.pak and .wad help?

[almostrodney]

erm hi im new here,
i was wondering if any1 could help me with the pak and wad files, the thing is there not there at all iv checked all my steam and valve files and in the files inside them, but still nothing.
thanks, rodney

 

[Au-heppa]

Steam/Source doesn't use .wad .pak files, they use .cfg files instead, this seems to be the case even for Half-Life 1 / Gold Source games for Steam. They are usually at C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\SteamApps, there's a program called CFGScape that you can use to open them.

 

[almostrodney]

ok thanks for your help and il download that but at the moment im using valve hammer, i would of thought it would of opened the texures with that if anything, so shall i just leave that and use cfgscape then?
thanks, rodney

 

[almostrodney]

oh and btw where shall i download it from?

 

[egoncalo]

http://nemesis.thewavelength.net/index.php?p=26

 

[almostrodney]

thanks again, right iv downloaded and opened the files and the list has shown up but what do i do from there, can i like export them to the hammer, tbh i dont have a clue what the programme does apart from show you whats in the packed file

 

[almostrodney]

any help please?

 

[Au-heppa]

If you want to use them in the game they were originally from you don't have to export. If you want to use, for example, CS:S stuff in HL2 then you have to export them, the models and the materials the models use.

 

[almostrodney]

ok but still i cantr open cfg files in hammer so i cant use them i was taking about exporting/converting so they can be opened in the hammer, so how do i get the materials/ modals in the hammer?
sorry for being a n00b im just getting frustrated at it
thanks

 

[Au-heppa]

Hammer opens the cfg files for you...

If you don't know how to use Hammer try reading some tutorials, there's plenty http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Category:Hammer

If the materials and models are just not there there's probably something wrong with the game congfigurations. Make sure to select a proper game in the Current Game list before you start the Hammer.

 

[Rapstah]

He's using Hammer 3.4.

 

[almostrodney]

thanks for all your help im sorted now apart from iv built a good map and im trying to get it to run. css runs and the map opens for like 1 second then it kicks me off to the menu, any help with that?
thanks rodney

 

[almostrodney]

update: i tryed running it in hl,hldm,hl episode 1 and i went back to css source and it wont even run on that it comes up with the error "failed to load the launcher DLL: the specified module could not be found" :s
any help muchly apprecieted
rodney