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+ Source 2 Engine Features > Tools
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+ Source 2 comes with an integrated development enviornment (IDE), consisting of:
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+ Asset Browser, Level Editor, Material Editor, Model Editor, Particle Editor, and Film Maker.
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- Asset Browser 
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+ The Asset Browser allows quick searching, previewing, grouping, and managing assets.
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+ It also serves as the hub for development, launching the other tools either by their icon, or by double clicking an asset.
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+ Assets inside the browser can also be dragged into other tools (such as Hammer).
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- Hammer Editor 
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+ The Source 2 Level Editor (Hammer) is a revolutionary leap above even contemporary level editors.
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+ On top of the expected brush-based manipulation, you can edit individual faces, edges, and even verticies, making it a full model editor.
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+ The new primitive in S2 is the Mesh, a vertex-based system, allowing concave, and complex geometry to be authored by the level designer.
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+ Meshes can be exported for further editing in 3D applications, and then re-imported as DMX, OBJ, or FBX.
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+ Legacy Source VMFs can also be imported.
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- Material Editor 
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+ No more fiddling with text-based VMT files, slow material reloads, and trial & error debugging.
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+ S2 MET Supports realtime editing and previews, with in-editor texture importing.
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+ MET Also supports extensive dynamic functions, and the following image formats: PSD, TGA, TIF, PFM, MKS, PNG, JPG +
+- Model Editor 
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+ Model viewer, and editor. No more fiddling with QC files, this does it all.
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+ Used to configure hitboxes, collision, poses, weights, LODs, animations, constraints, attachments, and anything involving models.
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+ Model Importing supports the following formats: DMX, SMD, FBX, OBJ +
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- Filmmaker 
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+ The Filmmaker is used for rendering high-quality cinematics from in-engine.
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- VConsole2 
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+ Vastly improved over the simple in-engine console of yore. Using a networked API for engine communication it allows remote debugging.
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+ VC2 also features multi-tabbed displays for multitasking, extensive filtering, and verbosity control.
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- Modeldoc 
+ Notice: Unknown.
+- Snooper 
+ Notice: Unknown.
+- VMix 
+ Notice: Unknown.
+- Grapheditor 
+ Notice: Unknown.
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