How to Make Half-Life 1 Models with MilkShape 3D Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to use MilkShape 3D to make GoldSoruce era models for Half-Life 1. Click the YouTube link below this message to watch my video tutorial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOC2Xf01duA

You will need four programs.
1) MilkShape 3D - http://www.chumba.ch/chumbalum-soft/files/ms3d185beta1.zip

2) Jed's Half-Life Model Viewer 1.36 - https://www.moddb.com/downloads/start/13138

3) J.A.C.K. Level Editor - https://store.steampowered.com/app/496450/JACK/

4) Microsoft Paint, Photoshop or GIMP to make .BMP (bitmap) images

This video serves as not only as a tutorial for model making in Half-Life 1, but eyes into the work flow we once used with archaic programs to modify our games. Work on programs like this was very exciting at the time. The level of control you had over your game was unprecedented with these pieces of software. This video is an ode to the last era when games were truly a part of the Carmack hacker culture. When you bought a game back then, you really owned that game and did what you wanted with it.

This channel uploads infrequently and my knowledge on GoldSource modding is limited. Information on these tools is becoming more and more limited as years go on. Websites hosting information about these tools are potentially lost to time without someone documenting their usages. If you have similar information about GoldSource era modding, be sure you share it. We need to preserve information from our era of gaming as its DNA is in the modern generations games. Remember where we came from.

Creating a Static Model

This video I made describes the entire process of putting models into Half-Life.