Steam tutorial Created 20 years ago2004-10-25 09:20:11 UTC by Seventh-Monkey

Would much appreciate a Steamophile having a look at this tutorial. Well, anyone look, comments very welcome.

I always used /email/counter-strike for my Game Directory, in fact I've been told that/seen it in use many times, just wondering why you chose valve?

Apart from taht dude, it's a great tutorial, to the point and accurate ( ), with some good picture references, but seing as I've done it before I can't make an accurate judgement, it all makes sense to me, y'see, need to get a total newbie to have a bash.

But yes, it makes sense. Which, I think, is important for a tutorial..

Well, gamedirvalve was the Game Directory for WON-based games, and works for me

I'm not sure quite what Hammer uses that for anyway, if it does at all.

Yeah, I think that's an important thing to rememebr, Hammer doesn't need to use alot of things, it does however need to know the mod dir for models/sounds etc.

But liek I said, on the whole it's a nicely written tutorial; and it looks to be very informative. I can't see anything I'd ask you to change, not even that game dir, because it doesn't seem to have much if any effect.
The acid test is to see if a newb can set up Hammer using it.
Judging by the amount of people who actually read teh tutorials, it will probably be the non-newbs who get more from it than the newbies, heh

Y = ?

Is that supposed to be a grammar correction? Piss off. Check the International book on correct expressions and you'll find that I was right.

Seems good, I like the Subst part especially, since that's a very helpful option for Steam and it seems like noone can understand it when I explain it

Oh, but how about how to write a subst batch file to make the computer setup a virtual drive every time you start up your computer? 'might be good to have.

Yeah, I was undecided on that since it's drifting away from mapping, but hey, I'll add it

Yours was the comment I was waiting for primarily after PaLO, heh, since you were such Steam lovers. I'll put it gold today.

I despise the infidels who are still using WON!

For game executable under "Build Options" put:

C:Program FilesSteamSteam.exe

then when you compile it, for the $game_exe parameters put:

+map $file -applaunch 10 -dev -console +deathmatch 1

in this case it launches counter strike with your map. For other programs:

Team Fortress: -applaunch 20
DOD: -applaunch 30
Half-Life: -applaunch 70
Ricochet: -applaunch 60