Obsidian SDK Installer

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About

The Obsidian SDK Setup tool sets up all the necessary folders and files in their correct directories to allow mapping for Obsidian Conflict to be much simpler. It will ask for your Steam ID and possibly your sourcesdk directory. (If it isn't the default directory set in this tool.) The setup tool will NOT ask you for your steam password. If it does, you may have recieved a hacked version and somebody is trying to steal your steam account. The setup tool sets up Hammer for modding Obsidian Conflict and also allows you to set up game content from games such as Counterstrike: Source, Half Life: Source, or even Left 4 Dead. It does this in a way that is comparable to the mounting system in Obsidian Conflict itself. However, since Hammer cannot read from multiple gcfs, each additional gcf must be extracted. Unfortunately this takes up a huge amount of hard drive space, but it is the only way to be able to access additional content inside of Hammer.

Installation

Start up the tool. It's fairly straight forward from there. Enter your steam id and your steamapps directory path if it asks for it. Answer the questions and watch as it sets up content for you to map with. If you select yes to setting up episode two content, it will automatically set up episode one content. Episodes One and Two will not take up any additional hard drive space on your computer. After that, if you see any red errors, it means that you don't own the game you are requesting to setup. You must own any game that you wish to have access to for Obsidian mapping. If you want Left 4 Dead content, it is very important that you make sure you read below.


Regarding Left 4 Dead Content

Since Left 4 Dead isn't currently mountable in Obsidian Conflict, you must include any Left 4 Dead content in your map, with your map. To do this you will have to copy it from your sourcesdk\bin\orangebox folder to both your obsidian and obsidian sdk folders. When you distribute your map, you must remember to include this content or else others will see an error sign ingame. Soon a tool will be availible that will scan your orangebox\left4dead folder and your map, and set up the necassry relationships to make it work. But until then you have to do it manually.


Regarding Custom Content