Yullo,

OK brief introduction. I'll try and show you how to customise your Counter Strike:Source game. From the menu backgrounds, weapons, radio commands, font colours and layout and

some more. You don't need a lot of things, just a text editor! Kk to begin...


Easy stuff

Models

Easy stuff. Just click here to see the models and crap on CSDL. If you don't like everything here,

click here for some more.

Find the model you want and click download. Scroll down and click download (If you're a subscriber) or fill in the verification thingy and such and then click download! Open the

.ZIP file with WinRAR, windows w/e you use and if there's a readme I recommend you read it quickly. For the majority of models, you can just extract all the folders to your

CStrike folder.

So for example you download your new desert eagle model that looks awesome. Make sure CSS is completely closed down (Steam can remain open) and extract the FOLDERS (Probably

models, materials, textures, sounds etc.) to your local cstrike folder. For me this is "D:\Games\Steam\steamapps\********\counter-strike source\cstrike" where ****** is your

account name. It'll ask you if you want to overwrite or merge folders so just click yes to all.

If you need more help
http://www.counter-strike-dl.com/installin...urce-skins.html and also here: http://www.counter-strike-dl.com/forums/in...p?showtopic=800

Update 3rd July

I totally forgot about this, but you can now haz maps! wewt! It's the same procedure as above, except you go here:

<a href="http://www.counter-strike-dl.com/source-maps.html" target="_blank">http://www.counter-strike-dl.com/source-maps.html</a> to download them. Choose your map type (DE_xxx or CS_xxx) and then the actual map you want. Download and extract to

/cstrike. DE_xxx are DEstruction maps - blow something up. CS_xxx are Counter Strike maps - i.e. counter the terrorists attempt to hold the hostages.

Hopefully there may be a miscellaneous category for maps like FY_xxx (FunnY maps) and DM_xxx (Death Match maps) and some others.


Sound packs

Same procedure as above. Click here for the CSDL sound packs. To install you just do the above. Personally, I

like the "Kyrottimus Army Radio Pack v1" because of the realism. It's a lil abrupt but there you are.


A lil harder....

Autobuy

Open up WordPad / Notepad / your text editor. Navigate to your cstrike folder (steamapps/account name/counter-strike source/cstrike) and open "autobuy.txt". It's fairly self

explanatory, but I'll still help a little.

When you're in game and you wanna keep the pace, you may hit autobuy so you can peg it for a headshot. But sometimes, it seems to think arming you with a famas and no armour or

nades or pistol is gonna allow you to win the game. Wtf? I hated this since I like my pistols and nades, and especially in the first few rounds it's really annoying. In this

text file, it has the priorities of autobuy. What it'll go for first when you hit autobuy.

The equipment names are all abbreivated slightly (p228, deagle etc.) and they thankfully left a little chart above to show us what they all are. Use this to order your autobuy.

The top being what it will buy first. For me, mine is


You can use spaces in between, it doesn't matter. It's just used here to distinguish between guns, grenades, pistols etc.


Rebuy

Almost identical steps to above, except you open "rebuy.txt" instead of "autobuy.txt". (Same folder).

The abbreivations are a bit different because you're buying your previous weapons, rather than from scratch. So you don't actually specify your gun, you specify what type you

want first.



These are the abbreviations. Put them in order from top being the first to buy, bottom being the least important. Mine is:



"FIRE IN THE HOLE"

This section is for those of you that want a REALLY customised experience.

Take your text editor, and navigate to cstrike/resource. Open cstrike_english.txt (Or cstrike_<Your lang>.txt). Here you'll see a swarm of familar strings. If you have Word wrap

on, disable it.

The first 20 lines or so are option and menu details, so I left them alone. If you know what you're doing go for it.




This is where the fun begins. This is the scoreboard stuff. The team names are "Terrorists" and "Counter Terrorists", but you can change it to something like "Middle Eastern

Bombers" and "Navy Seals" or whatever you want Cstrike_DEAD is what is displayed next to a name when they have died, Cstrike_BOMB is used for the terrorist with the bomb etc.

