representatives announced today that Source engine is now available for Xbox 360.
		This engine is the same one used to power Counter Strike Source, Half-Life 2 and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic.
		The Source engine, developed by Valve, features a large degree of modularity and flexibility, and extraordinary lip sync and facial expression technology and an efficient physics system and that is what makes it so unique and loved by game developers.
	news.softpedia.com /news/Source-Engine-Developed-for-Xbox-360-38067.shtml (384 words)

	An Open Source Search Engine
		But Cutting says they hope that once Nutch is loosed on the world, tinkerers from Romania to China to Palo Alto will help build it into a robust platform, in the spirit of Linux or Apache (which has garnered more than 60 percent of the Web-server software market in just the last couple of years).
		Nutch is moving its servers to Kahle's high-bandwidth location this weekend, a crucial step toward readying the engine for its public debut.
		Cutting won't commit to a specific launch date for the engine, but he said he expects it to go live at Nutch.org sometime early this fall.
	searchenginewatch.com /showPage.html?page=3071971 (1034 words)

	Halflife2.net » Source Engine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Source engine technology, the same used to power Half-Life® 2, provides major enhancements in several key areas including character animation, advanced AI, real-world physics, and shader-based rendering.
		Source’s animation system brings expressive characters to life with an unlimited palette of facial expressions that allow them to convey a message without having to say a word.
		Source contains robust networking code, providing support for 32-player LAN and Internet games, and includes a complete toolset for level design, character animation, demo creation, and more.
	www.halflife2.net /hl2/engine (672 words)

	Search engine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A search engine or search service is a document retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system, such as on the World Wide Web, inside a corporate or proprietary network, or in a personal computer.
		Most Web search engines are commercial ventures supported by advertising revenue and, as a result, some employ the controversial practice of allowing advertisers to pay money to have their listings ranked higher in search results.
		A recent enhancement to search engine technology is the addition of geocoding and geoparsing to the processing of the ingested documents being indexed, to enable searching within a specified locality (or region).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Search_engine (2864 words)

	Counter-Strike: Source Final Hands-On - PC News at GameSpot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The short answer is that if you never liked Counter-Strike before, then the conversion to the Source engine isn't likely to change your opinion of the game, unless your primary quibble was with the graphics.
		The new graphical polish afforded by the Source engine, as well as the visual tweaks to the maps, should be plenty of reason for current CS players to migrate over, assuming that they don't mind pre-ordering Half-Life 2 over Steam.
		Jess Cliffe and Doug Lombardi discuss the conversion of Counter-Strike to the Source engine.
	www.gamespot.com /pc/action/counterstrikesource/preview_6110337.html (1735 words)

	Half-Life 2 Online Source (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Map editing for the Source engine will be very familiar to those who did mapping for Half-Life.
		One of the cool things we've added to the multiplayer engine is the ability to predict the creation of additional entities, such as projectiles...
		Second, Source has pretty flexible vehicle code which allows for players to drive and ride in vehicle and to separately control guns attached to (themselves or) the vehicles.
	www.hl2source.com /?content=faq (4671 words)

	A preview of Half-Life 2 performance? - The Tech Report - Page 1
		Counter-Strike: Source is basically just a port of the mega-popular team-based shooter to Half-Life 2's Source engine.
		The Source engine video stress test included with the CS: Source beta isn't a real in-game benchmark.
		Overall, the Source engine's visuals are much higher quality than current games and don't seem to vary widely from card to card, much like we've seen in DOOM 3.
	techreport.com /etc/2004q3/source-engine/index.x?pg=1 (717 words)

	Source Engine Released for Xbox 360, PS3 \| Domestic News \| GamePro.com
		Vavle's Source Engine, used to create the Popular Half-Life 2 series, is now available to developers as middleware for the Xbox 360.
		The source engine is perfect for the Xbox 360 "whether [developers are] pursuing a traditional FPS, RTS, RPG or delving into new genres," said Valve boss Gabe Newell.
		The Source Engine is already being used by Valve to bring Half-Life 2, HL2: Episode 1, HL2: Episode 2, Team Fortress 2, and Portal in one bundle to the Xbox 360.
	www.gamepro.com /news.cfm?article_id=83957 (823 words)

	Source Licensing
		The Source engine technology, the same used to power Half-Life®; 2, is now available for license by any third party.
		Source contains robust networking code, providing support for 32-player LAN and Internet games, and inclues a complete toolset for level design, character animation, demo creation, and more.
		Valve, the Valve logo, Valve Source, the Source logo, Valve Hammer Editor, Half-Life, and Steam are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Valve Corporation.
	www.valvesoftware.com /sourcelicense/default.htm (237 words)

	Irrlicht Engine - A free open source 3d engine
		The Irrlicht Engine is an open source high performance realtime 3D engine written and usable in C++ and also available for.NET languages.
		We've got a huge active community, and there are lots of projects in development that use the engine.
		It includes the full source and precompiled binaries of the engine and the examples.
	irrlicht.sourceforge.net (1340 words)

	SDK Docs - Valve Developer Community
		Maps are the cornerstone of Source, where it all comes together.
		Make Source's characters come to life with its uniquely powerful choreography technologies.
		AI controls the behavior of all but the simplest of NPC actions and Source makes using or creating it easy.
	developer.valvesoftware.com /wiki/SDK_Docs (125 words)

	Source Engine - HalfLife 2 Knowledge Base
		This article describes the various features and capabilities of Valve's Source engine.
		Source powers Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, and Day of Defeat: Source, as well as Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, Half-Life: Source, and Half-Life 2: Lost Coast.
		VGUI – Valve’s custom GUI interface mimics most of the windows controls but is rendered using the Source engine for both in game and out of game uniform UI display.
	www.hl2world.com /wiki/index.php/Source (560 words)

	IGN: GDC 2004: Half-Life 2 Source Engine Demo
		The demonstration was split into several parts, highlighting the renderer, physics, AI, character expression/emotion, sound and multiplayer features of the Source engine, as well as highlighting some of the built-in world creation tools available to developers.
		We saw the vehicle demo in motion again as well, and learned that such properties as tire friction and material, spring tension, gearing and shift speed were all tweakable in the engine, and how all affect the physics of a given vehicle.
		He also mentioned that, using the Source engine, enemies can detect you based on sight, sound or smell, and showed the Antlion demo where Gordon is using the pheromone grenades to control a group of aliens against emplaced turrets.
	pc.ign.com /articles/501/501650p1.html (729 words)

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