Programming

Crosshair Tutorial (German)

Launch 3 Rockets

Weapon Ammo Modification, Etc.

Challenge based article covering the turning speed of an entity

this tutorial will show you how to add new factions to monsters.

bouncing bodies

Changing Tracer Effects on weapons in Half-Life

HL's Color Indexing System (fixed/changed)

Particle System (German)

Making an InstallShield Installer for your Mod

User Input Processing System

HLSDK Engine Notes

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

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.

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

Changing maximum allowed weapons to 45

Customizable Hud Color

This tuturial shows you how to get a message on the HUD

HUD Health Bar

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

Adding new monster classes

Triple-Bolt Crossbow

Light Effect After an Grenade (Very Fast)

This is a brief description of the difference between an activity and a sequence. I expect it will be fleshed out in time.

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.

These functions are key to how an entity w

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

This tutorial will show you how to make use of the Triangle API to make team overlays

This tutorial is made to help you create a Radio System (like CS). With sounds and team only messages.

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

Different Classes In Every Team

TFC Concussion Fix

Minikarte im HUD (German)

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

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

FlashBang

Bigguys Team Spawn Points had a couple of errors, so here is how your fix them.

Real-Time 'TRON 2.0' Glow For Low-Spec Hardware

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

CS/TFC Spawn Delay

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

This tutorial shows how to enable you to set what speeds the player can go, and force them to remain at those speeds.

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.

Nebel in HL (SDK 2.2) (German)

Creating a Silenced USP (German)

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.

Function Overloading is useful when you have a function that you want to do several different things with

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

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.

How to add a new monster to your maps.

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

Radar System

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

How to change the tripmine beam color in the console

Respawn Delay (When Dead, Not When Spawn)

HEV Chargers with larger charging capacity

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

Simple tutorial on creating a custom entity

Debugging in Visual Studio 6

Relations between monsters in Half-Life

how to change the strength of weapons

How To Make Thirdperson View To Your Mod

Vehicles

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

MP3-Entity erstellen (German)

View Roll When Strafing (like DMC)

Frags for killing Monsters in MP FIX

Jumping and Landing Sounds

make the crowbar only swing once when held

Weapon Modifications

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

Sparks & Smokepuffs

Adding User Variables to Half-Life

ANY blood color

Adding muzzle flashes that also light up world brushes

okay, make sure to do BigGuy's tut on team spawn points first

Geldanzeige im HUD (German)

Short Article Introducing C

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

Half-Life Observer Mode Tutorial

Setting up Client side and FGD

Realistic Reflections in Real-Time

Changing view angles with quaternions

Code an Admin System into Half-Life

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

Finding your way around the Half-Life DLL

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

Particle Systems: The Theory

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

Doubler Powerup

This is a tutorial on making a custom model entity.

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.

This is for Half-Life 1 and the GoldSrc engine

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

Specific weapons for different teams

Add Entity Effects on a View Model

Blended color indication

Adding Two-Team Deathmatch to Your Mod (part 3 & 4 are missing)

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

3rd Person Ansicht (German)

Introduction to Half-Life SDK2

TFC has a generic status bar that sends a bunch of different details to the client.

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...

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

Spawnpoints (German)

C++ Cheat Sheet

Where would we be without visibility determination?

Basing one monster class off another

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

Half life contains some extra code dealing with dead body physics

I tested my tutorial and found out that there was an error with the reloading with secondary attack so im attempting ot fix it

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

Adding an ammo indicator to the HUD

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

Introduction to the Sourcecode

Monster Teamplay (German)

Scripts (a follow up to Aliases, scripts, and binds)

Improved Spectatormode for Teamplay

Turn off flashlight after player death

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

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,

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

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

How to change your MP5 to an MP5-SD3

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

Chumtoad firing hornet gun

Half-Life Server Info Class

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

good introduction to starting a Half-Life Mod

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

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

Fast 'n easy weapon naming

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.

