Half-Life Level Creation

This page contains articles relating specifically to level design for Half-Life, and it's expansions Opposing Force and Blue Shift.

Getting Started Configuring Hammer for Half-Life Elements Health Charger Suit Charger Alien Teleport Effect (HL1) Games Half-Life List of HL1 entities Half-Life: Opposing Force List of Opposing Force entities Half-Life: Blue Shift List of Blue Shift entities

Additive Information Forge Game Data Half-Life FGD Half-Life: Opposing Force FGD Half-Life: Blue Shift FGD Compiling Programs Zoner's Half-Life Tools External Tools General GoldSrc External Tool Resource Site Modelling Programs MilkShape 3D (free) Blender 3D (free) Texture Editors Gimp 2 (free) Photoshop (purchase required) Downloads Hammer Editor Install Half-Life SDK(3.4) from Steam (must own Half-Life 1 on Steam) Download Hammer 3.4 from GameBanana Replacement SDKs JACKHAMMER A newly released modified version of the GoldSource Engine created by Russian modders. JackHammer offers many additional features for level editing and modding for Half-Life, as well as Quake 2 and 3. JackHammer is currently in Alpha form. SLEDGE EDITOR A replacement to Valve's GoldSource Engine, Sledge is still currently in it's Alpha form.