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New Competition! Make Black Mesa Come Alive!

Unq • 2 months ago2024-08-01 12:34:42 UTC • 4 comments

Update: Compo has been extended! Added over 2 weeks to help get maps finished & polished!

Surprise, another compo! Thanks to Hezus for suggesting this one and donating his prize from the previous compo.

Make Black Mesa Come Alive!

Show us your best dynamic, interactive map and Make Black Mesa Come Alive!

Deadline: November 7th, 2024.

Note: if you already submitted your entry, you can still update it before the deadline! Take that time to playtest & polish if you want.

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Enter our newest competition, Make Black Mesa Come Alive!
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Tutorial: Customising the HUD colour

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HLDS and resources with spaces in the filepath

arc • 6 minutes ago2024-10-22 20:16:02 UTC • 0 replies

Is there any way to deal with this as a server operator?

If a map contains a resource with a space in the filepath, the server cannot serve the file.

example:
server wants to send /"models\foom...

Competition 43: Make Black Mesa Come Alive!

Unq • 21 hours ago2024-10-21 22:38:02 UTC • 5 replies

Competition has been extended until November 7th!

Custom Weapon Sound does not play/all sounds are played

DaSalba • 1 day ago2024-10-21 18:27:36 UTC • 3 replies

Oops, looks like we've got ourselves a bot here, gentlemen! I'm gonna submit a status report to the administrator today.

Porting Half-Life map to Half-Life: Source

Realman • 1 day ago2024-10-21 18:03:10 UTC • 0 replies

Well, since Half-Life: Source texture names start with "halflife/" and Half-Life (Gold Source) textures don't, I have to manually change every single texture. But is there actually anyway to port Half...

"repeat search on google" link doesn't show google search results

sava28 • 2 days ago2024-10-20 09:55:33 UTC • 0 replies

every search result has a "click here to repeat your search on TWHL using Google" link and it leads to a link like https://www.google.com/#q=site:https://twhl.info+search+query+here
but that link j...

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Favourite HL Title

Posted 2 months ago2024-08-09 05:53:18 UTC • Voting closed • 10 comments

What is your favourite official Half-Life game/expansion?

(If you actually want to vote for Decay or Lost Coast, I've decided they don't count. Let me know about how upset you are in the comments!)

Half-Life: 39% (29 votes)
Half-Life 2: 20% (15 votes)
Opposing Force: 17% (13 votes)
HL2 Episode 2: 11% (8 votes)
Blue Shift: 8% (6 votes)
HL2 Episode 1: 3% (2 votes)
Alyx: 3% (2 votes)