Valve released Source 2 Engine Mod Tools for Half-Life: Alyx

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PC gamers can now mod the latest Half-Life game. Valve launched a official workshop group for Half-Life: Alyx.

This is the first Beta release:

• Hammer, the latest version of the Source 2 level editor.
• Material Editor, the tool for creating and tuning materials in Source 2.
• ModelDoc, a tool for viewing, editing, and compiling models with animation, collision, and other gameplay attributes.
• AnimGraph, our animation tool used to create complicated animation setups with blends and transitions.
• Particle Editor, for making new particle effects.
• Subrect Editor, for creating smart texture sheets known as “hotspots.”
• Source Filmmaker, the Source 2 cinematic renderer and animation tool.

Valve plans to release more tools and improve the existing ones.

Half Life: Alyx Workshop update adds a native Linux version of the game using the Vulkan rendering API.
Support for Vulkan API in the Windows version has also been added.

Source:https://steamcommunity.com/games/546560/announcements/detail/3758762298552654078