I have many questions about that fish tank. Most importantly... whose glorious idea was it to create that spectacular visual pun?

I'm surprised the situation isn't reversed. That publishing and voting is for the people who own the game and creating on Hammer is for everyone.

Okey. I need the movie with that giant fish.

Just for 15$ i could make a device that would launch 90kg stone over 300 meter to crush the walls of my enemies?

While most people have the money to buy the editor, I think this will stop people who don't know whether or not they'd get into map making. The barrier might stop everyone who is new to CSGO map making while being a non-issue to those who already have experience.

Never knew this was a thing. Feels like a really weird way from Valve to prevent something somewhere.

Cheers from Poland, we have snow and it's 3 AM.

I do share the positions that the *creation tools should be free* and the *publishing tools should cost*

Can you do a video about the SteamVR Hammer Editor? It looks super cool.

As amazing as hammer is, it is also extremely outdated and incredibly hard to use, having to pay that much money just for it in my opinion is a bad idea from Valve even if it is so to prevent bots. Also VSDK comes with TF2, for free, doesn't make much sense now, does it.

I still think it should be free since TF2's SDK tools became free when the game went free to play.

Didn't TF2's SDK go free when that went F2P? Can't see why the SDK can't go free on CS, especially since CSGO already has tons of other ways to make money

Are you ever going to make another series like the making of de_sparity?

making maps should be free, but publishing them should require prime/buying the game

Been thinking about making maps and then trying to work it out today with your old video.... to then see you just uploaded this! thank you so much!!

I've just finished your hammer tutorials again, it's 4.15 AM here. Thanks.

I do already own CS from years in the past, but I definitely understand the people who don't have money to buy it. I come from a low income family, growing up around other low income families, and really none of the kids in these families earn any money regular. I'd get maybe 5 euros one month, and then none the next, it's not easy as a kid. Neither do you earn much from celebratory days, like birthdays or Christmas either. I usually got 100 euros maximum from a birthday, and then I'd have to decide to which broken thing to put that money towards. I wish it was free so more people could experience it and express their creativity in it!

I definitely didnt have my friend give me his and just edited all the config files to match my directories

A big thanks for the guides and this video, I've begun making my own map because of this and I couldn't of done it without your help. Thanks 3kliksphilip !!!

I never bought CS:GO but got prime through leveling up. I've thought of mapping for a while and made some maps for source but now I think I'll finally buy the map editor for CS:GO. Great video!

Primary objective: Find Nemo Secondary objective: make a map

Tf2's hammer and such is free to use though.

I just got into gmod mapping yesterday because I want to use it to do UX tests at a distance with the quarantine and stuff. I actually used one of your 2012 hammer tutorials on loading in custom models for this.

Your map making tutorials are great! I might have another go, now that I have plenty of time in isolation

I got my Premium account as a present from a random guy in Steam. I just asked the community if i needed it for mapping and when they said "yes",so one of the guys that awsered me friended me and bought me a premium subscription,bruh.

Yeah, I once thought of making maps for CSGO after seeing your tutorials, but then after I saw that the hammer editor wasn't there, my will to make maps for it just disappeared, like some pair of gauntlets on a mountain. Oh and also the prime status here is 50 BRL so no way I'm gonna spend it all for an editor.

I made a post about this a while ago in the 3kliksphilip subreddit glad to see that he is touching on it now

I love you dude

I feel like it should be free, I used to play in CS 1.6 ZP servers and the community always had a Mapping Competition. Winner usually got a copy of the game if they didn't own it and admin privileges. It encourages creativity and you pick up some useful skills too.

