GMOD2?? (or Aliens vs Predator in S&Box)

but for real

I’ve acquired a cool little key for Facepunch’s spiritual successor to Garry’s Mod, S&Box! Built on Source 2, this is the first taste of development with the new engine.

Half-Life Alyx has workshop support, and theres some seriously insane things on there, but you’re still relatively confined to Alyx’s gameplay.

But not with S&Box!

So,, what to do with this new and not-very-well documented power. well, theres this funny little game called aliens vs predator

just the alien though

Because theres a worm in my brain, i’ve been reimplementing the alien mechanics in S&box! This is has been quite the challenge for a number of reasons, but i would like to give PARTICULAR shoutouts to

quaternions...

the functions regarding rotation are a little bare, so I had to translate some of the maths. Not a lot of it! but enough to feel it.

I’m proud of it tho!

what next?

well, if you look very closely at the following clip, you may be able to spot some unintended behaviour…

jokes aside, next is going to be looking properly at the Hammer (source’s map editor) side of things, as I reckon i’m gonna have to have a seperate set of clipping brushes to control where the alien can move.

I tried datamining the 2010 game to look at that sweet sweet code but there seems to only be binary file extractors, although i do now have a nice high poly model of everyones favourite xenomorph ;)