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Unq
Results for the Make Black Mesa Come Alive Competition
Unq • 1 month 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.
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First Place: First Day at Black Mesa by EljanoCZE

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xX-AyydrianIsReal-Xx
"Half-Broken 2" and breaking the game "for good purpose"
xX-AyydrianIsReal-Xx • 2 days ago2024-12-22 22:11:18 UTC • 0 replies
So, we got 2025 nearing up, and another year worth of rewriting a mod from scratch, probably using Xash3D again, except this time avoiding to break it but still trying to crank it up because I have no...
Unq
ERROR: Couldn't open.
Unq • 2 days ago2024-12-22 02:40:20 UTC • 2 replies
Only use all lowercase letters for your map names.
FreeSlave
Half-Life Featureful SDK
FreeSlave • 5 days ago2024-12-19 16:23:54 UTC • 54 replies
New update https://github.com/FreeSlave/halflife-featureful/releases/tag/featureful-2024-12-19

Now standard Half-Life weapons can be disabled (e.g. in order to decrease the number of precached reso...
Erty
Fishing in HL2!
Erty • 5 days ago2024-12-19 10:22:59 UTC • 1 reply
I'm going to focus on GoldSrc as that's where I'm far more experienced at.
Let's break it down into two parts: The entity part and the model part.

For the entity part, you have to decide on whethe...
jamie
How do I figure out which assets are used by cs 1.6 weapons?
jamie • 1 week ago2024-12-17 18:53:07 UTC • 3 replies
To get the sounds, you can take a look at the code, or decompile the model and check the sequence's events. As for muzzleflashes, i guess you can either check in-game and compare to the sprites, or se...

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Favourite HL Title
Posted 4 months ago2024-08-09 05:53:18 UTC • Voting closed • 11 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)

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RedLazer5000 Half-Life: Flame Journal 2 RedLazer5000 • 1 week ago2024-12-13 17:18:34 UTC • 0 Windawz So what the hell's been going on?: Part 2 (without the obnoxious capitalization) Windawz • 2 weeks ago2024-12-09 15:57:23 UTC • 2 Overfloater The future of Pathos Overfloater • 2 weeks ago2024-12-08 20:56:45 UTC • 2 Skoiler Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in! Skoiler • 3 weeks ago2024-12-01 19:56:14 UTC • 3 Windawz So, What The Hell Has Been Going On? (for the past few years(?)) Windawz • 3 weeks ago2024-11-28 21:36:14 UTC • 5 jamie Recycling and cut content... jamie • 3 weeks ago2024-11-27 03:54:20 UTC • 1

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