Forum | Thinking With Portals

#1 · May 17, 2012, 2:03 pm

Hello,

For you who have made your portal 2 mod using the sourcemods methods described here, you will find the main menu of your mod broken after valve updated portal 2 with the new Perpetual Testing DLC.

This is because the engine no longer looks inside the packaged filesystem for mainmenu.res , but mainmenu_new.res when trying to find it inside the resource/ui/basemod/ui folder.

I relealise people will mostly use the new workshop/puzzlemaker combo, but I invested allot in a bit of story telling, custom props and scripts for my campaign so whenever I update it I want it to update it foremost using the "sourcemods" approach.

After that I'll see if I can cram all this stuff inside workshop version of my individual core maps.

Anyway, just want to mention this for people having the same prob.

#2 · May 17, 2012, 2:05 pm

Yea, I found the same solution too, but thanks for sharing!
Now if there was only a way to properly modify portals' main menu...

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#3 · May 17, 2012, 2:10 pm

yeah, doing the main menus it's a drag. But honestly I was very relieved that hotfixing it was so simple I'm totally no programmer but I'm sure that following its structure, you could make a front-end application for it.

#4 · May 17, 2012, 10:36 pm

interesting... ty cosmicd

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#5 · May 18, 2012, 4:34 am

I also found that same shortcut. After I went to my mod's menu and saw that it looked like the new Portal2's menu including the "Play Community Chambers" button and such (what made me angry and worried...), I quickly went and looked into the dlc2 folder and the pak01_dir in it and found the new mainmeu_new.res file...

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#6 · May 18, 2012, 6:29 am

YEah I was annoyed too. WHen I saw thid bodged menu, all I could think was hard things, like when they stopped reading vpk's in the addons folder, i thought like OMG, have they stopped reading resources from sourcemods dirs ? Have they stopped reading packed dirs ? Maybe they restricted to read the main menu from any other location but the main dlc2 dir.....

But I'm glad to say I was wrong lol.