Programming

CS/TFC Spawn Delay

Change host players ping on the scoreboard to 'Host'

how to change the strength of weapons

Made a weapon and can't figure out how in the hell to get it into the HUD?

Freeze Grenades

Spectator-style camera with clipping

Okay this tutorial covers how to create a parachute like the one in firearms

Heres another tutorial for bots. This one on creating some basic bot item search code.

The Half-Life AI is made mostly of two things, tasks and schedules

This is a quick look to see what an existing entity class, CGameText, does and how it works.

Half-Life is split into two DLLs - client.dll and hl.dll.

Weapon Modifications

Finding your way around the Half-Life DLL

Static Water Simulation

Proximity Satchels UPDATED

I am writing this tutorial because there are no tutorials on this that I can find and this effect is easy to make if you know what to do. This tutorial will be easy for people who are new to Half-Life Modding.

Vehicles

TO Recoil

Basics on C++ Objects and Inheritance

Every Half-Life weapon have flags. For example MP5

In this tutorial, we are going to go through the steps necessary to create a menuing system for Half-Life similar to the one for Quake 2.

You want to kill yourself and dont get minus points?

A Simple 4-line fix for spinning corpses.

Roter Bildschirm bei Schaden (German)

It seems the door entities have a bug, if they are blocked, the moving sound gets played continuously even after the door closes or opens.

Activating w_ models animated animation

Real-Time 'TRON 2.0' Glow in Half-Life

Dynamically Resizing Models

Hash Tables

Half-Life debuggen (German)

make the RPG a little more powerful

Half life contains some extra code dealing with dead body physics

Glock Silenced and zoomed in Half-Life

A system to Revamp the Player Model system so that it doesn't use Infokeys (which are easily hackable, and insecure) this also prevents hltv bugs.

Another Way To Make Those Cute Lil Houndeyes Not So Cute

Notice how if you tap your crouch key very fast you bounce? This code will fix that.

bouncing bodies

Yell at them

Ever noticed that grenade the MP5 fires tumbles end over end in the air

This model I'm describing can be used for any surface that can bend, so it can be a flag

Shooting through walls

FatBoy Mode

Changing maximum allowed weapons to 45

Precaching was one of the first stumbling blocks we encountered when we starting working with the SDK.

Half-Life Team System With VGUI Menu w/SDK 2.2

Weapon Droppings

Blast Soundwave Effect From a Weapon

This tutorial will help you gain an understanding of the FireBulletsPlayer and FireBullets

MP3 player in HL

This tuturial helps you set your speed this tuturial is really easy.

HEV Chargers with larger charging capacity

Understanding hud.txt

How do you use the existing AABB collision system in Half-Life to provide a more precise collision model of an object? You simply fill it with smaller objects! Read on for more details.

Frags for killing Monsters in MP FIX

Homing Rockets with no laser spot in Half-Life

All you ever wanted to know about drawing 2d sprites on the HUD.

Checking line of sight and field of view

Weapon Names on the HUD

Changing Tracer Effects on weapons in Half-Life

Making a NailGun

How to allow monsters in mp

Client-Side Waffen-Coding (German)

this tutorial will explain how to set the HUD up, and just get the basis.

How to change your MP5 to an MP5-SD3

Code a Smoke Grenade

Adding Ammo items to a H-L weapon.

Drawing a Special Credit String on the clients head's up display

Improved MP5 Burst

Particle System (German)

Adding Assault to Your Mod (part 3 & 4 are missing)

A small guide, written by Valve's Alfred Reynolds, on how to debug your mod in steam.

Vectors: An Introduction

The Power of CVARs!

Ok, now, for starters, this tutorial will explain how to set the HUD up, and just get the basis.

Customize the Mod name displayed in the server list

Half-Life Graphics Part 3 - TriAPI (German)

Half-Life Server Info Class

This tutorial will cover the Basics for changing the colour of the HUD in HL

This is going to be a fairly long tutorial on the basic data types of C.

Chumtoad firing hornetgun correction

An overview of the triangle API, which can be used to draw textured, animated polygons on the fly.

The way that strings are handled internally in the SDK can be confusing to start with.

Flammenwerfer erstellen (German)

Creating a Sniper Rifle in the 2.2 SDK

Changing the HUD color

Adding panels and labels and such.

Heres a short tutorial on how to change the HUD and blood colors. Really simple.

both client and server side detailed

This tutorial, while not hard to do, gives a great effect; with snarks leaving behind a smoke trail as they run.

