thanks, and good to hear hahaha

Thank you for commenting. When I looked in the L4D2 pak01_dir, I found the hunter with its face in one piece. It's in materials -> models -> infected. I only found the L4D1 broken face Hunter when I looked in L4D1's pak01_dir. If there's some other Hunter texture in the L4D2 folder that people have been using, then I wouldn't know about it because I don't have experience making Hunter texture addons.

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yep

Hahaha. That's how officers do it in Manhunt County, North Carolina.

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I think you would need to get the model in Substance Painter and, if it lets you, map the default texture on the model. After this, you could hopefully make whatever changes you wanted and then export the edited texture by itself (trying to replace both the texture and model file(s) would probably be hard). You could also try to make a texture from scratch on top of the default model, but I'm not sure how well this would go when trying to save these custom texture/model files and also make them not look messed up in-game.

@@NebulousNova yeah now messing with crowbar learning how things work, will unpack the file, i supose i dont unpack vtf file since its textures, which type of file thst u think has model u would recommend me to unpack so i can for sure its model?

@@kizzwave Yeah, no reason I see to try to unpack .vtf files. I think you can just find any texture, and then go into the models folder you see when you first open pak01_dir.vpk, and then unpack whatever model files of the texture you want in there. As far as what .vtf file I would recommend that has a model you could unpack, I would say that you try file_cabinet1, as I would think that it would be easy enough to import and edit in 3D modeling/painting programs. It's under the Counter Strike props for the map cs_office, but you can also search for it in GCFScape if you want.

makes sense with that name

I'll start with part of a response that I gave to someone else who had this problem some months ago, inside of the lines below: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ you got a "tier0.dll" error...maybe because your game files are corrupted, which you can fix by going into Steam, right click on L4D2 -> properties -> installed files -> verify integrity of game files you also may just be missing the "tier0.dll" file, and you can fix this by downloading the Left 4 Dead 2 Authoring Tools in Steam after sorting your library by "Tools" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ As far as I've seen, the authoring tools files that you would need to do anything with (including vpk.exe) should go into a folder called "bin" inside of your main "Left 4 Dead 2" game folder. I've never seen these tools have their own separate folder outside of the main "Left 4 Dead 2" folder, with identical names and file paths. In your case, you could re-install the authoring tools files to try to get them to go into the Left 4 Dead 2 game folder, instead of a separate folder. You could also move the authoring tools files yourself into the Left 4 Dead 2 game folder, if you wanted to, and if you're confident that the folder paths are basically the same. As long you have Left 4 Dead 2 installed, the Left 4 Dead 2 Authoring Tools installed in the correct location, and as long as you make sure that your game files aren't corrupted, dragging your addon folder into vpk.exe should package it into a .vpk file. In the case that you think there is still something missing from your computer required for vpk.exe to work after you have followed the steps I mentioned, you could either see if you get other specific errors that give you an idea of what you need to download, or you could also just try to follow this tutorial on another computer to see if you have better luck.

@@NebulousNova So I deleted l4d2 and the l4d authoring files and reinstalled them and I also verified the integrity of the files of both l4d2 and the authoring tools and that didn't work but I moved the files from the l4d authoring tools bin folder into the l4d2 bin and I think it's working now. I guess for some reason installing the l4d authoring files didn't go in the right place so I had to move them. It didn't give me the error when I dragged my addon onto the .vpk file so Imma go through the rest of the tutorial to make sure its working. Thank you for you're help. I'll reply again if there's anymore problems.

So it's working now in game but it's very slow so imma see what you said to other people in these comments cause I think I remember you talking to someone abt that but if i can't figure out how to fix this problem then i'll reply again.

I fixed this after forever. I had to change the rate to a different one than the original audio for some reason. So I fixed all the problems. All I gotta do now is make more voice lines. :)

@@TheFlyingTouchman2349 Good to hear. I would have replied again days earlier, but I was busy.

the m60 texture is in Left 4 Dead 2 -> left4dead2_dlc2 -> pak01_dir.vpk (you can navigate through it like you would any other pak01_dir.vpk). I unfortunately didn't realize until later that the "dlc" folders had a good amount of stuff that couldn't be found in the main "left4dead" folder. Whenever you can't find a file that you're trying to edit in the future, it's a good idea to check all the folders with "dlc" in the name that are inside of the "Left 4 Dead 2" folder.

