The Ship Single Player: Starting your Mod
Note:For the sake of this article,
MODDIR
represents your mod's directory name.Note:For the sake of this article,
MODTITLE
represents your mod's game
key set in gameinfo.txt.Note:For the sake of this article,
<username>
represents your username.After downloading The Ship SDK, download The Ship Single Player Mod Template and extract its contents to ..\Steam\SteamApps\SourceMods
.
Note:You do not need to run the batch file to start up the Source SDK for your mod, since it does not rely on the invalid gameinfo.txt file.
Warning:When you release your mod, be sure to leave all of the packaged files in the
scripts
directory intact, or it will crash.Mod Setup
- Rename the mod's directory from ship_sp_mod to MODDIR.
- Navigate to
..\MODDIR\resource
and renameship_sp_mod_english.txt
toMODDIR_english.txt
. - Open
resource\MODDIR_english.txt
and replaceship_sp_mod_Chapter1_Title
withMODDIR_Chapter1_Title
(This serves as an example for chapter titles). - If you'd like to include credits in your mod, modify
scripts\credits.txt
to your liking and deleteresource/GameMenu.res
; otherwise, deletescripts\credits.txt
. Now, opengameinfo.txt
and make changes to the top few lines of the file.
GameConfig
Warning:You may have to change the directory names to fit your folder hierarchy.
Open ..\Steam\SteamApps\<username>\sourcesdk\bin\GameConfig.txt
and do the following:
Before
} "SDKVersion" "2"
Add
"MODTITLE" { "GameDir" "c:\program files\steam\steamapps\SourceMods\MODDIR" "hammer" { "GameData0" "c:\program files\steam\steamapps\<username>\sourcesdk\bin\The_Ship_SP.fgd" "TextureFormat" "5" "MapFormat" "4" "DefaultTextureScale" "0.250000" "DefaultLightmapScale" "16" "GameExe" "c:\program files\steam\steamapps\<username>\the ship single player\ship.exe" "DefaultSolidEntity" "func_detail" "DefaultPointEntity" "info_player_deathmatch" "BSP" "c:\program files\steam\steamapps\<username>\sourcesdk\bin\cstbsp-ts.exe" "Vis" "c:\program files\steam\steamapps\<username>\sourcesdk\bin\cstvis-ts.exe" "Light" "c:\program files\steam\steamapps\<username>\sourcesdk\bin\cstrad-ts.exe" "GameExeDir" "c:\program files\steam\steamapps\<username>\the ship single player" "MapDir" "c:\program files\steam\steamapps\<username>\the ship single player\sourcesdk_content\ship\mapsrc" "BSPDir" "c:\program files\steam\steamapps\SourceMods\MODDIR\maps" "CordonTexture" "tools\toolsskybox" "MaterialExcludeCount" "0" } }