Programming

Ricochets of walls.

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

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

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

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

Fast 'n easy weapon naming

Creating the Capture Point

How to Compile the Half-Life Standard SDK on the Linux Platform

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

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...

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

Part 1 in 5 part series

how to change the strength of weapons

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.

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

Dynamic Lighting

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.

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

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

with the Microsoft Command-Line Compiler

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...

Addign a Third and Fourth attack to your mod

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

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

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.

Proximity Fuse for Satchels

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

Yell at them

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

Set Up a liblist.gam

Using INI configuration files properly

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

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.

continued

Quake style particle effects disabled but present in goldsrc

Tripmines with configurable beam brightness

Maintaining Class After Death

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

Waffensystem (German)

Quick Guide to Debugging

Customizable Hud Color

Shooting through walls

Weapon Modifications

both client and server side detailed

Challenge based article covering the turning speed of an entity

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

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

FatBoy Mode

Silenced Glock

Glock Silenced and zoomed in Half-Life

Incremental Zooming (On the Client Side)

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

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

Simple tutorial on creating a custom entity

Changing view angles with quaternions

Snark Grenade

Scripting with sequence files

This is for Half-Life 1 and the GoldSrc engine

Rendering a wireframe of maps yourself

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

How to change your MP5 to an MP5-SD3

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

Code an Admin System into Half-Life

Basing one monster class off another

Sparks & Smokepuffs fix

Beheading Zombies

Better Weapon Droping

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

Code a CS AK47 into Half-Life

create an observer mode for your mod

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

How to make a Desert-Eagle

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

Minikarte im HUD (German)

Respawn Delay (When Dead, Not When Spawn)

Create Night Vision Goggles in Half-Life

No gun dropping after death

Holster Animation

Opening slots for old Menu System

Event System in SDK 2.2

Half-Life Graphics Part 2 - EfxAPI (German)

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

Adding User Variables to Half-Life

No minus frag when killed self in Half-Life

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

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

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.

I will now explain how I did monster respawning in MP

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.

Change host players ping on the scoreboard to 'Host'

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

Charging Crossbow

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

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

Today we are going to make our monster kill

Using the ALERT function

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

Code a Throwable Crowbar

Creating a Silenced USP (German)

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

Hud game

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

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.

How To Make Thirdperson View To Your Mod

Half life contains some extra code dealing with dead body physics

Notice how if you tap your crouch key very fast you bounce? This code will fix that.

Getting Started

Guass Fix

make the crowbar only swing once when held

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

Script for a slightly better illusion of holstering and re-equipping weapon in Half-Life.

View model rendering

Here I will show you a fast and simple program and demonstrate the basics of C

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

Triple-Bolt Crossbow

You want the most easy way to rescale halflife

Light Effect After an Grenade (Very Fast)

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

Das Half-Life Serverprotokoll (German)

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

Menus in Half-Life

Simulating Randomness

Chumtoad firing hornetgun correction

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

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

Debugging your dlls for your Mod

how to add old school Client Side word censoring

How to add a new monster to your maps.

Adding Ammo items to a H-L weapon.

Jumping and Landing Sounds

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

Short Article Introducing C

make the RPG a little more powerful

Understanding hud.txt

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

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

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

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

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

View model rendering tut fix

Adding New skill.cfg Entries

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

Modeling events

ANY blood color

Things that effect network stats during gameplay

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.

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.

TFC Concussion Fix

A checkpoint system designed for cooperative play but possible in other game modes.

Hud Bars (Statussäulen) (German)

Activating w_ models animated animation

Bullet Chasecam (German)

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

Round based system

Hash Tables

Basic Half-Life Weapon Coding

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

Specific weapons for different teams

Instant Firing Rockets (like in TFC)

Adding muzzle flashes that also light up world brushes

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...

Bullet FlyBy (German)

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

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

These functions are key to how an entity w

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

RPG Item Dropper

Weapon Clips and such

Using the Microsoft Visual C++ 6 IDE

This tutorial almost completely explains how to do HUD graphics.

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

CS Style 2x Zooming

Mp3 Fix

Old Menus Fix

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

Part 4 in 5 part series

2 zoom sniper scope

Changing maximum allowed weapons to 45

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

Change the mp5 grenade launcher to a Shotgun-cannon.

Client-Side Waffen-Coding (German)

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

Green Driplles

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

Adding an ammo indicator to the HUD

Every Half-Life weapon have flags. For example MP5

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.

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

Sparks & Smokepuffs

Spectator-style camera with clipping

How to code in some fog in your mod

Medkit Bugfix

Creating a Sniper Rifle in the 2.2 SDK

Unsichtbarkeit (German)

TO Recoil

Changing Tracer Effects on weapons in Half-Life

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

Editboxes and Images

Part 3 in 5 part series

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.

Die Erstellung eines Laserstrahls (German)

Slots/positions Fix

Secondary Attack for Egon: Teleport player to random info_player_deathmatch

Wall Jumping Tutorial

Energy weapon

Realistic Reflections in Real-Time

Understanding hud.txt

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.

Where DiD I Hit Him (Update)

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

Adding weapons to the HUD

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

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

Another Way To Make Those Cute Lil Houndeyes Not So Cute

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

here are the basic things you need in a normal weapon

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.

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

Stamina controlled sprint

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

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

Usp ( Counter-Strike Style)

Frags for killing Monsters in MP FIX

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

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

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

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

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.

Weapon Droppings

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.

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

Create a Cloaked Stealth Suit in Half-Life

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

This tutorial is designed to help you create a flexible client side Zoom function for SDK2

How to create a DEAD message in your scoreboard

Snark-Dropping Crossbow

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

Flammenwerfer erstellen (German)

Roter Bildschirm bei Schaden (German)

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

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

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

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

User Input Processing System

Create a new weapon for Half-Life

Customize the Mod name displayed in the server list

Monster Teamplay (German)

Relations between monsters in Half-Life

CS Style 2x Zooming (for SDK 2.3)

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

Finding your way around the Half-Life DLL

Add MP3 support to Half-Life

Particles FIXes and improvements

Model Classes in Half-Life