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Pages in this category

• Bot Programming - Getting Started
• Entity Programming - Handling Player Input
• Entity Programming - Inheritance VS Duplication (Creating Simple Variants of Existing Entities)
• Entity Programming - Introduction to Entities with Animated Models
• Entity Programming - Overview
• Entity Programming - Player Interaction
• Entity Programming - Save/restore
• Entity Programming - Temporary Entity Effects
• Entity Programming - Timer Entity
• Entity Programming - Writing New Entities
• Explanation: Why brushes can't be concave
• Half-Life Programming - Debugging
• Half-Life Programming - Getting Started
• Monsters Programming - "Core loop", senses and enemy acquisition
• Monsters Programming - Classifications and Relationships
• Monsters Programming - Node graph system (part 1)
• Monsters Programming - Schedules and Tasks
• Monsters Programming - Sounds, smells and the system behind them
• Monsters Programming - Standard and Squad Monsters
• Monsters Programming - Talkative Monsters (part 1)
• Monsters Programming - Talkative Monsters (part 2)
• Monsters Programming - The Concepts of Half-Life's AI
• Programming: Implementing Discord rich-presence into your mod
• Tutorial: (Almost) correct detail textures for upscaling WAD textures
• Tutorial: Add a new simple weapon (straightforward way)
• Tutorial: Adding Atmosphere
• Tutorial: Adding Glass to Doors
• Tutorial: Adding hack-free Stencil Shadows to Half-Life
• Tutorial: Advanced Terrain Creation
• Tutorial: Airlock system (that works in multiplayer)
• Tutorial: All about info_nodes
• Tutorial: ambient_generic
• Tutorial: Beam and Sprite Effects
• Tutorial: Change hud_fastswitch to behave like Half-Life Source
• Tutorial: Changing Hammer's splash screen
• Tutorial: Changing Levels
• Tutorial: Changing the in-game font size
• Tutorial: Choreographing World Happenings with Sequence Events
• Tutorial: Client sided dynamic lights (muzzle flash, flashlight...)
• Tutorial: Coding Fog
• Tutorial: Coding NPCs in GoldSrc
• Tutorial: Compiler charts and limits
• Tutorial: Compiling Introduced
• Tutorial: Counter-Strike mapping
• Tutorial: Create a working battery with light
• Tutorial: Creating healing pools like in Xen
• Tutorial: Creating Overviews
• Tutorial: Creating textures with Qlumpy
• Tutorial: Custom Skyboxes for Goldsource
• Tutorial: Custom Textures
• Tutorial: Customising the HUD colour
• Tutorial: Dark Outdoor Maps
• Tutorial: Dead NPCs for HL1 and CS
• Tutorial: Decals: All You Need To Know
• Tutorial: Detailed Textures in Half-Life
• Tutorial: Detailing Maps
• Tutorial: Diagnosing Problems
• Tutorial: Dimensions
• Tutorial: Doors
• Tutorial: Editing Compiled BSPs With newbspguy: The Basics
• Tutorial: Editing Half-Life Models
• Tutorial: Elevator Doors that move
• Tutorial: Elevators using func_train
• Tutorial: Environment
• Tutorial: Equipping Weapons in CS
• Tutorial: Evolving Grass
• Tutorial: Fans
• Tutorial: Flame Effect
• Tutorial: Gauss penetration and blast damage
• Tutorial: Glass
• Tutorial: Globals
• Tutorial: Going beyond 8192 units: Part 1
• Tutorial: Going beyond 8192 units: Part 2
• Tutorial: Going from J.A.C.K. to TrenchBroom
• Tutorial: Grunts and Guns
• Tutorial: Half-Life Deathmatch mapping
• Tutorial: Half-Life directories
• Tutorial: Hallways
• Tutorial: Harnessing ELights
• Tutorial: Hint Brushes
• Tutorial: How to fix those leaks
• Tutorial: How to load a map (.bsp file) in-game
• Tutorial: How to Make HD 1080p Backgrounds for HL1/Goldsrc Games
• Tutorial: Importing Models and Textures
• Tutorial: Improved entering and exiting for Observer/Spectator mode
• Tutorial: In the Beginning Part 1
• Tutorial: In the Beginning Part 2
• Tutorial: In the Beginning Part 3
• Tutorial: In the Beginning Part 4
• Tutorial: In the Beginning Part 5
• Tutorial: In the Beginning Part 6
• Tutorial: Intro to the Tools of Hammer
• Tutorial: Introduction to mapping
• Tutorial: Introduction to Ricochet mapping
• Tutorial: Keys
• Tutorial: Ladders
• Tutorial: Land Mine Effect
• Tutorial: Laser and Beam Effects
• Tutorial: Light
• Tutorial: Making Custom Sounds
• Tutorial: Making Music Play in Maps
• Tutorial: Making Rotating Gears
• Tutorial: Making sprites with SpriteMaker
• Tutorial: Making textures with WadMaker
• Tutorial: Map details and misc
• Tutorial: Materials.txt
• Tutorial: Modelling for Goldsource with Gmax
• Tutorial: Modelling for goldsrc with Blender - Part 1
• Tutorial: Models and lighting
• Tutorial: Modifying the HUD
• Tutorial: More Complex Triggers
• Tutorial: Mortar Madness
• Tutorial: Multi_manager
• Tutorial: Multi_manager Looping Made Easy
• Tutorial: Multisource
• Tutorial: Non-coding workarounds for your mod
