"Scene 'scenes/npc/******/ai_1_intro.vcd' missing!"
Hi. Me and my friend are working on a Portal 2 mappack with a story and all. But the problem is our custom scenes and sounds. I put them in the EXACT directory they're supposed to be in (e.g. 'scenes' and 'sounds') but Portal 2 thinks they're missing and don't play. I haven't tried textures out yet, but I have a small hunch they won't be working as well. I have rebuilt the scenes.image, didn't help. I tried this one command that reloads all sounds, it worked JUST for the sounds. But it takes a hell of a time to reload them. There must be an easier way for that. If somebody has the time to help, please do.
I put all in a VPK. Didn't work. I'll check and see if the .image is in there though.
It works. Thanks
Could either of you provide some additional details about how you got this to work? A while ago I was trying to use VCDs in a VPK but I never really succeeded (this thread details my attempts). I never tried putting a separate scenes.image file in the VPK, though, so presumably that fixes the issue with VCDs not being recognized.
However, does this method still require the audio cache to be rebuilt/updated manually? In my experience, sounds in a VPK don't have their associated cache generated automatically like those embedded in a BSP (it's necessary to do it from the console for the sounds to work), so I must be missing something.
Any further information would be appreciated!
Odd - sounds in a VPK required the cache to be updated manually the last time I tried getting them to work. I'll have to give it another shot.
EDIT: I've given this another try, but unfortunately the results are still the same as those of my earlier attempts. I made a VPK containing a directory called sound containing a properly-formatted WAV called music_test.wav and placed it in the addons directory. I then started Portal 2, loaded a map, and ran the command snd_playsounds music_test.wav. Initially, this generated the error [Sound] S_StartSound(): Failed to load sound 'music_test.wav'. File is missing from disk/repository. However, after running the command snd_updateaudiocache, running snd_playsounds music_test.wav works and plays the sound.
Am I missing something? Does the sound in the VPK have to be used in a map for the cache to be automatically created? I seem to recall that I tried that a while ago and it didn't work either, but I might be remembering incorrectly. Any help would be appreciated.
Quick update: I tried using an uncached sound stored in a VPK in a map via an ambient_generic but this didn't create a cache entry automatically as I hoped it might.
I've attached my VPK for reference in case anyone wants to double-check the procedure I discussed in the previous post.