First time creating a mod

[Tomalla]

Hi there. As the subject states, it's my first time compiling and running a mod, and unfortunately, I'm at the dead end. Hope someone here can help me. I'm working in Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition in case it's relevant.

So ... I opened Source SDK and went to 'Create a Mod' option with 'Source Engine 2007' selected at the bottom. In a wizard, I chose 'Modify Half-Life 2 Single Player' and created my mod eventually. After that I opened solution 'src\Game_Episodic-2005.sln', Visual C++ asked me about upgrading a project, I agreed and moved on. I chose 'Release' mode in Toolbox and compiled the project. There was no errors after a compile, although some warnings were present. I don't think they were important though, as they stated some headers were just skipped. However, when I try to run my brand new mod, the game crashes with not-so informative message:

"Instruction "0x0d755aea" points at the memory at "0x0f7a33e4". Memory cannot be "read"."

Silly kind of, but I had to translate the message ( it was in my native language ). Hope it's clear enough. I didn't change a thing in those solutions, I just compiled it as it was originally. It doesn't work anyway so I'm currently unable to proceed with a modified code on the other hand.

Any ideas why doesn't it work? Tomalla

[Corewarp]

You followed this right?

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki ... er_Choices

[BubbleQ]

You followed this right?

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki ... er_Choices

<3

[Tomalla]

I suppose so, because I followed this tutorial:

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki ... der_VS2008

I did 'Install Visual Studio 2008' and 'Open the solution' paragraphs only.

[Tomalla]

Sorry for double posting.

First of all, I admit I made a silly, tiny mistake ... I compiled "Client" project only and "Server" DLL was missing.

Then, the game was crashing like previously, but this time it was throwing out an engine error: "SetupArrayProps_R: array prop '(null)' is at index zero." I googled this phrase and I got into this thread:

viewtopic.php?f=25&t=32850

I've edited my gameinfo.txt and added the following entries:

Code: Select all

SteamAppId      218
ToolsAppId         211
AdditionalContentID   420

and ... it worked. But I had to download Source SDK Base 2007 in order for it to work. And that is something I don't get. This is supposed to be HL2 modification, not Source SDK Base 2007 modification. And everyone who wants to play this mod, will be forced to download Source SDK Base 2007 as well. Is this necessary? Does client always have to download Source SDK Base 2007 in order to play hl2 based mods? It's hard for me to believe it. Could anyone confirm it ... somehow?

[Furling]

Yeah, that's a fact, Source SDK Base is required for playing Source engine mods, Depending on what version of SDK base the mod is made, client will need to download either SourceSDK Base 2006 or SourceSDK Base 2007

[Tomalla]

Thanks for clearing that up! Now ... it's time to play around with the code Cheers