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FAVE CODING TUTORIALS for Half-Life
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Related Topics: Skinning Tutorial by Ingram Blakelock
Updated April 7, 2002 - 10:57 PM
 

HV's Favorite Coding Resources for Half-Life

These are my favorite online resources (tutorials, etc.) for Half-Life Coding -

Half-Life SDK Site - download the SDK

HL SDK2 - all the articles on this site are good, see especially -
- Quick Hints -
- Adding New Monster w/ Default AI -
- Triangles API -
- Monster AI -

Wavelength - some articles good, but some have buggy code ... these are some of the good tutorials:
- Getting Started with the SDK -
- Coding New Entities for Half-Life -
- Printing Messages to a Client -
- Class System Tutorial -
- CounterStrike Gameplay -
- HUD Graphics -

Coding Collective - new site, new tutorials ...
- User Input Processing System - "discusses the user input processing system, which was moved to the client.dll in version 2.2 of the Half-Life SDK."
- Event System in SDK 2.2 -

Half-Life Mod FAQ by Botman

Half-Life Team System With VGUI Menu - by DarkKnight

Meta-Mod - engine notes

 
 
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