How to create source mod characters.

Please note: This is not a tutorial. This is just a recount of my experiences making characters for use with the Source Engine and the Hammer Level Editor. You may learn of a few things to keep your eye out for when doing this yourself, but this is not a step by step guide.

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This is a walkthrough of our semi-finished game mod level, including a moded gun, and custom characters. This is as far as we managed to get in the short amount of time we had for this experiment, but we are quite happy with the results.

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Please note that at this time we were unable to disable the blood in the game mod, nor were we able to keep the ghost character from using grenades, or having a head crap appear from nowhere. The siren character is also no present due to significant bugs.

Here are the two negaton characters textured and ready to go. They both have just a simple 1024×1024 color map on them, made in photoshop.

Here is the ghost model for the game mod we are doing. Just another simple, low poly character for use in-game.

Here is the first of the Negaton character models, the Siren. Pretty basic model. Kept the poly count low as it’s for a game. Enjoy!