Half-Life Level Design

Getting Started

• Install Half-Life SDK (3.4) from Steam (must own Half-Life 1 on Steam)

• Download Hammer 3.4 from GameBanana

• Configuring Hammer for Half-Life

 Note: Most Half-Life level editors use J.A.C.K.

View J.A.C.K. Homepage for more info Please See JACK and Hammer for more info.

Day of Defeat (GoldSource)

Day of Defeat Info for Level Design

Basic Elements

• Point-Based Entities
• Brush-Based Entities

Half-Life

Half-Life Steam Community Hub

• List of Half-Life 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
• outdoor levels

Additional Information

Forge Game Data

• Half-Life FGD
• Half-Life: Opposing Force FGD
• Half-Life: Blue Shift FGD

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

Compiling Programs

• Zoner's Half-Life Tools
• Vluzacn's Map Compile Tools

Modelling Programs

• MilkShape 3D (purchase required)

Download

• Blender (free)

Download

• 3ds Max (purchase required)

Download

Texture Editors

• GIMP (free)
• Photoshop (purchase required)
• Wally (free)

Alternative Mapping Tools

• J.A.C.K. An alternative to Hammer for GoldSource 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 ceased development and is no longer being developed.