It's generally self explanatory. Scrolling down a lil, you can change the names of the guns as they appear in the buy menu. The descriptions, and details. Note changing the

details won't affect the actual gun, it's just what will show up on the buy menu;)

\n means line down, so for example will display


%s, %i, %d etc. are all 'substitutions' (To keep it simple). They represent something that's always changing. So if you had something that wrote your health to the screen, it

would first have to find the health of the user. E.g. 83. It then stores this 83 in say Cupboard 2. Then on screen it says "Your health is %s" (Cupboard 2). It's kinda

complicated and that might not really have helped I used to write plugins for Half Life 1 mods so that's how I know. Basically, if there's a %s or %d or %i etc. anywhere

DON'T CHANGE IT. Only change full text.

Scrolling down further you can change tons of stuff.The winning messages, the grenade throwing messages, map stuff, and tons more crap. Has fun.


Complex

ClientScheme.res

With your text editor, go to "cstrike/resource" and open "ClientScheme.res". Might tell you it's not gonna be able to open it, but it will.



Here's where it gets complicated, I don't understand half of the stuff here. For safety, stick only to the "colors" and "fonts" section unless you know what you're doing.

Scrolling down slightly you'll see



The colours are in format "Red, green, blue, alpha". They are out of 255. So HudColor is made up of 255 red parts, (Maximum red intensity) 175 parts green, 0 parts red and full

alpha. Alpha is basically transparency. 255 is solid, 0 is invisible. Now we've got that out of the way, I'll explain the rest of the color variables.



Change these to whatever suits you. You can't really go wrong here, as long as you have the 4 numbers and they're between 0 - 255


Scroll down to fonts. Explanation of this:



Go through the font list and change the ones you want (At your own risk). Make sure you know what they do and put a backup next to it. (E.g. if you change it to Arial Narrow

when it was Tahoma, put "// was tahoma" beside it. // represents a comment, and isn't read by the game engine and is completely ignored)

"HudNumbers" is the numbers of your armour, health, ammo, money etc. That's probably the biggest one


HUD Positioning

Using your trusty text editor, navigate to "cstrike/scripts" and open HudLayout.res. It may look like a heap of jumbled crap at first, but take time to look at it and it should

make sense quite easily, or most of it should.

Going back to your maths lessons, here's a brief explanation of the variables. (Variables are things you can change btw)

"xpos" = The position of the thing on your screen horizontally. (Like the X axis on a graph)
"ypos" = The position of the thing on your screen vertically. (Like the Y axis on a graph)
"wide" = The width
"tall" = The height
"BorderThickness" = Thickness of the border of something
"visible" = Can you see it?

These are the only ones you should change unless you REALLY know what you are doing. Having said that, there are a couple of "miscellaneous" variables that are fine to touch -

such as "MaxDeathNotices" since that's pretty obvious what it is. icon_xpos, icon_ypos etc. are the positions of the icon. Same for digit_xpos. You can also use c-<No.> in your

variables. E.g.



"xpos" "c-210" = The Centre - 210 'movements'. So the centre, but to the left a bit.

And for certain variables (Strictly called bools) only have 2 options. On/true or off/false. 0 = off/false, 1 = on/true

Now go have fun! The details are very fine but interesting as it were . You can change the location of where icons show up on your screen (The scenario location, buyzone

indicator, ammo, hp etc.) how big they are, and even if you can freakin' see em!


UPDATE SEPTEMBER 6th
I'm now offering Counter Strike Source menu backgrounds xD So when you load your CS:S and get the image of the 2 CT's in the background, that can be changed. PM me with the image you'd like to have as a background (Try and make it big, unless you want it tiled or anything) or multiple images







OK THAT'S ALL FOR NOW. I'll slowly be updating this, adding any other features I find.

IF ANYONE ELSE HAS ANY IDEAS PM ME AND I'lL ADD THEM

Well, this is really nice of you Cali. maybe we should sticky this?

Nice guide, it's polished enough to sticky so I don't see why not.

Nice, ill try out some stuff when I get back from Greece.

<3 Calibre

Any success?

(Greatly delayed I know, but I've had internet problems over last few weeks, exams and I also thought i'd leave it for a while to let people try it out )

UPDATE SEPTEMBER 6th
I'm now offering Counter Strike Source menu backgrounds xD So when you load your CS:S and get the image of the 2 CT's in the background, that can be changed. PM me with the image you'd like to have as a background (Try and make it big, unless you want it tiled or anything) or multiple images


Also fixed some minor spelling issues and BBCode problems

the file cs player modern skin r corrupted

plz provide valid link

no

:3