Half-Life 2 is completely gone v. 7 (Half-Life 2)

This topic is just a continuation of the series of topics "From half the roof goes :)", and that is why there is a number 7 in the title. Sorry for breaking traditions, but at this not the best time in the history of the HL2 forum, I decided that it was worth opening it just like that. You can find the previous parts of the topic on the links in the spoiler below:
From half the roof goes
                                                                        Part one

                                                                        Part two

                                                                        Part three

                                                                     Part four

                                                                         Part Five

                                                                        Part Six
For convenience, here will be located links to the latest versions of screensavers based on Half-Life.

                                     = Based on the first Half-Life =

You can download the latest build from the links below: the splash screen is distributed in parts. ss_base - base part, sw_patch - enables Software-mode support, map_ * - maps. There are three maps available so far. map_mrvalve is the edited map of the Valves (cut from the game intro), map_xenbox and map_minimalism are my works, converted into a "splash view". Spoiler screenshots below. Download

links:

ss_base (3.62 Mb)
sw_patch (1.52 Mb)
map_mrvalve (3.68 Mb)
map_xenbox (2.70 Mb)
map_minimalism (1.49 Mb) Follow the

links not just pictures, but * .7z.png - save them to disk and open with WinRAR or 7-zip. To make the splash screen active, right-click on the .scr file (if you don’t know which one you need, use gl_fullscreen.scr) and select “install” from the menu. The screensaver will start immediately. To exit it, use the SPACE, TAB, F12 keys or left-click. You can configure the keys in userconfig.cfg. The map is loaded from autoexec.cfg, edit this file to change the map.

Screenshots of maps
ss_valve


ss_xenbox






ss_minimalism









                                 = based on half-life 2 old unpacked =

Like the first, this screensaver is distributed in parts. ss_base is the base engine, and two maps - one based on the back-end from Portal, and the second from HL2 itself.

ss_base (6 Mb)
map_background2 (3 Mb)
map_background05 (5.5 Mb)

Installation is similar to the first one. Hotkeys and graphics are configured in autoexec.cfg, if you have a weak video card, because of which the splash screen slows down, correct them in this file (all settings are commented), or remove them altogether and adjust the graphics manually from the settings menu. Also recommend to enable vertical sync, mat_vsync 1 (forgot to fix it before packing). You can also make the picture black and white (roll the mouse wheel or change mat_hsv to 1 in autoexec.cfg). Loading maps is registered in mapload.cfg.
Map screenshots


                                              = old post =

Since no one has yet opened a new part, I decided to do it myself - especially since I have not opened any. And who would not do this, if not the most crazy user of the forum, who picked up the game as best he could, unearthed hundreds of secrets and wrote an over 100,500 letters on it - both technical and creative content?))
It is worth noting other people turned on Half members of the forum:

Tupas, together with me, went to such a degree of madness that he saws the smallest playable half (I hope we will continue these developments in the new part of the secrets topic)
Alex was so crazy about Halfa - more precisely, from the old plot - that he decided to translate it into a mod Dark Interval.
Nihiliant is so turned to HL that he posted probably 9k screenshots from it or so in PIX))
Shifroval is clinically ill with an extreme degree of halferism - otherwise how to explain his perfect knowledge of the plot of the game?
Combine 999 - even a straitjacket does not stop him from adding another half-fiction fanfiction to his collection)) And careful scanning thereof for typos.
Sonik Gray - mental illness makes the poor guy come back here and write his fanfiction and other creativity for the joy of Combine 999 and comment on strangers ...
specter from TM - only a clouding of mind can explain his seven-year stay here)) // however, I'm also not far from him came off;) It's even a pity that it is impossible to catch up!
// and he's also filming (eh?) the craziest GMOD series
Alert - maybe not the craziest among us, but enough to argue with the moderator about our forum and get banned ((I hope he will be back soon.
...
and this is just a couple of examples - we, gaga halferov actually much more, which is why I think that the name of the topic is outdated - after the roof of the Half does not go, no ...

spoileron ALREADY completely fell off !!!!!!%)))))))))))) (((((((((((%

(% please do not watch the animation until you load it, otherwise the roof will not blow)%)
It is worth telling what this topic is for. In it, you can tell how CL affects your HL actions - whether it be unusual reactions or dreams about CL, whether it’s a sound heard on the street or on TV that made you remember about CL, or a picture or scene you saw. You can talk about the unusual use of halfa, which simply could not have occurred to a normal person, or about unusual desires and aspirations that are indirectly or directly related to CL. We are listening to you attentively ...


