Utilities

Name / Purpose	Rating		Engine
Gibbeds VPK Extractor + Fixed Version Extract the contents of VPK files
ToGL OpenGL wrapper for Direct3D
Source Icon Pack selection of icons for Valve filetypes making development on windows easier
Source Game Starter Makes starting Source based game server as easy as possible
Demo freak a tool for game replays recorded with Half-Life.
Vogl VOGL is a debugger for the OpenGL rendering API intended to be used in the development of video games
GMadConv simple command line program that converts v13 packed addons to v12
Demo.JS TF2 demo parsing in javascript
Nightfire Editor Suite 2 The second release of 007 Nightfire's PC modding tools originally released many years ago including Gearcraft, Model Compiler, Map Decompiler and more.
Alura & Zoe for Nightfire Tools which can decompress and compress Nightfire's .007 archives.
GUI Debug options for HL2DM Debug options for HL2 Deathmatch
Pakrat PakRat is a graphical replacement for the BSPZIP program
Blaster Source and GoldSrc Query Tool
VMF Picker Great little tool for adding VMF associations to specific Hammer Versions
Updated Half-Life Dlls This new render dll's support transparent models in many new MOD's.
Source Sauce Source Sauce is a replacement out-of-game utility for the in-game options menu of Source Games.
Steam File Manager Manages custom content for steam games
uSource Simple movie recording tool for Source Engine games
netdecode netdecode is a utility for parsing and analysing data within demo files produced by Valve's Source engine (only the Orange Box branch for now). This is primarily a tool for testing and reference. Poorly written in C#.
VoglPerf benchmarking tool for Linux OpenGL games
Steam Toolkit For working with the same data Steam relies on
Worldcraft Color Editor Edit the UI colors in Worldcraft
vdfplus vdfplus is a small library that aims to help with converting Valve's KeyValue format to JSON and vice versa.
Cue List Tool Create cues in WAV sound files
HL2 Utils An assortment of java programs for working with the source engine
TM GCF Extractor TM GCF Extractor
Mod Maker A collection of tools to help with modding
Animation timing tools Tools for aiding in the creation of animations for view player models
VPK tool (for OS X) Drop items (vpk you want to extract or folders you want to convert to vpk) onto the App Icon
Steam Condenser This Project aims to provide a parser which parses the log output of the goldsrc hlds engine (Counter-Strike, Half-Life, etc.). There is a parser written with ragel and one written by hand.
BZIP2 Compression tool used to create small files that can be transmitted by servers to gamers
vguilocalizationtool Valve Source Engine game language resource file localization tool
BZIP2 tool GUI frontend for BZIP2
BRET (Bsp REs Tool) Tool (Utility) for generating .res files for GoldSource .bsp engine maps
Custom SDK Launcher Free and open source SDK launcher for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and other source engine games
Half-Life Launch Pad Half-Life Launch Pad is an application to ease the process of loading mods and maps for Source and GoldSource.
Fixed Steam HD Pack for Half-Life High definition pack for Half-Life and Opposing Force
PSI hlds (goldsrc) logs parser written in C#
VconsoleLib A PoC library for working with the VConsole network protocol.
Sassilization Inline Patcher fixes 'bad inline model number #, worldmodel not yet setup' errors
NPP Valve Definition file Notepad++ syntax highlighting for Valve files
Source Project Cleaner Source Engine based Project Cleaner - Primarily for SDK 2013 to make certain files more Linux & Mac friendly.
SrcDemo2 Render smoother Source Engine videos, faster.
ResGuy Resguy is similar to RESgen and FLRGen, but can find all content that Sven Co-op maps are allowed to customize and only includes what is required
DuctTape A development integration and project building tool for Source Engine modders.
Half-Life Mod Folder Creation Tool (modtool) Automatically makes a blank mod!
PAK Explorer Pak Explorer is a tool to help view and edit the contents of Qukae II PAK files
HL2 Hud Editor An ambitious attempt at providing a WYSIWYG HUD editor for Source based games
Source Multi Tool Source Multi-Tool is meant as a replacement to Valves Source SDK Launcher
Captioneer With Captioneer you can easily create your own Closed Captions for Source-based Games, like for Team Fortress 2.
Ear Defender Silence unwanted and annoying game sounds. (Half-life goldscr engine)
Particle benchmark Benchmark which introduced some of the new and more advanced features of the Source engine and Valve's hybrid threading technology
Collective Valve ERC Entity Documentation Documentation for the goldsrc sdk entities
GCF Extractor extract gcfs
GMad Extractor simple command line program that converts v13 packed addons to v12
VIDE Valve Integrated Development Environment
Res Generator Generate RES files for your maps
Gelendra A half life dedicated server (goldsrc) management tool written in ruby
3DRipperDX Rip DirectX content from games
Source Engine Automatic Demo Saver (SEADS) Automatically saves demos recored in source engine games
Hl2 Model List Spreadsheet listing HL2 models
VDF Parsing library Valve Data File Parsing library.
hllib HLLib is a package library for Half-Life that abstracts several package formats
Custom Compiler GUI Allows users to change the settings for the compiler(s) they wish to run
Lawena Recording Tool Simple movie recording tool for Source Engine games
cf sdktools Here are compiled versions of some of the tools from the source sdk released on 12/1/2004.
