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Last Updated on Monday, 29 June 2009 17:05 Written by Method Sunday, 28 June 2009 10:43
In light of the latest update from Valve, in which VPK's now allow easy installation of maps and campaigns, we felt the need to introduce new measures and regulations that will make it easier for the community to distinguish between VPK content and non-VPK content.
When you upload a map or campaign to L4DMods.com, you can choose between the following sections:
- Beta Maps
- Campaigns
- Survival Maps
- VPK Beta Maps
These sections need to be used as following:
- Beta Maps - This section is for your work in progress maps using the standard BSP format inside your compressed ZIP or RAR file.
- Campaigns - This section is for fully completed campaigns in the VPK format. This is not for maps in beta release. Only for completed maps or Release Candidates in VPK format.
- Survival Maps - This section is the same as the above mentioned Campaigns section, except for the obvious difference: Survival Mode maps.
- VPK Beta Maps - This section is for your work in progress or beta maps in VPK format. No BSPs or anything else will be allowed.
A video tutorial will be available in the forums soon to explain how to get your campaign into the VPK format. If we can all follow these guidelines, it will be much easier for the users who download your wonderful content. Now they know where to find VPK and the previous BSP format.
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Written by Stephan Botha Thursday, 25 June 2009 21:15
Valve has just made me a very happy man. In fact, they just made millions of Left 4 Dead players very happy when they released the long awaited and very overdue update to Left 4 Dead. This update will allow mappers and modders to easily spread their work by means of a VPK compiler. This means that to install a custom skin or map, all you need to do is download a VPK file and double click it and it will install the mod/skin/map for you. Read on to find out more about this new update.
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Last Updated on Sunday, 28 June 2009 09:01 Written by Method Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:28
When the city starts raining bloods…bring an umbrella, and bring a big one because the Bioh4zard 2 team have brought a huge update raining down on us. Actually, bring a gazebo.
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Last Updated on Friday, 26 June 2009 11:49 Written by Stephan Botha Monday, 22 June 2009 07:33
| Dead Before Dawn, the replica of the Crossroads Mall from the movie Dawn of the Dead (2004) is coming to Left 4 Dead. The DBD team has been working tirelessly on the campaign and has vowed not to stop until the campaign is ready for release. Previously, we stated that the estimated release date will be the 1th of July (lol). At the time of this announcement, Valve was said to release the full SDK in a week's time. That didn't happen and we were forced to postpone the release date, BUT, Valve has now confirmed that next week we will have our dirty paws on the full version of the SDK and we're ready for it. I would like to use this opportunity to give you guys a rundown of what's been happening the past few months. So let's get crackin' |
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Ok as you all (should) know, the Crossroads Mall map was originally made for the Half-Life 2 Mod, No More Room in Hell. Which is back into production and for the past 8 weeks, we've had regular updates from the mod team and they are hard at work. We cover all the news from No More Room in Hell on our site as well. (Since it's Zombie related).
Myself and Darth_Brush are project lead on Dead Before Dawn (darth_brush being the godly mapper and I use my super powers in public relations and publicity to promote the campaign and various other tasks concerned to the campaign).
Since about 3 months ago, we took a leap of faith and invited certain community members to join us in creating this mod (Yes, I said it. MOD.) As it is not a FULL mod, it is a mod in the true sense of the word. Modification.
We have added to the team: a pro scripter/coder. His name is pshycokilla. He's creating all the events in the game, from triggers to the multiple crescendos and the gauntlets (Yes, we didnt call them guantlets until Valve did, but we had them in there for a while now). These triggers and other scripts in the campaign, ensure that you need to play the campaign at least 16 times before you have played every possible event in the campaign.
Then we have CosmicD, the god of Muzak who's creating custom, self-made music scenes for the campaign. One which I am very fond of is the part where the players will see the mall for the first time in "real life". This made the hairs on my neck stand on end. It was truly fantastic. Every event, crescendo and gauntlet has its own music cue/clip that will definately break away from the default music from Left 4 Dead and you guys are gonna LOVE it!
