The Ship Single Player: Starting your Mod

After downloading The Ship SDK, download The Ship Single Player Mod Template and extract its contents to ..\Steam\SteamApps\SourceMods. Be sure to replace all variables below (i.e. MODTITLE, MODDIR, <username>) with their corresponding values.

GameConfig

Open ..\Steam\SteamApps\<username>\sourcesdk\bin\GameConfig.txt and do the following:

Before

	}
	"SDKVersion"		"2"

Add

		"MODTITLE"
		{
			"GameDir"		"c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\SourceMods\MODDIR"
			"hammer"
			{
				"GameData0"	"c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\<username>\sourcesdk\bin\The_Ship_SP.fgd"
				"TextureFormat"		"5"
				"MapFormat"		"4"
				"DefaultTextureScale"		"0.250000"
				"DefaultLightmapScale"		"16"
				"GameExe"	"c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\<username>\the ship single player\ship.exe"
				"DefaultSolidEntity"		"func_detail"
				"DefaultPointEntity"		"info_player_deathmatch"
				"BSP"		"c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\<username>\sourcesdk\bin\cstbsp-ts.exe"
				"Vis"		"c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\<username>\sourcesdk\bin\cstvis-ts.exe"
				"Light"		"c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\<username>\sourcesdk\bin\cstrad-ts.exe"
				"GameExeDir"		"c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\<username>\the ship single player"
				"MapDir"	"c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\<username>\the ship single player\sourcesdk_content\ship\mapsrc"
				"BSPDir"		"c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\SourceMods\MODDIR\maps"
				"CordonTexture"		"tools\toolsskybox"
				"MaterialExcludeCount"		"0"
 			}
		}

Mod Setup

1. Rename the mod's directory from ship_sp_mod to MODDIR.
2. Navigate to ..\MODDIR\resource and rename ship_sp_mod_english.txt to MODDIR_english.txt.
3. Open resource\MODDIR_english.txt and replace ship_sp_mod_Chapter1_Title with MODDIR_Chapter1_Title (This serves as an example for chapter titles).
4. If you'd like to include credits in your mod, modify scripts\credits.txt to your liking and delete resource/GameMenu.res; otherwise, delete scripts\credits.txt. Now, open gameinfo.txt and make changes to the top few lines of the file.