Half Life 2
Buggys' Hlss Help Guide (1.0)
This Will Help You Run Hlss On Steam. Read The Guide To Help You And This Works For All Steam Games, Mic Is Not Required. Does Not Work For Non-Steam Games.
Video Tutorial for Beginners - Your First Map
This Video Tutorial for Beginners has been made by Mapster. This is a tutorial on how to create your very first map using the Hammer editor supplied by steam which you can acquire by downloading source SDK.
Glass Tutorial
You will learn how to make three kinds of glass here. Unbreakable, breakable like in Half-Life, and shattering, like in Half-Life 2. This can be used for anything breakable.
Compiling The Half-Life 2 Source Code
Nine minute long .WMV video tutorial on installing, copying, and compiling the Half-Life 2 Source Code to create your own mod.
XSI_Character_2004_Mesmer.pdf
XSI Illuminated: Character is a comprehensive technical and artistic guide to creating character animation using Softimage|XSI.
Texture Tutorial
To make your levels even a bit attractive you WILL need some texturing skills.
Water Tutorial
The reflective water is one of the best looking effects in Half-Life2, considering how easy it is to do it sholud be used whenever it fits as a decoration for your levels.
Brushwork Tutorial
What you need to do first when starting to make levels is learn how to use brushes efficiently and manipulate them as you want.
Basic Doors Mapping Tutorial
This tutorial will outline how to make basic doors, these include; Rotating triggered, up an down triggered and pivoted physical doors.
Faceposer Tutorial 1: Lipsynch
The first of my faceposer tutorial series; shows you how to lipsynch to a sound file.
Part_1_-_An_introduction_to_XSI.rar
VTM showing the basics of XSI Mod Tool
Half-Life 2 DeathMatch Guide (V2)
version 2 of an unofficial quick guide to HL2DM, written by Dean Krause, this file is an PDF file, so you need Adobe Reader..
Milkshape3D Weapons Tutorial
A tutorial walking you through modeling a SPAS 12 in Milkshape3D.
Physics Brush Tutorial
Turning brushes and other objects into objects that are bound to the physics of Half-Life 2 is a really simple task, this video will show you how to do that.
Ladder Tutorial
Ladders have become a bit tougher and more complex now with Half-Life 2, you will have to create mounting points aswell something like a ladder-path.
Hinged Physics Brush Tutorial
A more complex setup with objects that have physics, is having them constrained to an angle, perhaps a swingdoor, or a board hanging in a rope for example.
Rope Tutorial
You see ropes lying around everywhere inside of the game.
Sliding Door Tutorial
Theese kinds of doors are the ones you see at supermarkets and stuff, they will slide into the wall, or up into the ceiling if you want them to. Very easy to setup.
Tools Tutorial
In this video you will hopefully learn the very basics of what the tools to your left are used for.
Terrain Tutorial
Hammer World Editor comes with an excellent terrain painter tool. With it you can easily adjust and create realistic looking terrain, such as hills and mountains.
Rotating Door Tutorial
Theese doors will not be affected by the physics in the game.
Static Mesh Tutorial
Nowdays making a level entirely out of brushes is impossible (if you want it to be good-looking).
Thruster Mapping Tutorial
In this tutorial you will learn how to make a thrusting tube tank, including a nice explosion.
Rope Bridge Mapping Tutorial
In this tutorial you will be directed through step by step how to build a bridge.
Dynamic Lights Mapping Tutorial
In this tutorial I will walk you through step by step how to setup a dynamic light which will be parented to a physical object which will react acordingly when shot and moved.
Basic Room Mapping Tutorial
A video tutorial about how to make a basic room using Hammer.
Rounder Corners Tutorial
Corners in real-life aint even a perfect 90o angle, if you look at any corner you will see that it's a bit rounded. This is one of the ways to do it for Half-Life 2.
Sliding Door With Glass Tutorial
Basicly it's just a sliding door but it has a piece of breakable glass kind of attached to it.
Viewport Tutorial
This tutorial is made to give you the basic understanding on how to navigate and customize your viewports inside of Valve Hammer Editor to make your own levels.