• Tutorial: Palette.lmp file (To do - not yet written)
• Tutorial: Perfect Timing with Doors
• Tutorial: Permanently locked doors
• Tutorial: R_Speeds
• Tutorial: Rain
• Tutorial: Random entity triggering
• Tutorial: Re-texturing Models
• Tutorial: Realistic Shadows
• Tutorial: Recompiling light only
• Tutorial: Reducing Clipnodes with zhlt_usemodel Templates
• Tutorial: Render Properties
• Tutorial: Retina Scanners and Other NPC-Only Locked Doors
• Tutorial: Rope, Waterfalls and Dripping Water
• Tutorial: Rotating Billboards
• Tutorial: Scripted Sentences
• Tutorial: Scripted Sequences
• Tutorial: Scripting with sequence files
• Tutorial: Security Cards
• Tutorial: Separate Player and Monster Hivehand damages
• Tutorial: Setting up a Mod: Addendum
• Tutorial: Setting up a Mod: Part 1 - Custom Game feature
• Tutorial: Setting up a Mod: Part 1 - Mod directory and liblist.gam (Steam)
• Tutorial: Setting up a Mod: Part 2 - Splash Screens
• Tutorial: Setting up a Mod: Part 2 - Splash Screens (Steam)
• Tutorial: Setting up a Mod: Part 3 - Game Strings
• Tutorial: Setting up a Mod: Part 3 - Game Strings (Steam)
• Tutorial: Setting up Crowbar for Half-Life/GoldSrc
• Tutorial: Setting up TrenchBroom for GoldSource games
• Tutorial: Setup Guide: Counter-Strike
• Tutorial: Setup Guide: Hammer
• Tutorial: Similar to the effect of gradient transparency
• Tutorial: Skewing textures in Hammer
• Tutorial: Sound Effects for Textures (materials.txt)
• Tutorial: Spiral Staircase
• Tutorial: Stairs
• Tutorial: Steam mod icon
• Tutorial: Tankrockets
• Tutorial: Teleporters
• Tutorial: Terrain
• Tutorial: Tetrahedron Terrain
• Tutorial: Texture Application
• Tutorial: Texture Lighting
• Tutorial: The Complete Guide to Lighting
• Tutorial: The Osprey
• Tutorial: The packing (and non-packing) of bodygroups and skin groups in GoldSource models
• Tutorial: The Shrinking Effect
• Tutorial: Tips for Beginner Mappers
• Tutorial: Titles.txt
• Tutorial: Total Map Optimisation Part 1 (wpoly, epoly)
• Tutorial: Total Map Optimisation Part 2 (VIS, Hints)
• Tutorial: Total Map Optimisation Part 3 (wpoly, clipnodes, engine limits, compile parameters)
• Tutorial: Trees
• Tutorial: trigger_camera
• Tutorial: trigger_changetarget
• Tutorial: Using models for health/HEV chargers in vanilla Half-Life
• Tutorial: Using Sprites
• Tutorial: Using Texture Fit
• Tutorial: Vending Machine
• Tutorial: Vertex Manipulation Intro
• Tutorial: Vertex Manipulation Part 2
• Tutorial: View bobbing: Part 1
• Tutorial: View bobbing: Part 2
• Tutorial: Vis Groups
• Tutorial: Volumetric Lighting
• Tutorial: Water
• Vlatitude: Advanced Doors Tutorial
• Vlatitude: Advanced Lighting
• Vlatitude: Advanced Triggers Tutorial
• Vlatitude: Airstrike a la Crossfire
• Vlatitude: Alternative rocks and desert technique
• Vlatitude: An Introduction to Lighting
• Vlatitude: An Introduction to Triggers
• Vlatitude: Basic Doors
• Vlatitude: Clip Brush Tutorial
• Vlatitude: Compiling
• Vlatitude: Custom Menu Art for your MOD
• Vlatitude: Customising the Health Packs
• Vlatitude: Easy Spiral Staircases Using the Arch Tool
• Vlatitude: Editing skill.cfg
• Vlatitude: Elevator Level Transition
• Vlatitude: Env_sprite Tutorial
• Vlatitude: Exploiting the Custom Game menu
• Vlatitude: Fun with monster_grunt_repel
• Vlatitude: Func_train Tutorial
• Vlatitude: Gensurf Explained
• Vlatitude: Glass Tutorial
• Vlatitude: Ladder Tutorial
• Vlatitude: Level Transitions
• Vlatitude: Making Decals
• Vlatitude: Making domination-style maps
• Vlatitude: Modeling for Half-Life - Part 1
• Vlatitude: Modeling for Half-Life - Part 2
• Vlatitude: Modeling for Half-Life - Part 3
• Vlatitude: Modeling for Half-Life - Part 4
• Vlatitude: Monster_generic and Monster_furniture
• Vlatitude: Monstermaker Tutorial
• Vlatitude: Multi_manager Tutorial
• Vlatitude: Multisource Tutorial
• Vlatitude: Onscreen Messages
• Vlatitude: Origin Brush
• Vlatitude: Osprey Tutorial
• Vlatitude: Patrolling Guards
• Vlatitude: R_speeds: speed vs. detail
• Vlatitude: Rocks and Cliffs
• Vlatitude: Rotating Lights
• Vlatitude: Rotating Weapons
• Vlatitude: Scripted Sentences
• Vlatitude: Scripting Tutorial Part 1 - Overview
• Vlatitude: Scripting Tutorial Part 2 - A Specific Example
• Vlatitude: Scripting Tutorial Part 3
• Vlatitude: Scripting Tutorial Part 4 - the Seesaw of Death
• Vlatitude: Sky Tutorial
• Vlatitude: Slippery Floors
• Vlatitude: Sound Tutorial
• Vlatitude: Teleporter Tutorial
• Vlatitude: Trigger_camera Tutorial
• Vlatitude: Two-way Trigger
• Vlatitude: Understanding the Clip Tool
• Vlatitude: Water Tutorial
• Weapons Programming - Custom Ammo Types
• Weapons Programming - High-Level Overview
• Weapons Programming - Standard Weapons