@NebulousNova thank you, I'm new to this and is my first attempt at making a weapon sticker mod for my girlfriend...

@@RIGaming7110 You're welcome. Like with everything, you gotta start somewhere.

I don't plan on doing that because you can make that type of addon by following what I show here. It's just that file/folder names and locations will be in different spots under the left4dead2 "sound" folder. You might have to change the healing sound by replacing files under one or more of the left4dead2_dlc folders if replacing them under the main folder "left4dead2" doesn't work.

As long as you have the Left 4 Dead 2 Authoring Tools, which can be installed through Steam, dragging your addon folder into vpk.exe (including a shortcut of it) should create a .vpk file. The files in your addon folder shouldn't have an effect on whether your addon gets packaged, at least from what I've seen. I don't think I've ever had a problem with vpk.exe doing nothing after having installed the Left 4 Dead 2 Authoring Tools, so if you do already have them installed, and vpk.exe isn't working, I would then recommend that you go into Steam and verify the integrity of the L4D2 and L4D2 Authoring Tools files. This verification should fix any problems with files not working properly. You can verify the L4D2 and L4D2 Authoring Tools files by going into each program's properties from within the Home tab in Steam.

Sounds like you had fun. The Death school is definitely one of most useful schools because of receiving health from the enemy with many of its spells, so you made a good choice. The Balance school is a bit more challenging, but this can make it more fun in my opinion, though this isn't really a guarantee that your dad felt the same way. Yeah, Wizard101 is definitely one of those nostalgia games for some people. I've seen a good number of people who haven't played Wizard101 in years, but watch videos of the game, and people who came back to the game for a bit after not having played for a while because they remember the good times they had playing it. Don't get me wrong, Wizard101 is definitely a fun game, but having to pay for so many things, like zones and good items that can only be gotten from the Crown Shop, I think really stopped a lot of people from continuing to play it. People I know who I would sometimes play Wizard101 with largely stopped playing for this reason, and the fact that the developers (KingsIsle) haven't really let up on making people pay for all sorts of things isn't helping this.

Make sure that: - The folder path to the sound is correct (also, everything should be named correctly) - Your addon is packaged as a .vpk file, and is placed in the "addons" folder - You aren't subscribed to any other credit music addons that might conflict with your custom one - The file extension is not in the name of your file (on Windows, with file extensions off, you shouldn't see, for example, .wav at the end of your file's name) - You are playing on a local/private server, as I can't guarantee that custom addons will work on public servers available to everybody from the game menu The problem still could be that you are trying to use a sound file that doesn't have the right extension for the credits music, in which case, it's best to convert your sound. You may need to save your custom sound as a .mp3 file instead of a .wav file (you can use Audacity to do this). If saving the sound as .mp3 doesn't work, save your sound as a .wav, and make sure that the encoding is set to "Signed 16-bit PCM" in the export menu. If your sound wasn't .wav before, the fact that it's now saved in this format might make the difference in whether your custom sound works.

@NebulousNova I did it but no still not works it's there's way to recover it? Or may be all tutorial no longer works or may be works in l4d2 or l4d1? I think no longer works beacause of latest version

@@Mrpetegeometry I made a new addon less than a week ago, and it still works fine in-game for me, so my tutorial should still work. As long as you have Left 4 Dead 2 through Steam, and follow the tutorial steps correctly, your custom addon should show up when playing. At this point, I'm thinking that you may have created a folder path to the wrong sound, and in this case, I would recommend trying to look for the correct one in the Left 4 Dead 2 game files, and then creating the folder path again. Also, just know that this tutorial was made with Left 4 Dead 2 in mind, as following this tutorial when trying to make Left 4 Dead 1 addons hasn't really gone well from what I've seen (the addons rarely, if ever, work). You can also make sure that no files needed for addons to work properly are missing or corrupted by going into Steam, and then verifying the integrity of Left 4 Dead 2's game files. You can do this by going into Left 4 Dead 2's properties from the Home tab within Steam.

