Observed arrival · 2026-10-17
Deadlock Playground: a Source 2 modding bench
An open-source tool for inspecting Deadlock assets, posing characters, painting textures, and packaging mods.
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- Deadlock players making and testing Source 2 mods
- Worth noticing
- It reads assets from the installed game's pak01_dir.vpk and says no copyrighted game files are distributed.
Field notes
The page says its asset browser reads .vmdl_c models, materials, textures, and animations from pak01_dir.vpk without extraction; the listed workflow includes GPU painting across UV seams and packaging mods into collision-free pak##_dir.vpk files under game/citadel/addons/. It identifies the release as v1.1.0-beta, links an open-source GitHub repository, and says users supply their own game files rather than receiving game assets from the project.
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