Add or remove a startup video

In this tutorial, you will learn how to add or remove a startup video.

Removing the startup video

Half-Life 2 mods already come with the default and well know Valve startup video. If you want your mod to jump straight to the game menu, locate your ../steam/steamapps/sourcemods/[your mod folder]/ directory and create a media folder. Inside it, create a blank text file named StartupVids.txt.

And that's it. If you launch your mod, it will skip the intro video and jump right into the game menu.

Adding a startup video

If you don't have your own startup video yet, you can download one ready to use.

Setting up the tools


If you want to add a new startup video, first you need to download and install RAD Tools.

Converting the video

Select your video and click Bink it. Then, in the new window, click the Bink button.

Creating the StartupVids.txt

Copy the output .bik file to your ../steam/steamapps/sourcemods/[your mod folder]/media directory and name it whatever you want, preferably with lowercase characters, numbers and hyphens.

Create a textfile called StartupVids.txt and insert the name of your video, with the .bik extension.


Finishing up

Download tutorial files

You can now run the game and your new startup video will play right before the game menu. You now know how to add or remove a startup video.

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