Programming

Name / Description			Site/Author
Changing Multiplayer Weapon Damages To change the weapon values for multiplayer games simply open up the multiplay_gamerules.cpp
Snark Trails This tutorial, while not hard to do, gives a great effect; with snarks leaving behind a smoke trail as they run.
Medkit Bugfix Medkit Bugfix
Sentry continued: adding Sentry-parts box and hud-icon Sentry continued: adding Sentry-parts box and hud-icon
Random Terrain Generation Random Terrain Generation
Higher Res for VGUI Images This article shows you how to quickly change the default 320 & 640 .tga image sizes to fit whatever resolution a player is using.
Monster Teamplay Monster Teamplay (German)
Where DiD I Hit Him (Update) Where DiD I Hit Him (Update)
New HL HUD Message System 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.
MP3 Player Add MP3 support to Half-Life
Revamping the Player Model System 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.
Reloadable Hornet Gun How to make a reloadable hornet gun
Advanced script for Mouse Wheel Zoom Script for smooth mouse wheel zooming in and out in Half-Life.
Creating a Dash key 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
Adding new bullet types In this tutorial I will go over how to add new bullet types.
2 zoom sniper scope 2 zoom sniper scope
Different Classes In Every Team Different Classes In Every Team
Creating a New VGUI Menu - Part 3 Editboxes and Images
Engine Functions This is the lowest level entry to the engine. It also maps quite conveniently to Quake-C stuff, so check that out
HL's Color Indexing System (fixed/changed) HL's Color Indexing System (fixed/changed)
Bullet FlyBy Bullet FlyBy (German)
Spreadsystem Spreadsystem (German)
CoD/Halo style weapon switching How to implement call of Duty/Halo style weapon slots and switching.
Introduction to Half-Life coding Introduction to Half-Life coding
Getting entity walking speed to match animation Challenge based article covering getting an entities walking speed to match its animation
Change host players ping on the scoreboard to 'Host' Change host players ping on the scoreboard to 'Host'
Half-Life Server Info Class Half-Life Server Info Class
RPG Power make the RPG a little more powerful
Binding new keys. In this tutorial we are going to add two new key functionalities.
CS Style 2x Zooming CS Style 2x Zooming
Creating a New VGUI Menu - Part 2 Panels, Labels, Buttons, and Commands
Adding New Skill Healths In this tutorial we will learn how to add new Skill Health links to add to new custom monsters.
Make a player fly Make a player fly
How to Make your Death Msg more like you How to Make your Death Msg more like you
Usp ( Counter-Strike Style) Usp ( Counter-Strike Style)
Parachute Okay this tutorial covers how to create a parachute like the one in firearms
Radar System Radar System
Blended color indication Blended color indication
Beheading Zombies Beheading Zombies
How To Make Thirdperson View To Your Mod How To Make Thirdperson View To Your Mod
Freezing a Player Freezing a Player while shooting a weapon
Chumtoad firing hornet gun Chumtoad firing hornet gun
Dule Shell Ejects This will tell you how to make Client side dule shell ejections for dule guns
Alias's, Scripts, and Binds. This is a brief guide explaining the differences between Alias's, Scripts, and Binds.
HEV Chargers with larger charging capacity HEV Chargers with larger charging capacity
No gun dropping after death No gun dropping after death
Minikarte im HUD Minikarte im HUD (German)
Short Essay about most common functions in C++ for HL Coders This is going to be a fairly long tutorial on some basic functions in HL SDK.
TURRETS - HORNET GUN TURRET This tutorial will somewhat describe how to create a completely new turret.
Geldanzeige im HUD Geldanzeige im HUD (German)
Disable The FoV Command Disable The FoV Command
CTF Gameplay Part 3 Setting up Client side and FGD
NVGoggles Create Night Vision Goggles in Half-Life
Bot Tutorial 2 In this one I hope to start on some of the navigation code and the bots use of ladders.
Creating New Entities ow to create a brand new entity! + writing the FGD
Mp3 Fix Mp3 Fix
User Input Processing System User Input Processing System
Green Driplles Green Driplles
Introduction to Half-Life SDK2 Introduction to Half-Life SDK2
TriAPI BreakOut Hud game
Team Spawn Point Fix okay, make sure to do BigGuy's tut on team spawn points first
Health/Armor color blending Health/Armor color blending
How to use UTIL_ScreenShake 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.
Half-Life Graphics Part 3: Triangle API An overview of the triangle API, which can be used to draw textured, animated polygons on the fly.
VGUI HUD Suppliment (Part 2) 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...
3rd Person Ansicht 3rd Person Ansicht (German)
Third and Fourth attack Addign a Third and Fourth attack to your mod
Weapon Droppings Weapon Droppings
M16 TUTORIAL This tutorial shows how to make an M16 assault rifle, with an optional silencer, just like the M4 rifle from Counter-Strike.
