Programming

Half life contains some extra code dealing with dead body physics

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

Warning - this is taken from my brief investigation, but relies on having a multi-channel soundcard

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

Editboxes and Images

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

adding zoom functinality to your mp5

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

How to code in some fog in your mod

Flammenwerfer erstellen (German)

Creating a Silenced USP (German)

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

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

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

add a server controlled hud countdown

Changing maximum allowed weapons to 45

Shields

Today we are going to make our monster kill

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.

This is for Half-Life 1 and the GoldSrc engine

Where would we be without visibility determination?

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

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

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

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

Die Erstellung eines Laserstrahls (German)

Customize the Mod name displayed in the server list

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

Different Classes In Every Team

How to make a Desert-Eagle

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

Quake style particle effects disabled but present in goldsrc

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

Getting Started

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.

ANY blood color

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.

3 Mode Zoom For Mp5

Chumtoad firing hornet gun

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.

Freezing a Player while shooting a weapon

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

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

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

Using the ALERT function

Snark Grenade

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

Weapon Clips and such

CS Style 2x Zooming (for SDK 2.3)

thirdperson camera clip

You want to kill yourself and dont get minus points?

When a player dies drop primary weapon rather than weapon box

here are the basic things you need in a normal weapon

Changing the HUD color

Bullet Chasecam (German)

Another Way To Make Those Cute Lil Houndeyes Not So Cute

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

make the crowbar only swing once when held

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

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...

Wep-Cat-Fix

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

Teamdeathmatch Spielmodus (German)

Vectors: An Introduction

C++ Cheat Sheet

Create a homing missile in Half-Life

HL's Color Indexing System (fixed/changed)

Governer

Weapon Categories

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

This tutorial explains how to have snarks that don't explode after 15 seconds in your mod.

TO Recoil

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

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

Explanation of all the MP5 code. Written by Greg Hudson.

Basing one monster class off another

Adding new advanced options

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.

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

Change host players ping on the scoreboard to 'Host'

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

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

Health/Armor color blending

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

Medkit Bugfix

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

The Power of CVARs!

Voice API in SDK 2.2

Launch 3 Rockets

Unsichtbarkeit (German)

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,

This is a quick look to see what an existing entity class, CGameText, does and how it works.

For eye-mode specators

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

Adding new monster classes

2 zoom sniper scope

Improved MP5 Burst

Particle System (German)

Code a Smoke Grenade

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

Introduction to the Sourcecode

Frags for killing Monsters in MP FIX

3rd Person Ansicht (German)

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

Using INI configuration files properly

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

How to Align a Model Against the Floor

continued

Colour attributes for Menus

Gauss Teleporter

Holster Animation

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

Model Classes in Half-Life

This is how you would change the location of where tracers and bullets, or rockets, are coming from to match your weapon model

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

Better Weapon Droping

both client and server side detailed

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

Opening slots for old Menu System

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

These functions are key to how an entity w

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.

Fast 'n easy weapon naming

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

Code a Throwable Crowbar

Improved Spectatormode for Teamplay

Making an InstallShield Installer for your Mod

Guass Fix

Spawnpoints (German)

How to change your MP5 to an MP5-SD3

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.

Proximity Satchels UPDATED

RPG Item Dropper

Where DiD I Hit Him (Update)

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

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

Infrared NightVision

Add Entity Effects on a View Model

Energy weapon

Changing view angles with quaternions

How To Make Thirdperson View To Your Mod

Scripting with sequence files

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

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

Counterstrike Gameplay

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

Part 4 in 5 part series

Snark-Dropping Crossbow

Short Article Introducing C

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

Activating w_ models animated animation

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

Hud game

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

Make the RPG like the UT redeemer, easy!

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

Adding muzzle flashes that also light up world brushes

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

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

How To Enable HLTV In Your Mod

This tutorial will lead you through the arcane art of adding fog to your mod

Placing Breakpoints

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

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

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

Understanding hud.txt

Spreadsystem (German)

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

Orthogonale TriAPI (German)

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

Weapon : FireGrenade

Creating a Sniper Rifle in the 2.2 SDK

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

Adding panels and labels and such.

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

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

Using the Microsoft Visual C++ 6 IDE

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

MP3 player in HL

how to add old school Client Side word censoring

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

View model rendering

FatBoy Mode

Make a Medic

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

FlashBang

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

Decals for every mp5 bullet

Menus in Half-Life

I have found a way to make Better Freeze Grenades

how to print stuff to a client

In this tutorial we will learn how to add new Skill Health links to add to new custom monsters.

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

Dynamically Resizing Models

Hash Tables

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

Explosion Shake

Installing the SDK

Create a new weapon for Half-Life

Finding your way around the Half-Life DLL

Quick Guide to Debugging

Simple snippet for a better third person camera with player fading.

Basic Half-Life Weapon Coding

Changing Tracer Effects on weapons in Half-Life

Dynamic Lighting

Red screen after Death and Damage

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.

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.

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

HLSDK Engine Notes

In Half-Life you may have noticed sparks appear when you shoot barney's helmet or an alien grunt's armor.

Adding an ammo indicator to the HUD

Recoil (German)

how to change the strength of weapons

Specific weapons for different teams

visible laser sight line thingy

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

Das Half-Life Serverprotokoll (German)

Basics on C++ Objects and Inheritance

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.

Ping Rating

Changing max ammo/clip capacities

A Laser-Pointer for any hl-weapon

Chumtoad firing hornetgun correction

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

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.

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.

Code a CS AK47 into Half-Life

Doubler Powerup

Adding User Variables to Half-Life

Frags for killing Monsters in MP

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

MP3-Entity erstellen (German)

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

WaterMatch (German)

TURRETS in Half-Life

You want the most easy way to rescale halflife

Half-Life Observer Mode Tutorial

Old Menus Fix

Sensor Mine

Blast Soundwave Effect From a Weapon

Adding weapons to the HUD

Modeling events

Event System in SDK 2.2

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

Customising the HUD colour

Every Half-Life weapon have flags. For example MP5

Old Menus System

Half-Life Server Info Class

Light Effect After an Grenade (Very Fast)

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

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

Steam-Developing Q&A (German)

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

Disable The FoV Command