A plugin for all your pausing needs.

1. Download the DLL corresponding to your game / engine / SDK:

   SDK	SPT DLL
   Source SDK (Base) 2007 / New Engine / Source Unpack* / Orange Box	spt.dll
   Source SDK (Base) 2013 / SteamPipe / Latest	spt-2013.dll
   Black Mesa	spt-bms.dll
   Source SDK (Base) 2006 / Old Engine	spt-oe.dll

   * Including Portal 3420

2. Place the DLL into the correct folder:

   SDK	Folder
   Old Engine & Portal (3420)	Topmost bin with AdminServer.dll etc.
   Old Engine mods	Source SDK Base\bin
   Half-Life: Source	hl1
   Half-Life 2	hl2
   Half-Life 2: Episode 1	episodic
   Half-Life 2: Episode 2	ep2
   Half-Life 2: Lost Coast	lostcoast
   Portal	portal
   Black Mesa	bms

3. Launch the game.

4. Go to Options > Keyboard > Advanced, check Enable developer console, and press OK.

5. Press the tilde key (~) and enter plugin_load spt into the developer console.

   • You must disconnect first in Black Mesa.
   • Add plugin_load spt to cfg/autoexec.cfg to load SourcePauseTool automatically.

0. You will need Visual Studio 2022 (or later) and git.
1. Open Visual Studio 2022. Click on Tools → Get Tools and Features... from the top bar of the window.
   This should open the Visual Studio Installer in another window. From the Workload tab, install Desktop development with C++. From the Individual Components tab, install:
   • MSVC v143 - VS 2022 C++ x64/x86 build tools
2. Run the following in cmd:

   git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/YaLTeR/SourcePauseTool.git
   SourcePauseTool\spt.sln
   

3. If Windows asks which program to open spt.sln with, choose Visual Studio.
   1. If Visual Studio asks to retarget projects, press OK.
   2. Once Visual Studio is open, right click libMinHook, click Properties, change Platform Toolset to the one corresponding to your Visual Studio version, and press OK.
4. Choose the build configuration:

   SDK	Configuration
   Source SDK 2007 / New Engine / Source Unpack / Orange Box	Release
   Source SDK 2013 / SteamPipe / Latest	Release 2013
   Black Mesa	Release BMS
   Source SDK 2006 / Old Engine	Release OE

5. Click Build > Build Solution.
   spt*.dll will be in hl2sdk\utils\SourcePauseTool\<Build Configuration>

.srctas is the SPT TAS script format. You can find its documentation here.

See the contributing guide here.