env_sprite not animating

[Alienmario]

Continuing from Discord

ak47toh

— 1/31/26, 11:08 AM
Any idea why some sprites doesn't play its animation? Despite they have ⁨framerate 10.0⁩ already.

This is from The Final Expedition, in the dedicated server, this ⁨sprites/physring1.vmt⁩ simply just don't play its animation. Is this client sided issue, or latency issue?

2026-01-31_17-23-19.mp4

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The culprit is a failing m_flMaxFrame calculation (SDK13).

If one knows the max frame of given material, it can be fixed after spawning like so:

SetEntPropFloat(pEntity.entindex, Prop_Data, "m_flMaxFrame", 8.0);
pEntity.AcceptInput("ToggleSprite");
pEntity.AcceptInput("ToggleSprite");

[Alienmario]

Fixed by copying stdshader_dx9 binary from client.

I believe this used to work in the past, found the exact update where the binary was removed.
https://steamdb.info/depot/346682/history/?changeid=M:9159837158737103288

[ak47toh]

Fixed by copying stdshader_dx9 binary from client.

I believe this used to work in the past, found the exact update where the binary was removed. https://steamdb.info/depot/346682/history/?changeid=M:9159837158737103288

Sorry I don't really understand this. So how and where exactly do I get this file again?

[Alienmario]

Fixed by copying stdshader_dx9 binary from client.
I believe this used to work in the past, found the exact update where the binary was removed. https://steamdb.info/depot/346682/history/?changeid=M:9159837158737103288

Sorry I don't really understand this. So how and where exactly do I get this file again?

You can find it in the game's bin folder.

If you don't have access to Steam on Linux, you can get it using DepotDownloader
.\DepotDownloader.exe -app 362890 -depot 362892 -os linux -username <steam username>

[Alienmario]

Just a heads up, on Linux you also need to rename it to stdshader_dx9_srv.so