Programming

Placing Breakpoints

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

Governer

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

Rescaling Half-Life

How to make a reloadable hornet gun

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

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

MP3-Entity erstellen (German)

Health and Armor restore after frag

CS Style 2x Zooming (for SDK 2.3)

thirdperson camera clip

Sparks & Smokepuffs fix

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

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

Old Menus System

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

MP3 player in HL

here are the basic things you need in a normal weapon

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,

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

HLSDK Engine Notes

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

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

Crosshair Tutorial (German)

Decals for every mp5 bullet (FIX)

Nebel in HL (SDK 2.2) (German)

3 Mode Zoom For Mp5

Spawnpoints (German)

Freezing a Player while shooting a weapon

Using the ALERT function

add a server controlled hud countdown

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

Code a CS AK47 into Half-Life

visible laser sight line thingy

Opening slots for old Menu System

View model rendering tut fix

Short Article Introducing C

Old Menus Fix

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...

Crosshair Tutorial Nr.2 (German)

Blast Soundwave Effect From a Weapon

A Simple 4-line fix for spinning corpses.

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

Introduction to Half-Life SDK2

Freeze Grenades

WaterMatch (German)

The Power of CVARs!

Changing Tracer Effects on weapons in Half-Life

Better Weapon Droping

This article tries to give hints to would-be HL mod authors in many different aspects of the programming experience.

Finding your way around the Half-Life DLL

Orthogonale TriAPI (German)

How to change the tripmine beam color in the console

Adding muzzle flashes that also light up world brushes

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

here's how to create a power-shotgun

Launch 3 Rockets

HL's Color Indexing System (fixed/changed)

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

A Laser-Pointer for any hl-weapon

Mp3 Fix

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

This tutorial teach a very simple way to edit, remove the cheating Impulse 101 code.

Particle Systems: The Theory

Snark Grenade

Das Half-Life Serverprotokoll (German)

Half life contains some extra code dealing with dead body physics

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

Quick Guide to Debugging

Making a NailGun

Introduction to Half-Life coding

Frags for killing Monsters in MP FIX

View model rendering

Adding new monster classes

Change host players ping on the scoreboard to 'Host'

Infrared NightVision

Smoke trail behind player

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.

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

Glock Silenced and zoomed in Half-Life

This is for people wanting to make their own Half-Life bot.

Add MP3 support to Half-Life

Colour attributes for Menus

Set Up a liblist.gam

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

Improved Spectatormode for Teamplay

Unsichtbarkeit (German)

how to change the strength of weapons

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.

Revision 4

both client and server side detailed

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

Decals for every mp5 bullet

Adding Ammo items to a H-L weapon.

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

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.

Controllable skies

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

Bullet Chasecam (German)

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

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.

Tutorial covering the creation of multiple viewports

Add Entity Effects on a View Model

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.

MP3-Dateien in HL abspielen (German)

Half-Life Observer Mode Tutorial

Simple tutorial on creating a custom entity

Screenshaking

This is an easy way to change the widespread of the MP5 into a much smaller one.

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

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

Making an InstallShield Installer for your Mod

Teaches you how to setup your VS.NET 2003 to build the Half-Life dlls, and how to get them working on Steam.

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.

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

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

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

Dynamically Resizing Models

Blended color indication

User Input Processing System

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

HUD Health Bar

Guass Fix

Counterstrike Gameplay

How to make a Desert-Eagle

Teamdeathmatch Spielmodus (German)

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

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

Weapon Modifications

Snark-Dropping Crossbow

Coding Style

Understanding hud.txt

Proximity Fuse for Satchels

Ping Rating

continued

Shooting through walls

Another Way To Make Those Cute Lil Houndeyes Not So Cute

Slots/positions Fix

Creating a Silenced USP (German)

Silenced Glock

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

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

Part 4 in 5 part series

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

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

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

Quake style particle effects disabled but present in goldsrc

Weapon Categories

adding zoom functinality to your mp5

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

Basics of coding bots in Half-Life

View Roll When Strafing (like DMC)

Monster Teamplay (German)

Vectors: An Introduction

how to print stuff to a client

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

Changing Spawn Times

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

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

Make the RPG like the UT redeemer, easy!

This article shows you how to quickly change the default 320 & 640 .tga image sizes to fit whatever resolution a player is using.

Debugging in Visual Studio 6

Voice API in SDK 2.2

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

Different Classes In Every Team

Dynamic Lighting

Maintaining Class After Death

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.

Roter Bildschirm bei Schaden (German)

Precaching was one of the first stumbling blocks we encountered when we starting working with the SDK.

Relations between monsters in Half-Life

Charging Crossbow

Simulating Randomness

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

Disable The FoV Command

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

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

Minikarte im HUD (German)

Adding panels and labels and such.

In this tut, i will show you how to add a diablo camera effect to your mod.

How To Make Thirdperson View To Your Mod

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

I have found a way to make Better Freeze Grenades

In this one I hope to start on some of the navigation code and the bots use of ladders.

3rd Person Ansicht (German)

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

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

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

Spreadsystem (German)

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

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

Turn off flashlight after player death

Half-Life Graphics Part 3 - TriAPI (German)

Where DiD I Hit Him (Update)

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

Part 1 in 5 part series

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.

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

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

No minus frag when killed self in Half-Life

You want the most easy way to rescale halflife

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

this tutorial will show you how to add new factions to monsters.

When a player dies drop primary weapon rather than weapon box

How To Enable HLTV In Your Mod

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

Create an Entity like a CS Buy Zone

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

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

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

Standing Still For 5 Seconds (Respawning)

Energy weapon

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

How to create a DEAD message in your scoreboard

This tutorial will somewhat describe how to create a completely new turret.

how to add old school Client Side word censoring

Challenge based article covering the turning speed of an entity

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

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

Beheading Zombies

Adding weapons to the HUD

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

CS Style 2x Zooming

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

Scripting with sequence files

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

Shields

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

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

How to add a new monster to your maps.

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

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

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.

This tutorial will show you how to remove blood and gore from Half Life.

Creating New Weapons in the 2.2 SDK

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.

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

Tripmines with configurable beam brightness

Make a player fly

Things that effect network stats during gameplay

Incremental Zooming (On the Client Side)

Real-Time 'TRON 2.0' Glow in Half-Life

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

How to Align a Model Against the Floor

Particles FIXes and improvements

Basic Half-Life Weapon Coding

good introduction to starting a Half-Life Mod

Using the Microsoft Visual C++ 6 IDE

Fast 'n easy weapon naming

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

Code an Admin System into Half-Life

Code a Smoke Grenade

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.