Lazarus wrote:1: My apologies for utilizing all caps in the thread title. It certainly wasn't my intention to violate any forum etiquette.
2: I am well aware that "google is my friend." This just seemed like an appropriate venue to ask what I hoped would be a quick and easy question to answer. Again, if this violates some forum etiquette, I apologize.
3: Thank you for the excellent reference to "The Bullseye". It has most of the info I need.
1 & 2; not to worry, you weren't to know. Thank you for your apology, nice to see someone with a mature attitude. Turns out regarding 2, I owe you an apology - something's up.
Oh and 3 - you're welcome!
Right so, I've done some digging. Before you get into complex searches for answers including some rather wacky path changes - everything uses clientscheme.res - we need to look at the basics.
Here's my modified clientscheme.res in Half Life 2; Episode 2 (path hl2/ep2/resources, as you'd expect)
Oh dear. Well that's not what I was after. Let's try it in Stroll, my mod.
Well that's interesting. It works.
My only assumption is that in steampipe's conversion from GCF to VPK, certain filetypes were prevented from being overridden. Now I haven't gone into the VPKs to check if anything has changed regarding paths but I suspect it hasn't; you probably cannot change the HUD in vanilla HL2 and Episodes any more. Feel free to check the VPKs but there isn't a magic bullet from changing file names, sorry
Mods? Work absolutely fine. So if I were you, get a mod on the go if it's important!
Not sure about the resolution thing - what have you been fiddling with? Major changes to the game files can often cause a reset to the options but not every single time you reboot the game. That's unusual. Have you changed over to a 16:9 res in-game instead of 4:3?