Find out in this manual how to set the skins in Half-Life 2, if you are still interested in this question, then read further, we will tell you how to do it.
Have you ever received cool skins or models that wanted to replace someone or something in Half-Life 2? You installed them by placing the HL2 files by creating the path to the folder, as in the old directory, downloaded the game and found that they do not work? This is because Valve has changed the structure of Half-Life 2 files and other games. Before that, we could easily change the skins by replacing files in the old directory: Steam / Steamapps / [YourUSERNAME] / HALF-LIFE 2 / HL2, and we know that an attempt to repeat the "old" directory of files (aka adding models / materials) never It will work like the placement of downloaded files in each file you can find!
So look! I offer you this guide with simple and understandable steps to make the downloaded content work in the game! Let's start! Here's how to install the skins.
How to set skins in Half-Life 2?
Well, now download files you need, such as skins.
- Place the downloaded files somewhere, we turn to the desktop
- Open the Half-Life 2 directory: Program Files (x86) / Steam / SteamApps / Common / Half-Life 2 / HL2 or if you have Steam on your desktop, right-click and open the file location, then go from there.
- As soon as you find yourself there, create a new folder called "Custom" without quotes, without symbols, without capital letters, simply "Custom".
- Open the folder you just created, and again create a new folder, this time you can call it anyhow, just do not use the characters. Example, BarneyModel
- Finally, place downloaded files there, run Half-Life 2 and enjoy!
In your directory, everything should look like this: Common / Half-Life 2 / HL2 / CUSTOM / BARNEYMODEL / [DownloadDDFILESHERE].
If the files you downloaded are already packed in a folder named, and not raw, like "materials" or something like that, you do not need to create an additional folder and simply place them in "Custom". Yes, you put almost everything in this folder that replaces something from Half-Life 2, except for cards, as they will work if you place them in an existing MAP folder, but it doesn't matter, just to keep cleanliness All that modifies the game will go to Custom. But not the source modes made by people, fashion go to the "SourcemodS" folder outside "Common".
Here is the end result!
Note that since HL2 episodes are associated with Half-Life 2 (and also are in the same folder, and are not independent), what you change to HL2, through "Custom" will act in his episodes, it can be done similarly If you just add skins or something else in HL2 EP2, but I'm not quite sure about it.
That's all you need to know how to install skins in Half-Life 2.
