Half-Life Level Creation

This page contains articles relating specifically to level design for Half-Life.

Getting Started Configuring Hammer for Half-Life Basic Elements Point-Based Entities Brush-Based Entities Half-Life Half-Life Steam Community Hub List of HL1 entities Half-Life Sky List Half-Life: Opposing Force Half-Life: Opposing Force Steam Community Hub List of Opposing Force entities Half-Life: Blue Shift Half-Life: Blue Shift Steam Community Hub List of Blue Shift entities Tutorials Health Charger Suit Charger Alien Teleport Effect

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 Resources The Whole Half-Life A tutorial site for map development in Half-Life and Half-Life 2. External Tools General GoldSrc External Tool Resource Site Modelling Programs MilkShape 3D (purchase required) Download Blender (free) Download 3D Studio Max (purchase required) Download Texture Editors Gimp 2 (free) Photoshop (purchase required) Wally (free) 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 J.A.C.K. A modified version of the GoldSource Engine created by Russian modders. J.A.C.K. offers many additional features for level editing and modding for Half-Life, as well as Quake 2 and 3. SLEDGE EDITOR A replacement to Valve's GoldSource Engine, Sledge is still currently in it's Alpha form.