Tutorials on the Wiki?? Thread

How about getting a decent amount of tutorials first? :p Seriously...
All i can find on HL1 is changing the HUD color (doesnt work) or changing weapon values such as clips
And a mouthfull of other tutors...

I want more tutorials!! :Æ

...yes, coding tutorials
a full tutor on adding a single unique weapon would be great too

Edited by (in order): Ter3, Ter3

Tutorials are submitted by users... if no one has written anything, then theres nothing there. Its not controlled by the Staff at all (except for the fact that we authorize the tutorials)
Google for Half Life tutorials. Theres plenty out there

I don't get it. Moddb is turning into tech support. Too many newbs for my liking, and a lot of them have bad grammar/spelling.

Ter3, try www.interlopers.net for tutorials. This is primarily a site to showcase mods, not a modding support site. (though it seems the staff are trying to turn it into more of a modding support site)

what wiki I did not know moddb had a wiki

We don't, but we're asking on the front page poll whether to transform the Tutorials section into a wiki to help facilitate it more (among other things).

What if someone writes a really hot tutorial and someone else comes along who does things a different way to what's done in the tutorial; can they change it all up then and ruin someone's hard work?

Also, one problem that I've seen with modding-related wikis is that morons upload tutorials that are just plain shite, or aren't even finished, or both. I was once trying to learn Hammer (not worth the trouble) and was reading a wiki tutorial that was basically this knob telling me what to do, but not telling me how to do it, or even linking me to pages that might!

Then at the end you got stiffed with "I'll update this more when I get the time. This was just a quick wiki addition that I felt needed adding." Great! Everyone knows that "I'll update this when I get the time" means you'll never get an update because the real reason the article is incomplete is because the guy is just a fat lazy turd, and if he doesn't even have the commitment to finish an article in the first place, he's never going to be bothered updating it.

There would have to be a way of keeping that sort of poor form out of a ModDB wiki if there was going to be one. The authorisation system on ModDB may take a while sometimes, but at least you know that at least one person other than the author has read it before it becomes publically available.

I think having a wiki and tut directory as Mod DB has now would be good.

OP wrote: ...yes, coding tutorials
a full tutor on adding a single unique weapon would be great too

Wrote one for HL2, but seems like you mean HL1

If you want a lot of coding help, you should check out the 3DBuzz's Guide to C++ DVD, it's totally worth the money spent, and with knowledge of that IDE you can pick up a lot of other languages by looking at context clues.

3dbuzz.com

It's quite a bit of money, but once again, completely worth it.