Colour Mod and Slomo Created 18 years ago2006-01-20 11:29:01 UTC by Strider

Does anyone know where i can find tutorials on how to use the colour mod (like when the game first starts, but whatever colours i want) and the Game-speed modifier thingy to make it go in slomo or fastforward? I'm hopless at doing the niggly bits in source. Any help would be much appreciated, ta.

Requires coding for the slow mo aka .cfg...
You can edit the vmf I believe but check on wiki.

Colour mod is probably a shader call, but it has to be instanced from the code, ie garrymod's implementation.

Speed modifiers can probably be done with cl_ or sv_ commands.

you can control the slomo from a function within hammer im pretty sure, alot of source mods use it, aswell as the colour mod thingy, ill check Wiki again but i dont think it was very helpful last time i checked

right ive got the slomo part sorted, the console command is host_timescale and you can trigger it in-game through a point_clientcommand and YAY! Slomo! But im still trying to work on the colour thingy, does anyone know how valve triggered it for the start sequence, that could help me understand it a bit more.

EDIT: i know now you can do black and white with mat_yuv i think it is, but writing my own colour thingy like valve did fir the intro is my main concern now so if anyone knows - please help

Decompile the train travel map.

Yeah ill take a look once hl has update, doesnt it come with the sdk anyway as an example map?

No need to decompile it cause Valve gave it away in the sdkcontent/hl2/maps folder.

They used overlays and cameras.

How?
Tell me cuz I also wonder!
And I'm no good at figguring out entity setups by just seing the entities so how did they set it up?

so that screen overlay effect uses what?... Material shaders to create those weird colour effects? i looked at that map and theres a million entities all over the start area controlling the sequence - i got bloody confused!

Hm I forgot but something like an animated env_overlay triggered on.

yeah ive experimented with that before, just had that jelly-like texture overlayed onto the screen, i cant seem to find anything to do with colour alteration but i shall delve deeper...