Using CSS content in a HL2 mod

Hey guys.

I've created a HL2SP mod using the tool in the source sdk. For the mod, I want to be able to use some CSS content in the mod but I don't want to extract the content into my mod's folder. How do I tell my my mod/hammer to look in steamapps/counter-strike source shared.gcf?

I tried adding CSS under the searchpaths thing in gameinfo.txt but it was searching in steamapps\aaronz92\sourcesdk\bin\ep1\CSS instead of the gcf.

Thanks in advanced :smile: .

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Aaron's Stuff

I think this is the way it works: If you specify your mod to be created under a HL2 setting, then you will be limited to the HL2.GCF folder. All other content for that mod if not in the hl2 GCF folder, will need to be extracted and imported in. So, once you select the engine version, you will be limited to that GCF. Hammer won't read out of GCFs unless it's specified to under the game choice (engine) options, and you can only read out of one version of the engine. CSS and HL2 are two different engine versions.

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even if you get it to work in hammer would it still work ingame?

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the only problem with steam updating things every week is it doesent give the developers an incentive to playtest thier work, so we do it for them