MAPS for Half-Life
See also: Level Design - Editors - WorldSpawn - Brushes - Entities -
And: TFC Maps -
Updated April 7, 2004

DEATHMATCHES
by the Handy Vandal

Kadex - complex 3D space, lots of vertical action - (no traps, unlike my other recent maps)

Lair of Daedalus - Complex arena space, laced with traps: snarks, sentries, miniturrets, push zones, slippery zones. lasers .... (Version 1.3)

Chunker - Central room dominated by complex moving structure. Shootable traps release snarks, sentries, etc. Low-friction area for extra-chaotic mayhem. (Version 1.4)

Daedalus - Complex web of traps: snarks, sentries, miniturrets.

Single-Player Maps

• Crawler -
• C2 -
• C3 -
• C5 - the "C Series" maps all feature escalating waves of grunt action, for nonstop combat.

Half-Life Movies
made with Trigger_Camera
see Movies -

• The Fugitive: Title Sequence Very cool short movie -- I built it for The Fugitive, a now-defunct mod.

Map Resources

• Box.rmf - very simple map, demonstrates basic principles of level design
• Maps & Levels by Max Zwickl
• HornetKing - map reviews
• Planet Half-Life -
• Mapping Efforts by Peter Lok -
• Dept. of Engineering - map testing
• Nenhalem's Mapping Junkyard
• Half-Life Guru's Lamda Bunker
• [KL] KL@N -
• MapMakers -

sources for Half-Life

• Gone but not forgotten -
  Radium - http://www.planethalflife.com/radium/

Mapmaking Tools

• Editors
• Downloads

Maps by Various Friends & Colleagues

• Jinx's Maps - by Jinx
• Maps @ GibCity by Wayne Smith
• Maps by Pucuck
• "Resistance" and other maps by Barry Bollinger -
• Black Bag Operations - home of "Deliverance" and other maps for Half-Life, OpForce, Quake3 by Kevin Lockitt
• Maps by Seth Telles

TFC Maps

Bandito by Andy Hulatt (aka migandi)

The Making of Reactor Raid by Peter Lok

Running Custom Maps

Set up a shortcut something like this:

C:\Half-Life\hl.exe -console +map mapname

where mapname is your .bsp file (without the .bsp extension). The .bsp file itself goes here:

C:\Half-Life\Valve\Maps

If needed, custom texture files (.wad) go here:

\Half-Life\Valve

Activate the shortcut to start the custom map.