This tutorial is assuming you followed my previous tutorial on setting up a basic Source SDK 2013 singleplayer mod. This will of course all work with a multiplayer mod but the minor differences are not covered.

If you prefer watching over reading here is a video tutorial:

Navigate to your mods resource folder and open gamemenu.res either in visual studio or notepad++.

label = the display name that will be pulled from your mods gameui_languagenamehere.txt
Command = the command that will be run when the player presses the item
OnlyInGame = should this item only display if the player is in game (aka a map is loaded up)
InGameOrder = the order of items while the player is in game, lower the numbers are at the top higher are at the bottom
notMulti = this will not show up if the mod is a multiplayer mod
ConsoleOnly = only display if they are playing this on a xbox or ps

The numbers for each section relate to the order of items when a player is not in game.

Go ahead and delete the achievement section since we have no use for it and renumber the sections.

Keep gamemenu.res open and open up gameui_english.txt in your resource folder. This is the file that "label" references to get the display name for items on the menu. So if we want to say rename "New Game" to "New Operation" we would find the label reference in gamemenu.res, "GameUI_GameMenu_NewGame", and do a search for it in the gameui_english.txt and replace the string next to it, "New Game", with "New Operation".

Do that for everything you want to change.

If you want to additional items to the main menu just copy paste a current one, increment the number and add a new label to gameui_english.txt

Unless you plan to use a font that comes with windows you will need to get a new true type font (ttf) from the internet. There are a lot of sites out there for fonts but be aware of the licensing surrounding them. A good place to start would be here: https://www.behance.net/search?search=font+free+commercial

I highly recommend keeping a CREDITS.txt file in your mods folder that lists where you got what from so that proper credit is given.

Once you have downloaded the font (it should end in .ttf) drag it into your mods resource folder.

Open up clientscheme.res in your resource folder and navigate to line 631.

Replace HalfLife2 with the name of your font (you can get this name by opening up the .ttf file)



Scroll down to the bottom and in the CustomFontFiles section add it under HL2crosshairs.ttf following the same format.

Make your static background image in your image editing program of choice while making sure that you have a size for 4:3 monitors and one for 16:9. Remember though they need to still be a power of 2 (32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048). Export it as a .tga

Open up vtfEdit and import the image with the following settings:


Save it to your mods materials/console folder and have it named background01.vtf for the 4:3 and background01_widescreen.vtf for the 16:9 a vmt is not needed.

Here is an example that I made[drive.google.com]

Keep in mind I did not properly adjust my image for 4:3 and 16:9 since it is only an example.

Here are some related resources to this guide:

Font sites:

• http://www.dafont.com/
  
• http://www.fontsquirrel.com/
  
• http://losttype.com/
  
• http://www.google.com/fonts
  
• https://www.behance.net/

Other tutorials:

http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=140043331

Adding your logo to the main menu

Main Menu Background Map

Modifying the Menu Items

Adding Convars to the multiplayer advanced tab

Set contents of the keyboard options menu

Advanced custom main menu