Make a Medic

with the Microsoft Command-Line Compiler

Spectator-style camera with clipping

Revision 4

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

Dynamic Lighting

Tutorial covering the creation of multiple viewports

Shooting through walls

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.

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

Health and Armor restore after frag

Change host players ping on the scoreboard to 'Host'

This tutorial is a step-by-step guide to creating a VGUI Sniper Scope.

Create Night Vision Goggles in Half-Life

Understanding hud.txt

This tutorial will alter the existing DrawHudString function in the CHud Class, we will be adding the ability for colored text and different draw modes.

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

Where DiD I Hit Him (Update)

add a complete, fully functional new weapon to Half-Life (and that includes the HUD componants!)

Create a Cloaked Stealth Suit in Half-Life

This tutorial will demonstrate how simple you can make a brush define the area where the player will spawn inside when entering a teleporter.

Round based system

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

Ricochets of walls.

create an observer mode for your mod

2 zoom sniper scope

In this article I will explain how to make a monster disregard the player if they're within a certain level of light

Mp5 Burst

here's how to create a power-shotgun

Panels, Labels, Buttons, and Commands

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

Challenge based article about getting an entity to point at you while it fires

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

Faster clicking equals faster shots

Ping Rating

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

You want the most easy way to rescale halflife

In Half-Life you may have noticed sparks appear when you shoot barney's helmet or an alien grunt's armor.

Weapon Categories

Homing Rockets with no laser spot in Half-Life

This tutorial will show you how to add a hud element that will project a sprite of you player that flashes in the area you were last hit.

Coding Style

When a player dies drop primary weapon rather than weapon box

Activating w_ models animated animation

Basic Half-Life Weapon Coding

Adding weapons to the HUD

Proximity Satchels UPDATED

both client and server side detailed

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

thirdperson camera clip

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

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

A Laser-Pointer for any hl-weapon

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

Making a NailGun

Sparks & Smokepuffs fix

This is a brief guide explaining the differences between Alias's, Scripts, and Binds.

how to print stuff to a client

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

Using the ALERT function

This tutorial teach a very simple way to edit, remove the cheating Impulse 101 code.

Activating w_ models animated animation

Editboxes and Images

Simulating Randomness

Exploding Rounds for the Python

continued

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

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...

Explosion Shake

Bullet Chasecam (German)

Creating New Weapons in the 2.2 SDK

Adding Ammo items to a H-L weapon.

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

Disable The FoV Command

Create an Entity like a CS Buy Zone

Dynamically Resizing Models

how to add old school Client Side word censoring

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

This tutorial will show you how to remove blood and gore from Half Life.

Rescaling Half-Life

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

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

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

Wep-Cat-Fix

adding zoom functinality to your mp5

Smoke trail behind player

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.

Steam-Developing Q&A (German)

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...

Customising the HUD colour

Make a player fly

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

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

Weapon : FireGrenade

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

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

Things that effect network stats during gameplay

Modeling events

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

How to Align a Model Against the Floor

Improved MP5 Burst

Roter Bildschirm bei Schaden (German)

Better Weapon Droping

TURRETS in Half-Life

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

I'll show you how to make monsters attacks light up world brushes

Quake style particle effects disabled but present in goldsrc

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

This tutorial will show you how to setup a new key and console command, which can then be used in game to make the player sprint when holding the key

Usp ( Counter-Strike Style)

3 Mode Zoom For Mp5

Change the mp5 grenade launcher to a Shotgun-cannon Fix.

Die Erstellung eines Laserstrahls (German)

How to create a DEAD message in your scoreboard

If players want to remain in a position (such as crouch or prone) for extended periods of time, this could lead to fatigue, here's how you can alleviate that with some clever manipulation of the button code.

add a server controlled hud countdown

MP3-Dateien in HL abspielen (German)

Event System in SDK 2.2

Rendering a wireframe of maps yourself

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

Incremental Zooming (On the Client Side)