Changing the Counter Strike Versions Backgrounds, GUI Settings, Listen Server

All these tutorials are very well compatible with Counter Strike: Condition Zero Settings, Counter Strike 1.6 Settings. etc

Background:
The Background of the Counter Strike Versions are in the form of Targa, that is .tga form. If you want to change it you can do it very easily by a software which allows you to change the background.



When you don't have that software, you can go in the reverse direction. This is how you do it. Open the "Cstrike" folder. Open "resource" folder. Open "background" folder in it. Edit each piece of the background with the background you like to put. But make sure that the pieces go in their exact location.

The pieces appear like this 800_1_a_loading.tga, 800_1_b_loading.tga, 800_1_c_loading.tga, 800_1_d_loading.tga, 800_2_a_loading.tga, etc.

Now that you have finished placing all the pieces in their place, open the game and you can see your new background.

Now to change the Transparency of the Menus or the Windows.

You can change the transparency of the Menus or the Windows in the Counter Strike Versions. Just follow these options,

1. Open the File TrackerScheme.res in the RESOURCE folder of you CSTRIKE.
2. Now Open it with Wordpad or Notepad or any other Text Editor.
3. Change the Last parameter in each line for changing the transparency.
4. First three parameters correspond to RGB and the Last parameter is for Transparency.
5. Now ifyou decrease the last number (range is 0 to 255) you will see the windows get transparent. 10 looks good.
6. But make sure that you wont open two windows at once because their text will interfere with each other.
7. Hope you got it.

Now that you have finished Transparency, go ahead

The CommandMenu


The CommandMenu is that which will show you a tree menu while you are in the game. By default this menu is bound to the key "H". If you press H, you can see a tree menu displaying some options. Thats good but you can make it better and the best.

For this, follow these steps,

1. Open CommandMenu.txt in your CSTRIKE folder.
2. You see some numbers tags and flower brackets.
3. The text in the flower brackets represent a branch.
4. See the CommandMenu.txt in the GUI_Temp.rar you have downloaded.
5. You can write your own comands there.
6. The syntax is "Sl.No" "Description" "Command"
7. Example: "5" "Change to Dust2" "changelevel de_dust2"
8. If you put this line, an additional command will appear in the commad tree.
9. If you put this line in flower brackets it will show under another branch.
10. This commandmenu.txt in GUI_Temp.rar is very useful for Listen servers and no so for HLDS, Dedicated Servers or Normal Clients.

Now that you have known about CommandsMenu.txt, Lets go ahead,

The Autobuy
When you press F1, Computer Buys you the required equipment and stuff. How come computer knows it? Its like this. There is a file named autobuy.txt in the CSTRIKE folder. The info of what to buy is given there. Just change the order there and you can press F1 with out any hesitation. The order there really matters, It is the priority in which the computer should try to buy the items. Thats it.

1. You can see this file too in the GUI_Temp.rar

Now the Aliases
You can create aliases in the game so that you can operate the console with minimum text commands input. How to do it? Just follow these steps,

1. Example1: type in the console alias d2 "changelevel de_dust2"
2. This will assign the command chagelevel de_dust2 to d2 word.
3. So if you type d2 in the console, it will change to Dust2.
4. Example2: type in the console alias ffon "mp_friendlyfire 1"
5. When you type ffon in the console it will switch on Friendly Fire.
6. Example3: type in the console alias ft "mp_freezetime"
7. When you type ft x in the console it will change freezetime to x.

Binding Keys for commads and aliases:
See the post about binding keys of this blog. Or similar description is here:

This is the command to bind a key. bind Ex: bind p "say hello"Meaning assingn the command "say hello" to key "p".

Sample commands in the console:

bind p "say hello" - when ever you tap the p key, it says hello in the chat.
bind kp_del "sv_restart 1" - When ever you tap "del" in the Numpad it will restart the server.
bind kp_5 "record map1" - Record a demo named map1.dem

Must Haves of a Listen Server
With this tutorial, you can Serve with a Listen Server and you donot need to open the console for any command. This section is written as a new post in the blog, see that post.

The sample GUI: You can Download the Temp's GUI here GUI_Temp.rar