First of all, I'd like to wish you a happy new year! Thank you for supporting the tool so far and I hope we are together next year, I have some stuff in the oven I'm sure you will like it.
This update has been focused on improving the asset packaging and the building generator.
There are the following new features:
C17 themed building template
Building templates have new floor customizations
Improved asset packaging interfaces
Some stuff were also fixed:
Fixed some compatible games not running Hammer++ (Thanks, @sammie_boy)
Fixed texture misalignment when origins are not in a 128x128 grid in Building Generator.
Building Generator
I'm sure you want the building generator working out of the box. That's why I've included some prefabs. But did you know you can also make your own templates? Check the scripts/building_generator/themes/ directory, and you will see the template files are in plain text and easy to create. The vmfs are located under prefabs/building_generator/.
How does it work? The templates are made of voxels. The tool understands as a voxel anything under a visgroup in the template vmf. Each voxel must have a info_landmark as an origin. The front of the building faces east in hammer. The visgroup names have the format NAME_DIRECTION, with direction being (ft, lf, rt, etc).
I'll publish a tutorial some day, but for now, if you are curious, you can check the examples and maybe make your own.
Asset packaging
VPKs have always been the terror of source modders, since you have to keep extracting assets, worry about content mounting, et cetera. I've improved the compiling/decompiling of packages, preparing for a future update that I'm gonna package your whole mod automatically, so it will be ready for publsihing.
Thank you all for supporting the development of this tool. Let me know your ideas of what should I work on for the next update.
The updates should be applied seamlessly. If not, or if you don't have the tool yet, you can download it here:https://modding-assets.net/items/source/tools/modding/xblah-modding-tool