Quote from Lpfreaky90 on September 5, 2014, 6:15 pm

to get mainmenu_new.res you should use the pak01_dir file from your portal 2/portal2_dlc2 folder

Quote from SilverStreak88 on September 8, 2014, 4:45 pm

Thanks dude ur awesome!

Quote from Lpfreaky90 on September 13, 2014, 6:46 pm

I'll just post the thing I just wrote in a pm here as well just so it's easier to find for future reference:

To get your mod working you need:
1) a folder in your steam/steamapps/sourcemods/ with your mod's name:
- steam/steamapps/sourcemods/testmod.

2) now in that folder create a gameinfo.txt:

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"GameInfo"
{

   game       "Portal 2: testmod"
   title       "Portal 2: testmod"
   GameData   "portal2.fgd"
   gamelogo    0

   SupportsDX8     0
   SupportsXbox360 1

   Singleplayeronly 0

   FileSystem
   {
      SteamAppId            620      // This will mount all the GCFs we need (620 = Portal 2)
      ToolsAppId            211      // Tools will load this (ie: source SDK caches) to get things like materialsdebug, materialseditor, etc.
      

      SearchPaths
      {
         Game            |gameinfo_path|.
         Game            update
         Game            platform
         Game            portal2_dlc2
         Game            portal2_dlc1
         Game            portal2

      }
   }
}


step 3:
create a /scripts folder in your main folder and copy over extras.txt from portal 2 dlc 2: SteamAppscommonPortal 2portal2_dlc2scripts and put it in your testmod/scripts/ folder.
You can edit this later to point to your own maps.

Step 4:
create the folder SteamSteamAppssourcemodstestmodresourceuibasemodui

step 5: open up the portal2_dlc2 vpk up: SteamAppscommonPortal 2portal2_dlc2pak01_dir.vpk
in there browse to resourceuibasemodui and copy over mainmenu_new.res and put them in your previously created folder.

step 6: optional, but highly recommended
create a testmodmapssoundcache folder and copy over the _master.cache from SteamAppscommonPortal 2portal2_dlc2mapssoundcache

Quote from SecretComing on October 21, 2014, 8:06 pm

hey lpfreaky can my portal 2 use content from others games? like half life 2 that use another engine or the stanley parable that uses the same engine?

Quote from TeamSpen210 on October 21, 2014, 8:52 pm

Source engine stuff is basically cross-compadible with each other, so for most models it's as easy as copying the required files from the other game to Portal's folders. Alternately you can edit your gameinfo.txt (for your new mod, don't do it to base P2) to list folders for other games. This way it will automatically load in all the content for that other game.