How to create a server-client message This article describes, step-by-step, how to create a message which can be sent from the server-side to the client-side.
Change the origin of bullets This is how you would change the location of where tracers and bullets, or rockets, are coming from to match your weapon model
Tungsten Arrows Ricochets of walls.
SDK2 Basics: Adding a new monster with default AI How to add a new monster to your maps.
Using Glowshell 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.
Half-Life Server Protocol This article is a reference to a method of using the server protocol with PHP
Precaching Precaching was one of the first stumbling blocks we encountered when we starting working with the SDK.
Improved Spectatormode for Teamplay Improved Spectatormode for Teamplay
Shooting through walls Shooting through walls
Weapon Categories Weapon Categories
WaterMatch WaterMatch (German)
Changing Weapon Damage Outside the Dll In this tutorial I will show you how to change the weapon damages without recompiling the dll
Smoke Grenade Code a Smoke Grenade
Instant Firing Rockets (like in TFC) Instant Firing Rockets (like in TFC)
Radio System This tutorial is made to help you create a Radio System (like CS). With sounds and team only messages.
Using the Persistence Engine with Half-Life This article describes first line-by-line how to create a program that uses the Persistence Engine, and then suggests some ways to use it in a Half-Life mod.
Scavenger Hunt AI Tutorial Heres another tutorial for bots. This one on creating some basic bot item search code.
Installing the SDK Installing the SDK
Red screen after Death and Damage Red screen after Death and Damage
Half-life1 Coding: 4digits on HUD and 9999 ammo on clip 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.
.MAP to .DXF Conversion Hammer code that converts a map from standard .map format to .dxf format
Hud Bars (Statussäulen) Hud Bars (Statussäulen) (German)
thirdperson camera clip thirdperson camera clip
Startup Edits Specify the weapons and ammo players spawn with via your server.cfg or listenserver.cfg
Building the hlds_l Linux .so How to get Half-Life's server to compile and run on Linux boxes worldwide
An Entity like a CS Buy Zone Create an Entity like a CS Buy Zone
Map Briefing how to add map briefings to your mod as seen in TFC, CS
Debugging your mod using steam A small guide, written by Valve's Alfred Reynolds, on how to debug your mod in steam.
VGUI Scope This tutorial is a step-by-step guide to creating a VGUI Sniper Scope.
Your First MOD good introduction to starting a Half-Life Mod
Orthogonale TriAPI Orthogonale TriAPI (German)
Flammenwerfer erstellen Flammenwerfer erstellen (German)
Controlling Player Speeds This tutorial shows how to enable you to set what speeds the player can go, and force them to remain at those speeds.
Custom DrawHudString 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.
Adding a Diablo View Effect In this tut, i will show you how to add a diablo camera effect to your mod.
Crosshair Tutorial Nr.2 Crosshair Tutorial Nr.2 (German)
Respawning Entities This tutorial will show you how to reset pushables, breakables, doors, dead bodies and dropped weapons.
Energy weapon Energy weapon
Realistic Reflections in Real-Time Realistic Reflections in Real-Time
Complete Freedom of Rotation Changing view angles with quaternions
Creating a Mad Scientist Entity Simple tutorial on creating a custom entity
Function Overloading Function Overloading is useful when you have a function that you want to do several different things with
The Weapons Tutorial - Part Two 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.
How to change your MP5 to an MP5-SD3 How to change your MP5 to an MP5-SD3
Bump Mapping in Half-Life e. It adds detail where there was none before, and provides a much enhanced visual experience.
Adding weapons to the HUD Adding weapons to the HUD
Weapon Modifications Weapon Modifications
Half-Life AI, Schedules and Tasks The Half-Life AI is made mostly of two things, tasks and schedules
TURRETS - Targeting Laser Spot Here's how to get the little red dot on turrets.
Activities and Sequences This is a brief description of the difference between an activity and a sequence. I expect it will be fleshed out in time.
Hand Cannon How to convert the .12 Gauge shotgun into a Hand Cannon
Half-Life Programming Planet Snippet Collection Collection of coding snippets that may or may not work, use a a reference when building your mod
Specific weapons for different teams Specific weapons for different teams
Team Spawn Points Fixed! Bigguys Team Spawn Points had a couple of errors, so here is how your fix them.
Creating New Weapons in the 2.2 SDK Creating New Weapons in the 2.2 SDK
visible laser sight line thingy visible laser sight line thingy
Improved Freeze Grenades I have found a way to make Better Freeze Grenades
Homing Rockets with no laser spot Homing Rockets with no laser spot in Half-Life
Stealthsuit Create a Cloaked Stealth Suit in Half-Life
Booby trap satchel In this tutorial we will add a new type of Satchel using the weapons box as a model.
