Setup Garry's Mod Hammer to use CS:GO assets for map making

hammer_gmod_csgo_setup.md

This ensures that the CS:GO assets you use in your map will be available for packing into the map.

CS:S & CS:GO

This will:

• Removes any assets which are already available in GMod/HL2
• Resolves conflicts between CS:S and CS:GO resources with the same name

Process

• Use GCFScape to extract assets from games
  • Open each game's resource pack in GCFScape and extract the models/materials into a folder for that game
    • E.g. desktop/csgo/materials, desktop/csgo/models
  • CS:GO - \Counter-Strike Global Offensive\csgo\pak01_dir.vpk
  • CS:S - \Counter-Strike Source\cstrike\cstrike_pak_dir.vpk
  • HL2
    • \garrysmod\sourceengine\hl2_misc_dir.vpk
    • \garrysmod\sourceengine\hl2_textures_dir.vpk
  • GMod - \garrysmod\garrysmod\garrysmod_dir.vpk
• Remove duplicates
  • Use this script https://gist.github.com/BadgerCode/beb72cc4325a48a0a30a12d587cc96e0
  • Remove any CS:GO files found in the CS:S folder
    • Materials AND models
  • Merge the CS:GO and CS:S folders
  • Remove any CS:GO/S files found in the GMod folder
    • Materials AND models
  • Remove any CS:GO/S files found in the HL2 folder
    • Materials AND models
• Copy these new files into your GMod directory