Shellchrome.spr not found Created 19 years ago2005-05-15 08:23:50 UTC by rowleybob

K. I was cleaning up meh HL 1.5 folders a little--deleting old maps, sprites, models etc...--and was unpleasently surprised to find my HL wouldn't run any longer. It would simply say something like:

ModNum...spritesshellchrome.spr not found

and then take a crap back to windows xp. I've recently learned this is from the TFC .pak file and not from the original HL. I copy/pasted it back into my valvEsprites directory and everything works fine againe.

So my real question is, just what the frick is going on exactly?

I googled and only found some obscure German webpages--with very funny translations BTW--that basically said just run with the latest version of HL. The only thing else I could find was from our very own fourms which you can read here, which references some SprView bugs, but goes into no great detail.

Annoying, isn't it, finding us when you're looking for stuff?

HL 1.5? I'm guessing you mean WON HL. Does it happen with Steam?

No, I'm just curious why my WON HL won't run at all without that TFC sprite in the sprites folder.

JujitsuMan referenced SprView as the culprit somehow, but I can find no evidence of this. Anon and Steinin seemed to know what was going on--judging from the old thread--, but they don't hang around any longer TMK.

'Tis indeed pretty curious. Can't say I have a clue.