Programming

Vectors: An Introduction

Launch 3 Rockets

Challenge based article covering the turning speed of an entity

continued

Green Driplles

View model rendering

Panels, Labels, Buttons, and Commands

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.

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

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.

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

TURRETS in Half-Life

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

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

Adding panels and labels and such.

Standing Still For 5 Seconds (Respawning)

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

Scripting with sequence files

Dynamic colored lights - model color fix

View Turrets through Barrel

Half-Life Observer Mode Tutorial

Activating w_ models animated animation

Adding new advanced options

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

Coding Style

In this tutorial I will teach you how to use the UTIL_Bloodstream effect.

Waffensystem (German)

make the crowbar only swing once when held

thirdperson camera clip

Improved MP5 Burst

create an observer mode for your mod

both client and server side detailed

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

Simple tutorial on creating a custom entity

Weapon Names on the HUD

Glock Silenced and zoomed in Half-Life

Particle Systems: The Theory

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

Another Way To Make Those Cute Lil Houndeyes Not So Cute

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

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

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

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

How to change the tripmine beam color in the console

Weapon : FireGrenade

Adding New skill.cfg Entries

Crosshair Tutorial (German)

Faster clicking equals faster shots

This article describes the principles behind coding a VGUI HUD by piggy backing off the existing HUD, seriously reducing the amount of code needed.

Difficulty rating: easy. This relies heavily on existing Halflife grenade code and has almost nothing original.

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

how the code actually works so that you can add your own features

Event System in SDK 2.2

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.

Half-Life Graphics Part 2 - EfxAPI (German)

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

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

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

Beheading Zombies

Model Classes in Half-Life

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

Half life contains some extra code dealing with dead body physics

instead of defining the area the sprite CANNOT be drawn in, you instead define the area the sprite CAN be drawn in.

Different Classes In Every Team (FIX)

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

This tutorial almost completely explains how to do HUD graphics.

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

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.

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

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

Change the mp5 grenade launcher to a Shotgun-cannon.

Health/Armor color blending

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

WaterMatch (German)

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

View model rendering tut fix

how to add
map briefings to your mod as seen in TFC, CS

Using INI configuration files properly

Basics on C++ Objects and Inheritance

Mp3 Fix

Crosshair Tutorial Nr.2 (German)

with the Microsoft Command-Line Compiler

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...

here's how to create a power-shotgun

When a player dies drop primary weapon rather than weapon box

Voice API in SDK 2.2

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.

Rendering a wireframe of maps yourself

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

Customizable Hud Color

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

Gauss Teleporter

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

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

Old Menus System

Unlimited Health Rechargers

Half-Life Server Info Class

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

Yell at them

Decals for every mp5 bullet

Changing the weapons a player spawns with is very easy, very simple.

Half-Life debuggen (German)

Secondary Attack for Egon: Teleport player to random info_player_deathmatch

Chumtoad firing hornet gun

How to allow monsters in mp

Introduction to Half-Life coding

Opening slots for old Menu System

Create an Entity like a CS Buy Zone

Setting up Client side and FGD

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.

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.

Getting Started

Very simple tutorial, but it will teach you how to allow a weapon to 'use' objects, just like when the player hits the use key.

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

How to Make your Death Msg more like you

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

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

Jumping and Landing Sounds

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

Nebel in HL (SDK 2.2) (German)

Different Classes In Every Team

You want the most easy way to rescale halflife

Code a Throwable Crowbar

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

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

how to add old school Client Side word censoring

Shields

Re-enabling the TFC concussion effect

Unsichtbarkeit (German)

Half-Life Graphics Part 3 - TriAPI (German)

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

Quake style particle effects disabled but present in goldsrc

Editboxes and Images

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.

Challenge based article about adding a new weapon to Half-Life

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

Adding Ammo items to a H-L weapon.

Client-Side Waffen-Coding (German)

Per-pixel dynamic lighting. Real-time bumpmapping. Cartoon shading. Thermal goggles.

Proximity Satchels UPDATED

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

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

Controllable skies

Checking line of sight and field of view

Creating a Sniper Rifle in the 2.2 SDK

How to change your MP5 to an MP5-SD3

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

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

Adding new monster classes

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.

Modeling events

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

Roter Bildschirm bei Schaden (German)

Doubler Powerup

Light Effect After an Grenade (Very Fast)

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

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

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

adding zoom functinality to your mp5

Health and Armor restore after frag

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

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

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

Finding your way around the Half-Life DLL

This tutorial will show you how to reset pushables, breakables, doors, dead bodies and dropped weapons.

Activating w_ models animated animation

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

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

You want to kill yourself and dont get minus points?

Dynamically Resizing Models

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

Disable The FoV Command

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

Weapon Categories

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

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

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

Code an Admin System into Half-Life

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

Part 1 in 5 part series

Holster Animation

The final sentry will look and work something like the sentries in TFC that the engineers build, we are going to have a phase when a player builds the sentry and can give it ammo and rockets.

Part 4 in 5 part series

CS/TFC Spawn Delay

Make the RPG like the UT redeemer, easy!

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

This tut will show you how do add a function to your code that will check a players teamkill amount and justify it with an action. So here we go.

Particle System (German)

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

Steam-Developing Q&A (German)

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

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

Fast 'n easy weapon naming

Frags for killing Monsters in MP FIX

Realistic Reflections in Real-Time

Infrared NightVision

There are a few ways of implementing a class system.

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

3 Mode Zoom For Mp5

Weapon Modifications

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.

Creating the Capture Point

So, lets add up a secondary fire mode for the egon

Revision 4

Sensor Mine

Decals for every mp5 bullet (FIX)

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

Making an InstallShield Installer for your Mod

Ping Rating

Stamina controlled sprint

Teamdeathmatch Spielmodus (German)

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.

2 zoom sniper scope

Blast Soundwave Effect From a Weapon

Incremental Zooming (On the Client Side)

It's been done before for Counterstrike.. but this'll go over how to make your own, including sprite display, use of vector classes etc.

Adding User Variables to Half-Life

How to add a new monster to your maps.

Maintaining Class After Death

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

Homing Rockets with no laser spot in Half-Life

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

Rescaling Half-Life

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

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

Counterstrike Gameplay

Improved Spectatormode for Teamplay

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

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

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

HEV Chargers with larger charging capacity

Replace default set of NPC stepping sounds with the set from the texture they're walking on.

TFC Concussion Fix

TO Recoil

Relations between monsters in Half-Life

Installing the SDK

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

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

Spreadsystem (German)

Guass Fix

Making A Semi-Automatic Handgun

Hud Bars (Statussäulen) (German)

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

RPG Item Dropper

How to code in some fog in your mod

Tripmines with configurable beam brightness

Add a TFC Rocket Launcher in Half-Life

Short Article Introducing C

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.

Understanding hud.txt

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

Das Half-Life Serverprotokoll (German)

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.

C++ Cheat Sheet