Useful Mapping Utilities and Resources

Post by **Sputnik** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 5:18 pm

Feel free to add your own, but here are a few very useful utilities and resources for anyone into map making

Hammer 3.5 beta, essential over 3.4 if you use models especially

FJL's Expert FGD for Hammer

Merl's build of Zoner's compile tools, allows the use of the Null texture, and otherwise the best tools you can get for most uses

Half Life Software Developer's Kit (SDK), an incredibly useful heap of information

Milkshape modelling software

Half Life Model Viewer

PakExplorer for extracting files from PAKs

Wally for WAD creation

Goldwave for sound editing

ResGen for creating RES files

Bullet · Post by **Bullet** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 5:43 pm

QUARK iirc

(can also extract and make .pak files in quark)

o...i used to have milkshape, but couldnt work out how to make models....i could open them by tearing apart an existing one...but not make