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== Before Starting ==
This article explains how to create a custom VGUI Screen using the vgui_screen entity. 

First, close Steam, open up your SteamApps folder usually located here <code>"C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps"</code>. Then using a program such a GCFScapeopen the "sinepisodes core.gcf" file. When inside extract the files <code>"SE1\scripts\vgui_screens.txt"</code> and <code>"SE1\scripts\screens\docks_1d_U4lab_entrance.res"</code>.

==Making your custom vgui_screen==
Open the docks_1d_U4lab_entrance.res file and edit it as you like, in my example I removed one button and renamed the remaining labels. Then rename the .res file to "whateveryouwant.res" and place it in your <code>"sin episodes emergence\SE1\scripts\screens"</code> folder (you may have to make the last two folders in the filepath yourself). Then add this code to the end of the vgui_screens.txt before the last bracket,

<pre>
      "whateveryounamedtheresfile"
	{
		"type"			"vgui_screen_panel"
		"pixelswide"	"whatever pixels you defined in the res file for width"
		"pixelshigh"	"whatever pixels you defined in the res file for height"		
                "resfile"	"scripts/screens/whateveryouwant.res"
	}
</pre>
Now you can use your custom vgui_screen in your map. If you wanted to use a premade vgui you could have skipped this.

==In Hammer==
Go to your vgui_screen entity and under "Panel Name" enter the line you used in the vgui_screens.txt for "whateveryounamedtheresfile". For "Panel Width in World" and "Panel Height in World" use whatever amount of units you need. Open your custom .res file and search for a line that starts "command", after that is a string (we will call "command") which you will use for input/output. In the vgui_screen entity's "Outputs" tab select add and under "My output named" type in "~command" without quotes. Then fill in target and input like you would with any other entity.

Make sure that your .res file is in <code>"sin episodes emergence\SE1\scripts\screens"</code> and your customized vgui_screens.txt is in "sin episodes emergence\SE1\scripts" before starting your map or else the screen will not appear.

'''Important!'''
If you are releasing your map to other people with a modified vgui_screens.txt please BSPZipit so you do not overwrite their vgui_screens.txt, this file is used in single-player SiN and could possibly damage their game.
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