what do i need to become a 1337 halflife modder? what do i need to download? give me the 411

You need to download the Half-Life SDK 2.0 (google for it). If you have no compiler, look after the MingW32. You will also need documentation about how the code works. C++ is taught by many books. Valve-erc and many planet half-life sites offer you information about it. Mirc on quakenet (I believe) hosts a community of modders ready to help you.

Fearing that you may be a troll, I will not express any personal opinion here.

Good luck.

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whats trolling?

thanks for your help

i have only had experiance doing models and skins and 1 or 2 crappy maps

so i was curious about how mods get done

i would like your personal imput if possible

look for sprit of halflife it will allow you to make single plyer mods without having to code.

lots of custom features not included in the orginal.

I think the guy works for valve who does it.

go to valve-erc.com everything you need id there the sdk, sprit etc etc

Head over to htt://www.thewavelength.net and then go to the formus. This is the best source of information on HL modding you can find.

At the top of each forum section you will find a load of sticky post-its that tell you all the FAQ''s for that area.

The latest version of the Half-Life SDK is 2.3, if you want to develop a single-player MOD then get the full SDK which includes some tools as well as all AI source for the monsters and such that you''ll need. If ur making a multi-player MOD then you''ll only need the standard SDK which only contains the code needed for MP MODS.