can't find half-life\valve? (botmans BSP tools)

[MusicMan]

Hi, here's the deal. I downloaded and extracted botman's BSP tools from the filebase to my harddrive. I start the bsp viewer executable file and it says that "C:\Sierra\Half-Life" does not exist and I should change the path in the .cfg file. Fair enough, so I change the path to point to my "Steam\SteamApps\my@email\half-life" directory. Then I start the executable again and it says that it cant find the half-life\valve folder? I check to see if its there and it is. Still does not work. I then t´check the changes.txt file included with the BSP tools and at the top it says "Fixed the half-life\valve folder bug" or something similar. Is this bug not really fixed or...? can someone help me out here?

Thanks in advance

[botman]

The BSP tools don't support Steam.

You'll have to install the non-Steam version of Half-Life if you want to use the BSP tools.

botman

[MusicMan]

ok, thanks botman. by non-Steam do you mean retail, because thats the only other one I have

[botman]

Yes, the retail version of Half-Life (on a CD) should be the non-Steam one.

It should install itself into C:\Sierra\Half-Life by default.

botman

[Sydslag]

I have same problems cant get bsp tools to work or load correctly i'm on windows 10 with cd install of won Half-Life
My dir is C:\Sierra\Half-Life
My dir is C:\BSP_tool for the tools

BSP_tool cfg looks like this below

//
// BSP tool configuration file
//
// BSP_tools by botman (http://planethalflife.com/botman)
//

// lines beginning with double slash characters are comment lines

// specify the name of the spawn point entity (only uncomment one of these)
//$spawnpoint info_player_start // Single player spawn point
$spawnpoint info_player_deathmatch // Half-Life deathmatch spawn point
//$spawnpoint info_player_teamspawn // Team Fortress Classic spawn point
//$spawnpoint info_player_deathmatch // Counter-Strike Terrorist spawn point
//$spawnpoint info_player_start // Counter-Strike Counter-Terrorist spawn point

// Half-Life directory
$halflife_dir C:\SIERRA\Half-Life

Setting BSP_tool in administrator mode
Launching command prompt in administrator mode
Changing directory command prompt to c:\
Copying and pasting C:\BSP_tool> bsp_tool -s stalkyard.bsp

gives me acess denied error in command prompt


Any help or ideas please?

[tschumann]

What does -s do? Possibly it's trying to create a file and is failing because C:\BSP_tool doesn't have the right permissions or something like that. I'd try running in My Documents.