Quick question about an exe file.

Just a quick question gents. I realise this is not Half-Life "editing" so I posted it on the general banter. As recently as about a month ago, I knew how to do this, and now I just seem to have forgotten (the incredible amount of studying I've done must have pushed something out ).

Anyway, down to the question. What do I write in the shortcut target of a HL exe file, to directly open, say Opposing Force, or Sven Coop? Like -console -game -svencoop, that sort of thing.

Cheers

**Dedi** said:
Just a quick question gents. I realise this is not Half-Life "editing" so I posted it on the general banter. As recently as about a month ago, I knew how to do this, and now I just seem to have forgotten (the incredible amount of studying I've done must have pushed something out ).

Anyway, down to the question. What do I write in the shortcut target of a HL exe file, to directly open, say Opposing Force, or Sven Coop? Like -console -game -svencoop, that sort of thing.

Cheers

I think the mod must be inside the half life folder, and then you write (behind the .exe path) -game foldername

example: somethingsomething/half-life/hl.exe -game gearbox

not sure if it's hl.exe but that's not the point

I might be wrong though! Sorry if I am

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I'm pretty sure it has to be inside the valve directory under the half-life installation directory. The game name for the argument will be in the libgame.txt or whatever that file is called for the mod.

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Firstly, mods go under the Half-Life folder. The valve folder is the "mod folder" for Half-Life 1.

Secondly:

"Niborius" said:
somethingsomething/half-life/hl.exe -game gearbox

That is correct for WON Half-Life but I'm not sure if it is about Steam Half-Life. But regardless, if the mod works and you installed the mod correctly and restart Steam, the mod should show up in the games list.

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You can also do the steam.exe -applaunch hl1# -game whatever.

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Wow, I still can't get it to work. And I actually had it working a few months ago, I have no idea what I had written down though..

For the record, it is a WON version of HL.

So it doesn't show up in the "Custom Games" list?

Copy and paste the liblist.gam and I'll take a look.

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It does show up in the custom games list, and there's no problem with that at all. My particular issue is only making an exe file that takes me directly to Sven Coop without going to HL first.

Here's the liblist.gam from Sven Coop:

game "Sven Co-op"
url_info "http://www.svencoop.com"
url_dl "http://www.svencoop.com"
version "3.0"
size "5"
svonly "0"
cldll "1"
secure "0"
hlversion "1110"
nomodels "0"
nohimodel "1"
type "multiplayer_only"
mpentity "info_player_deathmatch"
gamedll "dlls\hl.dll"
gamedll_linux "dlls/hl_i386.so"

I might have to remove everything and reinstall as well, since I've merged parts of version 4.5 and version 3.0 together.

"PATHTOHLINSTALL\\hl.exe -console -game svencoop"

Replace "PATHTOHLINSTALL" with whatever the path is, for example, "C:\\Sierra\\Half-Life"

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Hmm you're missing slashes in that post Crono, silly Snarkpit.

Dedi, does the name in the -game parameter match the name of the folder the mod is in?

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It's equally silly since the "preview" option shows it just fine. I escaped the backslash (a character that doesn't need escaping in anything ever)

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aaron_da_killa said:
Hmm you're missing slashes in that post Crono, silly Snarkpit.

Dedi, does the name in the -game parameter match the name of the folder the mod is in?

Cheers Aaron! I tried the -console -game svencoop, with the name of the folder, and it did the trick.

I initially had it matching the liblist.gam name which is Sven Co-op. Changing it to the folder name did it.

Thanks gents. See this was so much simpler than I made it seem. The most embarrassing thing about it is the fact that I knew it before and then forgot.

Edit: Wow, I just looked at my initial post, and I almost had it right... I just needed to remove the '-' from the -console -game -svencoop.

Edit2: Oh, Nib, I just realised that what you wrote was right.. I tried all the suggestions, I wonder why it didn't work.. Oh well, all fixed now, thanks for the help guys.

**Dedi** said:
Edit2: Oh, Nib, I just realised that what you wrote was right.. I tried all the suggestions, I wonder why it didn't work.. Oh well, all fixed now, thanks for the help guys.

Heh, I was just about to say "Hey that was my idea! "

Good it's working now

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