CODING
New August 2002: Coding Rebels for Xen Rebels -
New July 2002: Intro to Coding - C++ Compilers -
June 2002: Making New Entities: Cloning Method
Coding Barney's Weapon
April 2002: Using Netname (monsters as individuals in multiplayer games?)
And: Favorite Coding Tutorials
March 2002: Using Classes in C++ Programming
NEW - DEC. 28, 2001 - CODING TIPS by the Handy Vandal
See also Programming - Mods - Models - Coding Monsters -
And: Awarding Points for Monster Kills -
NEW NOV. 26, 2002: Animation Names and Animation Tags
March 2003: Drawing TriAPI In Orthogonal Mode - tutorial by Omega
Think, Touch, and Use Functions - tutorial byCaleb 'Ghoul' Delnay
Updated March 25, 2003 - 10:00 AM

Half-Life Coding Tutorial Sites

Beginners: see Intro to Coding

Coding Tutorials on the Web ... there are a lot of coding tutorials on various web sites, but BE WARNED - some of them TOTALLY SUCK because they contain BUGGY CODE that won't run.

In some cases, this is BAD WORK on the part of the author.

In other cases it's because the SDK has changed since the tutorial was writing, or the tutorial uses examples from an obsolete version of the FGD file.

Trust no code examples until you have proven that they work ... which they sometimes won't, damn it ....

• Valve ERC Collective - good stuff here
• WaveLength - some bad ones here, alas ... but good ones too
• Half-Life SDK2 Resources - all good, trust this site
• Half-Life Programming - lots of stuff here ... some smart, some confused
• Fixxxer's HL Coding Page -
• Nerdchow -
• Lambda -
• Half-Life Centre -
• Half-Life Coding -
• HL-Edit.net -
• Mach III -
• When It's Done
• Metamod - coding links
• DHCC - German language coding site

Meta-Sites: Categorized Links to Coding Tutorials

• Half-Life Programming Navigator

Coding Forums
Troubleshooting? Try the Forums: the Search feature can reveal a wealth of information about your keywords ...

• Coding Forum @ HL-SDK-
• Coding Forum @ Valve-ERC -
• Rust Forum - gone?
• Coding Forumn @ Shadowman's Forum -
• Coding Forum @ Half-Life Programming Planet Forum -

Miscellaneous Coding Tutorials

Implementing a Console Manager Class - by Gaz Iqbal

Doing Your Own Lighting in OpenGL - by Sam Barham
See also Light

Parachuting (like in Firearms)