who wants to MOD!?

God of Black Flame

God of Black Flame

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anyone know a good way/place to try and put together a mod team? I'm talking finding random people online that would come together as a team. I got this idea for a Source mod that think would be hella fun, but i'm crap for coding (just started learning yesterday) and have no idea how to model or map (although i have modeling software: Softimage XSI...the free one). I'm essentially the "idea" guy with just enough knowledge on how the other parts work to understand what they're saying. I could sit down and learn all this shite, but then there'd be no game until we were on the Playstation 4 and Xbox 720, and that might be a little late.
 
You want to put together a mod team, but have no idea on how to do anything remotely related to modding?

How about you take some coding classes and learn some stuff... make sure this is something that you want to get into. I don't think you'll find many good programmers that would want to be a part of your team if you don't know where to start.
 
By Source you mean like a Half Life 2 mod? If so, then get the SDK which is provided by Steam. It includes Hammer, the tool for mapping as well as scripting. The SDK will also compile the necessary files for your mod and put them into their own folders. The Wiki for using all these tools is also very helpful.

Really though, you don't have to program anything. You'd mainly be editing certain text files to get the right menues, sounds, fonts, images etc. into the game. If you wanted to you could learn Lua so you could make the mod a bit more serious and have more control over it.
 
yep, that's really all i wanted to do, mod HL2:DM. for example, i'm trying to increase the velocity of the crossbow, lower the damage, change the fire and impact sound, and use a different model (which i would still need a modeler for) that's really all the kind of stuff i'm going to be doing, which i know mostly how to do with Visual Studio, just not what the exact code would be to do so. it's like i'm trying to write a book in Russian, i just needed a translator, or "Russian for Dummies". but thanks for your help, ima start forkin around with this stuff shortly.

and PohTayToez: i AM taking programming classes, but they don't start until fall. i was trying to get a head start by learning how to do something like mod, since -presumably- modifying someone else's program is easier than writing your own.

also, whenever i tried to build in VS i got nothing but errors, apparently there a couple things you have to do if you're using VSC++Express (namely, these). has anyone does this before, once i get those 2 files downloaded and change the things described the build command will...work?
 
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