CCConverter tool for converting closed-captions files for Source engine games
Phoneme Extractor Very useful tool when working with faceposer and creating dialog
HL Editing Lite Large collection of all the typical tools used in Modding
Gold Wave Sound editing tool, useful for looping by adding cues
OpenVR Valves VR toolkit for the HTC Vive
PakScape PakScape is a PAK and PK3 explorer/creator
Content Installer Multi game Content installer for some source games
Sourcemod Source Engine Scripting and Administration
Valve Icon Pack Collection of icons for valve games
HardOCP Benchmark Demo files to benchmark Half-Life 2
HL Mod Launcher Launch mods for Half-Life
Demo Cleaner Just extract this somewhere and drag your demo file onto it and it'll remove all the scoreboards and command menus from demos.
Source SDK Launcher for Portal Launches source sdk for Portal
FGD SublimeText Highlighter FGD highlighting for Sublime Text editor
Let's make a RES Make a .res file and populate a dir with all resources
Search Valve Wiki through Sublime Text Sublime Text filter system that searches the Valve wiki for the input text
QWERTY Hammer Kit This is an all-in-one kit that comes with both Hammer 3.4 and 3.5, Auto Seamer, Batch Compiler, BSP Viewer, BSP2MAP, Crafty, GCF Scape, Leak Marker, MAP Viewer, Model Viewer, PAK Explorer, Revolver, Sprite Explorer, Sprite Fixer, Sprite Viewer, Sprite Wizard, Terrain Generator, Texture Extractor, Valve Compile Tools, Wally, WinBSPC, and ZHLT.
WC Parser Parse Source SDK '.wc' files.
TGA Thumbnail Plugin (Thumbplug) Adds TGA Thumbnails in windows
Sublime-VDF-Languages Syntax highlighting for Valve formats in Sublime Text
WebGL Source Engine Renderer WebGL app that renders levels from the Source Engine, created against Team Fortress 2 resources. The Source Engine and anything related to it is the property of Valve Software, who does not authorize or endorse this project in any way.
HL2 Toolkit An assortment of java classes for working with the source engine
GOLDSRC2SOURCE - Map Fixer (v1.1.0) Tool for porting your GoldSource maps to Source. It features many fixes that will save hours of mindless work.
Steam Utils Miscellaneous programs which use Steam data
Map loader for hl2 You scan for the maps., Then select the map. There you go. Just right there at your desktop
Half-Life CGShader This is a pixel shader for bloom-like effects on any Half-Life engine game.
PackBSP PackBSP is a tool to help automatically manage and pack dependencies in custom maps for games
Demo File Renamer This tool was manly made to extract out the mapname of GoldSrc- and Source Engine demofiles and place it in the name of the demofile itself.
SRC Repair a free open source tool that can be used for tuning and cleaning up Steam and Source engine games.
Source VM This is a simple interpreter library for the Source Config.
VTF shell extensions Add thumbnail support for VTF files in windows
BSPIN Work-in-progress Linux tool for manipulating .bsp files (Used by Valve's Source Engine to store map data)
VGUI.JS Javascript parser for valve gui files -- ported from optf2's vgui.py
Nightfire Workshop Workshop tools for creating Nightfire content
FGD NPM Tool An NPM package for manipulating FGD (Forge Game Data) files.
VPK Context Menu This simple script in batch add a button in the windows context menu for create files in VPK format
Source Script This is a simple interpreter library for the Source Config.
Rufio's SDK GUI A GUI for both VTEX and studiomdl.
STEAM Source Mod Manager This tools manages your custom modifications for your Source based Steam games.
MAGX's Tools A collection of tools to help with modding
CTX Converter Ctx converter removes the hassle of having to type in correct cmd commands to decompile ctx files
KV File Generator (Online Tool) A utility that automatically generates a formatted .kv file based on your selection.
hlviewer.js HLViewer is a simple to use javascript library for viewing maps and playing replays of GoldSrc engine based games entirely in browser
ResGen RESGen. A tool to create .res files for Half-Life.
PiLauncher PiLauncher lists the mods installed on your favourite games to make them easy to launch
Error Checker Checks for errors in your map
OmniToolz OmniToolz is a tweaker made for all games out there!
GMOD LUA IDE Development environment for Garrys mod Lua files
Source360 A collection of tools and libraries for the Source Engine on the Xbox 360
sharpmod A metamod plugin that allows you to write server side plugins with C# on the GoldSrc engine
ATI hammer fix AMD dropped opengl support at one stage for their drivers and this helps rectify the issue
Source Shader Editor Create custom shaders for Source from a node based interface
AMXModX Half-Life 1 Scripting and Administration
VMPI by TopphattWaffle This is a set of scripts that make VMPI workers easier, vmpi is used for network distributed map compiling
FLRGen Alternative to Resgen, Download at own risk
HL Tools This is a C# library to manage GoldSrc specific files.
Custom Content Manager Manages custom content for source engine games
Source Icon Set Collection of simple icons for Source related content (This version is from Riintouge)
GCF Scape Defacto tool for extracting content from steam archives
Cached.wad and gfx.wad SDK WAD Compiler
Sourceless C# library for reading/parsing & writing demo files produced by GoldSource (HL1) and Source-engine (HL2) based games
VICE Vice is Valve's tool for ICE encryption, a trick used mainly to protect weapon script files from modification by server admins.
Wavosaur Tool to aid in the creation of WAV files
Source SDK Gadget Windows gadget for the source sdk
Half-life Advanced Effects (HLAE) a collection of tools to enrich GoldSrc
Game Extractor Extract content from game archive files
VGUI Localization Tool Easily recreate your gui elements in other languages
Source CMD Allows console commands to be sent to source-engine games (hl2.exe). Works with text-mode clients.

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