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YaLTeR / SourcePauseTool

This was once just a plugin to prevent game unpausing.
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SourcePauseTool

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A plugin for all your pausing needs.

Usage

  1. Download the DLL corresponding to your game / engine / SDK: SDK SPT DLL
    Source SDK (Base) 2007 / New Engine / Source Unpack* / Orange Box spt.dll
    Source SDK (Base) 2013 / SteamPipe / Latest spt-2013.dll
    Black Mesa spt-bms.dll
    Source SDK (Base) 2006 / Old Engine spt-oe.dll

    * Including Portal 3420

  2. Place the DLL into the correct folder: SDK Folder
    Old Engine & Portal (3420) Topmost bin with AdminServer.dll etc.
    Old Engine mods Source SDK Base\bin
    Half-Life: Source hl1
    Half-Life 2 hl2
    Half-Life 2: Episode 1 episodic
    Half-Life 2: Episode 2 ep2
    Half-Life 2: Lost Coast lostcoast
    Portal portal
    Black Mesa bms

  3. Launch the game.

  4. Go to Options > Keyboard > Advanced, check Enable developer console, and press OK.

  5. Press the tilde key (~) and enter plugin_load spt into the developer console.

    • You must disconnect first in Black Mesa.
    • Add plugin_load spt to cfg/autoexec.cfg to load SourcePauseTool automatically.

Building

  1. You will need Visual Studio 2022 (or later) and git.
  2. Open Visual Studio 2022. Click on Tools → Get Tools and Features... from the top bar of the window.
    This should open the Visual Studio Installer in another window. From the Workload tab, install Desktop development with C++. From the Individual Components tab, install:
    • MSVC v143 - VS 2022 C++ x64/x86 build tools
  3. Run the following in cmd: 
    git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/YaLTeR/SourcePauseTool.git
SourcePauseTool\spt.sln
  4. If Windows asks which program to open spt.sln with, choose Visual Studio.
    1. If Visual Studio asks to retarget projects, press OK.
    2. Once Visual Studio is open, right click libMinHook, click Properties, change Platform Toolset to the one corresponding to your Visual Studio version, and press OK.
  5. Choose the build configuration: SDK Configuration
    Source SDK 2007 / New Engine / Source Unpack / Orange Box Release
    Source SDK 2013 / SteamPipe / Latest Release 2013
    Black Mesa Release BMS
    Source SDK 2006 / Old Engine Release OE
  6. Click Build > Build Solution.
    spt*.dll will be in hl2sdk\utils\SourcePauseTool\<Build Configuration>

.srctas documentation

.srctas is the SPT TAS script format. You can find its documentation here.

Contributing

See the contributing guide here.