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Welcome to the Valve Developer Community! From here on in you can forget Valve - every page you see with an edit tab, including this one, is likely written or at least altered by someone in the community (though Valve staff are sometimes among them). If you want to do the same, go right ahead! Otherwise, take a look at the Categories or run a search to find what you want.
Recommended sites
This is a list of alternate resource sites for Source games in alphabetical order. It is by no means complete but please, if you add to it keep to decent sites and do not link to simple map download databases. (Can editors please stop placing their websites at the top of the listing, place websites in the alphabetical order that they should be in.)
Cross-Purpose and General Development
- C-SEC - Japanese Source modding and mapping development site, including with translated many SDK documents to Japanese.
- Game-Advance.net - Very small new modding community. Focus is on source engine, but forums exist for non-source modding as well. Hosts modding projects.
- Gamedesign.net - Some helpful modding and mapping tutorials.
- Handy Vandal's Almanac - One of the original top editing resource sites for Half Life, contains some HL2 info. Linked to in Worldcraft's help menu.
- HL2World.com - Half Life 2 Knowledge Base
- hl.tozcentral.net - Half Life and Half-Life 2 resource, Post your own bots, maps, media, mods and tutorials
- Interlopers.net - News and general resources
- Leak-Free - A Source Engine Development Community.
- Error Listing - A comprehensive listing of Hammer 3/4 errors and solutions.
- Mapcore - A great place to get mapping, modelling and texture help from industry pros.
- Mod Database - Free listings of mods for almost every moddable game. A great database full of tons of information on mods that are out there.
- Mod HQ - Comprehensive news resource for Half-Life 2 modifications and Steam related content in general.
- Modhelp.net - A developing modding community.
- Nem's Tools - Several useful Source tools including GCFScape
- The Snarkpit - Mapping and modelling community site
- Sourceblog - General tutorials (Many on Texturing/Skinning)
- SourceWiki - Unofficial and older Source Wiki
- TWHL - Mapping community and tutorial site, mostly HL1.
- VERC - Valve Editing Resource Collective. This site's predecessor, which offers primarily HL1 resources (Official)
- Wavelength - One of the original sources of HL1 editing material, now steadily servicing HL2
- Wunderboy.org - Several useful Source tools including VTFTool