Strata Source Wiki

Welcome to the Strata Source wiki! This wiki contains documentation that is common to all Strata Source-based games.

The markdown sources of the wiki are located here: https://github.com/StrataSource/Wiki

If you’d like to contribute, see the Contributing section of this document for more information.

Features

Strata Source started development in mid-2020 as a fork of CSGO’s engine branch with Portal 2 features ported over. Since its inception, many features, fixes and other improvements have been made to Strata Source, including:

• Native DirectX 11 renderer
• Panorama UI
• DXVK support on Linux for DirectX 11
• 64-bit support (32-bit support has been completely dropped)
• Expanded map limits (128k x 128k x 128k) and increased entity cap via BSPv25
• PBR shading
• CSM (Originally from CSGO)
• Backwards compatibility with BSP v19-21
• Backwards compatibiltiy with TF2/HL2/L4D1/ASW branch models
• webm video support, replacing older Bink videos
• Many improvements to Linux support
• Fully cross platform engine tools and utils
• Steam Audio for HRTF and basic occlusion
• MP3, OGG and FLAC support
• Support for Portals and paint even in non-Portal based mods
• VTF v7.6 with lossless DEFLATE compression support
• Many improvements to the Hammer level editor
• Many code quality improvements (Refactors, cleanup and C++23)
• Sentry crash report integration
• ImGui support in-game for tools (vprof, fogui, etc.)
• And much much more!

Projects Using Strata

Right now, the following games are using Strata:

• Momentum Mod
• Portal 2: Community Edition
• Portal: Revolution

Contributing

Anyone can contribute to the wiki. Just fork the repo, commit your changes and open a pull request. Make sure to use appropriate language, and be willing to take feedback on your PR.

Guidelines

Pull requests are thoroughly reviewed before being accepted. All contributions must adhere to these guidelines

Pages have to

• be related to Strata Source
• not be a duplicate of an existing page
• contain formal, passive language (No I think or Next you go to)

Please do

• embed images or videos that showcase what is being explained
• add links wherever possible
• use proper, rich markdown styling

Please don’t

• create pages for general Hammer Editor tutorials
• advertise
• add malicious links or (any) downloads

Images and other media

Images should be kept in this git repository, as this helps versioning and it ensures the images will always be available.