Mount Black Mesa content in Obsidian Conflict. A request.

[MaestraFénix]

*I was thinking about posting this on the bugtracker, but since many people told me to request it, i decided to make a post here*

Me, and a large group of OC players and modders want to ask to the developers if it would possible mount the content of Black Mesa in Obsidian Conflict. Considering that all the content of the mod is under a CC License of use, modify and redistribute it as long as you give credit and don´t use it for commercial projects, and their quality is overall excellent, it would help modders to avoid pack all the content inside their maps, saving on file size.

[TESLA-X4]

It won't be possible to do this in the current release, since this change requires a client update to function. Afaik, Neico is working on an extensible dynamic mounting system that replaces the current hardcoded one, which should make it possible to mount content (only!) from any mod.
However, full functionality of said mod within OC cannot be guaranteed if it uses its own set of binaries - binaries most certainly cannot be 'mounted' as is possible with content, so those will require an OC binary update and even then, that is only if its code is already publicly available. If the mod is closed-source, all that one can possibly use from that mod will merely be the content, nothing else.

[Neico]

Unless the Black Mesa Team offers us the code

[MaestraFénix]

That´s why i used the word "content" and not "mod". In the best of the cases, they could release the code after the Xen and DM update (2013 if we have luck).

[Neico]

I doubt that they'll ever release the code to the public. Even the chance that we might get it is slim.

[Gary]

Yeah, but I can see what Maestro is getting at. Even though we can't use the code, we can still mount and use the content freely, we should do it for mappers. Makes sense, since there are a lot of props, textures, and sounds that could be very useful for mappers.

[TESLA-X4]

Well yeah, that's already in the works.

[Neico]

Well if you're a beta tester then it's already possible technically, the only problem here is that there is no VGUI yet that makes the entire system dynamic and unique for each player, meaning that oc doesn't mount BM:S and no one can change that as it's a hard coded mounting list since BM:S wasn't released when I made the new mounting system

[MaestraFénix]

And everybody inside the beta will know how is the actual state of the mount system

[TESLA-X4]

And everybody inside the beta will know how is the actual state of the mount system

*audible gasp* Did he just..? *dramatic stare*

[MaestraFénix]

*audible gasp* Did he just..? *dramatic stare*

Afaik, Neico is working on an extensible dynamic mounting system that replaces the current hardcoded one, which should make it possible to mount content (only!) from any mod.

No. But you...

[TESLA-X4]

Lol, you missed the point, I was referring to something else xD

[destiny]

does the point have anything to do with that once neico complained while we were in a chat about how the beta team hasnt been active lately?

[TESLA-X4]

Haha, nope~