SMOD: Tactical, SMOD Redux & Close Contact

Simple, just use the 215 appid. Your mapadds removing the Razor Trains work just fine, although they'll take some tweaking to fit into the other mods. Been running the 215 appid since Fitz himself decided to make the change and have yet to come across a game breaking issue my modding experience couldn't fix or work around. :p

Cool beans though, good to see hl2 on a shiny new engine even if it bork'd a lot of old mods.

ahh man, really hopping the author or vavle can fix this engine problem.. gawd i just made an intervention with working world model! pfft bummerz.... plus my shitty pc cant really handle hl2 now!

I'm using the 215 appid too, though the zombie and vortigaunt models seem to be freaking out now. Prop_Vehicles are reverting to checkerboard textures also.

My menu system seems broken as well. Anybody else getting this?

Last edited by Sergeant Kelly (2010-05-26 17:44:27)

Well, there's been another update which seems to let users choose which engine to run off via the 'Edit Game Configurations' utility. I'd recommend trying whatever this is out.

Last edited by Sergeant Kelly (2010-05-26 18:16:46)

Now we need a patch for Outbreak...

EDIT: It still isn't working right. All of the SMOD materials are just plain gone (the effects), the HUD is fucked up, etc. etc.

Last edited by Fidchell (2010-05-27 14:20:12)

Hi, this patch worked for me and SMOD: Tactical now works. Thank you for helping me with this, however, I encountered a new problem with materials when I installed this patch. On some maps, there is an error reading .vtf files, mainly on coast maps. Here are some pictures of my problem:

TheLocoMofo wrote:

Hi, this patch worked for me and SMOD: Tactical now works. Thank you for helping me with this, however, I encountered a new problem with materials when I installed this patch. On some maps, there is an error reading .vtf files, mainly on coast maps. Here are some pictures of my problem: http://i47.tinypic.com/1skubq.jpg

Valve updated a handful of maps with HDR support. Unfortunately SMOD has no support for HDR entities outside of its fake tonemapping. So you'll have broken lighting in any of those maps.

I can't include the pre-update maps in a release due to possible legal issues. But if you have GCFScape (google it if you don't) you can extract the pre-update maps from your "half-life 2 content.gcf" into your SMOD install folder, fixing this problem.

Fidchell wrote:

I have a question though. I'm pretty meticulous when it comes to noticing little details. In SMOD before the update, shining your flashlight on blood decals had no effect on them, but for some reason now when you shine on them, the decals' opacity rises. Is there a console command to fix this?

Because the patches use the Source SDK Base engine, subtle differences due to different shaders and other backend code changes should be expected. I doubt it can be fixed unless it is directly a issue with the decals used.

Skepsis! wrote:

It has to be the decals themselves.. I'm running the 215 appid myself and haven't experienced any of these problems. As for the hdr did you try forcing mat_hdr_enabled 0? This would have happened with any map that had HDR support with it enabled. Experienced this a long time ago on my own maps. :p

With the copious amount of custom content added and changes made it's really no wonder that the patch for SMOD Tactical wouldn't work completely on the first shot.

No, I'm pretty sure the decals aren't the problem. I've used them before the update and the opacity issue wasn't there. The only thing that fixes the problem is "r_flashlightmodels 0", however this doesn't light models when you shine the flashlight on them.

And how do you set appid?

The Tactical patch doesn't work for me... I only got to play this game once, and I played it 2 days straight without getting off. The update was applied while I was playing and I didn't even know it.
By the way, is the HUD's health and AUX SUPPOSED to be off in Tactical? That's what it was like when I first played it, but after I started it up after the update, the weapons stopped working, and leaning and ironsights stopped working. HUD's text is really screwed up, and I personally liked it better when the AUX and health didn't show.
When I start the game now, the console reads:
Welcome to SMOD: Tactical
CModelLoader::Map_IsValid: No such map 'maps/smbk6.bsp'
map load failed: smbk6 not found or invalid

Then when I type "exec all_tactical"
] exec all_tactical
Unknown command "weapon_limitcategory"

Sometimes, the text that appears in "Configure SMOD: Tactical" doesn't appear. It depends on what angle I'm looking at.

When I go into missions, I get no weapons. Gordon kick doesn't work anymore. Gives a console error about a certain command not existing. Same for iron sight and leaning.

PLEASE fix this. This is my favorite mod by far, let alone my favorite game.

Onemanshow wrote:

^^^

That means you did not apply the patch properly. Ensure you have installed the correct patch into the correct folder and restarted steam before playing (most important).

Please understand that because we do not have SMOD"s source code, the issues with the May 26th update are very difficult to properly fix. The above patches are as good of a fix as we can release until we can implement a permanent fix with Version 1.0.

I'm pretty sure I patched it correctly, but I'll try again if that's your only solution so far. I understand how hard this is for you, and I respect that you aren't just giving up. Thanks for the help.

EDIT: Oh, it was because I didn't restart Steam. Thank you so much for this patch.

another edit: Is there a way to enable the AI, or should I even dare ask?
yet another edit: NEVER MIND ABOUT THAT. Anyways, can I turn off the wireframe around lights and stuff? I don't know how.

Last edited by Wuff (2010-05-28 15:08:39)

^ What they said

The last part that is.