Natural Selection 2 Spark editor released!

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Natural Selection 2 peoples! Their 'Spark' editor is now out http://www.naturalselection2.com/download

fyi you need to have preordered either of the versions to be able to use it.

They also have some video tutorials http://www.naturalselection2.com/tutorials

System reqs(same as NS2) http://www.naturalselection2.com/faq

I cant download it at the moment, guessing the site is being hammered but from the tutorial it looks like a snap to get basic stuff going. I cant wait to get my grubby mitts on it, shame they dont have mirrors

jocose

Awesome, downloading now.

vcool

Nice, explains why their website couldn't load. Said something like "too many connections".

Zipfinator

What! Didn't know it was coming out early for pre-orders. Going to pre-order it tomorrow probably. The site is down now from too many people downloading it.

JasonLavoie

Yuh... be fun to mess around with their lighting, looks to be pretty powerful in some of the in-game trailer stuff.

Nice "modeling" tools as well, wish Unreal had a couple of those.

Great job all around NS2 guys

vcool

Looked at the tutorials, and I gotta say the editor is nice and clean. I can't stand thousands of buttons and menus and shit like that. That's my problem with UnrealEd, it's just daunting to look at.

It also seems to be fairly intuitive making stuff.

I've yet to try it, but so far it seems to be a fusion of the best things from Hammer and Unreal.

Ark

Just had a mess about with this, the tools remind me of FEAR's Worldedit, so much better than csg brushes and hollowing stuff out.

Performance is really good too considering its all dynamic lighting. You can place quite a few lights with shadows without any performance loss or at least thats how it feels. Deferred lighting maybe?

Anyone got the 'atmosphere' option working on the spot lights? (Edit - seems to have been removed in the current build)

Surfa

I love the lightings tools. Although I still suck at lighting I like to think I suck a little less in this engine.


About 20mins of fiddling.

MikeF

i really really want this functionality in the source engine, especially the ability to scale models WITHOUT recompiling. Love what i'm seeing so far

Slum

It's like Sketchup had a baby with Hammer. Awesome.

bgoodsell

Surfa wrote: »

I love the lightings tools. Although I still suck at lighting I like to think I suck a little less in this engine.

Looks pretty cool to me (despite lack of obvious lower light source). Is there any way to test this out if you don't have a cd key, or is that just one of the perks to pre-ordering?

Martin Henriksson

can you get your own custom models in the engine yet?

Ark

Martin Henriksson wrote: »

can you get your own custom models in the engine yet?

Not yet, they haven't released their other tools. Heard there based around collada, so hopefully we can export from a range of apps that support it.

Custom textures are a go though.

bgoodsell wrote: »

Looks pretty cool to me (despite lack of obvious lower light source). Is there any way to test this out if you don't have a cd key, or is that just one of the perks to pre-ordering?

Aye you need to pre-order to get access to the tools.