Making a mod problem Created 16 years ago2008-03-24 20:16:04 UTC by LCP

First of all i am a complete NOOB of mod making never done it before, but i really wanted to participate in the competition. Ok i used the "make a mod" tool of the sdk to make a mod. I just compiled my map to see it work and every time i run the mod from steam it crashes at the start up screen with an engine error. The map is in the right folder and everything, and i didn't even touch the code/models of HL2. Is the Map the only thing I have to compile or do i have to do anything else after/before compiling the map?

Thanks in advance
-LCP

Is the mod for Episode Two? If so, there's been some problems with that. Does the engine error say something along the lines of "Cannot load client library"?

I did it too and it crashed. It was for ep2

All I know so far is that for some reason Episode Two mods reference the SDK base instead of Episode Two, and so they can't find the files necessary.

A somewhat temporary fix at the moment is to copy the .dll's from the Episode Two folder to your mods BIN folder (they might already be there, though). Also, open the mod's gameinfo.txt and change the references at the bottom from the SDK Base to Episode Two and the Appid from the SDK base (420 I think) to Episode Two (215.. I think again).

It's not proper, but it gets the mod working. I don't think Valve have release a proper fix yet, and If there's one thing we all know, it won't be for some time. It also sometimes frigs up Hammer for your mod, so just build it in Episode Two, then copy the files over when it's done.

"Cannot load client library"
Yes that error

ohh thanks i will test it out as soon as possible thanks for the help :).

Not working for me i might have to submit it as a map