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Vanilla HLDM Competition Results!

Unq • 2 months 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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Is there a SDK that I can use for creating a Half-Life Alpha/Beta mod?

FreeSlave • 1 day ago2024-05-20 16:55:42 UTC • 1 reply

Depending on what you have in mind, you might start with vanilla HLSDK.
The mapping and modelling will be your biggest concerns anyway, not the code.

MESS 1.2 has been released!

Captain P • 1 day ago2024-05-19 23:34:36 UTC • 8 replies

I just tested with v1.2.2 by creating a func_wall named my_wall (render mode: solid, FX amount: 255) and a func_button that targets hide my_wall, show my_wall:1. This created a multi_manager named...

trigger_changelevel does not appear?

Doomplex • 2 days ago2024-05-19 02:09:02 UTC • 2 replies

thank you

Game_sounds

Dr. Orange • 4 days ago2024-05-17 10:45:03 UTC • 1 reply

Looks like these should be the defaults (CSoundParameters in isoundemittersystembase.h). Try creating a script without the parameters and see if it works.
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Want to get custom pictures appearing on screen, not sure how.

raisinman1 • 5 days ago2024-05-15 21:35:11 UTC • 0 replies

Hey! I'm new/ish / to half life, I've been working on a project for a bit and while I'm decently experience with adding custom textures, sounds, decals, and mapping, I'm not all that familiar with mod...