VPK's no longer working in addons folder ?
HEllo,
I was on track of releasing my campaign tomorrow and what do i see ? VPK's no longer work in the addons folder. ANyone else having this ?
That could be caused by various reasons.
First, while you are in-game and place a new VPK file into addons folder, you must intro a command into the console something like "update_addons_path (or folder)"... just start typing and the command will appear. Then Portal2 will refresh addons folder content. Or you can quit portal2 and start it again...
Second, it should be due to Win7 permissions. Check out the folder properties. If all those latest updates in portal2 have resetted any of those permissions, you should enable them back again.
I hope that helps!
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[/spoiler]Well i have tried that command several times and it doesn't work. I also don't see any change in the permission of this folder , what permissions should it have more than write and read ?
The question is, where does valve store the list of paths it searches for addons ?
Does that happen to you only with your VPK file or also with all the rest?
Also, about permissions, ensure not only you (as administrator) own them, but also "System" and "TrustedInstaller". I had the same issue than you time ago and I set ALL permissions for me as administrator, and also system... and it worked.
The path is always portal2portal2addons
I hope you can solve it!
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I tried adding my files to the portal 2 folder
Path: steamapps/common/portal 2/myportal2mods
That worked
That's what valve did with the dlc.
So just move your addons folder up one folder
Valve made the dlc as an addon, but instead, they just put the folder inside the portal 2 folder instead of portal2 addons folder
I tried that , called my folder portal2_thecore and added the maps , materials and media folder to them but it doesn't show anything... what did you exactly add then ?
Use a vpk
doesn't work for me, i even made the same folder as you , added my vpk that was orriginally in the portal2/addons to it and well ... doesn't show any of my maps. The only thing I seem to be able to do is just move everything uncompressed to the main portal2 folder , that works but for the rest i'm just at a loss of what to do.
tried putting vpk in portal 2 folder (where portal2.exe is) , tried to make a "thecore" folder and put thecore.vpk in there , nothing worked... tried to make an addons folder in the new folder, doesn't work... well this is frustrating
I don't think it's something with permissions it's really that nothing is being read anymore from the addons folder. And wish valve would come forward with some news on this... (come to think of it, this topic can maybe be merged with the other topic i made lol
tried putting vpk in portal 2 folder (where portal2.exe is) , tried to make a "thecore" folder and put thecore.vpk in there , nothing worked... tried to make an addons folder in the new folder, doesn't work... well this is frustrating
I don't think it's something with permissions it's really that nothing is being read anymore from the addons folder. And wish valve would come forward with some news on this... (come to think of it, this topic can maybe be merged with the other topic i made lol
No, name it pak_01dir or something like that
don't you have to pack the vpk a certain way to have multi chunk vpk files for this to work ? because tht dir file is a file pointing to all other files it has as slave.
Am I the only one having this problem rightnow ?