The Animated Main Menu

[Grahf]

Is it the animated main menu that makes the start up so slow? If so, how do I disable it?

 

[Tyguy]

cant..gotta wait

 

[urseus]

Theres got to be a way to disable it for a plain splash screen.


Like a console command maybe. I just found the command to make the dead bodies clip each other for a nice pile up effect of combine.

 

[Shadow-warrior]

Go to half-life 2\hl2\cfg folder

open Valve.rc with notepad

at the bottom put "//" (without quotes) before the "startupmenu" entry

 

[guise]

when i added -console to the launch options, the 3d background didnt show, it was just a static blurry picture

 

[Goombatommy]

Theres got to be a way to disable it for a plain splash screen.


Like a console command maybe. I just found the command to make the dead bodies clip each other for a nice pile up effect of combine.

Yea man, that dead combine/enemy clipping thing is annoying. Could you possibly tell me the console command or CFG command to enable body pile up?

Thanks man.

 

[Malfunction]

Yea man, that dead combine/enemy clipping thing is annoying. Could you possibly tell me the console command or CFG command to enable body pile up?

Thanks man.

cl_ragdoll_collide "1"

Add that to your .cfg file in your HL2 CFG folder, or just type it into the console every time you start up.

 

[TyrantII]

Go to half-life 2\hl2\cfg folder

open Valve.rc with notepad

at the bottom put "//" (without quotes) before the "startupmenu" entry

don't do that, just add -developer 1

 

[<RJMC>]

the menu is animated?

 

[Captain M4d]

I like the menu personally.

 

[axeil]

I like the menu, but it is a pain to wait for it to load. I wonder how VALVe programmed that menu. It'd be kind of interesting to see, considering I've never seen a 3D animated menu before.

 

[Darkdog]

I do belive the menu is a map..

 

[iamaelephant]

I like how the menu changes as you progress through the game.

 

[Miculus]

the background is a map file. if you go into console when it's up, it'll show you the map name in the upper right corner of the screen

Mic

 

[Sean]

I like how the menu changes as you progress through the game.

It's a neat effect.

There's a command in the console to load a map as a menu background. (map_background, I think) Wonder if you need a special entity in the bsp for it to work?

 

[Grahf]

Thanks.

 

[Doofus]

It's a neat effect.

There's a command in the console to load a map as a menu background. (map_background, I think) Wonder if you need a special entity in the bsp for it to work?

http://www.valve-erc.com/srcsdk/Levels/background_maps.html

From the Source SDK Reference Docs.

 

[sAnt@]

Isnt there supposed to be menus for each location? Even though im in the prison level, i still have the "Trainstation" backround.

http://www.saunalahti.fi/~mirautaj/HL2/HL2/background.jpg

 

[commando]

you all DO know that for every chapter in the game... the main menu is DIFFERENT!

so the ravenholm chapter there is a ravenholm main menu...same with the buggy chapter and the airboat... one for EVERY chapter! how sweet is that

 

[ChoGGi]

actually theres only 7 map backgrounds and theres 30 chapters (check the gcf files if you want)

 

[Baal]

Yea because there are multiple chapters with the same scenary..I guess

 

[sAnt@]

you all DO know that for every chapter in the game... the main menu is DIFFERENT!

so the ravenholm chapter there is a ravenholm main menu...same with the buggy chapter and the airboat... one for EVERY chapter! how sweet is that

I knew that, but for some reason it didnt work.. I completed the game and the menu never changed.