Our next talented artist is 3DSteve. 3DSteve is making more custom models and he's also working is ass off on something very special for the campaign that you guys will LOVE!!! (Think exit vehicle) 3DSteve is very talented and I wish I could show you some screenies but that would give the surprise away completely!
Miobeeno has a professional sound studio and he's a professional voice actor. He has done voice overs for many commercials and movie trialers (he sounds just like that dude from ALL the movie trailers) and he's working on the voice recording of another "player" in the campaign. This player is a big surprise to the campaign and we will not give out any more info on this matter as we feel it plays such a big role in the campaign that it would spoil a lot.
Last, but not least, is Shinobi<Wan>. Shinobi is also a pro mapper and he's working on adding more scenes from the movie to the campaign. Most of you who've seen the videos we posted, will now that there is one building in particular (other than the mall of course) that is needed in this campaign. Well, we have that building now.
There you go, this is what we've been doing the last few months. Dead Before Dawn is not a dead project. It's gonna kick Valve's maps off the map and that's a promise.
When we release it, we will release it not as a final version, but as a beta of sorts. We all know that there are always so many things you might want to see changed, prefected, added etc. So that's what we'll be doing when we release it: Gather feedback from the community.
Thank you guys for your ongoing support and thank you for being patient.
Enjoy the screenshots! Click on any image to view the full size.
We are still waiting for the full SDK because the beta is just filled with errors and stuff that don't work. We will be releasing it for Left 4 Dead 1 and we might do the same for Left 4 Dead 2 depeding the outcome of Valve's decision on making it DLC or not.
Enjoy the screenshots! Click on any image to view the full size.
That's all for today!
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Written by Stephan Botha Saturday, 20 June 2009 09:17
Seven months ago, Left 4 Dead hit the shelves and we've been playing our fingers to the bone. Unfortunately, the campaigns that was shipped with the game could only entertain us for so long. Then, Vavle gave us the Survival Pack DLC which included a new game mode, one new map and versus versions for the other two campaigns. Along with that, the completely ruined those versus maps by blocking off almost every spot a Hunter or Smoker can make a decent attack from. They also gave us 15 maps for Survival mode which were merely pieces of the current campaigns cut out of certain maps and made to fit Survival mode. In essence, we were left in the hands of the mappers and modders to give this game some life again.
Finally, we are able to do this. Valve is preparing to release the Full SDK and also a revamped Matchmaking System that will support custom content for Left 4 Dead.
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Last Updated on Monday, 22 June 2009 21:09 Written by Stephan Botha Thursday, 18 June 2009 09:16
Early in May this year, we announced our Downloads Contest. A month has passed for people to upload their goodies and another two weeks has gone by to allow them to rake in the downloads and tap those votes in. Finally, it's all over and we have calculated our winners with a formula so epic, it hurts my brain just talking about it. So here we go. The winners of the L4DMods.com Downloads Contest:
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- gamermikelds : it just runs slow
- gamermikelds : well, i got rid of the Weap skin thing cuz I had a back up for the Army Skin
- Gm-Scorp : i wish i knew how to build maps, yeah i know there are tutorials for it, but for some reason i never take the time to look at them :(
- StephanBotha : Infectous, thanks for you upload but we do not host orange maps. Quality over Quantity.
- Gm-Scorp : i got 1 weapon skin to work but if i put 1 more in there the game doesnt work anymore, and i'm realy not enyojing the standart skins :(
- DanteTheReap : Yeah does anyone know why infected/ weapon skins no longer work? spent a good 5 hours today adding skins, breaking the game and reinstalling and no joy :(
- Gm-Scorp : i used teh awsome skins tha Vincent made but i cant get them to work anymore *Cry*
- Gm-Scorp : i dunno the only thing i know is that they have to fix teh skin problem lol custom skin are better than the original skins XD
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- gamermikelds : too bad modding L4D isn't as easy as OBlivion
- Gm-Scorp : i used more that 10 skins before the update but it doesnt work anymore now
- gamermikelds : I think the prob was that you can't use two skins at once
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