"Feel entitled to free software" Richard Stallman would like to have a word with you

I mean I remember making Quake maps and Doom maps using free tools, and wolfenstein enemy territory maps using Radiant. Back when CSGO was buy to play, I guess it made sense to bundle them together, since you needed to own the game to really make use of the tools, but it does seem a little weird they would restrict it now, especially if the wall doesn't even stop bots from ruining things for everybody. If enough people pushed for it, Valve might end up relenting. Probably a non issue these days when you can access powerful game engines for free and do infinitely more without suffering through late 90s UI.

i thought 3kliks d talk about the broken low shaders after 27/3 update and the recent market bug where models where expensive as hell (the 2nd thing at least was just fixed)

I just can’t wait until csgo gets ported to source2 and I can get my hands on that sweet new hammer editor.

I remember being in this exact circumstance because I joined Steam when Portal 2 was announced, and Valve was giving Portal 1 away for free to promote it. I *thought* I'd be granted the SDK for free as well, but the fact that the game was free barred me from this. I ended up spending hours on Portal 1 just ent_create ing the HL2 NPCs and Impulse 101-ing my way to weapons. Portal 1 was my Garry's Mod for years, it's funny to think back on. But back on topic, I think it is *incredibly* reasonable that for a private company like Valve with so many secrets that they ask for just $15 US in order to use their tried and tested tools. You can blow $250 USD on some lesser-known proprietary 3D game-making software on Steam or spend an hour's pay (except food service workers who deserve non-tip-dependent wages) on a handy level editor.

As a long time Hammer user myself, & someone who isnt super into counterstrike, I knew about this from the day it went free to play. Fortunately, you can get someone to send you the files for the editor & it will work just fine. I did this within the week of it being F2P, as i assumed Valve had made a simple mistake & would unlock it for everyone later. Strange that they never did.

I wanna thank 3kliksphilip for having so many amazing tutorials I used to teach myself map creation using the source engine. If you are interested in map/world creation, I highly suggest his videos as well as starting with a game you know, like csgo. Thanks 3kliks!!!

So rather than creating a barrier for spambots, they create a barrier that kept games alive literally decades after their official deaths? Great work Valve. That tool was a huge gateway to people getting into 3D and game design.

2:00 $15 is the price of a cheap game on a steam sale? Well. I wouldn't call $15 cheap for a game, especially one that is on sale.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention, always giving me knowledge

I work for a developer of a free2play and we also lock our map editor behind a paywall. If you've made a purchase before, you can use the editor and play your maps in single player. If you bought our standard "skip the grind" bundle, you get to publish your maps for everyone to use in multiplayer. Making an editor is a lot of work, and even more if you want it to be easy to use. I don't blame Valve for keeping the price tag on the editor.

Sounds like Valve could do with some one like you to help them to overcome these challenges!

2:54 I found myself hoarding a bunch of Vega GPUs that I never even used once, for several months now. And I bought that pile of hardware with my own pocket change!

the throwbacks in this video were a great touch

i have learnt a lot about making maps on your channel but i really wanted to know some stuff about making gun skins and what software people use.

i honestly believe that making csgo itself f2p wasnt a very good idea.

The thing in my opinion on not making the software for free is that there's people who just want to try it. I own many source games, so I don't have this issue. Although, I did want to try to use Hammer, but I don't find that kind of thing fun. There's probably people out there that want to try it, but scared of wasting $15 on something they wont use. Also, support Free Software www.fsf.org

You can also get the sdk from css, I accidentally got the sdk when buying source for gmod textures

Btw you can find a download of the SDK from other places. I had it on my other pc, a little bit of google, maybe on a forum where someone cloud-shares it

did the zooming out at the outro make the screen look like its zooming in after? warowl video hallucinations

Hammer is in fact a great tool to use. I’ve properly spent 2000+ in that software and keep grinding new surf maps 👏🏼

Finally 3kp made a video on this.....i tried everything to download it and at last found an upload of sdk files from a user ...copied it to csgo/bin...and it worked ....but i couldn't use the workshop to upload though

Did not expect to see Elite Dangerous footage in this video. More a still frame but even so.

