Color Correction in Source SDK 2010 (AS)

Mar 20, 2012
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Bleh. So, this isn't about TF2 Mapping or the 2007 version of Hammer in general, but I'm stuck and thought I'd throw this out there to see if someone can help un-stump me.

A few friends and I are putting together a full-conversion mod with the Alien Swarm base. We were trying to get color correction into the game, but we're having issues - it just won't show up.

Here's the setup:

After creating the color correction in the color correction tool editor by running the game with -tools -nop4, I saved the .vcc and the .raw to the 'sourcemods/mymod/scripts/colorcorrection' folder (this is the corresponding location to where Alien Swarm saves their cc files). The .raw file is named 'cc_cryo.raw'.

The maps have a color_correction entity that has Lookup Falloff End Distance set to '-1' and the Lookup Table Filename set to 'scripts/colorcorrection/cc_cryo.raw'. The entity has the flags 'Master' and 'Client-Side Simulation' checked.

I even tried adding in a fog_volume and setting the ColorCorrection Name to the name of the color_correction entity. Alas, we have not been able to get it to work.

If there's something I'm missing or a step I skipped, please let me know. I'd love to get it functional.
 

Burnout6010

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Oct 14, 2012
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What I've always done in AS is using triggers to make the color_correction go on. Maybe the SDK maps in AS could help you see what I mean with triggers
 

Egan

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Feb 14, 2010
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Does any other alien swarm map use colour correction? (If so just decompile the map and figure out the weird entity logic apparently going on).

Maybe your .raw file is giving an error, try opening it in a photo editing program.

Maybe try a logic_auto the enables the colour correction after the map starts, maybe alien swarm is weird like that.

Though try step 1 first, cause that seems best.