ok me and my friend are gonna make a mod after our exams, and between us we know basic maping and modelling. Could really do with nudges in the right direction for where to go to learn how to mod if HL. Im gonna get the "mod your world" DVD's but that doesn't cover coding, any advice? Preferably something not internet based.
im gonna be away from internet for like 2 weeks when im moddling (stuck at some place in the middle of nowhere) so incase i can get bored i was hoping there be some kind of book/dvd to teach me. And there's no way of downloading all the tutorials (without visting each page), so any other places? Where did Krenzo learn how to code?
To lazy to wait for my mod huh? If you want scripts etc: READ THIS! http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Compiling_under_VS2005
cookies eh? and i eargly anticipate your mod :D and damn that link puts me off learning how to code. Im only gonna make a simple multiplayer mod with me friend, 1 small map where you hold off against waves of npc's, and have destroyable barricades etc, so little coding needed, right? 0o
Or the list could be long too like... Coders Sound engineers Music engineers 2D texture artists 2D concept artists 3D modellers 3D concept artists and so on... :p But yeah, it won't be easy to start doing something. At least it takes loads of time and true effort to wrestle with the problems which come up during the development and also not to run out of interest.
It can take a while! Don't expect to produce anything too complex anytime soon. I taught myself Visual Basic at school using the command reference and stubborn determination. I learned QuakeC buy just jumping into the code an tinkering about, experimenting with how the weapons work and such. I started customizing the monsters and eventually made a 40K mod. I changed how the armor worked so it was more like the tabletop games and made the soldiers different classes of orks with boltguns and such.....my PC died and took it with it. Moral: Fucking make backups of your shit! But anyhoo...Source is a lot more complex than the old Quake engine. It's probably the reason why there are so less mods available....that and the expectation that mods have to be of professional standard these days. So expect things to be difficult and frustrating at first. My recommendation is just dive in and go for it. Don't start your big project straight away, just mess about and make mods that changing anything at all. My experience is that it takes determination and dedication more than anything, even talent, to make mods and games. When I was learing Visual Basic, it was because I really, really want to play Elite 2. I had just discovered the game and then had it taken away from me. Left with a shitty PC and nothing but VB as a dev tool a made a turn based space exploration game. Luckily, I knew a little bit of basic to get started. I was 16 and worked like a freakin' obsessed autistic. I can't muster that kind of hardcore geekiness anymore!
I think people have drastically mis-understood me. Its not gonna be publically avaliable, its not gonna be good standard, its just to let me and my friend what the world of game design is like (we are gonna do it for university), and we don't wanna spend our summer making a lengthy mod. Its basically only gonna be a pissy piolt mod for us to see what its like. :p
If you have no coding experience, you may underestimate how much it will take to make even a crappy mod! But good luck! Can you tell us what the idea is behind it?
we haven't reallly thought about it, we are either gonna make a zombie apocolapyse defend against impossible waves in various locations, or i was thinking of doing a starship troppers one where they had to hold that tiny base in the movie. AND HOLY SHIT, looking at that sample code is making me want to give up already, i don't have the time for that :'( How on earth do people enjoy how to code?
Dude, I can help you with your mod, and if it's only weapons and such that you need, it's easy (I can do it), if you want it to be multiplayer.. It will be a little hard(going to add it to mine, when I'm not to lazy for it ) And on this page it says: http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Fixing_AI_in_multiplayer ''This is simple to fix.'' So I could try to give it a peak all ye need is to learn hammer quite good.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, interesting. Well if we are gonna make the mod, i'll give ya a shout, ty.
Multiplayer is easy? Then I want to see a total newbie fixing bugs in Source SDK. :> (not Empires just OB SDK)
