Custom Steam Background Map Created 16 years ago2007-07-17 15:59:49 UTC by The Mad Carrot

(Menu Font issue fixed)

I also an issue with a 3D background map. I created a simple box, just for testing, added a point_viewcontrol, info_target and an OnMapSpawn trigger with the Enable input for the point_viewcontrol, fired from a logic_auto.
But after the Valve intro movie, the game crashes with a memory could not be read error. I did everything that was said here: http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Menu_Background_Map#Testing_chapterbackgrounds.txt

Fucking menu's! :@

You have to go in and change the font. Half-Life 2 runs it's title with the Half-Life 2 font. Therefore it only has the letters necessary to spell Half-Life 2....

Edit: Simply enough, I imagine (supposing this is a custom mod) going in and taking your desired font and giving it the name of the half-life 2 font there, it should work... =)

Ok. I went to my WINDOWS/fonts folder and copied arial.ttf to my modfolder/resource folder and renamed it halflife2.ttf. That works!

Now for a background map, it still crashes on load...

i happen to have made a very basic background map. i'll upload it for you.
to test it type map_background <map> or whatever. you gotta compile first
else just steal the entities

http://www.users.on.net/~imperialcarp/background02.rar

Great!
Ill check it out now.

Edit: nope, we both have the exact same entities (only different names) but your map crashes as well.

Wtf?

D:

FFS! What is this bullshit!

Edit: IT WORKS! That stupid "create a mod" wizard copied borked client and server dll's into by bin folder. I removed those and copied the client and server dll's from the original hl2/bin folder into my bin folder. That did it!

Well put it this way. Every background map so far has crashed...So the map isn't the problem.

So what is there left? The mod I suppose so maybe you didn't make it properly.

haha.

Hoozah although my reply was very slow I was right. I'm gonna print screen this into my folder of random stuff

All maps were crashing when i tried to load them in my mod. Those dlls were borked.