Programming

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

Second part of the tutorial, that includes the modification of the HUD to show 4 digits on ammo, and the modificacion on the client-server message for the weapon magazine.

In this tutorial we are going to make the secondary fire of the python fire off all six rounds.

Changing max ammo/clip capacities

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

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.

This is the lowest level entry to the engine. It also maps quite conveniently to Quake-C stuff, so check that out

Adding Ammo items to a H-L weapon.

Using the Microsoft Visual C++ 6 IDE

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

Basics on C++ Objects and Inheritance

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

create an observer mode for your mod

Challenge based article covering the turning speed of an entity

Proximity Fuse for Satchels

Instant Firing Rockets (like in TFC)

Teaches you how to setup your VS.NET 2003 to build the Half-Life dlls, and how to get them working on Steam.

Alright, you made it this far, now there isn''t much more to be done, you have the basis already, now we just gotta do some normal VGUI code. Adding panels and labels and such. So, lets get started...

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

This tutorial should be easy to follow provided that you have at least some
grounding in c++

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

Adding User Variables to Half-Life

Mp5 Burst

Dynamic colored lights - model color fix

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

How to allow monsters in mp

An overview of all the useful UTIL_ and efxAPI functions for drawing 3d sprites, shaking and fading the screen, drawing beams + decals, temporary models etc.

Creating New Weapons in the 2.2 SDK

Customizable Hud Color

Simple snippet for a better third person camera with player fading.

It has been brought to my attention that people are having problems with their OTHER VGUI menus after doing this HUD tutorial... ie: no mouse control. I have found the cause, and figured out how to fix it.

Standing Still For 5 Seconds (Respawning)

Funcs for Round system

Teamdeathmatch Spielmodus (German)

Gauss Teleporter

Create an Entity like a CS Buy Zone

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

Particles FIXes and improvements

Health/Armor color blending

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

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

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

This will tell you how to make Client side dule shell ejections for dule guns

Weapon Clips and such

Warning - this is taken from my brief investigation, but relies on having a multi-channel soundcard

Changing maximum allowed weapons to 45

Launch 3 Rockets

Weapon Modifications

The more coding you do, the more you'll start talking about the 'pev'

Blended color indication

Challenge based article covering getting an entities walking speed to match its animation

Rescaling Half-Life

Faster clicking equals faster shots

Explanation of all the MP5 code. Written by Greg Hudson.

Homing Rockets with no laser spot in Half-Life

Bullet FlyBy (German)

Adding panels and labels and such.

Create a homing missile in Half-Life

No gun dropping after death

Part 1 in 5 part series

Frags for killing Monsters in MP

Shooting through walls

Bullet Chasecam (German)

For eye-mode specators

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.

Different Classes In Every Team (FIX)

Chumtoad firing hornetgun correction

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.

Better Weapon Droping

Short Article Introducing C

Orthogonale TriAPI (German)

The second part builds upon the more general information learnt in the first, describing how it applies to each of the original half-life weapons.

Exploding Rounds for the Python

Particle Systems: The Theory

Code a Throwable Crowbar

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

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

Hud Bars (Statussäulen) (German)

Sentry continued: adding Sentry-parts box and hud-icon

Half-Life Graphics Part 3 - TriAPI (German)

Customising the HUD colour

Weapon Categories

Changing the HUD color

Okay, so you want to add your own weapon to the 2.2 sdk?

Things that effect network stats during gameplay

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

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

This article shows you how to quickly change the default 320 & 640 .tga image sizes to fit whatever resolution a player is using.

User Input Processing System

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

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

If u want add options to your maps u can add to all maps config files...

Explosion Shake

Scripting with sequence files

Mp3 Fix

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

Static Water Simulation

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

Addign a Third and Fourth attack to your mod

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

To change the weapon values for multiplayer games simply open up the multiplay_gamerules.cpp

Chumtoad firing hornet gun

Medkit Bugfix

adding zoom functinality to your mp5

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.

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.

Making an InstallShield Installer for your Mod

In this tutorial I will go over how to add new bullet types.

Improved MP5 Burst

Respawn Delay (When Dead, Not When Spawn)

Activating w_ models animated animation

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

CS Style 2x Zooming (for SDK 2.3)

In this tutorial we will add a new type of Satchel using the weapons box as a model.

Fairly simple put, it allows you to create menus of different colors.

