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Posted by Zein on Wed Jul 17th at 12:08pm 2013

Hey everyone, not sure if this is the right place to post it to but I am having trouble with my Source SDK.

I set my Source SDK's current game engine to Source Engine 2009, and HL2: Epi2 as the game. But when I run it I am missing gameinfo.txt in the specified folder. When I look into said folder there are only folders but no files! smiley

I am guessing with the recent update to most source games they moved them around. Anyone know where these files meandered too?

(No one uses emotes anymore smiley )

EDIT---
In a matter of seconds posting this I have found my answer.
The directory is as follows:
D:/Steam/steamapps/common/Half-Life 2/ep2

It seems when I add this to the config within the SDK, I get more errors. I will try downloading the newest SDK Base, 2013. I have 300kb/s DL so I will get back to you guys in a while smiley

EDIT---
Yeah I have no idea how to get Source SDK to work. I have tried to DL the most recent SDK Base but that did not work. Any suggestions?



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 Re: HL2: Episode 2 ||| All files missing
Posted by Zein on Sat Jul 20th at 5:09am 2013

Okay I think this deserves another post.

They recently updated most source games(games before CS:GO). They moved them into the common folder.

This: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SDK_Installation
Tells you most of the things about what is going on with the new 2013 engine.

To run Hammer for Epi2(and HL2, Epi1, Portal) find:
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D:/Steam/steamapps/common/Half-Life 2/bin

and run the Hammer.bat this will pop-up with a screen asking you what game you want to use hammer with, choose the one you want.

Sadly the awesome button "export to Maya" is still not here yet.

I will test more and report back.

Problems I am encountering:
The models textures in the 2D views are missing and for some reason do not show the wireframe like they use too, it is now a solid object.

My Skybox(that does not have a 3D skybox) is missing textures on the sides of the skybox, but not the top and bottom. In the hammer compiler it does not give an error.

Edit---
I have found this article on interlopers, but I opted into the steampipe beta and it is not fixing my problems. If anyone else can help that would be great.
http://www.interlopers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=37119



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 Re: HL2: Episode 2 ||| All files missing
Posted by fishy on Sun Jul 21st at 10:37pm 2013

iirc, the old missing gameinfo.txt problem happened when you tried to run hammer before you'd actually played the game after a fresh install.



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Posted by Zein on Mon Jul 22nd at 5:35pm 2013

Its not that I have a missing gameinfo.txt problem, it is the problems I stated in my most recent post:
Quoting Zein

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Problems I am encountering:
The models textures in the 2D views are missing and for some reason do not show the wireframe like they use too, it is now a solid object.

My Skybox(that does not have a 3D skybox) is missing textures on the sides of the skybox, but not the top and bottom. In the hammer compiler it does not give an error.

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 Re: HL2: Episode 2 ||| All files missing
Posted by fishy on Mon Jul 22nd at 7:16pm 2013

The reason I said "the OLD gameinfo.txt problem" is my knowledge of this stuff is at least 5 years out of date. smiley




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