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L4D: Create a Custom Movie Poster & VPK Part 3/3

September 18, 2009
Category: Left 4 Dead Mapping

Custom Movie Poster and VPK Part 1

Custom Movie Poster and VPK Part 2

Custom Movie Poster and VPK Part 3

L4D Video Tutorial covers the following:

Creating addoninfo.txt and missions.txt to make sure our poster and all the files run properly

Copy/Paste our map into maps folder

Create a VPK to distribute our map in a single file

L4D Mapping: Create a Custom Movie Poster and VPK Part 3/3 - Video Tutorial

Notes:

Compile your finished map and located 2 files.

One is .bsp file and .nav file. They can be found in

C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\left 4 dead\left4dead\maps

Copy and paste these two files inside your maps folder that we created in the beginning of the tutorial.

We now need to create two text files

addoninfo.txt

mapname.txt --> missions folder

Use notepad or text editor ofyour choice and create these two files.

addoninfo.txt gets placed inside the root folder.

The content of addoninfo.txt

Also you can view the content of the addoninfo.txt on Valve's Wiki page.

mapname.txt, to be placed inside missions folder. Avoid naming this file mission.txt

The content of swisshotel.txt

Also you can view the content of the mission file.txt on Valve's Wiki page.

Go through both of these files very careful changing every entry that you need for your map to work properly.

Double check to make sure.

Now, lets create a vpk file.

Navigate to:

C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\left 4 dead\bin\vpk.exe

and create a desktop shortcut of the vpk.exe by right-mouse click and Send to Desktop as Shortcut.

Take your folder with all our files that we created and drag it over to vpk.exe shortcut.

You now have .vpk file created

Double click on the mapname.vpk to install.

Go inside the game and test.

Custom Movie Poster and VPK Part 1

Custom Movie Poster and VPK Part 2

Custom Movie Poster and VPK Part 3

Comments are Closed. Please Join & Discuss this post in the World of Level Design Forums Comments RonAgain 17 Jan 2010, 18:41 Did it!!! We are gonna play test tonight. Should have a beta up soon. Thanks, man! ron 16 Jan 2010, 17:47 how come you didn't use: http://www.l4dmods.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=30 to get the player names coordinates? AlexG 03 Nov 2009, 21:08 There will be more coming in the future. ne_skaju 31 Oct 2009, 17:31 So that’s last L4D tutorial..? BCH32 22 Oct 2009, 02:32 BIG Thanks for THIS tutorial it really help me with the poster for L4D VirginMary 19 Oct 2009, 12:32 Thx for fantastic help using your lovely tutorials. Blessing kisses. :-) don_2_dieu 09 Oct 2009, 06:16 hi there for starts great tutos was a great help when i started mapping...im curently working on my 3rd map of my l4d campaign "2 evil eyes" and i have a question=(i was talking to the very nice man john from wiki valve and we cant seem to find a solution to my problem) After compiling in normal with hdr ticked buildcubemaps done etc etc i jump into my game and its fine no nav erros and i play with shader=very high BUT that is in the bsp+nav format.I sent it to some mates to beta test it in veryhigh shader and it works great! but the issue is....=as soon as i create my vpk from with my bsp+nav files +materials etc all is fine game thumbnail loading poster etc but all the props are glowing white...so the question is why in my bsp+nav format its fine all the props look brilliant and as soon as they are transformed into a vpk format they glow and ruin my work?............thx a million! Alex 21 Sep 2009, 05:57 Thanks Clay. ClayJitsu 19 Sep 2009, 12:49 Thank you so much for this series! This is exactly what I needed! Very well done, I keep my eyes glued on this site. Powered by Scriptsmill Comments Script