Comments - Pitulon

Ill take a look to this and update the tutorial. It has to be a way to make it work.
Pit

@ antonphd
please e-mail me with your mod's file, excluding the map files or video or textures or sounds, and we'll fix this!

* for other ppl havin issues: PLEASE e-mail me (c_petrut @ yahoo.com), rather than posting here, for further support! This way is more faster for me to help you fix the problems. Thanks.

we'll fix this. continue via email ;)

yes, you can use a image converter/editor, like adobe photoshop, pls google for it

@ StigGoldenbullet
in the tut i said to IGNORE those files (or in any case to delete), so you can ignore them with no problem. dont do something drastic like "deleting" if you are unsure. about creating .cfg files, u simply create a .txt (or any format) and change the extension to a .cfg (and open it with Notepad) ;) as for the icon size and format, ya have to use a photo editing software, i use Adobe Photoshop.
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@ somoza
no problemo!
very good job! :thumbup:

@ SecretSecretary
the file is still up.. :|
if yer still gettin' server down, try Nemesis.thewavelength.net
or
Rapidshare.com
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@ -Dan911

pls e-mail me your problem

@ Hades_9966
Do u use another text editor instead of the default Notepad? if yes, DONT!
pls e-mail me and explain exactly w0t are the errors.

I've updated the Tutorial with new features. Check for *UPDATED lines

Hi there.
There are a few steps to display a custom Chapter title. Note that you DONT need to edit no other file before that, just as i discribe, right away after Steam created a fresh directory with the needed base files (open Steam, open Sorce SDK, Create a mod, Modify Half-Life 2 Single Player)

1. go inside freshly created test folder inside \SourceMods dir
2. create a \cfg dir (lets say u have only one chapter) and a file chapter1.cfg
3. in the chapter1.cfg u write:
map test
lets say, which is your starting chapter-map
4. in the \resource dir first u find a hl2_english.txt. Rename it in test_english.txt, (**** the other hl2_french, portughese, chinese and the other shitless files, they dont count)
5. inside it find and replace HL2_Chapter1_Title with:

"test_Chapter1_Title" "T E S T"

thats it m8.This is ALL that hl2 needs to rename your chapter. No other editing is needed.
IT SHOULD WORK!
PS: you will ALWAYS get the #MyMod_ChapterX_title **** when you DONT rename the hl2_english.txt from \resource and also if u DONT rename "HL2_Chapter1_Title" inside the hl2_english.txt with the NAME of the directory where u have your mod.
e-mail me to keep me posted

@ Keliah:
If u followed the steps exactly your custom intro vid should start :confused: I used to have the same problem in the past, but it didnt worked out because it was into the main HL2 folder. It seams that the customized folder that u create for your custom mod (with all the files into it needed to run), allows the custom video to start up. Maybe, a hint, try to rename your video as the one from VALVe, or HL2.avi (for me it works fine with HL2.avi file name) and replace the old name with this one (HL2.avi or maybe u can try with the one that VALVe created, dont remember now the exact name) into the <StartupVids.txt> from the <....\YourSPmod\media> folder (into your customized MOD folder, ofcourse 8) ). Hope this will help, but still its no such a important hint :P

@ Flavored-Pills:
Have no ideea what it could be the problem there. Maybe the .bsp file is scripted from the Hammer editor and the customization of your mod needs more coding. If u can send me something, so i can test it... if u can, the starting .bsp would be great, and i think i can help u!

I guarantee for everybody that EVERY STEP in this tutorial is tested and RE-tested for bugs. Till now the tutorial works from start to finish with no bugs.

Thanx a lot for feedback.
Please feel free to e-mail me @

c_petrut@rdslink.ro

for bugs, problems or improvements to this tut and i will answer a.s.a.p. and try to give u a hand :)
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