Event System in SDK 2.2

I have found a way to make Better Freeze Grenades

This tutorial will show you how to add clientside smoke puffs. You'll need a sprite that's compiled as an additive.

e. It adds detail where there was none before, and provides a much enhanced visual experience.

with the Microsoft Command-Line Compiler

Explosion Shake

Scripting with sequence files

Create an Entity like a CS Buy Zone

This tutorial shows how to change the rpg rockets to home in on the closest living thing besides you.

Getting Started

Basics of coding bots in Half-Life

MP3-Dateien in HL abspielen (German)

This tutorial is about how to create a Shotgun with two types of ammo (slugs and buckshot).

Script for a slightly better illusion of holstering and re-equipping weapon in Half-Life.

(Extension to X-0ut's custom model tut)

Part 4 in 5 part series

ow to create a brand new entity! + writing the FGD

Add Entity Effects on a View Model

This tut will cover a new monster who can sit in your map, and run away if you shoot at it.

In this, the first part in the 'Where is Poppy' modding tutorial series i highlight the steps required for setting up your GoldSrc Mod for its first run

Create Night Vision Goggles in Half-Life

Steam-Developing Q&A (German)

This is really a reference tutorial which will help you create your own solid based entities for things like the CS Buy Area.

This tutorial will teach you how to edit the ammo per clip, how fast you walk with a weapon and much more!

This tutorial will show you how to create new bullet types.

Simulating Randomness

Half-Life Graphics Part 2 - EfxAPI (German)

In this, the second part in the 'Where is Poppy' modding tutorial series I take you through the steps for creating your own custom mesh loading entity

Decals for every mp5 bullet

Counterstrike Gameplay

View Turrets through Barrel

In this tutorial we are going to add two new key functionalities.

Spreadsystem (German)

How To Make Thirdperson View To Your Mod

This tutorial will somewhat describe how to create a completely new turret.

Here is a little tutorial on CS-style weapon dropping.

You wanted to know how to color the teams in the scoreboard?

Rescaling Half-Life

Drawing a Special Credit Number on the clients head's up display!

Old Menus Fix

Create a homing missile in Half-Life

Where would we be without visibility determination?

Modeling events

View model rendering tut fix

Quick & simple, heres how to draw visible surfaces (bsp only) - unlit.

Adding New skill.cfg Entries

Turn off flashlight after player death

Quick Guide to Debugging

ANY blood color

This tutorial will show you how to create new damage type for the Egon.

Set Up a liblist.gam

Making A Semi-Automatic Handgun

This is a tutorial on making a custom model entity.

I've decided to add the Last Man Standing gamerule set (part 3 & 4 are missing)

This is a simple tutorial to discuss making new entities, and reading their keys in your code, so you can customize them.

How to get Half-Life's server to compile and run on Linux boxes worldwide

Holster Animation

This is a tutorial teaching you how to make a flying system in half-life

Code an Admin System into Half-Life

How to develop a new entity that handles menus in game (ala counterstrike's 'buy weapons' menu).

View model rendering

Part 3 in 5 part series

Ping Rating

No gun dropping after death

This snippet gives you some simple code to utilize the client side decal clearing function to wipe all decals from the map for a round reset, or whatever.

This tutorial will show you how to use the UTIL_ScreenFade and UTIL_ScreenShake functions in your weapons to create effects like night vision and vibrations.

Drop NOTHING on death

here's how to create a power-shotgun

Proximity Fuse for Satchels

Crosshair Tutorial (German)

Governer

what temporary entities are and how to use them in Half-Life

Smoke trail behind player

Customizable Hud Color

This article tries to give hints to would-be HL mod authors in many different aspects of the programming experience.

Second part of the AI tutorial. Covers how events are triggered from the monsters animation definitions (.qc file), and some addtional info on Monster Attacks.

Light Effect After an Grenade (Very Fast)

This tutorial shows how to make an M16 assault rifle, with an optional silencer, just like the M4 rifle from Counter-Strike.

In pongles Tutorial on 'Team Coloured Text and Spectator Chat ' he has 2 small errors to fix :

WaterMatch (German)

Creating a Silenced USP (German)

This tutorial is meant for the people who are confused about how Half-Life uses its color index's.

CS Style 2x Zooming

This tutorial will somewhat describe how to create a completely new turret.

In this one I hope to start on some of the navigation code and the bots use of ladders.

This is for Half-Life 1 and the GoldSrc engine

This is just a simple way to switch to different gameplay modes.