HLSDK Engine Notes HLSDK Engine Notes
Turning speed of an entity Challenge based article covering the turning speed of an entity
TFC Status Bar Functionality TFC has a generic status bar that sends a bunch of different details to the client.
Advanced script for Smooth Zoom Script for smooth zooming in and out in Half-Life.
Do-it-yourself-WireFrame! Rendering a wireframe of maps yourself
GameRules - Part 1 Adding Two-Team Deathmatch to Your Mod (part 3 & 4 are missing)
Half-Life Graphics Part 1 - 2D Sprites Half-Life Graphics Part 1 - 2D Sprites (German)
TURRETS - Secondary Fire Here's how you PREPARE a turret to support the secondary fire mode.
Egon Secondary Fire: Vampire This tutorial will show you how to create new damage type for the Egon.
Good Half-Life Net Play Things that effect network stats during gameplay
Installing Gamerules This is just a simple way to switch to different gameplay modes.
Introduction to C Short Article Introducing C
CS/TFC Spawn Delay CS/TFC Spawn Delay
Another Way To Make Those Cute Lil Houndeyes Not So Cute Another Way To Make Those Cute Lil Houndeyes Not So Cute
Coding NPCs in GoldSrc This tutorial will lead you through the arcane art of adding fog to your mod
Gauss Teleporter Gauss Teleporter
Improved MP5 Burst Improved MP5 Burst
MP3 player in HL MP3 player in HL
Scripting with sequence files Scripting with sequence files
No minus frag when killed self No minus frag when killed self in Half-Life
Screenshaking Screenshaking
Modding Weapons (Ammo, Weight etc) This tutorial will teach you how to edit the ammo per clip, how fast you walk with a weapon and much more!
Debugging in Visual Studio 6 Debugging in Visual Studio 6
Adding new weapons 2.2 sdk PART 2 continued
Teamdeathmatch Spielmodus Teamdeathmatch Spielmodus (German)
Shotgun Modes decide between firing a super compressed attack or a really spread out attack
How to make a key that toggles 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.
HuD Colouring This tutorial will cover the Basics for changing the colour of the HUD in HL
Paintrace Hud Indicator 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.
Round based system Round based system
Particle Engine tutorial part 1 Part 1 in 5 part series
Particle System Particle System (German)
MP5 to Chain gun MP5 to Chain gun
Bot Tutorial 101 Basics of coding bots in Half-Life
Half-Life Graphics Part2: EfxAPI 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.
Egon Beam Observer Fix For eye-mode specators
Using the Microsoft Visual C++ 6 IDE Using the Microsoft Visual C++ 6 IDE
Where Did I Hit Him (Update 2) Where Did I Hit Him (Update 2)
A New Weapon Challenge Challenge based article about adding a new weapon to Half-Life
Changing the HUD color Changing the HUD color
Secondary Attack for Egon: Teleport player to random info_player_deathmatch Secondary Attack for Egon: Teleport player to random info_player_deathmatch
Model Classes Model Classes in Half-Life
Clientside richoche sounds 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.
'Dynamic' skies in Half-Life Controllable skies
Different Classes In Every Team (FIX) Different Classes In Every Team (FIX)
Modeling events Modeling events
Weapon Names on the HUD Weapon Names on the HUD
Half-Life Graphics Part 1: 2D Sprites All you ever wanted to know about drawing 2d sprites on the HUD.
Weapons that use! 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.
Erstellen einer schallgedämpften USP Creating a Silenced USP (German)
New Menuing System Tutorial 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.
Class System Tutorial There are a few ways of implementing a class system.
Change the mp5 grenade launcher to a Shotgun-cannon Fix. Change the mp5 grenade launcher to a Shotgun-cannon Fix.
Weapon Selection Fix This tut will fix the weapon select bug where weapons that have ran out of primary ammo but still have secondary ammo are not selectable.
Charging Crossbow Charging Crossbow
Coding Fog How to code in some fog in your mod
Changing Spawn Times Changing Spawn Times
Proximity Satchels UPDATED Proximity Satchels UPDATED
CTF Gameplay Part 1 Creating the Flag Entity
Scissoring Sprites instead of defining the area the sprite CANNOT be drawn in, you instead define the area the sprite CAN be drawn in.
Adding new advanced options Adding new advanced options
Creating your Menu Bitmasks Creating your Menu Bitmasks in Half-Life
Team name fix for SDK 2.2 Here is a fix for people having problems with DarkKnight's team VGUI tutorial
Changing Armour colours What this code will do is change the armour hud colours depending on how much armour you actually have.