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You need to do this in an image editing program, such as GIMP or Photoshop. You just open the .tga texture file and custom image file, and then drag and drop/copy and paste the custom image on top of the texture, and then you can basically make whatever changes you want.

I think only the current US president can enter "biden" and have it be recognized...I had no luck with it In the case that "the biden command" is a reference to something else, elaborate

yep, and it's still as fun as I remember

@@NebulousNova you’re right

yikes...I tried to walk around it when I was playing before and didn't realize how big of a mistake I made lol

Thank you. I originally played this game some years back without recording it, but a couple days ago, I decided to play it again while recording, and then upload my favorite moments to the internet. I definitely had a lot of fun during both playthroughs. I watched Pyrocynical around the mid 2010s, but don't remember him having made a Cry of Fear video, though it's interesting to now know that he did this. I think there were a few notable gaming KZbinrs uploading Cry of Fear videos around the mid 2010s as well, which is how I think a lot of people heard about the game. I, on the other hand, may have honestly found out about the game through Steam recommendations, but I can't say for sure. I'm happy that my Cry of Fear videos are getting attention early on, and I luckily have more Cry of Fear videos that I am going to upload, so look out for those.

Reasons for the skin not showing up in game are: - you have another addon that conflicts with your skin addon (you can test this by disabling/moving most or all of your other addons, and then seeing if your custom skin addon works) - the folder path to your custom skin is not set up correctly - you are trying to test your skin on somebody else's public server found in the online server list (no guarantees addons will work in this situation) - your addon folder has not been packaged with vpk.exe, or the unpackaged version was just accidentally placed into the "addons" Left 4 Dead 2 game folder - your skin file is not a .vtf file, even though the skin file you are trying to replace is this type of file (make sure .vtf is just the file extension, and not part of the file name!...this seems to cause problems for people a lot) Also, if you haven't already, you can try making some sort of really easy to notice change to the whole skin you are editing, so there isn't a chance of the changes you made to the original skin showing in-game, but only in places that are hard for the player to see.

@@NebulousNova oh wait i just need to put the tar in the folder thanks

@@rylaninstead you're welcome

I feel like I've had that problem in the past and solved it by making the encoding setting "Signed 16-bit PCM" in the "Export Audio" Audacity window. If that doesn't work, converting the audio to a different format, or re-saving the audio using a program (such as Audacity), and loading the new audio into Audacity should hopefully allow you to set up your custom sound so that it plays in-game without problems. One or more of these things I mentioned should help, and if not, then I think the problem is likely caused by another one of your Audacity sound and/or export settings. In this case, I would recommend trying to make addons with different sounds each time, until one of the sounds doesn't play static. If you try this, and all the sounds are just static, then I think I would say to keep messing with your Audacity settings to see if you can find one that is responsible for the static issue.

@@NebulousNova Changing the encoding setting worked! thanks a lot!

@@pickabetternay6818 You're welcome! Glad I could help.

The only guaranteed solution that I know of would be to have your custom sound be re-recorded at a higher volume. I know this isn't the answer that people are looking for, but if a sound is originally at a low volume, then amplifying will cause noticeable distortion of some sort basically all of the time. Whenever your custom sound is already recorded/exported from an audio processing program (in which it was created) at a high volume level, then there shouldn't be any problems with volume that is too low. Maybe there is some sort of effect, plugin, tool, etc. out there that allows you to boost the level of quiet sounds without causing noise distortion creating by audio clipping, but you would have to look into this, as there isn't anything like this I know of that I could point you towards.

thank you

Click on the dots next to the name of your sound in Audacity, go through the dropdown list to "Rate", and you should be able to change the audio rate to whatever you want. I don't think I've ever had an experience with it not changing when I click on this, so I'm not sure why that wouldn't work for you. Maybe make sure that your audio rate when exporting your sound is the same as what you changed the audio rate to when you clicked through the dots menu earlier. Also make sure that your sound is not playing when you go to change the audio rate, as the rate values will be greyed out. Audacity 3.6 and above makes it inconvenient to view audio sample rates, so to avoid this inconvenience, I would recommend using an Audacity version such as 3.5. If you are using a different audio editor than Audacity to change the rate of your sound, then I unfortunately can't help you with issue, and I recommend that you try to look for a guide/tutorial about this somewhere else on the internet.

