Programming

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

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

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.

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

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.

Weapon Droppings

Colour attributes for Menus

HUD Health Bar

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

Flammenwerfer erstellen (German)

Energy weapon

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.

A small guide, written by Valve's Alfred Reynolds, on how to debug your mod in steam.

You want to kill yourself and dont get minus points?

TO Recoil

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

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

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

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

Short Article Introducing C

both client and server side detailed

In-game Player Menus

Particles FIXes and improvements

here's how to create a power-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,

Editboxes and Images

Introduction to the Sourcecode

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

Proximity Fuse for Satchels

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

Code a Throwable Crowbar

Adding muzzle flashes that also light up world brushes

Half-Life debuggen (German)

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

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.

Hud Bars (Statussäulen) (German)

This tutorial will show you how to add clientside smoke puffs. You'll need a sprite that's compiled as an additive.

Screenshaking

Understanding hud.txt

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...

This is for Half-Life 1 and the GoldSrc engine

Debugging in Visual Studio 6

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

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

C++ Cheat Sheet

Placing Breakpoints

Event System in SDK 2.2

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

Weapon : FireGrenade

Finding your way around the Half-Life DLL

Disable The FoV Command

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

Here's how to get the little red dot on turrets.

Half-Life Observer Mode Tutorial

Glock Silenced and zoomed in Half-Life

Adding User Variables to Half-Life

How to implement call of Duty/Halo style weapon slots and switching.

adding zoom functinality to your mp5

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

Half-Life Graphics Part 3 - TriAPI (German)

Tutorial covering the creation of multiple viewports

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

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

Debugging your dlls for your Mod

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

Model Classes in Half-Life

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

User Input Processing System

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

Bullet Chasecam (German)

with the Microsoft Command-Line Compiler

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

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

Slots/positions Fix

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

Introduction to Half-Life SDK2

Particle System (German)

Creating a Silenced USP (German)

View Turrets through Barrel

Secondary Attack for Egon: Teleport player to random info_player_deathmatch

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

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

Opening slots for old Menu System

Decals for every mp5 bullet (FIX)

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

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.

When a player dies drop primary weapon rather than weapon box

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

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

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

Create a Cloaked Stealth Suit in Half-Life

Add a TFC Rocket Launcher in Half-Life

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

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

Make the RPG like the UT redeemer, easy!

This tut will cover a new monster who can sit in your map, and run away if you shoot at it.

Make a player fly

Relations between monsters in Half-Life

Where would we be without visibility determination?

Weapon Names on the HUD

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

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

Usp ( Counter-Strike Style)

A Laser-Pointer for any hl-weapon

Basing one monster class off another

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

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

Changing view angles with quaternions

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

Realistic Reflections in Real-Time

MP3-Dateien in HL abspielen (German)

The Power of CVARs!

Faster clicking equals faster shots

You want the most easy way to rescale halflife

Red screen after Death and Damage

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

Set Up a liblist.gam

Weapon Categories

Respawn Delay (When Dead, Not When Spawn)

Stamina controlled sprint

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

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

Better Weapon Droping

make the RPG a little more powerful

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

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

Ever noticed that grenade the MP5 fires tumbles end over end in the air

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

Setting up Client side and FGD

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

Weapon Modifications

How to make a Desert-Eagle

Guass Fix

Making a NailGun

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

Random Terrain Generation

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...

Made a weapon and can't figure out how in the hell to get it into the HUD?

Standing Still For 5 Seconds (Respawning)

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.

Activating w_ models animated animation

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

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

Teamdeathmatch Spielmodus (German)

How To Make Thirdperson View To Your Mod

Fast 'n easy weapon naming

Gauss Teleporter

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

How to code in some fog in your mod

Code a Smoke Grenade

How to create a DEAD message in your scoreboard

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

MP3 player in HL

How to convert the .12 Gauge shotgun into a Hand Cannon

Funcs for Round system

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

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

Tripmines with configurable beam brightness

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

Sensor Mine

HEV Chargers with larger charging capacity

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.

3rd Person Ansicht (German)

Turn off flashlight after player death

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

Changing Tracer Effects on weapons in Half-Life

Mp5 Burst

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

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

how to print stuff to a client

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

FatBoy Mode

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.

Make a Medic

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.

Different Classes In Every Team

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

here are the basic things you need in a normal weapon

Menus in Half-Life

Part 5 in 5 part series

Hud game

MP5 to Chain gun

HL's Color Indexing System (fixed/changed)

Add Entity Effects on a View Model

How to Make your Death Msg more like you

Explosion Shake

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.

RPG Item Dropper

Create an Entity like a CS Buy Zone

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

Blast Soundwave Effect From a Weapon

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

Simulating Randomness

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

Freeze Grenades

Adding Ammo items to a H-L weapon.

How to change your MP5 to an MP5-SD3

Changing the HUD color

Adding weapons to the HUD

Instant Firing Rockets (like in TFC)

Shields

Creating your Menu Bitmasks in Half-Life

How to get Half-Life's server to compile and run on Linux boxes worldwide

bouncing bodies

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

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.

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

3 Mode Zoom For Mp5

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

No minus frag when killed self in Half-Life

Particle Systems: The Theory

Sparks & Smokepuffs

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

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

Explode Shake (UPDATE)

There are a few ways of implementing a class system.

This tutorial will help you gain an understanding of the FireBulletsPlayer and FireBullets

Adding panels and labels and such.

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

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

Adding an ammo indicator to the HUD

Smoke trail behind player

Shooting through walls

Weapon Clips and such

Where DiD I Hit Him (Update)

How to allow monsters in mp

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

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

Customising the HUD colour

Part 3 in 5 part series

Re-enabling the TFC concussion effect

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.

Revision 4

Creating the Capture Point

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

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

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

Drop NOTHING on death

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

Creating the Flag Entity

How To Enable HLTV In Your Mod

Adding New skill.cfg Entries

Triple-Bolt Crossbow

add a server controlled hud countdown

Half-Life Server Info Class

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

Create a homing missile in Half-Life

Radar System

Vectors: An Introduction

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

Die Erstellung eines Laserstrahls (German)

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...

Understanding hud.txt

Wall Jumping Tutorial

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.