Hi,
I'm trying to get GCFs to mount per map so that users of Shadow Source (
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Shadowsource) can set their map to
use specific content (hl2, ep1 and ep2 respectively). I think most of my
troubles are down to not being able to UnMount a specified AppID. I have
implemented an (almost fully) working piece of code which dynamically mounts
and unmounts, but it still gets confused from time to time. A good example
is that it may fail a vertex check on the grenade,pistol and shotgun meaning
the models dont get loaded, or particles aren't found such as the one for
grenade_spit or that alyx_episodic on ep2_outland_02 isn't laying down (she
is sometimes) but standing t-posed because it cant find the sequence.
Now to explain, in ShadowSource 1.5, the mounts worked as this tutorial
describes:
http://www.hl2world.com/bbs/mounting-additional-gcfs-vt47500.html
That, in conjuction with the following search paths for the gameinfo.txt:
SearchPaths
{
Game |gameinfo_path|.
Game |all_source_engine_paths|ep2
Game |all_source_engine_paths|hl2
}
allowed the three games to co-exsist up to a point. Most maps would run, but
there would be some things missing usually critical to the game (a good
example is Alyx bending over you and saying "Dr. Freeman I presume?" in
d1_trainstation_04).
Now I've kept that code in use for the game starting up (as in clicking the
shortcut to launch) because it allows the game to display all the hl2,ep1
and ep2 maps within the console. It also came in very handy as I'm now about
to explain.
After many hunts on google etc to find how to unmount gcf I stumbled accross
a line of code "PrintSearchPaths", knowing that the old addmount code from
1.5 worked well for getting the game to function, I printed out the paths
into the console, and set the addsearchpaths/mount code to match it. This
worked well (though I have tweaked it slightly from the default, but the
same errors occur anyway), Alyx now bends over you in the trainstation map,
but as mentioned it gets confused, loses models (randomly, sometimes it
doesnt have vertex errors) and so on.
Therefore I'm wondering if anyone could give me some advice on how to fix
these problems. You can view the code at:
http://pastebin.com/fa140b9b
and that's part of gameinterface.cpp in the src>server folder.
The gameinfo.txt search paths are the same as they were for the addmount.txt
code. The reason it only mounts ep2 and hl2 is things seem to get worse the
more search paths (such as hl2mp and episodic) I add to the gameinfo.txt.
Any help would be appreciated as I feel I've almost cracked it, but I'm
still not quite there just yet.
Chief.
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