I haven't tried to make that type of mod (replacing the picture of a map object), so I wouldn't be able to confidently make a tutorial on that. I would think that, to do this, you would just need to make the folder path to wherever the poster file is and put your custom photo in the mod folder where the default poster photo goes. You will probably have to save your image as a .vtf file for it to show up in game, and for more on this, I would recommend that you watch either my L4D2 Skin Tutorial or Flashlight Tutorial, as these should help you with using custom textures in L4D2. If you find the original poster file and successfully replace it, and see it has formatting issues when you view it in game (the image is cut off, isn't rotated correctly, or so on) you might just have to make changes to it in an image editor to get the results you are looking for.

you should be able to

good to hear

This can usually be fixed by clicking no on the the popup messages when you go to load in your video. If this makes your program crash, then there's probably either an operating system or hardware issue that is causing this. If you run into the crash problem, adjusting some system settings, reinstalling the OS, or uninstalling its updates might solve this problem, but if it seems to be hardware related, then you might just be better off trying to adjust your hardware settings, using a different version of Avidemux, or trying to do the datamosh effect on another computer. If you are getting a green screen after clicking no on the popups, then that is something I don't think I've seen before, and in this case, maybe try downloading Avidemux 2.5.5, or another version close to this one, and try to datamosh again. If datamoshing on another version doesn't go well for you, then you can try to follow some of the other tips I mentioned earlier.

@@NebulousNova i figured it out, i had to render the video in Quicktime, otherwise it wouldnt work.

@@Usernametaken108 glad that you figured it out

The part where my health switches to 10k seems to be a feature of this specific battle, but it can come across like a glitch. I wasn't on my Ice wizard when recording this, and I guess KingsIsle thought that it would give all players a chance at beating Merle Ambrose by increasing their health. It looks like these health increases happen whenever Merle wants you to use a spell to reply to his command.

@@NebulousNova where did you get that wand that has multiple school spells in it?

@@batman5194 I got that wand from the Zafaria Safari pack in the Crown Shop. All those times I had the different school wand hit spells was because you are given those spells for a round (they replace everything that is in your deck for that round) when Merle Ambrose tells you to do certain things during the battle. My wand doesn't have all the different school's hits like how it looks in parts of the battle, but there are some wands with a a few different schools' attacks that you can get in the game though, like the Flashing Dragon Spear from the Phoenix Hoard Pack.

@@NebulousNova by any chance do you know how to initiate the scion of ice quest? I'm level 130 an still can't unlock that mission so I can get that ice tree.

@@batman5194 It's been some time since I did that quest, but from what I remember, you have to get through a good amount of Empyrea, and eventually you are given a quest to become Bartelby's scion. Without spoiling too much of what I remember, you have to go back to Ravenwood to get and complete this quest, and towards the end of it, you get the Scion of Ice spell. I also remember the Scion of Ice quest being a main quest, so you hopefully shouldn't be able to miss it.

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You should just need to make sure that all the files and folders are named and organized correctly, and make sure that your own addons aren't conflicting with addons you're subscribed to in the Steam workshop, and the sound should play fine in game. That's always worked for me.

@@NebulousNova unfortunately despite seemingly putting it in correctly it still doesn't work

@@45hr52 Maybe try making an addon with a different sound following the tutorial steps. If you want, you could try to make an addon with the same sound I show in the video, to see if it works for you. If the sound won't play in game, then the problem probably is that a mistake is being made, and I would then recommend trying to follow the tutorial steps again. If the sound does play in game, then I think the problem with your original addon's sound not playing could either be due to editing the wrong sound file (maybe there are duplicate sounds, and one of them plays more often than the other in the game, and you were trying to replace one that doesn't show up much) or like before, the problem could be due to a mistake. If what I said above doesn't help, you could also try to try to fix your L4D2 game files (if you think they might be messed up and causing your problem) by going to Left 4 Dead 2 in Steam and using the "Verify integrity of game files" option. Also know that if you are playing on online public servers, I can't guarantee that your addon will show up there. I can only guarantee that it will show up on local servers that you create (when the addon is working properly), and I would imagine it would appear in game on private servers too, as long as custom addon support isn't disabled for some reason, and also possibly, as long as the people on the server have your addon downloaded.

