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Name / Description			Site/Author
Coding a flashlight to secondary attack by Lord Ned (189) Changing a weapon's secondary fire to toggling the flashlight
Setting up Visual Studio .net 2005 Beta C++ for Source This is a quick and painless Artical on how to setup Visual Studio .net 2005 Beta, for use with Source Mods.
Game Movement Series #2: Analog Jumping and Floating How to set up analog jumping (the longer you hold jump, the higher you go) and floating (pressing jump as you are falling decelerates your fall)
Debugging your half-life 2 mod I go through both methods for debugging your modification
3 State Zoom For Any Weapon I missed the zooming feature of the 357 that was in HL1 so I thought as a beginner tutorial I'd write a weapon zooming lesson. I then carried it out to a 3-stage zoom.
Enabling Spectator Mode How to get spectator mode working. Based on HL2MP SDK
Adding Simple Pick up in Multiplayer allows players to pick up objects with +use in multiplayer.
Display player bounding box Adds a console command to output the players bounding box mins & maxs to the console, and also draw's the bounding box in the world.
Fix MP Grenade Auto-Switching A basic fix for stopping the grenade from auto-switching to the next best weapon after you throw one. Also allows more than one grenade to be thrown.
How to add Ammocrates for missing ammo type and/or create new ammo types This tutorial will cover the code needed to add Slams and SGM1 Grenades as Ammocrate types, and also fix the graphics for two of the existing ones.
Making Bots Join A Team Make the bots join whichever team you wish. So easy, even I can do it!
An Exploration Of Weapon_RPG: Part 1A A fully documented exploration into the weapon_rpg class, starting with the basecombatweapon class and moving up the inheritance stack. The first part of the article disects basecombatweapon_shared.
Game Movement Series #1: Wall jumping How to setup wall jumping in half-life 2
Third Person Camera Upgrades Collision check, translucency
Storing weapons on ladder like Raven Shield or BF2
More 3rd Person Camera Upgrades This is an update to chrono's snippet.
Implementation of a string lookup table A string lookup table is a set of functions that is used to convert strings to pre-defined values
Adding Muting to your Scoreboard A Small tutorial that explains how to put in simple muting on your scoreboard.
Add Far Clipping/Fading to Particles This will let you optionally set far clipping/fading on particles, so you can fade particles out at a certain distance from you.
Three Firing Modes for Pistol Explains how to create 3 firing modes for the pistol: semi-automatic, burst-fire, and fully-automatic.
Smoke Grenade Change the frag grenade in MP HL to a smoke grenade
Coding a Mod by Lord Ned (188) You wanna make a mod? This tutorial focuses on the behind the scenes aspect, and less on the content.
Adding Single-Player Weapons to Half-Life 2 The purpose of this article is to help you add the code for new weapons to your Half-Life 2 mod.
Static Ragdolls Ragdolls attached to their spawnpoint by a ragdoll constraint
Making Your HL2DM Mod a Perfect Clone of HL2DM This article let's you know how to setup your HL2DM mod to be exactly like HL2DM.
3rd person View in Multiplayer How to enable it in HL2DM
Adding explosion to the Xbow bolt Remember HL1's cross bow bolt exploded when it hit? Get that, in HL2.
Super Phys Cannon Impulse Get blue phys cannon with impulse 12
Scoreboard Setting up a basic scoreboard (with teams!) in the HL2 FROM SCRATCH MP SDK
GameUI Explanation on handling VGUI without having a connection to a game.
An Exploration Of Weapon_RPG: Part 1B A fully documented exploration into the weapon_rpg class, starting with the basecombatweapon class and moving up the inheritance stack. The first part of the article disects basecombatweapon_shared.
Attaching VGUIScreens to viewmodels An article explaining how to attach dynamic vguiscreens to a weapons viewmodel

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