Forum | Thinking With Portals

#1 · September 16, 2008, 8:38 pm

hello i dont own half life 2 but i do own portal and apparently you cant get
source SDK from steam if u dont have half life 2 installed

i looked in the tools tab and theres no source SDK in there

is there any other way i can get it?

#2 · September 16, 2008, 9:56 pm

Buy Half Life 2.

Currently working on Darksiders 3.

#3 · September 16, 2008, 10:14 pm

My friend bought only Portal off of steam. It appeared when he got it. But he could not at first. I think it took a week or so to appear.

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#4 · September 17, 2008, 8:02 am

MrTwoVideoCards wrote:

Buy Half Life 2.

im not allowd... its a shooter.... gh3y parents

can anyone just go into their steam folder and find either the install file or just the folder for source SDK?

please i really wanna make a portal map

#5 · September 17, 2008, 11:20 am

If I remember correctly, you can also download the Hammer-editor separately, but you then have to configure it by hand. But there are plenty of tutorials out there which show you step-by-step how to download, install and configure it.

The Source SDK is not the same as the Hammer level editor, it's a set that includes a configured version of the editor, and next to that a model viewer, the Faceposer and the source files of HL2, either SP or MP.

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#6 · September 17, 2008, 11:32 am

Ricotez wrote:

If I remember correctly, you can also download the Hammer-editor separately

90% sure this is the illegal version. The right way to get it is via Steam and no other. Patches included, free of charge.

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#7 · September 17, 2008, 2:13 pm

ok so source SDK is an editor and Hammer Editor is a Mod for Source
SDK that allows u to make portal maps?

EDITED: im confused here, ok i just want a portal editor not a hl editor is
that wat hammer editor is?

ok so can anyone give me a link to an illigal download tut?

#8 · September 17, 2008, 2:23 pm

Hammer is the program used to make maps for *every* source game (Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress 2, etc.). The SourceSDK is the entire toolset used to create maps AND mods (source code, model viewer, etc.) Creating Source maps is not as easy as say building in The Sims or anything like that. It's very technical and has a steep learning curve.

I suggest reading up here: http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SDK_Docs

#9 · September 17, 2008, 2:36 pm

Remmiz wrote:

Creating Source maps is not as easy as say building in The Sims or anything like that. It's very technical and has a steep learning curve.

Man, I'm tempted to link to that shitty G-Mod/Portal hack map (po_edit ?) that we had a thread about a while ago. Except it would be thread necromancy, as well as cruel and unusual punishment on the new guy.

"Games are made out of smaller games ? turtles all the way down, until you hit the game that is so trivial and stupid it isn?t deserving of the name." --Raph Koster

#10 · September 17, 2008, 3:55 pm

po_edit3 sux i tried it... very low level designing program

ok so i want hammer to make a map for portal
yes i get it now im gunna try googling for hammer again brb

EDITED: ok so i DO need source sdk because hammer is a mod for SSDK

well what do i do now i mean i cant get source sdk and i cant seem to
find a working link on google

newb here needs help 🙁