By Onemanshow. NOTE: Only use the patches with the mod it was made for (like installing the SMOD Redux patch into your SMOD: Tactical install). Otherwise you can end up with bugs/problems.
To install a patch, extract the archive into the respective mod's folder and MAKE SURE YOU RESTART STEAM BEFORE PLAYING!. Otherwise it will not apply the changes!. DO NOT install these patches into your half-life 2 folder. Only your SMOD, Tactical or Redux folder.
As a side note, these patches make SMOD run on the Source SDK Base engine. Make sure you have it installed before playing.
SMOD broken by latest HL2 update. (UPDATED. PATCHES RELEASED)
UPDATE 5/27:
Valve updated a handful of maps with HDR support. Unfortunately SMOD has no support for HDR entities outside of its fake tonemapping. So you'll have broken lighting in any of those maps. The patches below do not fix this problem as i can't include the pre-update maps in a release due to possible legal issues. But if you have GCFScape (google it if you don't) you can extract the pre-update maps from your "half-life 2 content.gcf" into your SMOD install folder, fixing this problem.
ORIGINAL POST:
Valve released an update for Half-Life 2 earlier today that, among other changes, made it use the Orange Box (Episode 2) engine. However thanks to the changes of this update SMOD and several sub-mods of it, including Tactical and Redux, have been rendered broken and unplayable. Because i do not have the source code to SMOD, this issue is proving difficult to properly address.
I am waiting for Valve or possibly The SMOD Author himself to release an update that will officially fix this. In the meantime i have made fixes below that will allow you to run the appropriate mods without crashing.
PATCHES:
NOTE: Only use the patches with the mod it was made for (like installing the SMOD Redux patch into your SMOD: Tactical install). Otherwise you can end up with bugs/problems.
To install a patch, extract the archive into the respective mod's folder and MAKE SURE YOU RESTART STEAM BEFORE PLAYING!. Otherwise it will not apply the changes!. DO NOT install these patches into your half-life 2 folder. Only your SMOD, Tactical or Redux folder.
As a side note, these patches make SMOD run on the Source SDK Base engine. Make sure you have it installed before playing.
SMOD: Tactical Delta 5.56 Patch:
DOWNLOAD HERE
SMOD 40a Patch:
DOWNLOAD HERE
SMOD Redux Version 8 Patch:
DOWNLOAD HERE
Stay tuned.
Last edited by Onemanshow (2010-05-31 16:53:56)
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Well, this update certainly came out of nowhere. Glad to have a fix, though!
i cant start a new game
hl2 Beta multiplayer?
Installing smod tactical again since the original version went under. Hoping it installs right and works cause i missssssssss this mod! I miss the set up stage more then anything.
I'm missing models and textures for frag grenades dude.
Yeh me too.
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SO who the hell knows how to start a new game? every tutorial is 100% useless and moronic. There are zero clear instructions on how to get this working, if the game was updated to vpk files, and it hooks or whatever onto gcf or whatever it is, why isnt it updated? II have read the creator has no access to the new source code so, what is going on?
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I'm missing frag grenade textures. Just pink checkers.
I also have only this problem too :\