@@NebulousNova I was thinking I probably messed up something in the files Thank you very much for your help by the way Also if more information helps what I'm trying to do is replace the tanks music

@@NebulousNova still doesn't work, it doesn't even show up in addons. at all i also tested on another computer to see if the files were the issue but it still doesn't work... i followed your instructions and even tried another tutorial to see if i could find any issues all the folders are organized and named the audio has been adjusted and set to wav i placed it in the addons folder for L4D2 i'm gonna try your addon to see if it works other than that any other ideas?

Thanks, hahaha. Good luck, and glad I could help.

You're welcome. Glad I could help.

thanks!

It should work if all the steps were followed correctly. I made a local main menu music mod a couple months back to test this, and the music played fine for me in game

@@rylaninstead I can't (or at least wouldn't want to) imagine addon creation support breaking for Left 4 Dead 2. In the case where it is broken because of a recent update, I would think that you could fix this by going back to an earlier version of the game. This normally is done by going into the game's properties on Steam and selecting an earlier version, but you would first have to check that going back to an earlier version is an option of L4D2 in Steam. In the case you are trying to but can't go back to an earlier version of L4D2 on Steam, you would need to find an older non-Steam version of L4D2 somewhere online.

@@NebulousNova i match the sound correctly but for some reason not working it works but not the time tho

@@rylaninstead All I can say from what I'm hearing is that you make sure most of the settings of the base and custom sound, like the sample rate, length, and encoding setting (which you can choose when exporting from Audacity) are the same. You could also try using another sound, just to see if the sound you are using is causing problems for some reason.

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Make sure that your addoninfo.txt file is set up correctly and is in your main addon folder, and it should show up; that's always worked for me. If your addon doesn't show up in the addons and doesn't work at all in-game, then there's probably something bigger going on that you will probably need to look into.

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thank you for the comment

I don't think that needs a video. You should just be able to use the link I have in the description to download GMPU without a problem. Also, I just tested the download link a minute ago, and it still downloads the program fine.

@@NebulousNova What he is downloading is the file folder, not the program itself.

​@@ChevroletCeltaCeltic2008 I'll give some info that you might find useful, as I can't tell the exact problem you're seeing at this point. First, you don't need to separately download any folders, as the only folder you need that you likely don't already have comes with the download of GMPU, and is titled "Gmod Publishing Utility 2.2". In case you were having trouble setting up GMPU, download links to the files needed when configuring GMPU's "Set Paths" window (the files "gmpublish.exe" and "gmad.exe") are also in the description. The GMPU link I have in the description downloads the entire program, which itself is located in a folder that is packaged in a .zip file named "Gmod Publishing Utility 2.2". You can extract this folder using any built-in packaged file extractor that comes with your computer, or with a free program like 7-Zip. After extracting the "Gmod Publishing Utility 2.2" folder, you will notice that all the program files are located in a folder of the same name at the area on your computer where you extracted it. Within the GMPU program's folder, you can just open "gmpu.jar" to run the program.

@@NebulousNova 4:33 In this chapter of the video I made 35 sounds, do I have to put ("Dead Sound Woman 1") <-- each one with the same name but separate, how do I like that --> ("Dead Sound Woman 2") or do I have to put the name of the folder with all 35 sounds that I put in?

@@ChevroletCeltaCeltic2008 As I've told someone else in this video's comments before, I'm not sure how to make it so that you can have multiple different custom sounds replace the base player death sound in Gmod, in that you have a custom sound which is chosen randomly (or otherwise) to be played in the place of the base death sound. Doing this will likely involve adding more code to the death.lua file (or making another .lua file), but I unfortunately can't help with this. You can check developer.valvesoftware.com to see if you can find any info that might help you.