Dynamically Resizing Models Dynamically Resizing Models
Stop Grenade Tumbling Ever noticed that grenade the MP5 fires tumbles end over end in the air
HUD Health Bar HUD Health Bar
View Roll When Strafing (like DMC) View Roll When Strafing (like DMC)
View model rendering tut fix View model rendering tut fix
Customising the HUD colour Customising the HUD colour
Exploding Rounds for the Python Exploding Rounds for the Python
Adding a zoom to the mp5 adding zoom functinality to your mp5
Dynamic Lighting I'll show you how to make monsters attacks light up world brushes
Fast 'n easy weapon naming Fast 'n easy weapon naming
Adding User Variables to Half-Life Adding User Variables to Half-Life
Coding Style Coding Style
Customizable Hud Color Customizable Hud Color
Removing a PlayerItem Function to remove named items from a player's inventory.
SDK2 Basics: Creating a new entity class and adding it to your level How to create a simple variant of the CGameText class and add it to the available entities in Worldcraft.
Radio Voices This tutorial modifies the client dll (in codedir\\cl_dll) to play audio sounds.
Decals for every mp5 bullet (FIX) Decals for every mp5 bullet (FIX)
CTF Gameplay Part 2 Creating the Capture Point
SDK2 Basics: String handling The way that strings are handled internally in the SDK can be confusing to start with.
Client dll Coding Tutorial #1 Drawing a Special Credit Number on the clients head's up display!
VGUI HUD This article describes the principles behind coding a VGUI HUD by piggy backing off the existing HUD, seriously reducing the amount of code needed.
Respawn Delay (When Dead, Not When Spawn) Respawn Delay (When Dead, Not When Spawn)
The Half-Life DLL Finding your way around the Half-Life DLL
Good Homing Rockets This tutorial shows how to change the rpg rockets to home in on the closest living thing besides you.
Making an InstallShield Installer Making an InstallShield Installer for your Mod
TFC Concussion Fix TFC Concussion Fix
Snark-Dropping Crossbow Snark-Dropping Crossbow
Slots/positions Fix Slots/positions Fix
Adding Ammo items to a H-L weapon. Adding Ammo items to a H-L weapon.
Activating w_ models animated animation Activating w_ models animated animation
Half-Life Graphics Part 3 - TriAPI Half-Life Graphics Part 3 - TriAPI (German)
Hash Tables Hash Tables
Particles FIXes and improvements Particles FIXes and improvements
FatBoy Mode FatBoy Mode
AI Tutorial - Part 1 This tut will cover a new monster who can sit in your map, and run away if you shoot at it.
Spinning Corpses Simple Fix A Simple 4-line fix for spinning corpses.
TO Recoil TO Recoil
Wall Jumping Wall Jumping Tutorial
Basic Weapon Coding Reference here are the basic things you need in a normal weapon
Counterstrike Gameplay Counterstrike Gameplay
Coding New Entities for Half-Life This is a simple tutorial to discuss making new entities, and reading their keys in your code, so you can customize them.
Funcs for Round system Funcs for Round system
TURRETS - Gauss Turret This tutorial will somewhat describe how to create a completely new turret.
Automatically set entity collision box by model (Extension to X-0ut's custom model tut)
MP3-Entity erstellen MP3-Entity erstellen (German)
Spectator-style camera with clipping Spectator-style camera with clipping
How to allow monsters in mp How to allow monsters in mp
Menus in Half-Life Menus in Half-Life
Hitboxes and Code In Half-Life you may have noticed sparks appear when you shoot barney's helmet or an alien grunt's armor.
VGUI HUD Tutorial - Part 1 this tutorial will explain how to set the HUD up, and just get the basis.
Activating w_ models animated animation Activating w_ models animated animation
Glock Silenced and zoomed Glock Silenced and zoomed in Half-Life
The Weapons Tutorial - Part One how the code actually works so that you can add your own features
Half-Life Graphics Part 2 - EfxAPI Half-Life Graphics Part 2 - EfxAPI (German)
Client-Side Waffen-Coding Client-Side Waffen-Coding (German)
View Turrets through Barrel View Turrets through Barrel
Add cl_righthand to your mod This is for Half-Life 1 and the GoldSrc engine
In-game Player Menus In-game Player Menus
Voice API in SDK 2.2 Voice API in SDK 2.2
Adding Weapons in 2.2 sdk PART 1 Okay, so you want to add your own weapon to the 2.2 sdk?
Painlessly Drawing TriAPI In Orthogonal Mode I decided to whip up this tutorial to show you the simplicity of drawing triangles in orthogonal mode using TriAPI
Changing Blood and HUD Colors Heres a short tutorial on how to change the HUD and blood colors. Really simple.
