SourceMod Open Sourced, Team Additions

BAILOPAN · **Author**

SourceMod is now running on almost 700 servers, and we're getting ever-closer to a feature-stable release. In order to help developers, we've decided to open-source SourceMod's Core! This was a big decision, but we feel that as more and more dedicated coders jump on board, the community will benefit from being able to interpret, debug, and learn from SourceMod's internals.

The source code (all 50,000+ lines), as well as its new GPL v3 License, can be grabbed from the downloads page.

Additionally, we have two new developers on board, and we'd like to introduce them by going over some of the major new features added in the past two weeks:

More Plugins!
Ferret has begun to officially import his popular administration plugins to SourceMod -- starting with admin chat functions and chat triggers.

Voice Functions
teame06, author of GunGame:SM, has imported his "voicemanager" extension into SDKTools. It is a very flexible system for controlling who-hears-who in mic chat.

SQLite
SourceMod now has an SQLite driver available alongside MySQL. Click here to read about specifics.

CGlobalEntityList
You can now make "gEntList" calls via SDKCall(), and FindEntityByClassname() is provided as a default.

Menu Sounds
We've added Mani's familiar menu sounds to SourceMod. Update core.cfg to get them.

As always, a big thanks to the SourceMod Development Team for their continued contributions. Enjoy!

teame06 · 08-01-2007 , 04:53 Re: SourceMod Open Sourced, Team Additions

nice, RUu!

Rebell · 08-01-2007 , 07:47 Re: SourceMod Open Sourced, Team Additions

Open source makes it better and bigger.

Good news i think

^BuGs^ · 08-01-2007 , 10:00 Re: SourceMod Open Sourced, Team Additions

Nice.

API · 08-01-2007 , 11:24 Re: SourceMod Open Sourced, Team Additions

Woohoo :]
Great job everyone.

dubbeh · 08-01-2007 , 11:30 Re: SourceMod Open Sourced, Team Additions

Nice

WP everyone, this can only mean better things for sourcemod

Hell Phoenix · 08-01-2007 , 12:06 Re: SourceMod Open Sourced, Team Additions

Very nice!

imported_Anth0ny · 08-01-2007 , 12:35 Re: SourceMod Open Sourced, Team Additions

Great news & VERY nice work! =)
thanks!

donaldl43 · 08-04-2007 , 20:21 Re: SourceMod Open Sourced, Team Additions

Open source is nice but I would be afraid you'll start having multiple flavors of the plugin. That could break scripts as coders make their own version of SM because they need a certain tweak.

BAILOPAN · *Last edited by BAILOPAN; 08-04-2007 at 21:39.*

donaldl43: We were initially worried about that, but we've calculated that a fork is both infeasible and unlikely (because of the JIT). Additionally, forking a project means gaining enough popularity to shift the responsibility of backwards compatibility. When we started AMX Mod X as a fork (that is our other flagship project), it took us two years to make that shift -- and we still maintain backwards compatibility to the previous project so users can switch. Forking is a huge amount of work to be successful.

Additionally, from our 3 years of experience with Half-Life 1, no one ever distributed third-party versions of Admin-Mod, AMX Mod, or AMX Mod X. There are two reasons for that:

You can write C++ extensions (both SourceMod and AMX Mod X have this feature)
The best place to get your plugin noticed is the community it's built on

We're honestly more concerned about people taking our GPL'd code and violating the license, which happened a few times in AMX Mod X ;) (a few schmucks unfortunately think it's cool to harm our good intentions, but we're not going to let that stop us from helping the community).