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Vanilla HLDM Competition Results!

Unq • 1 month ago2024-03-18 21:11:16 UTC • 1 comment

Yay! The results are in for the Vanilla Half-Life Deathmatch Competition that we hosted in celebration of Half-Life's 25th Anniversary!

Congratulation to the winners, and thank you to all entrants! Some great maps were created for this competition!

See the full results here.

First Place: Core Critical by Hezus

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Searching leads to wiki page with name if it exists

kimilil • 1 hour ago2024-04-20 11:03:48 UTC • 1 reply

the default search sucks so I tend to use [https://twhl.info/wiki-special/query-search|this] to specifically search the wiki

How can you make alien portals?

Names are for unlosers • 1 hour ago2024-04-20 10:57:34 UTC • 2 replies

Yeah sorry somehow I didn't think to try that... Thanks!

Can someone tell me where to start mapping for HL1? i don't know where to start...

monster_urby • 1 hour ago2024-04-20 10:36:57 UTC • 6 replies

For Half-Life 1/Goldsource mapping, it's actually recommended that you use JACK now, rather than Hammer. JACK is still being updated with the [https://jack.hlfx.ru/en/download.html|free version (linky...

BEGINNER TO RESKINNING HALF-LIFE 1 MODELS?

Erty • 17 hours ago2024-04-19 18:28:41 UTC • 1 reply

Hi and welcome to TWHL! It's nice to see someone with passion for learning to mod HL 🙂

Textures, whether for models or for maps, are very similar in requirements and how they're made. You can follo...

Change blood decals color and gibs

Pλsssey • 1 day ago2024-04-19 11:45:20 UTC • 0 replies

So, I use updated SDK and I changed the blood color of the HGrunt to black (when hit they have black particles) but I tested adding new decals and modifying the code to do the same with blood decals a...