Frags for killing Monsters in MP Frags for killing Monsters in MP
GameRules - Part 5 I've decided to add the Last Man Standing gamerule set (part 3 & 4 are missing)
Observer Tutorial create an observer mode for your mod
Basic Half-Life Weapon Coding Basic Half-Life Weapon Coding
Maintaining Class After Death Maintaining Class After Death
Viewport Management Tutorial covering the creation of multiple viewports
CS Style 2x Zooming (for SDK 2.3) CS Style 2x Zooming (for SDK 2.3)
Weapon : FireGrenade Weapon : FireGrenade
How to change the tripmine beam color in the console How to change the tripmine beam color in the console
FOV and LOS Checks Checking line of sight and field of view
Das Half-Life Serverprotokoll Das Half-Life Serverprotokoll (German)
Real-Time 'TRON 2.0' Glow For Low-Spec Hardware Real-Time 'TRON 2.0' Glow For Low-Spec Hardware
Admin System Code an Admin System into Half-Life
Freeze Grenades Freeze Grenades
Checkpoint system for spawnpoints A checkpoint system designed for cooperative play but possible in other game modes.
Adding new monster classes Adding new monster classes
Printing messages to a client how to print stuff to a client
Solid Triggers This is really a reference tutorial which will help you create your own solid based entities for things like the CS Buy Area.
Changing maximum allowed weapons to 45 Changing maximum allowed weapons to 45
Creating a New VGUI Menu - Part 1 Creating a New VGUI Menu and getting it to show in your mod
Creating a Vampire gamestyle The purpose of this tutorial is to show you how to create a whole new game type in 12 lines
Unsichtbarkeit Unsichtbarkeit (German)
Half-life1 Coding: More than 254 of ammo 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.
BULLET type This tutorial will help you gain an understanding of the FireBulletsPlayer and FireBullets
Sparks & Smokepuffs Sparks & Smokepuffs
Where is Poppy - Setting up a GoldSrc Mod 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
View model rendering View model rendering
Variables This is going to be a fairly long tutorial on the basic data types of C.
Jumping and Landing Sounds Jumping and Landing Sounds
Blast Soundwave Effect From a Weapon Blast Soundwave Effect From a Weapon
Steam-Developing Q&A Steam-Developing Q&A (German)
VGUI HUD Suppliment (Part 1)(FIX) 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.
All About messages in Half-Life This tutorial will describe the basics of adding new HUD componants to the client dll
Vertex and Pixel Shaders Per-pixel dynamic lighting. Real-time bumpmapping. Cartoon shading. Thermal goggles.
Flexible Client Based Zoom - SDK2 This tutorial is designed to help you create a flexible client side Zoom function for SDK2
Weapon Ammo Modification, Etc. Weapon Ammo Modification, Etc.
Client dll Coding Tutorial #2 Drawing a Special Credit String on the clients head's up display
Half-Life's In-Game Visibility Determination Where would we be without visibility determination?
Making A Player Fly This is a tutorial teaching you how to make a flying system in half-life
Placing Breakpoints Placing Breakpoints
Entity Effects on View Model Add Entity Effects on a View Model
SDK2 Basics: Looking at a simple entity class This is a quick look to see what an existing entity class, CGameText, does and how it works.
A Laser-Pointer for any hl-weapon A Laser-Pointer for any hl-weapon
VGUI HUD Tutorial - Part 2 Adding panels and labels and such.
Sawed-Off Shotgun 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,
Adding new monster factions this tutorial will show you how to add new factions to monsters.
Shotgun w/ slugs and buckshot This tutorial is about how to create a Shotgun with two types of ammo (slugs and buckshot).
Creating full Half-Life weapons both client and server side detailed
Team Coloured Text and Spectator Chat This tut will show you how to make spectators stop seeing what alive people are saying and vice-vesa.
Player-guided weapons Make the RPG like the UT redeemer, easy!
Frags for killing Monsters in MP FIX Frags for killing Monsters in MP FIX
Building the DLLs with VS.NET 2003 for Steam Teaches you how to setup your VS.NET 2003 to build the Half-Life dlls, and how to get them working on Steam.
Die Erstellung eines Laserstrahls Die Erstellung eines Laserstrahls (German)
Sparks & Smokepuffs fix Sparks & Smokepuffs fix
Advanced: Understanding the Monster AI A detailed tutorial on how the Half-Life AI hangs together. Covers Schedules, Tasks, and Monster States, with examples.
Clearing Decals 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.
Simulating Randomness Simulating Randomness
UTIL_ScreenShake You know, the UTIL_ScreenShake can only shake clients that are on ground. Because that sucks ass, here we're gonna fix it.
Basing one monster class off another Basing one monster class off another
Advanced script for Slow Motion (bullet time) Script for a kind of smooth slow motion (bullet time) in Half-Life.
