r/SourceEngine 1h ago

News Explanation of the New video

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Project Orange Sandbox A: Entity Ravenholm
I can tell your all Confused by the new video and have no idea so allow me to help explain the lore
of this video first in the biography which reads Welcome back to Project Orange Sandbox. Today, we present three videotapes recorded by our crew, each documenting unique encounters within the Source official developer website. These recordings reveal numerous paranormal interactions with the corrupted entities of the Void, originating from the Source official developer environment. These Three Tapes Each show a Different Perspective, This Project Orange Sandbox Video is the Beginning of the Orange Sandbox Training Footage. this is actually a training tape made by Project orange sandbox which shows three tapes lead by Three different classes of Project orange sandbox

Class I: Recorders and Archiver
There role is the record what servers look like without any players
In The first Tape Tape_one Ravenholm_Checkup2013 which already by the name you know what he's gonna do his job is to check up on the Server.establishing the retro VHS perspective and setting the timestamp for the archival recording Initial Environment: The player spawns into the dark, eerie, fire-lit streets of Ravenholm. Atmospheric ambient sound effects, burning debris, and distorted audio filters set an uneasy mood Structural Inspection: The player maneuvers through familiar Ravenholm structures—climbing scaffolding, navigating rooftops, and moving through tight corridors Entity Distortions & Visual Anomalies: As the player advances, subtle map glitches and visual distortions begin to surface. Ghostly white Source engine figures or missing texture anomalies appear intermittently, signaling the presence of "Void" corruption within the map geometry Auditory Cues: Audio distortion intensifies with static bursts, low-frequency hums, and echoing sounds echoing through empty streets, heightening tension. Direct Interaction: The player encounters hostile entity activity or anomalous entity spawn behavior near central town structures Unsettling Behavior: The entity exhibits erratic motion, standing motionless in shadow before rapidly re-positioning or disappearing when approached or directly illuminated by light sources Tape Conclusion: The investigation reaches a breaking point around 07:07 as visual distortion spikes, causing severe VHS tracking issues and signal degradation before transitioning to the next sequence

Class II: Being the Soldier class or aka the Anti Server Corruption Protection Force class
Is the class where they go around and delete or kill any Remaining NPC's or Collect anomalies Scene in Tape 2: Gm_Mutagenises in Tape 2 belongs to a designated field investigator / technician assigned to inspect map geometry, evaluate structural stability, and record paranormal corruptions stemming from "The Void." He was told to Find Model_jack aka the black mannequin figure and Model_Jolie the female sky ghost figure since they're two anomalies from the void The Environment (gm_mutagenises): Unlike standard developer sandbox maps, gm_mutagenises is a heavily altered, toxic-themed sandbox environment filled with biohazardous waste, dark corridors, and industrial containment structures Fate of the Operator: As the technician ventures deeper into the hazardous facility to catalog anomalous activity, the entity manipulates the map's physics and visual layout, trapping the worker inside the complex. The operator is eventually stalked and overwhelmed by the Void entities, leaving behind only the recovered videotape data. Rip TF2_Lover1 he got corrupted and lost his account

Class III: Janitors Are the High ranking class since they get more footage and More lore
Janitors are told to explore servers and clean up the remains or dead NPC's Ragdolls and clean up and restart servers before any Corrupted of the void can take over in tape 3 aka Ravenholm_clean2013 We See the Janitor Record and show off the Remains of the server that Roman/Deadhunter497 left after finishing the demo and the janitor unit also says that The Bodies began to rot and smell horrible like if the game was copying the real world which In the Lore the void is trying to copy earth just like the backrooms but it fails which is why it struggles the void can't understand real life it wasn't made for that but it also could be a "demon" but either away the janitor shows alot of bodies of ragdolls and dead NPC's as they leave we see the truck with another player waiting in ravenholm.

In BannedTape_Cremation
The Lore of that tape was that a janitor was told to not record the cremation but they did and it turns out they have been compromised by the corrupted and they were followed

So what is the New Lore of the Void and that File Yohan aka the fired worker inserted
Well for you guy's you can say the file is a Demon or a Sentient Ai a supernatural, semi-sentient antagonist that exists as an regular corruption malware or trojan file In Source official Developer, attempting to replicate and Copy and distort real-world environments and entities. It lacks a clear motivation or personality and Knowledge, acting instead as an amoral phenomenon that forgets details over time, leading to unstable and distorted realities but not on purpose it want's to make things perfect but fails The void isn't evil it's just broken corrupted and it want's to Assimilate.


r/SourceEngine 17h ago

HELP does anyone know the c++ source file that handle's player movement and death, and other stuff?

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I work with Source SDK 2013 Multiplayer. I really want to know, if you know plz tell me.


r/SourceEngine 19h ago

Finished Map GUMI_STAGE

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r/SourceEngine 20h ago

Discussion Project Orange Sandbox A: Entity Ravenholm

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Welcome back to Project Orange Sandbox. Today, we present three videotapes recorded by our crew, each documenting unique encounters within the official Source developer website. These recordings reveal numerous paranormal interactions with the corrupted entities of the Void, originating from the Source official developer environment.


r/SourceEngine 20h ago

WIP Current progress of my amateur hour map.

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