Bloom Mod is a good example of what happens when VAC gets out of control: http://www.madabouthats.org/projects/cgshader
Several dozen of our MSC players downloaded this mod. Its not a cheat, obviously, it just supplies bloom effects for GoldSrc games - however, VAC detects it as a cheat, as it changes the client rendering engine. It resulted in the VAC ban of so many of our players that we now recommend to our server hosts not to run VAC (It doesn't do much good for MSC, as it's basically a coop game, and the only good cheats for it, VAC does not yet detect.) You will note that most MSC servers do not run VAC. (You'll also note, there is now a VAC warning on the Bloom Mod site.) We've been trying to get in contact with MadAboutThats in hope that he will give us some clues as to how to integrate his Bloom Mod into the game DLL itself in hopes that this will bypass the VAC issue, but we aren't entirely sure if it is even possible. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