Reloadable HornetGun FIX I tested my tutorial and found out that there was an error with the reloading with secondary attack so im attempting ot fix it
Quick Guide to Debugging Quick Guide to Debugging
CS-style weapon dropping Here is a little tutorial on CS-style weapon dropping.
Triple-Bolt Crossbow Triple-Bolt Crossbow
Hiding in Shadow In this article I will explain how to make a monster disregard the player if they're within a certain level of light
Fixing Valve's bouncy crouch code Notice how if you tap your crouch key very fast you bounce? This code will fix that.
Half-Life''s Color Indexing System This tutorial is meant for the people who are confused about how Half-Life uses its color index's.
Blood bursts In this tutorial I will teach you how to use the UTIL_Bloodstream effect.
Drop primary gun instead of weapon box When a player dies drop primary weapon rather than weapon box
Scripts (a follow up to Aliases, scripts, and binds) Scripts (a follow up to Aliases, scripts, and binds)
ANY blood color ANY blood color
Dead Icon In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to add a dead-icon to the scoreboard.
Super Sharp MP5 This is an easy way to change the widespread of the MP5 into a much smaller one.
Mp5 Burst Mp5 Burst
Advanced: How to create a radar for Half-Life 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.
How To Enable HLTV In Your Mod How To Enable HLTV In Your Mod
Screen Fading and Shaking This tutorial will show you how to use the UTIL_ScreenFade and UTIL_ScreenShake functions in your weapons to create effects like night vision and vibrations.
DISGUISE TUTORIAL This tutorial shows how you can make a very simple disguise system with an old style menu.
Re-enabling the TFC concussion effect Re-enabling the TFC concussion effect
Gman 2 Ever wanted to use gman twice in a map with a different look?
RPG Item Dropper RPG Item Dropper
Basics on C++ Objects and Inheritance Basics on C++ Objects and Inheritance
Guass Fix Guass Fix
Half-Life Team System With VGUI Menu w/SDK 2.2 Half-Life Team System With VGUI Menu w/SDK 2.2
Butter Fingers Bullet This tutorial will show you how to create new bullet types.
VGUI HUD Suppliment (Part 1) Ok, now, for starters, this tutorial will explain how to set the HUD up, and just get the basis.
Weapons in the HUD Tutorial Made a weapon and can't figure out how in the hell to get it into the HUD?
Making a Flashbang Tutorial on making a flashbang grenade, complete with CS-style screen fading & concussion effect.
Taunting Crowbar Very simple done, this you now be able to taunt other players when you have the crowbar out.
How to Align a Model Against the Floor How to Align a Model Against the Floor
How to create a DEAD message in your scoreboard How to create a DEAD message in your scoreboard
Creating Different Colored Menus Fairly simple put, it allows you to create menus of different colors.
Rescaling the easiest way You want the most easy way to rescale halflife
How to add a Christmas Easter Egg! (or any date!) New to coding and ever wondered how TFC did the Christmas easter egg? Fear nevermore!
Vehicles Vehicles
Creating a Sniper Rifle in the 2.2 SDK Creating a Sniper Rifle in the 2.2 SDK
Effects Fun Part I 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...
Debugging your dlls Debugging your dlls for your Mod
Weapon Categories Fix Wep-Cat-Fix
Your First Program Here I will show you a fast and simple program and demonstrate the basics of C
Downloading and setting up the Half-Life SDK Understanding hud.txt
Dynamic Lighting Dynamic Lighting
Getting an entity to point at you while it fires Challenge based article about getting an entity to point at you while it fires
Homing Missle Create a homing missile in Half-Life
Old Menus Fix Old Menus Fix
Adding New skill.cfg Entries Adding New skill.cfg Entries
Particle Systems: The Theory Particle Systems: The Theory
AI Tutorial - Part 2 Today we are going to make our monster kill
Remove the minus frag when killed self You want to kill yourself and dont get minus points?
How to Make a Desert-Eagle (SDK2.2) How to make a Desert-Eagle
Doubler Powerup Doubler Powerup
Waffensystem Waffensystem (German)
Infrared NightVision Infrared NightVision
Incremental Zooming (On the Client Side) Incremental Zooming (On the Client Side)
Change Armor Spawn This tuturial will help you to change the armor you are spawning with
Egon secondary fire mode So, lets add up a secondary fire mode for the egon
Advanced: Building an in-game menu entity How to develop a new entity that handles menus in game (ala counterstrike's 'buy weapons' menu).
VGUI HUD Tutorial - Part 3 This tutorial will explain how to add the current name of the weapon the player is using to the HUD we created earlier.
Explode Shake (UPDATE) Explode Shake (UPDATE)
Recoil Recoil (German)
The Weapons Tutorial - Part Three add a complete, fully functional new weapon to Half-Life (and that includes the HUD componants!)
