The I&B ministry has, under its Film in India initiative, set up a Film Facilitation Office (FFO) at National Film Development Corporation (NFDC), which is mandated to promote and position India as a preferred destination for filmmakers across the world. This should be a two-pronged approach, one at the policy level, and the other with a promotional effort.” However, we acknowledge that there are several bottlenecks and there needs to be a concerted push. Highlighting the potential of film tourism, he said: “India’s varied landscape, seasons, colours, wildlife and more importantly, our culture and heritage make the country an ideal location for film shoots. This office can coordinate with various departments and institutions and get the permissions processed on time, while also having the authority to intervene and sort out issues at the local level wherever required, he added. This is required since most of the issues regarding approvals are localised and within the purview of the state governments, he said. States should, he said, consider establishing a film promotion office, preferably in the chief minister’s office for timely shooting permissions. The ministry of tourism recognises such efforts through the national tourism award given each year under the category ‘most film tourism-friendly state’.” And it’s about to get even better.Also Read | I&B Ministry issues advisory to TV channels to air messages for Covid-appropriate behaviourĪrvind Singh, tourism ministry secretary, said: “The federal system of our governance makes such (film) incentives mostly a state subject and there are many states which actively encourage film tourism and are quite successful in this regard.

' We don’t like to brag, but Source is considered the most flexible, comprehensive, and powerful game development environment out there. The last suggestion we have of Source 2 may be from Valve itself. ' Alyx' likely refers to Alyx Vance, an NPC in Half-Life 2 who is portrayed as a close friend of Gordon Freeman, the primary protagonist. Some believe it is evidence of Half-Life 3 - a new, third episode of the franchise. SomePropPath = content() / ' ep3/models/characters/alyx/maya/alyx_model.ma'Īside from the mention of ' Source 2' in the above snippet of code, the inclusion of ' ep3' and ' Alyx' in a single line is of particular interest. Returns a Path instance representing the %VCONTENT% path - path construction this way is super easy: It was contained within a separate file of the SFM SDK as well: Line 49: This also follows yesterday's discovery by a developer who stumbled across a line of this conscpicuously suggestive code. Alternatively, readers may view a copy of it on Pastebin here. SourceFilmmaker/game/sdktools/python/global/lib/site-packages/vproj/vproj.py'.

The file which contained this juicy tidbit, vproj.py, can be found in SFM's SDK tools, '.

Models for source filmmaker