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I'm trying to make a railway through my map and I'm having a great deal of difficulty lining up the track model sections. The rail line runs at an angle to the grid lines causing the bounding boxes to overlap (is that OK?). Hammer only lets me see one of the overlapping models at a time so I can...

I'm working on a single player mod, and although I have a fair amount of mapping experience, I have absolutely no modding or coding experience. Part of the story will take place in a facility where the combine dispose of dead humans and perform hideous experiments. One such experiment involves...

Although not widely known, Black Mesa hosted an annual “rocket sled” competition. It was a chance for fellow scientists from various top-secret government installations to engage in a friendly little competition; soap box racing for adults, if you will. I was fortunate enough to stumble upon a...

I'm sure most of you have seen the JBmod in which you can weld compressed gas cannisters to objects using the physgun. When you shoot these cannisters they fly off like rockets (like the gas cannisters in Max Payne), and hurdle through the air along with anything that's attached to them...

Not sure if this has been mentioned before, but I noticed this spray painted in a tunnel just before you get the gun mounted on your airboat: GGDE B 4RN G The 'D' actually appears to be an upsidedown 'G'. I'm guessing that the '4RN' is code for "foreign". I don't have a clue on the rest...

Left-click and look under "properties" and then "update" for the HL2 media. It appears that the G-Man video was set to go on 7/8/03. It would seem that Valve has not been 'yanking our chains' as some seem to think, but rather that steam was not quite ready to handle the release. (Of course that...

OK, I know there are some MOD idea threads out there, but I thought I'd focus just on non-modded single player ideas for those of us who like to map, but aren't into coding. I'm sure lots of you had map ideas for HL1 that you never got around to but might actually finish for HL2. Well, I had...

I was just thinkin'... the term "crab" is commonly used to refer to the pubic louse ( Phthirus pubis ), does that mean that headcrabs are simply just good ol' head lice (Pediculus humanus capitus )? :) Yes, I am bored!

This cartoon says it all http://dynamic5.gamespy.com/~extralife/archive.php?date=2003-05-27

This is pretty cool. Adam, a mapper that you may recognize from his HL single player levels, has recreated the HL2 tech demo for HL1. Just unzip the map and bsp files into your valve map folder and load the map in the Halflife console. He has also included the Worldcraft/Hammer files if you'd...

Did the similarly named thread close because it mentioned PIRATED software? Me thinks so. Will this thread end very very soon? Me thinks so.

Sierra has a tiny page dedicated to Halflife 2 (two paragraphs, no pics). There's not much there, but this paragraph adds a few tidbits to our knowledge if you read between the lines. Direct from Sierra: http://www.sierra.com/product.do?gamePlatformId=470 Apparently the invasion...

There is another preview at: http://www.sharkyextreme.com/features/article.php/2831_2210031__1 It's all stuff we've seen before, however I thought the following quote was interesting - it looks like the game is really coming along. Note that this was during a private off-site press...

You may have already seen this, but this site has heaps of half-life 1 nostalgia. There is concept art, as well as screenshots and movies from the alpha version. Stop by and check out what was getting people excited 5 years ago. :bounce...

Ok, I know a lot of us have started playing half-life over again to pass the time. I thought I'd start a thread of strange happenings in HL1 that we've encountered - anything odd, humorous, or buggy. Any little tidbits you picked up on that might give us further insights into the plot would be...

OK, the striders do not appear to be organic (at least not entirely so) as they have machine guns etc. That raises the question: "are they entirely robotic or is someone in there manning the controls?" That of course raises the question: "might they be drivable vehicles?" Although highly...

Hey guys, have you seen this: http://www.fileplanet.com/files/120000/123983.shtml File planet has the entire E3 showing of HL2 available in high res video. It's 25 minutes long and a little over 500mb. You need to be a subscriber to get it....anyone managed to get their grubby little...