Drop NOTHING on death Drop NOTHING on death
Making A Semi-Automatic Handgun Making A Semi-Automatic Handgun
Orthogonal Drawing with TriAPI I decided to whip up this tutorial to show you the simplicity of drawing triangles in orthogonal mode using TriAPI
Installing Your Mod on Steam 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.
A smoke grenade Difficulty rating: easy. This relies heavily on existing Halflife grenade code and has almost nothing original.
Tripmines with configurable beam brightness Tripmines with configurable beam brightness
Decals for every mp5 bullet Decals for every mp5 bullet
How to Compile the Half-Life Standard SDK on the Linux Platform How to Compile the Half-Life Standard SDK on the Linux Platform
Wall Puff This tutorial will show you how to add clientside smoke puffs. You'll need a sprite that's compiled as an additive.
Dynamic NPC Stepping Sound Replace default set of NPC stepping sounds with the set from the texture they're walking on.
Shooting through walls Shooting through walls
Particle Engine tutorial part 2 Part 2 in 5 part series
Getting Started Getting Started
Colour attributes for Menus Colour attributes for Menus
SDK2 Basics: Explanation of the Weapon code (MP5) by Greg Hudson Explanation of all the MP5 code. Written by Greg Hudson.
Introduction to the Sourcecode Introduction to the Sourcecode
TeamKiller Kicking 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.
Real-Time 'TRON 2.0' Glow in Half-Life Real-Time 'TRON 2.0' Glow in Half-Life
Advanced: Understanding the Monster AI (part 2) 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.
Make a Particle Burst When a Player Joins (Like Q1/Q2) Make a Particle Burst When a Player Joins (Like Q1/Q2)
TriAPI based scope-masking system Revision 4
Where is Poppy - Your First Custom Entity 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
Better Weapon Droping Better Weapon Droping
Snark Grenade Snark Grenade
Hud_print This tuturial shows you how to get a message on the HUD
HUD Sprites Understanding hud.txt
Better Third Person Camera Simple snippet for a better third person camera with player fading.
Half-Life Observer Mode Tutorial Half-Life Observer Mode Tutorial
Client Side word censoring how to add old school Client Side word censoring
Change the mp5 grenade launcher to a Shotgun-cannon. Change the mp5 grenade launcher to a Shotgun-cannon.
Using INI configuration files properly Using INI configuration files properly
Opening slots for old Menu System Opening slots for old Menu System
Nebel in HL (SDK 2.2) Nebel in HL (SDK 2.2) (German)
Static Water Simulation Static Water Simulation
Particle Engine tutorial part 5 Part 5 in 5 part series
CS AK47 Code a CS AK47 into Half-Life
Set Up a liblist.gam Set Up a liblist.gam
Team Coloured Text and Spectator Chat ( Fix ) In pongles Tutorial on 'Team Coloured Text and Spectator Chat ' he has 2 small errors to fix :
Faster clicking equals faster shots Faster clicking equals faster shots
Fog in half-life (using tri-api) This tutorial should be easy to follow provided that you have at least some grounding in c++
Holster Animation Holster Animation
HUD Countdown Timer add a server controlled hud countdown
Relation between monsters Relations between monsters in Half-Life
Standing Still For 5 Seconds (Respawning) Standing Still For 5 Seconds (Respawning)
Snark Grenade Snark Grenade
Advanced script for Holstering Weapon Script for a slightly better illusion of holstering and re-equipping weapon in Half-Life.
Health and Armor restore after frag Health and Armor restore after frag
Non-Exploding Snarks This tutorial explains how to have snarks that don't explode after 15 seconds in your mod.
TFC Rocket Launcher Add a TFC Rocket Launcher in Half-Life
Using the ALERT function Using the ALERT function
Temporary Entities what temporary entities are and how to use them in Half-Life
Spawnpoints Spawnpoints (German)
Bot Frame This is for people wanting to make their own Half-Life bot.
The Power of CVARs! The Power of CVARs!
Proximity Fuse for Satchels Proximity Fuse for Satchels
TURRETS TURRETS in Half-Life
6 shot magnum In this tutorial we are going to make the secondary fire of the python fire off all six rounds.
bouncing bodies bouncing bodies
Weapon flags Every Half-Life weapon have flags. For example MP5
Cluster grenades, a complete new weapon for Half-Life Create a new weapon for Half-Life
Silenced Glock Silenced Glock
Door Fix 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.
1 Swing Crowbar make the crowbar only swing once when held
Half-Life debuggen Half-Life debuggen (German)
AI Tutorial - Part 3 This tutorial will cover : 1. Making the monster get angry at you if you shoot him. 2. Random chatting according to it's state.