Orthogonale TriAPI (German)

This is an easy way to change the widespread of the MP5 into a much smaller one.

Hammer code that converts a map from standard .map format to .dxf format

Ever wanted to use gman twice in a map with a different look?

New to coding and ever wondered how TFC did the Christmas easter egg? Fear nevermore!

This is how you would change the location of where tracers and bullets, or rockets, are coming from to match your weapon model

Specify the weapons and ammo players spawn with via your server.cfg or listenserver.cfg

Triple-Bolt Crossbow

This tut will fix the weapon select bug where weapons that have ran out of primary ammo but still have secondary ammo are not selectable.

Faster clicking equals faster shots

This is for people wanting to make their own Half-Life bot.

A detailed tutorial on how the Half-Life AI hangs together. Covers Schedules, Tasks, and Monster States, with examples.

Here's how you PREPARE a turret to support the secondary fire mode.

Shooting through walls

This tutorial will cover : 1. Making the monster get angry at you if you shoot him. 2. Random chatting according to it's state.

Here I will show you a fast and simple program and demonstrate the basics of C

Red screen after Death and Damage

Opening slots for old Menu System

This Tutorial will convert the .12 Gauge shotgun into a Sawed-Off Shotgun, This will make it much loader and it also fires a much larger load than a normal shotgun,

Menus in Half-Life

Round based system

How to convert the .12 Gauge shotgun into a Hand Cannon

Make a player fly

Sensor Mine

Hud game

View Roll When Strafing (like DMC)

Crosshair Tutorial Nr.2 (German)

Ever wanted to use gman twice in a map with a different look?

Have you tried to install your mod on steam and you just can't do it well i aim to give a little insight into this problem.

This tutorial will lead you through the arcane art of adding fog to your mod

How to create a simple variant of the CGameText class and add it to the available entities in Worldcraft.

Changing max ammo/clip capacities

This tutorial will show you how to achieve the view rolling effect while strafing, as in DMC and AHL

Tutorial on making a flashbang grenade, complete with CS-style screen fading & concussion effect.

Exploding Rounds for the Python

TURRETS in Half-Life

Unlimited Health Rechargers

Creating a New VGUI Menu and getting it to show in your mod

2 zoom sniper scope

Basing one monster class off another

In this tutorial we will learn how to add new Skill Health links to add to new custom monsters.

Create a new weapon for Half-Life

Infrared NightVision

How to create a DEAD message in your scoreboard

Code a Throwable Crowbar

How to Compile the Half-Life Standard SDK on the Linux Platform

Freezing a Player while shooting a weapon

How to make a reloadable hornet gun

This tutorial will tell you how to make clientside richoche sounds. That basicly means, if you shoot at metal railings, then you hear metal richoche's etc.

Hello children, today i'll teach you how to use the UTIL_ScreenShake. Well actually it's really easy, you just gotta know what everything does.

This tutorial explains how to have snarks that don't explode after 15 seconds in your mod.

I noticed that a lot of bandwidth is consumed when trying to display a HUD Message. To fix this I coded a new type of message system that uses a lot less bandwidth.

How to implement call of Duty/Halo style weapon slots and switching.

Make a Medic

Realistic Reflections in Real-Time

MP5 to Chain gun

When a player dies drop primary weapon rather than weapon box

Setting up Client side and FGD

Decals for every mp5 bullet (FIX)

Green Driplles

decide between firing a super compressed attack or a really spread out attack

A detailed tutorial covering the setup of Visual Studio for work with GoldSrc

In hl1 you can simply edit the max_ammo_carry of certain ammo type but the hud would show up to 254 of ammo, this is because the message that send the info to the client uses a byte value for it.

Understanding hud.txt

A checkpoint system designed for cooperative play but possible in other game modes.

Health/Armor color blending

continued

Script for a kind of smooth slow motion (bullet time) in Half-Life.

Make the RPG like the UT redeemer, easy!

This tutorial will explain how to add the current name of the weapon the player is using to the HUD we created earlier.

This tut will show you how to make spectators stop seeing what alive people are saying and vice-vesa.

Introduction to Half-Life coding

This tutorial shows how you can make a very simple disguise system with an old style menu.

Using the Microsoft Visual C++ 6 IDE

Challenge based article covering the turning speed of an entity

Function to remove named items from a player's inventory.

Weapon Ammo Modification, Etc.

Chumtoad firing hornet gun

Simple tutorial on creating a custom entity