Juim has informed me that he cannot get Gmdm2 to work with Steam.  The reason is that the mod. that it comes with, "The Weapons Patch", does not seem to be accessible when installed under Steam.

Has anyone who's downloaded Gmdm2 beta1 managed to run it with Steam?  Has anyone else had a problem?

In either case, did you install Gmdm2 after Steam or before it?

I cannot yet test this myself, since I must finish mapping before I risk installing Steam.

I am an idiot: aparently.

<KoRnFlakes^> is it steamapps/mail@mail/ts/ts/
<KoRnFlakes^> or
<KoRnFlakes^> is it steamapps/mail@mail/ts/
<azelito> steamapps/mail@mail/half-life/ts

so your mod =

steamapps/mail@mail/half-life/yourmod/

Heres the problem I have with WP and steam. Yes, I put it in the correct folder and yes, it shows up under 3rd party mods. However, when I click on weapons patch in the third party mods section, the standard HL splash screen shows up(or of late, nothing at all happens,prolly due to recent patches) and theres no hint of anything weapons patch related, nor is there an activate custom game option on the new splash page. I have yet to be able to see the map as I went totally steam asap. I am pretty sure that WP will have to undergo a complete overhaul to be steam friendly. There is also the possibility that I have overlooked something completely obvious. If this is true, please let me know what that is.

Juim

I have been toying with it and still no luck ,heres what I have:

C:/Program files/Steam/Steamapps/Email/Half-Life/Weaponspatch2.2

This allows the game to be shown in third party mods.

Inside the weapons folder there are:

cl_dlls                               dlls

logos                                maps(which btw is empty)

save                                 cfg

liblist.gam                          pako.pak

voiceban.dt

I also tried copying the weapons folder to the e-mail folder and no luck. Even when the HL splash page comes up and I try to create server, the only option I get is random maps. Gmdm2 is not an option. So I let it generate a random map and tried changelevel gmdm2, then crashy-poo!

I hope this helps you figger it out Gollum. I sure would love to look around that map. If worse comes to worse, you could port it over to HL2 (whenever that year is that they release it now due to certain recent events at valve). I'm sure the new engine could handle it.

Note: I notice that each authorized val;ve mod has a file called ".gcf" in the steamapps folder. Perhaps this needs to be incorporated into the WP dll????(Who knows?)

Good Luck,

Juim

afaik m8, People have tried putting the blue shift upgrade packs in with steam with no luck & they are filed in .pak's

try it unpacked tbh.

Right, sounds like PAK files are the thing.  Still, I won't know until I try.

Time to get blown off by Steam   Wish me luck, guys.