C++ Review C++ Cheat Sheet
Particle Engine tutorial part 4 Part 4 in 5 part series
Hints on how to program a Half-Life mod This article tries to give hints to would-be HL mod authors in many different aspects of the programming experience.
TriAPI based team overlays This tutorial will show you how to make use of the Triangle API to make team overlays
Sensor Mine Sensor Mine
Event System in SDK 2.2 Event System in SDK 2.2
Changing The Server Browser To Show Your MOD Name In 'Game Type' Changing The Server Browser To Show Your MOD Name In 'Game Type'
Render Scene Quick & simple, heres how to draw visible surfaces (bsp only) - unlit.
Impulse 101 This tutorial teach a very simple way to edit, remove the cheating Impulse 101 code.
Custom Model Entity This is a tutorial on making a custom model entity.
3 Mode Zoom For Mp5 3 Mode Zoom For Mp5
Custom AABB collision boxes for an entity 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.
The Think, Touch, and Use functions. These functions are key to how an entity w
Smoke trail behind player Smoke trail behind player
Changing Tracer Effects Changing Tracer Effects on weapons in Half-Life
Dash Key Part 2 Stamina controlled sprint
Custom Player Animations This tutorial will explain what you need todo in order to get a custom player animation to play.
Vectors: An Introduction Vectors: An Introduction
Scoreboard team colors You wanted to know how to color the teams in the scoreboard?
SDK2 Basics: How to send messages between the client and game DLLs Half-Life is split into two DLLs - client.dll and hl.dll.
Config for map If u want add options to your maps u can add to all maps config files...
Weapon Clips and such Weapon Clips and such
Advanced Bot Frame This is for people wanting to make their own Half-Life bot.
Unlimited Health Rechargers Unlimited Health Rechargers
Roter Bildschirm bei Schaden Roter Bildschirm bei Schaden (German)
Shields Shields
Palette.lmp file Quake style particle effects disabled but present in goldsrc
GameRules - Part 2 Adding Assault to Your Mod (part 3 & 4 are missing)
FlashBang FlashBang
Dynamic colored lights - model color fix Dynamic colored lights - model color fix
VGUI HUD Tutorial - Part 4 Adding an ammo indicator to the HUD
Changing max ammo/clip capacities Changing max ammo/clip capacities
Removing blood and gibs from Half Life This tutorial will show you how to remove blood and gore from Half Life.
Coded Fabrics This model I'm describing can be used for any surface that can bend, so it can be a flag
Changing the Default Multiplayer Weapons Changing the weapons a player spawns with is very easy, very simple.
Turn off flashlight after player death Turn off flashlight after player death
Gman 2 Ever wanted to use gman twice in a map with a different look?
Explosion Shake Explosion Shake
Sentry 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.
Chumtoad firing hornetgun correction Chumtoad firing hornetgun correction
HUD Graphics for Half-Life This tutorial almost completely explains how to do HUD graphics.
Particle Engine tutorial part 3 Part 3 in 5 part series
Throwable Crowbar Code a Throwable Crowbar
Yell at them Yell at them
Making a NailGun Making a NailGun
Rescaling Half-Life Rescaling Half-Life
Adding muzzle flashes that also light up world brushes Adding muzzle flashes that also light up world brushes
Make a Medic Make a Medic
Respawning Monsters in MP (concept) I will now explain how I did monster respawning in MP
MP3-Dateien in HL abspielen MP3-Dateien in HL abspielen (German)
Half-life's hidden physics code Half life contains some extra code dealing with dead body physics
Bullet Chasecam Bullet Chasecam (German)
Entity Variables The more coding you do, the more you'll start talking about the 'pev'
Governer Governer
Make a teleporter exit spawn you inside an area This tutorial will demonstrate how simple you can make a brush define the area where the player will spawn inside when entering a teleporter.
Building the Half-Life DLLs with the Microsoft Command-Line Compiler
Power Shotgun here's how to create a power-shotgun
Launch 3 Rockets Launch 3 Rockets
Light Effect After an Grenade (Very Fast) Light Effect After an Grenade (Very Fast)
Ping Rating Ping Rating
Show mod name in server list Customize the Mod name displayed in the server list
Playing .mp3 files in Half-Life Warning - this is taken from my brief investigation, but relies on having a multi-channel soundcard
Quick Hints and Tips 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...
Speed This tuturial helps you set your speed this tuturial is really easy.
Weapon Strength how to change the strength of weapons
Crosshair Tutorial Crosshair Tutorial (German)
Old Menus System Old Menus System
View Roll On Strafe This tutorial will show you how to achieve the view rolling effect while strafing, as in DMC and AHL
Introduction to GoldSrc Programming - Setting up Visual Studio A detailed tutorial covering the setup of Visual Studio for work with GoldSrc

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