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This thread is to post links to any resources you may know about for modding. They could be for mapping, modeling, skinning, coding, etc.
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SKINNING AND TEXTURING

HL2 and CSS Skinning Guide
HL2 and CSS Skinning Guides

Creating menu icons for HL2 DM
Creating menu icons for HL2DM

Menu background tutorial for HL2
Menu Background Tutorial For HL2

HL2 General Skinning Tutorials

http://elistutorials.blogspot.com/

VTF2TGA Converter

http://www.pcgamemods.com/9386/

VTF Plugin for Photoshop

http://forums.filefront.com/showthre...92#post1995792

Photoshop 7 Upgrade

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloa...jsp?ftpID=1851

TGA Plugin for Windows Explorer

http://www.greggman.com/pages/thumbplug_tga.htm

GCFScape 1.25

http://csdl.djeyl.net/index.php?p=download&id=164

Normal Map Filters

Nvidia Tools page: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/n...ure_tools.html

Download for Photoshop http://download.nvidia.com/developer/NVTex...6.0827.1800.exe

For GIMP http://nifelheim.dyndns.org/%7ecocidius/normalmap/

Mapping
Courtesy of Dystopian1324

Site and Rank In Usefulness

Interloopers.net
http://www.interlopers.net/content.php?article.cat.48 Very

HL2 Wiki
http://www.hl2world.com/wiki/index.p...ppingTutorials Extremely

MODSonline.com
http://www.gdconnect.com/Downloads-full-2370.html Okay

The Snark Pit
http://www.snarkpit.com/editing.php?...rials&game=HL2 Moderate to Very

Entity Guide from HL2 Mod Central
http://www.hl2modcentral.com/members/entities_dec27.zip Extremely

HL2 Mod Central Guides
http://www.hl2modcentral.com/tutorial.php?id=33&cat=5 Okay

Wavelength tutorials
http://articles.thewavelength.net/section/73/ Little

HL2 DB
http://www.hl2db.com/features/tutorials/index.php Moderate


Videos
http://halflife2.filefront.com/file/...Tutorial;33990
http://halflife2.filefront.com/file/...Tutorial;32907
http://halflife2.filefront.com/file/...Tutorial;35319
http://halflife2.filefront.com/file/...Tutorial;34029
http://halflife2.filefront.com/file/...Tutorial;34058
http://halflife2.filefront.com/file/...iewports;33423
http://halflife2.filefront.com/file/..._2_Tools;33424
http://halflife2.filefront.com/file/...rushwork;33425
http://halflife2.filefront.com/file/...exturing;33426
http://halflife2.filefront.com/file/..._5_Water;33427
http://halflife2.filefront.com/file/..._Terrain;33428
http://halflife2.filefront.com/file/...tic_Mesh;33429

***There are also SOME video tutorials on the sites listed above but I didnt want to fill this up with too many links***

Surface Displacement
http://www.valve-erc.com/srcsdk/Leve...lacements.html

Teleporters in HL2DM
http://www.gamingforums.com/showthre...84#post2201584

Image Hosting

http://www.imageshack.us/
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The interlopers link under mapping is broken, just so you know.
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thanks alot 4 these links fragger, they helped alot with my map makin
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The Wiki for UnrealEd was pwnage, so I'm checking out the HL Wiki now...I just got the SDK and so far finding HAMMER pretty straightforward, a few problems getting used to, but no biggie.

BTW I've ALWAYS wanted to know what SDK actually stands for, I figure the DK is DevKit, but the S has me lost LoL.

These are great linkie-dinkie-blinkie-shinkieS!
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Fragger thanx for the links
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I found one of the best HL2 Mapping Tutorial Lists to date.

http://www.gamewag.com/hl2.html
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where can i get Hammer? is it already with the Half Life 2 package, or does it have to be downloaded? i can't find this on any of this sites.. thanks.
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Download it through Steam, it's in the bottom; Tools.
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Any info on modelling and animating, actually specifically animating, do you use the same programs as the ones you model with?
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