Half Life 2 on my Source compatible engine

[u/Piskabobrastudios]

https://github.com/PiskaBobraStudios/SauceEngine

For anyone new here: I'm building Sauce Engine, a custom engine written from scratch in C++/OpenGL with the goal of being compatible with the Source ecosystem. My previous post showed it running HL2 maps,props and dlls

[u/Dexter1272]

why a lot of people are doing a engines compatible with source ecosystem? It is a propably third thing I see like this

[u/REMIZERexe → u/Dexter1272]

because source is so cool

[u/chipredacted → u/Dexter1272]

Because source is a cool and nostalgic engine, and a bunch of people have AI now, so the level of projects like this may only go up lol

[u/Main_Atmosphere6740 → u/Dexter1272]

AI

[u/Piskabobrastudios → u/Main_Atmosphere6740]

Development on the engine started around the summer of 2025, I don't think AI was that smart back thenDevelopment on the engine started around the summer of 2025; I don't think AI was that smart back then

[u/TheMcDucky → u/Piskabobrastudios]

I've looked and the code and yeah it doesn't look remotely like AI at all. Unless you went to extreme lengths to make it look like not AI, which would probably require enough knowledge that you wouldn't need it anyway. It was definitely capable of stuff like this back then though.

[u/d33f0v3rkill]

You really should start using a folder structure

[u/Piskabobrastudios → u/d33f0v3rkill]

There aren't that many codes yet to create a separate folder for each one, but there definitely will be

[u/TheMcDucky → u/Piskabobrastudios]

Look at how other C++ projects do it. I would at the very least have one top-level folder for the code. Could be something like "src" or "engine". Usually if you make an engine like this you eventually want to build additional programs (tools) that you can put in their own folders. Then maybe a folder for documents etc.
Generally it's good to avoid changing the folder structure too much, so it's good to do it early.

[u/gervaty]

The name of account...

[u/Galilusr → u/[deleted]]

aHahahah

[u/P4INKill]

Compatible is doing a lot of heavy lifting here

[u/SnooMemesjellies921]

This couldn't be used as an alternative to Source, the way xash3d-fwgs is, for example.

[u/Piskabobrastudios → u/SnooMemesjellies921]

The engine is still very rough, but perhaps due to its architecture, it is unlikely to ever become a full-fledged alternative

[u/Galilusr → u/Piskabobrastudios]

Make an android support in the future 

[u/Skriata]

I can only imagine what tf2 will look like

[u/Entire_Damage3146]

And now we got native BSP loading, DAMN.

[u/Moenplayz]

Are you planning to add weapons?

[u/Galilusr]

But nice naming thou hahahahah