Gonna have to disagree with you on this one Phillip. Sure, it's Valve's right to charge for modding tools. They can charge for whatever they want. That doesn't make it a good business decision, or good for the players. The added value, both it terms of dollars and fun that mods add to a game vastly outweighs the pocket change they're getting out of this. I've never paid for modding tools and I never will. You can call that entitlement if you want, but it doesn't change the result, less fun mods.

Solution: make the software free, but limit uploads to the workshop to free accounts. That way you don’t restrict somebody’s potential creativity, but you also counter the bot problem

I’m torn on this- I’m very much of the mind that stuff like this that enables expression and creativity like an SDK is a great asset and as many people as possible should have access to it. But I also think about how many games offer you the developer tools included these days- a very small number. 15 bucks isn’t that much money though, so it’s not like the barrier to entry is very high. I don’t think there’s a wrong answer to this.

You can get csgo nonsteam and it usually comes with hammer and build tools in the bin folder

The csgo sdk shld be available to buy as a seperate piece of software.

If the SDK is gonna be free, why even buy csgo? You can even get prime for free, which i think was a stupid idea. Anyways great video as always Phillip :)

1:40 Good find and this sounds like soemthing you should communicate to Valve. This could be the key to greatly curbing the fraudulunet submissions i.e. closing this loophole.

Is Philip allergic to the word pound? As always, great video!

But Valve didn't exactly make Hammer. Hammer is just a *very* improved version of ID Software's WorldCraft editor for Quake. Yes, it *is* more Valve than ID now, but it still feels wrong that they would sell copies of Hammer regardless. I mean, did ID Software ever expect this when they sold Valve a Quake engine license? I don't think so. They expected that Valve would extend the engine and editor, make and sell games with them, and license out the extended engine to other developers. They probably didn't expect that Valve would then sell access to the editor. It's not even like this is the only way to access Hammer. (Almost) Every other Source game comes with Hammer. It's just the one with a few CS:GO-related files that costs money.

You guys argue whether a 15$ dollar tool should be free, while in the previous video comment section everyone was willing to pay 650-1000$ for VR just to play half life alyx.

Loading up my first completed map and seeing the bot's play on it was one of the most magical moments I ever had in gameing. If you own the game, just try making a map. it doesn't need to be good. It doesn't even need to be balanced. Map making has teached me a lot things, and playing on a map I made, with friends has been some of the most fun I ever had with cs:go. If you have any interest in mapping go for it, it's so much fun. It might be hard in the beginning but once you figure stuff out it's great. (Philip has made great tutorials for this on his channel. I highly recommend you check them out.) And Philip if you see this, thank you so much for what you have introduced me to. (And sorry for any typos in this. I wrote this at 4 a.m. in the morning because I woke up too early.)

Used the edditor for a couple hours trying to create maps. i feel like they should update the editor, or make a new one. it feels kinda slugisch and i think mapping could have more potential for casuals.

Well that stinks. I was trying to rank up to rank 21 (currently 14) so that I would be able to get the version of hammer editor so that I can back port, but welp......

I leveled up to prime in csgo, all i need to do is buy the game with “prime status” and it will come,with source sdk? How can i get the sdk with a leveled up account

I think the 15 dollars is split between the 10 bucks for the sdk and 5 bucks for csgo itself. Only cause the source sdk as alot of possibilities

portal half life css source are always on sale for 2 dollars or less and all come with the sdk

This actually really bothers me, I tried to start mapping but I couldn't because I had to buy prime

When you say your asking for thoughts, I can't help think about your deleting comments video every time now.

Its okay that you need to pay for the tools, they also should lock that you can Upload stuff only if you have the payed tools. I would prefer that the microtransaction stuff disapperas instead.

For a video from lovely Philip it is worth sacrificing 3 minutes and 41 seconds of sleep.

Imagine being so entitled you think Valve owes it to you to give you something for free.

Early, yeet.