I have found a way to make Better Freeze Grenades

Weapon : FireGrenade

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

Fast 'n easy weapon naming

Das Half-Life Serverprotokoll (German)

TO Recoil

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

Particle System (German)

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

Glock Silenced and zoomed in Half-Life

I decided to whip up this tutorial to show you the simplicity of drawing triangles in orthogonal mode using TriAPI

make the crowbar only swing once when held

Debugging your dlls for your Mod

Spreadsystem (German)

Roter Bildschirm bei Schaden (German)

Basic Half-Life Weapon Coding

Snark-Dropping Crossbow

FatBoy Mode

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

Incremental Zooming (On the Client Side)

HUD Health Bar

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

Changing The Server Browser To Show Your MOD Name In 'Game Type'

Editboxes and Images

Script for smooth mouse wheel zooming in and out in Half-Life.

Checking line of sight and field of view

good introduction to starting a Half-Life Mod

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

The purpose of this tutorial is to show you how to create a whole new game type in 12 lines

The BSP map format that Half-Life uses makes it fairly easy to do certain types of special effects, including fake underwater caustics, so we'll play around with that a little...

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

ANY blood color

Here is a collection of quick hints and tips that various people have asked me, but I cant be bothered to write a whole article about...

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

2 zoom sniper scope

Snark Grenade

Where would we be without visibility determination?

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

Using INI configuration files properly

This is going to be a fairly long tutorial on some basic functions in HL SDK.

Triple-Bolt Crossbow

Frags for killing Monsters in MP FIX

What this code will do is change the armour hud colours depending on how much armour you actually have.

Revision 4

HEV Chargers with larger charging capacity

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

I decided to whip up this tutorial to show you the simplicity of drawing triangles in orthogonal mode using TriAPI

Secondary Attack for Egon: Teleport player to random info_player_deathmatch

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

Adding New skill.cfg Entries

Script for smooth zooming in and out in Half-Life.

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.

Flammenwerfer erstellen (German)

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

Red screen after Death and Damage

Waffensystem (German)

Wep-Cat-Fix

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

MP3-Entity erstellen (German)

both client and server side detailed

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

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

thirdperson camera clip

Colour attributes for Menus

Jumping and Landing Sounds

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

WaterMatch (German)

Getting Started

Smoke trail behind player

Creating your Menu Bitmasks in Half-Life

Part 4 in 5 part series

In this tutorial I will show you how to change the weapon damages without recompiling the dll

Round based system

This tutorial almost completely explains how to do HUD graphics.

Modeling events

Adding weapons to the HUD

Very simple done, this you now be able to taunt other players when you have the crowbar out.

This article is a reference to a method of using the server protocol with PHP

Make a player fly

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

How to make a reloadable hornet gun

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

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

Realistic Reflections in Real-Time

visible laser sight line thingy

How to change your MP5 to an MP5-SD3

Adding an ammo indicator to the HUD

Create Night Vision Goggles in Half-Life

I will now explain how I did monster respawning in MP

Slots/positions Fix

Shooting through walls

This article describes, step-by-step, how to create a message which can be sent from the server-side to the client-side.

Part 2 in 5 part series

Make a Particle Burst When a Player Joins (Like Q1/Q2)

Make a Medic

Every Half-Life weapon have flags. For example MP5

In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to add a dead-icon to the scoreboard.

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

Model Classes in Half-Life

Understanding hud.txt

Beheading Zombies

You know, the UTIL_ScreenShake can only shake clients that are on ground. Because that sucks ass, here we're gonna fix it.

Yell at them

This tutorial will explain what you need todo in order to get a custom player animation to play.

Adding muzzle flashes that also light up world brushes

Using the ALERT function

Make the RPG like the UT redeemer, easy!

View model rendering tut fix

Silenced Glock

This tutorial is designed to help you create a flexible client side Zoom function for SDK2

Ricochets of walls.

Opening slots for old Menu System

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

Snark Grenade

Event System in SDK 2.2

Maintaining Class After Death

This tutorial will describe the basics of adding new HUD componants to the client dll

Disable The FoV Command

Half life contains some extra code dealing with dead body physics

There are a few ways of implementing a class system.

Sparks & Smokepuffs fix

Crosshair Tutorial (German)

Creating the Capture Point

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

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

Governer

3rd Person Ansicht (German)

Old Menus Fix

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

Creating a Silenced USP (German)

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.

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

Here is a fix for people having problems with DarkKnight's team VGUI tutorial

HLSDK Engine Notes

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

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

Basing one monster class off another

Relations between monsters in Half-Life

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

Customize the Mod name displayed in the server list