Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 17 hours ago
Hello everyone and welcome to a new (probably short) series of videos I do involving the source code from Valve for Half-Life 2, and some guides on how to do stuff with this code. In this episode, I demonstrate how you can add an animated background menu like what is seen in Left 4 Dead 2 and Portal 2. I also outline some improvements to this feature that would allow for background music and for different background videos to play dependent on the value of the sv_unlockedchapters ConVar. I have to give a massive thank you to @WadDeIz_Real for the providing the code that improves this feature! Please let me know what you think and I will see you for whatever I decide to do next, thanks for watching!
Guide: developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Animated_Menu_Background
Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
00:58 Guide
07:16 Improvements
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Hello everyone and welcome to a new (probably short) series of videos I do involving the source code from Valve for Half-Life 2, and some guides on how to do stuff with this code. In this episode, I demonstrate how you can add an animated background menu like what is seen in Left 4 Dead 2 and Portal 2. I also outline some improvements to this feature that would allow for background music and for different background videos to play dependent on the value of the sv_unlockedchapters ConVar. I have to give a massive thank you to @WadDeIz_Real for the providing the code that improves this feature! Please let me know what you think and I will see you for whatever I decide to do next, thanks for watching!
Guide: developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Animated_Menu_Background
Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
00:58 Guide
07:16 Improvements
► You can buy me a coffee to support the effort of creating videos on my new channel! -- buymeacoffee.com/gareththegamer
► My new channel: GarethTheGamer -- youtube.com/channel/UC36qEnApR9ua9eDjaRLYcbA
![Gareth and James Play: Super Mario Galaxy [3D All-Stars] Part 13 (The Final Star & The Storybook!)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uCkAR75znxs/mqdefault.jpg "Gareth and James Play: Super Mario Galaxy [3D All-Stars] Part 13 (The Final Star & The Storybook!)
Hello everyone and welcome to mine and my brothers playthrough of Super Mario Galaxy on the Nintendo Switch as part of the 3D All-Stars collection! In this final part (for real this time!), we obtain the last (121st) star as both Mario and Luigi and read through the storybook, thus concluding our recorded playthrough of the 3D All-Stars collection for good. For some reason, I couldnt import this video into a video editor without either the audio being deafeningly loud white noise, or having no audio at all, making the video unwatchable. Therefore, I uploaded the raw file, so you have a watchable video! I hope you enjoy the video, please let me know what you think and see you for the next playthrough!
My Brothers Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/eternalknuckles1993
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