Re: [hlcoders] Alien Swarm VPK

2010-07-27 Thread Jonathan Sutton
VPKs get a big speed boost by not having to search the local disk for loose files. We're aware of the inconvenience this causes for modders though, so we're looking into a command line option that overrides the behavior. You can enable that while working to quickly iterate. Regarding mods, we

Re: [hlcoders] Playing bik files mid level

2010-07-20 Thread Jonathan Sutton
Alien Swarm uses bik movies for the backgrounds in the menus and briefing, if you want to see some example code doing this. The CASW_Background_Movie class in nb_header_footer.cpp maintains and updates the current bik material. CNB_Header_Footer::PaintBackground draws it. -Original Message