Half-Life 2 Mod Thread

[[SomeGuy]]

I would llike to start a HL2 mod discussion thread, while I have questions. 1) How do I start? 2) It's legal, right? 3) Do I need to learn any languages? 4) Can I make my own guns/characters/HUD? Thanks! slayer, I'm calling you! Lol. A site I found: http://www.hl2mods.co.uk/

[[SomeGuy]]

*bump*

[Serkat]

1) How do I start? Download a mod and install it. 2) It's legal, right? Yes. 3) Do I need to learn any languages? No. Almost all relevant mods are in English. 4) Can I make my own guns/characters/HUD? Yes, but you won't be able to play in multiplayer with altered models and items. For a good overview of the most popular online mods, check out http://steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=stats&cc=DE It will show you which mods actually have players. I can personally recommend The Hidden: Source and Source Forts. A good SP mod is Minerva.

[[SomeGuy]]

Thank you. I'll do that, and also, how do you start doing the actual modding?

[Serkat]

Oh, you wanna mod yourself? Well, you'd get the Source SDK which has a map editor and a bunch of tools, then you'd need extra programs for texture editing, modeling, animation etc. Then you'd also need a compiler, at least, and knowledge in programming. I believe that the SDK files are in C.

[[SomeGuy]]

Well, I got the Source SDK, And I have no knowledge in C programming, and I don't have a compiler. I'll get to that!

[[SomeGuy]]

Working on C, got a comiler environment, but I have no I dea how to compile it. lol. Codeblocks.

[ChrissyMaria]

You guys are making a mod? If you ever need a mapper come knock on my door, ive been mapping for a good 8 years privately as a hobby, have only released a few maps though..

[slayer]

1) How do I start? Download Source SDK and go to "Create a MOD" You'll want to start either a HL2 Singleplayer mod or Mulitplayer 2) It's legal, right? Yes, but make sure that if your going to use content from other mods/games you get permission first. 3) Do I need to learn any languages? No. Unless you want to code stuff into your game then you might want to learn what C++ is. If you don't know what it is, then google it. 4) Can I make my own guns/characters/HUD? Yes. But it might not be as easy as you think it is. Making your own guns can be very hard. Unless your just wanting to change the model of the gun. Characters can also be very hard. You'd have to model your characters and give them animations which can take a very very long time (I don't mean 2-3 weeks either). Creating a HUD should be pretty simple depending on what your making... Edit: Are you wanting to know how to install a mod or make one yourself? If your looking for mods then go to www.moddb.com They have all sorts of games with mods for them.

[[SomeGuy]]

I was looking for making mods.And guerilla, lets make a DV mod! I love mapping! How about xXSomeGuerillaXx's mod? Lulz.

[slayer]

A DV Mod? If your thinking about making a Lucid Dreaming mod then there's already one made for Unreal Tournament I think...or something like that...

[[SomeGuy]]

No, like a mod made by DV members. Lets do WW2!

[ChrissyMaria]

ww2? meh, theres about a billion ww2 games already: Day of Defeat source/non source Call of duty 1, 2, 3, 5 (soon) Medal of honor series Brothers in arms The list can go on forever, I honestly think WW2 has been done to death. Why not a hypothetical world war 3?

[slayer]

ww2? meh, theres about a billion ww2 games already: Day of Defeat source/non source Call of duty 1, 2, 3, 5 (soon) Medal of honor series Brothers in arms The list can go on forever, I honestly think WW2 has been done to death. Why not a hypothetical world war 3? There's already one being made about WW3 lol...

[ChrissyMaria]

Damnit. How about a mod where um,....hmmm A swordfighting mod, where you can customize your characters look and gender and height and weight, and customize the swords...thatd be fun? I'd charge at you as a cute sword fighting woman assassin and chop you down with a flaming sword

[slayer]

Damnit. How about a mod where um,....hmmm A swordfighting mod, where you can customize your characters look and gender and height and weight, and customize the swords...thatd be fun? I'd charge at you as a cute sword fighting woman assassin and chop you down with a flaming sword That'd be very hard to make... But there is that Pirates and Vikings mod or whatever...it has sword fights!

[ChrissyMaria]

yea, i love that mod, if only you can customzie your character on the loading screen or something, its not hard to do really, you just create submodels in a .mdl file and make a large possibilites of clothing and gender and you just have to code the game to switch to the specific submodel that the player chooses. I think there is a source mod that allows character customization in the VGUI before joining the game.

[[SomeGuy]]

Cool. Yah, maybe like future wars or something.