So, dear psychos, of course, it was not worth opening a topic just like that, and I, of course, found a good moment to escape from the orderlies and get to the PC with a half. The result was the following project: Pervohalf as a Windows screensaver. You can adapt the second one, but I'll do it sometime next time.
How it's done: in theory, everything is very simple, if not primitive. Any executable can become a Windows screensaver if you rename it to .scr. That is, Windows screensavers are really just specialized programs. You can even put some demo as a splash screen (quite a logical desire). With CL is more difficult, and not only because this application is not intended for this function, but also because CL does not play by itself. Continuing to wrinkle the cap, I can offer two ways to solve the problem. The easiest: to record a demo of the game - single or multiplayer - and load it when you start the game. But we are real crazy, and we will not look for easy ways, so we choose the second option: load some completely scripted map, in which no action is required from the player (and preferably, so that no actions would be possible on his part) - an example is Freeman's inspection of the Citadel's attractions while in a coffin. The only problem is where to get such a card. You can do it yourself, but I don't have much time, because I can hear the screams of the orderlies in the corridor. There was like some kind of map on City17, but it was too hard for me to dig there, but I heard about the Mr. Valve, which is one of the earliest intro options. You can watch the video on YouTube, or you can download the map itself (I really don't know where the fans dug it up). I already had a card, we are trying, testing - tk. This is just an introductory screen saver, this video on the engine lasts only ten seconds, no more. Then we are thrown into the menu. A screensaver that lasts 10 seconds is not the case, so we need to somehow loop it. The most primitive option is to make an automatic transition to the map itself. But I'm not sure if it will work, and also - it's too primitive and rude. Reload the same map every ten seconds? Insanity is the same. Therefore, it is best to reorganize the logic on the map so that it loops through all the scripts. To do this, we will use the ripent utility, which makes it easy to extract and inject the list of entities into the BSP.

This will be of interest only to mappers.
So, extract the .ent file using GCFScape or ripent, open it and study the logic. The map is small, short, so the list of entities is small, to our delight, especially to me, who is already banging on the door with might and main ... It is quite expected that all scripts are tied to a single multi_manager, which is launched at the start of the map. This mm launches: faidin and camera, then basic scripts and sound, and then fadeout and exit (we will remove the last one right away). We need to loop the execution of this mm, and this is the easiest step. You just need to specify the name mm and the time after which it should start itself up again. Just in case, add the line "spawnflags" "1" to show the game that this entity is allowed to run mm.
Now we need to deal with the camera, and this moment turned out to be the most difficult and long stage for me, since I had almost never dealt with it before. Fortunately, the orderlies just stopped breaking the door and left somewhere - after I pretended to be a guest from a very borderline world, asking "Nashchyalnik, Xen in which direction?" Which means I have plenty of time.
The problem turned out to be the looping of the camera's movement (even though it was already looped) - simultaneously with the fade-in, the camera starts moving somewhere outside, and, having passed a long and winding route, stops, staring at Mr. Valva, after which a fade-out occurs ... We need to:
- return the camera to its original position;
- after the fadeout, start the faidin again;
- repeat the fadeout at the end of the camera path.
At the same time, the camera must be launched by the multi-manager so that we can achieve synchronization with everything else - with fade-in and out, otherwise, after repeating N cycles, we will have guaranteed out-of-sync and fades will appear in the wrong place, and Mr. Welv - to screw the valve not when we see. And since we have, after all, a splash screen, the repetition of N cycles is more than likely.
So, the camera starts up with a certain period, fade-in and out - too. The camera is moving along path_corners and the path of the camera is already looped by caring developers. But, the camera does not return to the starting point, it returns to the first pap_corner. In addition, the camera just returns there, that is, it flies, passing through the wall and showing all this disgrace to the player ^ W to the viewer. But I took a spectacular shot of what is usually seen only out of the corner of the eye:
http://pix.playground.ru/278556/16478/788824/
And this picture is visible to us because mm, being re-activated, launches both the camera and the fadein at the same time. Apart from the fact that the fadeout is too short.
Rules:
- copy one of the paf corners and copy the coordinates of the camera's starting point into it (there may well be a bunch of entities at one point, so it's okay) - it will be a "zero" path_corner and the camera will start moving from it. We redirect the camera to this paf_corner, and redirect itself to the paf_corner that was previously the target of the camera. In the very last pat_corner, change the target to zero pat;
- you need to hide the return of the camera. It would be cool to somehow conjure ^ W to teleport it to zero puff, and there is even a checkmark in the flags, but it doesn’t work: 0 No, I’m sure it has nothing to do with clouding my mind, I even made a test card - it doesn’t work, moves in a circle as if nothing had happened ... Therefore, we will choose a different path, namely, hide the camera movement with fades:
- all that remains is to configure them. The problem is that the faydin is too short, and if we make it big, it’s too long to start. Therefore, it was decided to divide the faidin into two - one is launched at startup and never again (for this I gave it the magic name game_playerspawn); the other is launched by the multi-manager some time after mm starts itself. Feydins do not differ from each other, except for the names and the order of launch, therefore, it was possible to decide in a different way - to create a trigger that, when starting the map, will personally launch this fade only once, and then mm will launch it.
The gap between the mm start and the fadein start is filled with a significantly lengthened fadeout. As a result, the camera flies up to Mr. Valve, a long fadeout is triggered. While the fadeout lasts, mm starts itself. This triggers the camera. The camera flies out and at this moment faidin starts and disperses the darkness. The cycle is closed.
Everything else is done very simply. This is how the multi-manager launches Mr. Valva, you just need to tweak the sequencing_sentences a little and enable the repeatable flags in them. In addition, there is music on the map, but it is implemented in a bad way - with the help of a separate trigger, due to which it plays only once. We fix this by assigning a track number in worldspawn using the sounds parameter. Now the music is looped. I changed the MP3 track to one that was pulled from the alpha, but no one forbids you to change it to something else (for example, to that track, an excerpt from which sounds in the Welv video intros - it would be logical).
The most interesting thing remains - how to put our CL on the screensaver?
Firstly, Windows does not recognize the bat-nickname for the splash screen, so you need to register the map valve in autoexec.cfg. To organize an exit from our splash screen, it is better to pin in config.cfg some keys on quit, for example, hehe, bind MOUSE1 quit ... I also pinned quit on Space, Tab, F1, Pause and arrows - so, just in case ... It's a pity, you can't use Escape.
Now rename hl.exe to valve.scr. If you rename it to hl.scr, then for some reason the game will start accessing the non-existent hl directory and create hl_russian, which will lead to a regular crash. Now we can "test" our splash screen with a double click, "configure" using an item in the menu (in fact, all this stupidly starts the half), and also "set" it as a splash screen. The Windows menu will appear (in this case, the CL will start - exit it) and by clicking OK and moving away ^ W ^ W we can observe the appearance of our own screensaver through the X minutes set in the settings ... If you knew how she got me already for The time that I ruled this fucking card% D
Screen with HL in the splash menu:



