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Posted by GrimlocK on Sat Jul 17th at 4:43pm 2010

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Hi Everyone,
I haven't posted here in several years. I just recently started playing Half life 1 again. I'm interested in setting up a dedicated steam server to run several of my maps that I made in the past. First I would like to figure out how to get my non-steam content to work with Half Life on steam. I have installed steam and Half life 1 steam but don't see where I can dump my content files. I'm sure I need the SDK but I don't know which one to get, there seems to be several available on steam. Any help would be great, thanks.



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 Re: Tutorials on moving old Half life content to steam
Posted by Niborius on Sat Jul 17th at 5:48pm 2010

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Hey there,

I remember you very well, I wasn't a member of the snarkpit by the time you were an active member, but I always downloaded HL1 maps from this site and I think I saw your username a few times that way.

The HL1 folder you're looking for is located in C:/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/*username*/Half-Life

You don't need an SDK, just the Dedicated server tool.

Or are you talking about making maps?


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Posted by GrimlocK on Sat Jul 17th at 6:19pm 2010

I have made a few small maps recently to play here at the house on our LAN but I had installed pre steam half life. Now I'm interested in setting up a server to run my maps on steam but I can't seem to find the right information on how to convert my old material (or sort my old material to the correct locations) in order to run them on steam. I have found plenty of information on configuring hammer to build for steam so I don't think that will be an issue, just getting the old stuff to play right on steam. Thanks.



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Posted by Condus Mundus on Sat Jul 17th at 8:31pm 2010

So are you asking where the skyboxes/sounds/maps go?
Or are you asking if there have been any changes(new entities/styles or even standards) to Half-life mapping because of Steam?


Now remember kids. Asking questions is a good way to get censored by the government.



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Posted by GrimlocK on Sat Jul 17th at 11:54pm 2010

Quoting Condus Mundus
So are you asking where the skyboxes/sounds/maps go? Or are you asking if there have been any changes(new entities/styles or even standards) to Half-life mapping because of Steam?


Yea, where do I place all of the custom content files with steam?



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Posted by Le Chief on Sun Jul 18th at 3:59am 2010

What Niborius said.


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Posted by GrimlocK on Sun Jul 18th at 6:34am 2010

Ok, I'll see what I can do, thanks.



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Posted by Condus Mundus on Sun Jul 18th at 6:46pm 2010

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Just to be helpful:

Skyboxes go into .../Steam/steamapps/useraccount/half-life/valve/gfx/env
(I always hated the lack of a "skyboxes" folder)

Gamestartup.mp3 (I like to use a custom one) .../Steam/steamapps/useraccount/half-life/valve/media

Those should be the only non-selfexplanatory folders.


Now remember kids. Asking questions is a good way to get censored by the government.



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Posted by GrimlocK on Sun Jul 18th at 10:42pm 2010

I got them to work, thanks everyone. Now I'm looking into HLDS so I can get a server launched. I'll start a new thread if I have any questions.



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Posted by Riven on Mon Jul 19th at 4:09am 2010

Hey, Grimlock, glad to have ya back. Be sure to stop in our new Introductions forum if you're looking for a place to meet and greet the new folks, or update us all with your work!

Either way, we're glad to have ya back, if even for a little while. smiley


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Twitter:@Riven202



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Posted by GrimlocK on Tue Jul 20th at 12:41am 2010

Quoting Riven
Hey, Grimlock, glad to have ya back. Be sure to stop in our new Introductions forum if you're looking for a place to meet and greet the new folks, or update us all with your work!

Either way, we're glad to have ya back, if even for a little while. smiley


Thanks Riven.




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