The Steam Review

One interesting way to leverage the power of Steam is with resource packs: content hosted on the Steam servers but only downloaded on request, for instance when the user loads a map that needs it. This document outlines both the concept of resource packs, and the theoretical idea of sharing resources between games (thus allowing map makers to build Team Fortress 2 maps using Counter-Strike: Source props, for example).

resource_packs.doc (34KB)