Programming

How to allow monsters in mp

Vehicles

CS/TFC Spawn Delay

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

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

MP3-Entity erstellen (German)

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

Where would we be without visibility determination?

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

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

Blended color indication

Faster clicking equals faster shots

how to add old school Client Side word censoring

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

Create a homing missile in Half-Life

Half-Life Graphics Part 1 - 2D Sprites (German)

How to make a Desert-Eagle

You want to kill yourself and dont get minus points?

Part 5 in 5 part series

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

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

Round based system

How to Make your Death Msg more like you

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

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

Bullet FlyBy (German)

Create Night Vision Goggles in Half-Life

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.

CS Style 2x Zooming (for SDK 2.3)

Gauss Teleporter

Create a new weapon for Half-Life

RPG Item Dropper

Homing Rockets with no laser spot in Half-Life

Slots/positions Fix

Changing Tracer Effects on weapons in Half-Life

Making A Semi-Automatic Handgun

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

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

The Power of CVARs!

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

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

Dynamic Lighting

Creating the Flag Entity

Adding panels and labels and such.

Adding New skill.cfg Entries

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

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

Adding new monster classes

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

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

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

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...

2 zoom sniper scope

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

Different Classes In Every Team

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

Half-Life Graphics Part 3 - TriAPI (German)

How to make a reloadable hornet gun

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

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

No gun dropping after death

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

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

Unsichtbarkeit (German)

Monster Teamplay (German)

make the RPG a little more powerful

Disable The FoV Command

Spectator-style camera with clipping

How to code in some fog in your mod

Code a Throwable Crowbar

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

Code a CS AK47 into Half-Life

Using INI configuration files properly

HL's Color Indexing System (fixed/changed)

CS Style 2x Zooming

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

TURRETS 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.

Create an Entity like a CS Buy Zone

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

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.

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

Things that effect network stats during gameplay

Model Classes in Half-Life

Governer

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

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

Improved Spectatormode for Teamplay

Quake style particle effects disabled but present in goldsrc

Incremental Zooming (On the Client Side)

Radar System

I have found a way to make Better Freeze Grenades

Rescaling Half-Life

Dynamically Resizing Models

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

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

Weapon Categories

Respawn Delay (When Dead, Not When Spawn)

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 Enable HLTV In Your Mod

how to print stuff to a client

Add Entity Effects on a View Model

add a server controlled hud countdown

Wep-Cat-Fix

Creating a Silenced USP (German)

Event System in SDK 2.2

For eye-mode specators

Part 2 in 5 part series

Part 1 in 5 part series

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.

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

Change the mp5 grenade launcher to a Shotgun-cannon.

WaterMatch (German)

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

with the Microsoft Command-Line Compiler

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

3 Mode Zoom For Mp5

No minus frag when killed self in Half-Life

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

There are a few ways of implementing a class system.

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

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

Orthogonale TriAPI (German)

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

Nebel in HL (SDK 2.2) (German)

Freezing a Player while shooting a weapon

Tripmines with configurable beam brightness

ANY blood color

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

When a player dies drop primary weapon rather than weapon box

These functions are key to how an entity w

Understanding hud.txt

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

Snark Grenade

Mp3 Fix

Charging Crossbow

Make the RPG like the UT redeemer, easy!

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

Health/Armor color blending

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

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

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.

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

Code a Smoke Grenade

Dynamic colored lights - model color fix

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

Understanding hud.txt

Adding weapons to the HUD

Instant Firing Rockets (like in TFC)

Frags for killing Monsters in MP

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

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

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

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

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

Creating the Capture Point

Customising the HUD colour

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

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

Particle System (German)

Re-enabling the TFC concussion effect

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.

Drop NOTHING on death

Making an InstallShield Installer for your Mod

Static Water Simulation

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

Simulating Randomness

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

Short Article Introducing C

Recoil (German)

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

Secondary Attack for Egon: Teleport player to random info_player_deathmatch

Crosshair Tutorial Nr.2 (German)

adding zoom functinality to your mp5

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

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

How To Make Thirdperson View To Your Mod

How to change your MP5 to an MP5-SD3

Panels, Labels, Buttons, and Commands

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

Waffensystem (German)

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

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

FatBoy Mode

How to create a DEAD message in your scoreboard

Basing one monster class off another

Creating your Menu Bitmasks in Half-Life

Customize the Mod name displayed in the server list

Steam-Developing Q&A (German)

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

Client-Side Waffen-Coding (German)

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

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.

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

View Roll When Strafing (like DMC)

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

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

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

Code an Admin System into Half-Life

Realistic Reflections in Real-Time

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

Where Did I Hit Him (Update 2)

Shields

Activating w_ models animated animation

visible laser sight line thingy

3rd Person Ansicht (German)

how to change the strength of weapons

Collection of coding snippets that may or may not work, use a a reference when building your mod

Specific weapons for different teams

Changing Spawn Times

Weapon Modifications

Finding your way around the Half-Life DLL

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

Doubler Powerup

Introduction to Half-Life coding

Better Weapon Droping

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

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

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

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

Add a TFC Rocket Launcher in Half-Life

Unlimited Health Rechargers

Beheading Zombies

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

bouncing bodies

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

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.

Red screen after Death and Damage

Create a Cloaked Stealth Suit in Half-Life

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

Minikarte im HUD (German)

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.

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

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.

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

Wall Jumping Tutorial

This tutorial modifies the client dll (in codedir\\cl_dll) to play audio sounds.

TO Recoil

Green Driplles

Debugging your dlls for your Mod

Guass Fix

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...

Part 3 in 5 part series

Colour attributes for Menus

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

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

Improved MP5 Burst

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

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

Addign a Third and Fourth attack to your mod

Add MP3 support to Half-Life

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

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

Modeling events