[hlcoders] Working Around the Latest Goldsrc (Half-Life) Changes

2013-02-18 Thread Saint Thoth (hotmail)
Seems that Valve thought it might be fun to move the Half-Life installation folder from user/half-life to common/half-life, thus breaking every self installer ever. In addition, something about the new DLL's or folder priorities seems to break mouse functionality for most users. Was wondering

Re: [hlcoders] Working Around the Latest Goldsrc (Half-Life) Changes

2013-02-18 Thread James Marchant
If you're getting the VGUI camera lock after exiting a fullscreen VGUI panel, you can do various things such as type centerview in the console. I guess if your mod is VGUI heavy you'll have to record the user's view angles on the client and set them back after closing the VGUI as a hacky

Re: [hlcoders] Working Around the Latest Goldsrc (Half-Life) Changes

2013-02-18 Thread Alfred Reynolds
You should be using the HKCU\Software\Valve\Steam\ModInstallPath registry key to locate the correct folder for a mod install (this has been true for years now), that key points to the correct location after the recent move. From: hlcoders-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com