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Re: FIRST FRC Game Simulator for the HL2 Engine

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Originally Posted by cbale2000 View Post
It is fully compatible with online mode on Steam.
With the advanced physics and great graphics, HL2 could make for a highly realistic simulation of FIRST games.

Sounds like the HL2 FIRST mod will be a veritable playground of fun! Perfect for testing of mechanisms and ideas during build phases. I can see this effort being a great way to bring others in the gaming community to see the fun of FIRST.


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IThe coding would also be converted to C (or it might be C+, haven't read the documentation in a while) to allow for this.
Ahh, so your senior project will be purely written in Garry's mod scripts? That's one powerful mod, to allow all of that just in scripts!
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