Mapping Resource Guide - Links to all the best resources.

These are a collection of the sites I visit when I have needed help.




http://www.fpsbanana.com
- Great resourse for some tutorials and resources, Models, textures, tools, sprites, etc.

-- http://www.fpsbanana.com/tools/2716

Easy Wad Maker 2.5 - great tool for editing textures, viewing a wad, or adding textures to an exsisting wad file. ( Better than Crafty in my opinion.

http://www.slackiller.com/tommy14/errors.htm#flicker
Tommy of Escondido's Mapping help tutorials for Half-Life and Mods - Hass about 99% of all compile problems discussed on this page.

http://zhlt.info/command-reference.html#hlvis
Zoner's Half-life tools Command reference - explains what all the options are for and how to work them in the compiler.

http://twhl.co.za/tutorial.php?cat=1
The Whole Half-Life: Half-Life/2 Mapping Tutorials - contains great mapping tut's, complete with example rmf's.

http://www.terathon.com/wiki/index.php?title=Making_a_Skybox_Using_Terragen
Making a Skybox using Terragen - tutorial on how to use terragen to make a skybox

http://wadfather.planethalflife.gamespy.com/new/
The Wadfather - Contains lots and lots of custom stuff for half-life: textures and skyboxes mostly.

Updated, will add more resourses and tutorials soon.

Added new resource, all the files you need to map and compile.

Also has various other tools for development related tasks.

Includes the HL1 SDK.