If you click "options" or "view", the screensaver will just start. The same will happen every time you open the screensaver menu%)) Copy somewhere in the Windows folders, at least in my XPshka, you don't need a screensaver, you just need to select "Install" / "Install" in the menu by right-clicking on vavle.scr, but I will not say for 7k, test it. Moreover, I tried to copy the contents to the WINDOWS folder - CL swore at the wrong location of Mss32.dll - perhaps this is due to the bitness of the OS. Maybe it was necessary to copy it to system32.
In case there are problems under 7, I can suggest that you create a self-extracting archive using WinRAR that will quietly unpack itself at startup and launch a batch file that launches the half and cleans up the files after itself - it is all elementary in it, an example of a batch file can be found in the closed 10th part of "secrets and gags", I posted a couple of SFX-builds there. Rename this archive to .scr and try to put a splash screen.

Of course, I did not use a full-size half as a screensaver, but took as a basis my stripped-down _microhalflife (the one that is 40 meters) - throwing out a bunch of unnecessary ones, such as parabots, models for multiplayer players, a large number of sounds, an amphitheater and related files to him; as well as having bloody gutted by the maniac Tupas empty models, sprites and vadniks, I managed to get a 23-meter splash screen (of which 3 meters is an mp3 track). Of course, here you can still find something unnecessary to throw out - for example, sounds and software, and I did not touch the menu at all, although it is quite possible to do without it (the resolution and video mode can be configured using a batch file - valve.scr quite accepts launch parameters from the command line) ... I also tried to replace hl.dll with a lightweight version from Alex, but there are too many things cut out, even the camera is not there%)) And also the lever disappeared, the sprites of the bulbs and there is clearly not enough multi-manager. But worldspawn is left, already something% D And, oddly enough, monster_generic (which is Mistar Valva) too.

You can download the ready-made screensaver here (10.7 Mb). Do not forget to activate key.reg before starting experiments, otherwise the screensaver will ask for a CD-key - however, a ponty screensaver ...% __% Well, at least Steam is not required for this screensaver, since it has a built-in lightweight emulator provided by Tupas.
By the way, such an idea - if you use the Source engine as a screensaver (and it is even better suited to this in view of the presence of a considerable number of background cards and, in general, the map_background commands), then you can run not only maps, but also videos on it -rolls (although it is possible in CL, but it is still unknown what is with the formats) - maybe you remember in the old parts of this topic my posts with the proposal to use CL2 instead of the video player%) Thus, we have the opportunity to put some movie. Although it was possible to rename mpc-hc to .scr, for example, but it would hardly be so easy to use - where to get autoplay, how to tell the player that this video should be shown, and not what you watched yesterday? .. With HL2 it is much clearer and more convenient ...
In short, there is a wide scope for aggravating schizophrenia.

So, it's time to round off - and not because the door is already crunching and cracking under the titanium mounts of the orderlies ... no, just the back of the cabinet creaked and a shadow crawled out of there. It seems to me that this is the same Advisor who wants to suck the remnants of my brain D% But I will still post a couple of spectacular shots taken from a sadist card I have worn out - they turned out when I once again broke my camera:
http: // pix. playground.ru/278556/16478/788822/
http://pix.playground.ru/278556/16478/788823/ // player spawn
http://pix.playground.ru/278556/16478/788825/
http: // pix.playground.ru/278556/16478/788826/
http://pix.playground.ru/278556/16478/788827/
// sorry for 16-bit color - forgot to change% D after alphahalfa

Well, that's all for today, wish me luck, my mentally ill friends - and then, maybe, next time I’ll tell you how to escape through the window, being in a locked room without ventilation and emergency openings, located at the height of the ninth floor, having in my arms only a torn straitjacket and a wire from the keyboard%)