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Helpful Half-Life 2 Modding Links!

Misc Links:

wunderboy.org Half-Life 2 Source SDK Tools
http://www.wunderboy.org/sourceapps.php

Source SDK Official Wiki
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SDK_Docs

The Wavelength Mapping, Modeling, and Coding tutorials
http://articles.thewavelength.net/

The Source SDK Lounge, a place to hang out and discuss the Source SDK
http://sdklounge.com/forums/index.php

Mapping and Modding Tutorial site (fairly recent). Includes a prefab section!
http://sourcesdk.net/browse.php

Tutorials on exploring compiled binary, aka hacking game file formats
http://wiki.xentax.com/index.php?title= ... at_Central

Document explaining bits and bytes, and how its all represented with hex.
http://www.omega-art.com/logic/tut/bin.html


Texture Creation Links:

Skinning Tutorials
http://st.burst.cc/index.htm


Mapping Links:

Interlopers Mapping Tutorials
http://www.interlopers.net/

Half-Life 2 World and Wiki
http://www.hl2mapping.com/news.php

Half-Life 2 Map Editing Optimization Guide
http://www.student.ru.nl/rvanhoorn/opti ... pter=intro

The Valve Collective
http://collective.valve-erc.com/

Snark Pit
http://www.snarkpit.net/

TWHL
http://twhl.co.za/

Vlatitude
http://www.vlatitude.com/

Edit Life Tutorials
http://www.editlife.net/

Mapping Tools, Map Decompiler, BSP editing
http://www.geocities.com/cofrdrbob/

Mapping... In German!
http://www.mapping-tutorials.de/forum/


General Coding:

Learn C++ in 21 days!
http://newdata.box.sk/bx/c/

C++ General Reference Cards
http://www.cppreference.com/index.html

Decimal/Binary Conversion Tool
http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~gurw ... 2tool.html

Integrating Lua into C++
http://www.codeproject.com/cpp/luaincpp.asp

C++ Resource
http://www.cplusplus.com/

Shader Programming
http://www.shadertech.com/cgi-bin/shade ... =-1&page=1


Feel free to post links below, I will add them to this list.

Two new sites for ya:

The Source SDK Lounge, a place to hang out and discuss the Source SDK:
http://sdklounge.com/forums/index.php

Mapping and Modding Tutorial site (fairly recent). Includes a prefab section!
http://sourcesdk.net/browse.php

EDIT: Bah, both sites seem to have gone down. Boo...

Links Updated.

http://gamewag.com/hl2.html

http://www.slackiller.com/New%20Tuts/source.html

http://www.modsonline.com/Tutorials-list-10.html

http://www.gamedesign.net/book/print/663

http://www.fpsbanana.com/tuts/newest

http://www.violator.eclipse.co.uk/disped

http://www.toasters-bf1942.de/akg/AKG/m ... ex(2).html

http://www.countermap2.com/Tutorials/index.html

http://www.toasters-bf1942.de/akg/AKG/m ... x(11).html

Some links to texture packs!!!

http://www.sourcefortsmod.com/boards/sh ... hp?p=94935

http://forums.fortress-forever.com/show ... php?t=8529

http://forums.hl2ctf.net/index.php?showtopic=3679

These are threads from Source Forts, Fortress Forever and HL2 CTF.
Thanks to the original posters!

Excellent

MOAR!

What you need links to texture packs? modding links? I'll go through my favourites later.

Some mapping links:

http://hl.logout.fr/?p=optimisation

A french site with general mapping but in specific a good optimisation guide, shame I can't read french.

http://www.halfwit-2.com/?page=tutorials&category=1

A great site for tutorials. ^ It's from some of the old sdk nuts tutorials

http://www.mapping-tutorials.de/forum/
German forum with (like the name says) mapping tutorials, texturing tutorials, modeling tutorials and coding tutorials, plus a nice community that helps you if you have problems in any of the mentioned stuff.

Halflife source & Halflife source FGD file.

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki ... Source.fgd
Halflife source deathmatch FGD file.

I think the Deathmatch is the same FGD file. But To be certain here it is anyway.

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki ... Source.fgd

I added here just because I've been looking for it

A nice little tutorial for the 'Sculpt' tool (A new L4D feature I believe, thats now available to all sdk) for you budding displacement mappers!

I've had a little play, some crazy shit!

http://forum.interlopers.net/viewtopic. ... 1&p=414060

Reminds me of zbrush. O wait it's not much like zbrush. Move along...

I don´t know if this goes here.

Free models to use:

http://www.gaming-models.de/