My second Project (HL2 Project)

[Technic]

After great success with Rockband on the PC, I decided to go for a second project. This one is to take HL2 (and its episodes, maybe even portal and others) and allow them to be played without steam. This will allow you for you get them freely and easily, and allow me to continue with Project 3 (Half Life 2: Technic Edition)

I will post with any updates!

[Technic]

UPDATE!!!!

I am trying to bring back the HL2 division and its forums. If it needs an ADMIN, I am fully up for the job.

[Technic]

I have extracted the GCF's successfully. Only problem now is that it wants steam to mount a file (that it wont tell me which -_-) and I cant use steam at all for this project. I must use other means to get HL2 to launch.

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I got the game to launch perfectly now! Now I have to get the shared models, materials, sounds, and source engine packed in here, and the episodes will be ready for injection

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Source engine and all other files (except the episodes) are set. All I need is the episodes and most the work is done. Unfortuantly steam cant be forced into downloading the episodes. This means a slow ass torrent is the backup plan. I cant report on this for 2 days or so.

GAMES UNZIPPED SPACE: 3.58GB

I hope to do some ripping and compressing with this project, as it will be a bitch to download xD

[Technic]

Alright. I went into ripping the game and got alot of progress done. Heres whats ripped so far:

Node Graphs - I left the node graph cache alone, this way the game still can rebuild it once its launched. (Node Graphs are the invisible lines written all over the place telling NPC's with a specific target all the possible ways to get there

Textures - There are a few textures that are never seen (never put into the game) and cloned textures that are put on models that look very much alike (like boxes, trash cans, etc.) and I just removed all clones and pointed the game to the original texture.

Sounds - Some noises I reduced the size of by reducing the quality. A few that dont matter are alarms (sometimes you can hear the citidel in the VERY far background and wont matter if they are a little on the crappy side (actually, makes it sound more realistic to me)


Will let you know when Episode 1 is done downloading, that way I can tell you if its in working condition

[Technic]

I have 2 updates!

1.The games are now in a format detectable by xfire!!!
2.I finished building a BETA selector app that allows you to select which game you want to play!!!

I am working hard to get this done quickly people, so dont expect much chatter unless its an update.

[Innos]

Let me know when I can download. I'll set up an external at my friend's place.