Mod won't work

[wheelgun]

Hi, I recently installed hl2, and have been playing the single person. I downloaded the mod to make alyx nude (AlyxNudeShinyFix), but I can't get it working.

I tried using the installer with the mod, pointing it to steamapps directory, pointing it to the sourcemods directory, but still no joy. Then I tried manually placing the .vmt files in those directory, with still no joy.

After each attempt, I restarted Steam. After each failure, I undid my changes and tried the other methods.

I am wondering if the mod is too old to work with steam now, but I don't know. I'm only interested in hl2 right now, which is an old game, but the steam version is new.

Thanks for any suggestions to get the mod working.

 

[Kyzr]

I honestly don't know what to say. If I don't help you I'd be a douche. If I do help you, then there'd be another messed up dude running a nude alyx mod.

I think I'm going to take the moral highground on this one.

 

[wheelgun]

Okay, I found an old post and added the .vmt files to (C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\Half-Life 2\hl2\materials\models\Alyx), but there still is no change.

Any suggestions appreciated.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

I believe we had a thread about this pretty recently, if you search you may be able to find it. If you are using the same version the other guy was...this mod no long works.

Although you say Half-life 2 is old, it isn't really. Valve ported HL2 onto the new Orange Box engine which Portal / TF2 / Episode 2 came on. Because the Source engine is modular...it provided a significant improvement for HL2. This did also, however, break a lot of old mods as the materials and files have changed a lot. Many of the larger and well known mods have updated to fix these issues, but lesser known (and less tasteful) mods such as this have been left on the scrapheap I'm afraid.

 

[Barnz]

hahaha, you naughty kiddo.

it should work fine on the latest version of half-life 2. I think the problem is new hl2/engine is forcing the game always use the original data. I don't know what works, and what not, but I heard similar problems. make 'em "read only", it might work.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

What you heard and what you did to fix it it eh?

I just didn't want him to go blind. You can deal with the complaint email when his mother contacts us Barnz.

 

[wheelgun]

I believe we had a thread about this pretty recently, if you search you may be able to find it. If you are using the same version the other guy was...this mod no long works.

Thanks Glenn, the thread I located the information I did get (regarding the models directory) was from herel. The fellow stated that he got it working, but never followed up by stating exactly how, though.

Although you say Half-life 2 is old, it isn't really. Valve ported HL2 onto the new Orange Box engine which Portal / TF2 / Episode 2 came on. Because the Source engine is modular...it provided a significant improvement for HL2. This did also, however, break a lot of old mods as the materials and files have changed a lot. Many of the larger and well known mods have updated to fix these issues, but lesser known (and less tasteful) mods such as this have been left on the scrapheap I'm afraid.

Intersting, and thanks. I was surprised that the game looks and plays as well as it does, having played Q3 engines from roughly the same era, and that makes sense.

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it should work fine on the latest version of half-life 2. I think the problem is new hl2/engine is forcing the game always use the original data. I don't know what works, and what not, but I heard similar problems. make 'em "ready only", it might work.

Thanks Barnz, I found the original .vmt files (namely alyxskin2.vmt and alyx_sheet.vmt), and replaced them with the modified files, but still no go.

There are files with the same beginning, but they are .vtf files. Perhaps something needs to be done with those, but I don't know this game well enough to know what (hence my posting here).

 

[Dead Phil]

How about not be a perv in the first place, that is an good option.

I mean seriosly why did you tell us that it was a mod that included a naked Alyx, i kinda says that you are a creepy kid that masturbates all day, and constantly has fan fictional sex with Alyx.
It's not right

 

[wheelgun]

How about not be a perv in the first place, that is an good option.

I mean seriosly why did you tell us that it was a mod that included a naked Alyx....

I don't associate perversion with the female form. It is part of nature, and is represented in innumerable expressions of art throughout the history of humankind.

i kinda says that you are a creepy kid that masturbates all day, and constantly has fan fictional sex with Alyx.
It's not right

On the other hand, fantasizing about strange men masturbating, as you just did, that most certainly is not a behavior one would typically associate with a healthy heterosexual male.

 

[Dead Phil]

You're excuse is........
God....No just no........
You can't call that art, that is equivilent to saying porn is art

 

[Nisei]

OK I'm having the same problem although not with a nude patch
I've played Half Life 2 with Korin Gantz by my side (a replacement model for Alyx) and now I want to play Episode One but I can't get the Korin model to work anymore.
It still works with HL2 and I'm doing the exact same thing: copy the Korin models and materials folders to Steam\steamapps\myname\half-life 2 episode one\hl2
Why won't this work? I remember I got it working 2 years ago but can't recall how I did it.

 

[Vegeta897]

It's not a nude Alyx but it's used for the same purpose :naughty:

And I believe the issue here is the same as the issue with the Alyx model; Valve's changes to the engine broke a lot of old mods.

 

[Nisei]

But why is it still working with HL2 then? I mean, the engine is the same for all 3 episodes right?

 

[Vegeta897]

Oops, I didn't read your post very carefully. I don't think a model replacement for HL2 is going to work with Episode 1. You'll probably need to change the file name to whatever the new one Episode 1 uses.