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Results for the Make Black Mesa Come Alive Competition

Unq • 1 week ago2024-11-23 02:10:56 UTC • 3 comments

Judging is complete and here are the results for the Make Black Mesa Come Alive Competition that recently closed!

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

See the full results here.

First Place: First Day at Black Mesa by EljanoCZE

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Weird issue with decals

_Vissova_ • 9 hours ago2024-12-03 22:47:45 UTC • 2 replies

There is some complex texturing in some of my maps, so that could be why decals appear in weird places? The above example map doesn't have any edited texture transforms though so it doesn't explain de...

My first map!

purblepale • 1 day ago2024-12-03 00:44:26 UTC • 0 replies

Hope making only one didn't completely kill my motivation, here ya go!;

https://twhl.info/vault/view/6974

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MCAlexisYT • 2 days ago2024-12-02 01:05:46 UTC • 0 replies

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Half-Life Featureful SDK

FreeSlave • 2 days ago2024-12-01 13:20:37 UTC • 52 replies

Thanks for reporting. Will be fixed in the next version.

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Favourite HL Title

Posted 3 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)