Philip, there’s now a new update in CS:GO, and it released a new case (Prisma 2) my attention got particularly driven to a particular skin from that case... The skin that caught my attention is the AWP Capillary, it’s from the same collection from the MP9 and Five-Seven capillary (being the capillary collection) and the thing that caught my attention of this skin from the capillary collection, is they added a new feature onto it. The new feature added is that now the butt and barrel of the weapon have a human cell look, and have randomized patterns, what do you think about it?

Ooooo didn't know that. I bought CS GO back on release so I should already age this! I've got a loot of time coming up on my hands now with 2 surgeries

Honestly i think they should just make it free since bots can exploit the borrow feature, making the price more useless than before. They could at the very least give you it when you reach rank 21 and unlock prime!

Make a separate page for the SDK and sell it under the Software category

Honestly I would have payed 20 dollars extra for the CSGO or HL2 SDK. Playing something you created and having the amazing feeling when it is fun is not something I could put a price on.

I'm not sure why they don't just lock off the workshop uploader instead. That seems like it'd make a lot more sense, considering you aren't gonna be publishing a whole lot with no editor anyway, and people would probably be more willing to pay up to publish their creations if they already had creations to publish.

It's worth buying, although I think Valve could offer it as a separate piece at a reduced price - maybe £5.99 or something like that.

Keep in mind that the Source SDK (for CS:GO) is still proprietary software and it likely has other reasons not to include as part of free installations of CS:GO. It's important to note that different versions of the Source SDK, while they do share some, have different license agreements and ToS depending on the distribution. The game and SDK are separate products, and Valve has chosen to give you tools for authoring custom content for the game if you decide to pay for the main product. I think that is perfectly fine. That is just my opinion, would love to hear yours!

i think that there should be a free verison, but for those that use the free version, valve has to manually allow them to post their maps

philip should just make a new series of tutorials with source 2 sdk for vr

In my opinion I think the reason is to keep a value in the premium version. Because some people won't buy it, just because they realize they'll get the bonus of having it for free anyways, so including the source sdk in the free version would make buying prime worthless.

I wanted to make a TTT map recently but don't own CS source, so I can't make it. It goes on a 90% off sale every now and again, so I don't really want to buy it now when it's $10. I have the hammer editor for buying other Valve games, HL2 and what not. So I could build my levels but probably wouldn't be able to share them with others. I just wanted to make a map to play some TTT with my friends.

I emailed valve about this a few weeks ago, was verysad to hear it wasnt included in the free liscence.

The weirdest part is that Hammer is already available for free from the Alien Swarm and Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop authoring tools.

It’s not like I don’t have the money, but I really don’t see a reason to keep it behind a pay wall... Imo you should unlock the hammer editor with reaching prime...

I've just recently started mapping and its been loads of fun! Your tutorials are really a really good starting point too. Made an inferno themed 1v1 map :P

what's the maze map called the one u have to reach down for the weapons

I just want for Source 2 to be free. I don't expect it would be as popular as Unity or Unreal, but it would be nice for people to work on it. Maybe have it with a port of HL2 as a base, hm?

Hehe! I used the original WH to make maps for my clan. One of the more interesting was a glass map where if you shot the wrong direction you could fall to your death.

I wouldn't even be upset if they discounted the prime membership during things like the summer sale

Considering the state of everything I really don't have 15€ to spare, but making maps always seemed fun, gonna fuck around with it as I can

Great video bro!!

It’s 2:19 AM and I’m watching this Quarantine’s doing great for me :)

You can still use the SDK if you have the files to it, even without paying for CS

i think they sould add the building thing to the free to play becouse i started to play it for free to try it and then got the lv 21 free prime and now its a waste of money i think to just get the map creater

It surprises me that the game would be made free to open it up to a larger crowd but the platform to allow people to create for the game is not, I figured they would leave all avenues open to make players more susceptible to being enthralled and less likely to depart from the game.