Overwrite Textures in the game

[pnx]

hey everyone

I got the following problem:

After editing the Marine skin's, i want to view them ingame.
But i cant figure out a way to get the game use my textures instead of the ones in the vpk files.
Even if i create a mod and put them in there in the materialsrc they are not used.

can someone help me with that?

thanks, pnx!

[Dalai]

To override files in the base VPKs, you have to put them into a VPK of your own.

[pnx]

hm, okay.

Where does the vpk has to be placed? is the addons/mymod/ folder the right one?
and then in the vpk the folder structure like "materials/models/etc"?
thanks!

edit:

I just tried putting the new vpk into the addons folder: doenst work (even with checked mod in the addons dialog ingame)
tried to put the vpk into the swarm folder, also does not work

[DeepQantas]

There was an update on this issue so you might want to try again.
"- Addon VPKs get priority over base VPKs"

The vpk file needs to be placed like this:
\swarm\addons\teslapower.vpk



When creating your addon the developer wiki says to make the folder structure like:
\swarm\addons\TeslaPower\
\swarm\addons\TeslaPower\addoninfo.txt
\swarm\addons\TeslaPower\models\
\swarm\addons\TeslaPower\materials\
etc.

However, since you're gonna pack it into a VPK file anyway it doesn't really matter where that TeslaPower folder is located. I like to have my stuff at:
\swarm\TeslaPower\

The game itself won't find the files there (and thus I won't have two addons listed in-game) and when I drag'n'drop that folder into vpk.exe I'll just move the resulting teslapower.vpk into the \swarm\addons\ folder manually.

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[Stein]

Dalai also added the command line option -override_vpk, which, if I'm not mistaken will allow it to work without using a VPK (if you want to test things first before packaging it, this is very useful).

[pnx]

Yeah i just tried out to use my mod again and it worked
The -override_vpk will be pretty damn useful
thank you !