Sledgehammer.sh

A tiny script for GNU/Linux systems to automatically handle the installation and configuration of the Hammer++ Map Editor.

Mainly thought for ArchLinux+TF2 users such as myself, but contibutions and additions to make it work with as many games as possible is appreciated.

Configuration

To make this script as compatible with as many devices and configurations possible, we require a hammer.cfg file to be present in your XDG_CONFIG_HOME directory.

This file should contain the following:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# The shebang is present because this is actually
# a shell script to be sourced by the main script

function getSteamUser() {
    # This function should print out Your
    # Steam account's username.
    echo . . .
}

function getSteamPass() {
    # This function should print out Your
    # Steam account's password.
    echo . . .
}

function getSteamGuard() {
    # This function should print out Your
    # Steam account's Steam Guard code.
    echo . . .
}

function checkInstalled () {
    # This function should merely execute the package manager of choice,
    # Checking for installed packages.
    pacman -Q "$1"
}

function getPackage() {
    # This is a bit more important than the rest.
    # This handles the installation of dependencies needed by the script.
    # Handle this carefully.
}

Features

Manage multiple hammer++ installs

verify this works as expected

[#B] AUR package?

Would be cool to have this on the AUR.

[#A] make config file if not present

To ease initial setup, error out on first use and generate config file, so people can more easily base themselves off the preexisting cfg and make their own

[#A] try to get run map to work (./hammerd.sh)

I need to develop a proper way to look at processes and windows spawned by Hammer++

This is especially difficult since the program is run through wine.

I’ve tried observing hammerplusplus.exe, conhost, wine, nothing has worked properly so far.

[#B] finish distrobox support

This would help make things a bit more straight-foward for end users

[#C] support Puddy’s pack

Puddy’s pack is an incredible collection of useful additions to the tf2 vmt, we need to develop a package-manager-like system that is able to download and dynamically manage these kinds of additions.

This system should also not be limited to TF2

[#C] support CS2/Source2?

Need to look more into this. It would be pretty cool to have this become a comprehensive tool for management of S/S2 engine games.

envyniv / sledgehammersh