Postby benfranklin » Thu Mar 27, 2025 4:14 pm
I'm pretty sure that as long as you have the recently released Orange Box SDK Base you can play mods that require a game that uses that engine, without actually owning it. All you have to do is change a line in the gameinfo.txt that is in the main mod directory. It worked with me when I played Project Valkyrie mp mod, all I had to do was change the following values and it worked like a charm; take note at the time I did not own any Orange Box engine games. Not sure if it would work with this mod but if someone in your team falls idle tell them to download the Orange Box SDK and log on to an account that doesn't have any Orange Box games.
To fix it you change the SteamAppID to 218, you only need to change those 3 numbers from the gameinfo.txt. Like this:
SteamAppId 218 // This will mount all the GCFs we need (240=CS:S, 220=HL2).
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But ok enough of that. I'm extremely excited about this new release. The Feb & March videos just got me all pumped up for it. For some reason I could not get the first version to work, I had all the necessary requirements but oh well. This new release seems to be far superior. I'm extremely glad you incorporated A.I. especially since I am awful when I play online in RTS games, it causes me to not enjoy the game..no matter how good it is; which is why I always play against the computer. It's a bummer the OB engine is giving you trouble with the Fog of War. I guess you can't copy/paste the shaders from the old engine and then import/incorporate them can you? Never mind me I know nothing about coding. But, I can do texture work if you need an extra hand even if it's grunt work. And no I'm not saying that so I could get access to the game :-P, you could just send a model and ask what you want and I'd help out.
Once the new release comes out I'm gonna try my hand at making a map. I'm fairly confident I could do well in that. I know how to use Hammer and I use to make my own maps in Age of Empires and Battle Realms all the time, so I'm well aware of how to make a fairly decent layout.
I wish you all the luck in finding a modeler or an animator (if you need one). Seems like those are hard to find, most of the mods I follow seem to lack in that department, as well as coding.
