Clean-room reimplementation of Half-Life: Deathmatch and Half-Life (Experimental) in QuakeC.

Last update: Dec 11, 2022

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Overview

FreeHL

Clean-room reimplementation of Half-Life: Deathmatch and Half-Life (Experimental).

Similar to FreeCS, this aims to recreate the feeling of the original game. It's designed to work with the content from the CD version of the game. Currently I do not aim to support the Steam version.

Netplay improvements, such as prediction of both player physics and weapon-logic are present.

This is 100% original code, feel free to audit however you wish. No proprietary SDKs have been looked at or taken apart, unlike similar projects.

The engine you want to use to run this is FTEQW (https://www.fteqw.org), which is a project unrelated to this. It just happens to support the file-formats FreeHL needs.

Building

Clone the repository into the Nuclide-SDK:

git clone REPOURL valve

then either run Nuclide's ./build_game.sh shell script, or issue 'make' inside ./valve/src!

Obviously make sure that Nuclide has fteqw and fteqcc set-up for building and that you have some proficiency in QuakeC.

Community

Join us on #freecs via irc.freenode.net and chat.

License

ISC License

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF MIND, USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

Comments

Question: is the project Godot related?

Hi cool project! Is the project somehow related to Godot Engine? Sorry for asking it in issues (I don't use Matrix) PS: asking it because I saw this link in a (inofficial) Godot digest

opened by me2beats 2
Music tracks not available

Half-Life music tracks are no longer available on YouTube. You need to replace them with others or remove them from the Shareware installation script.

opened by Unargent 1
ayy not a issue report

just wanted to say keep up the good work really hope this gets finished since i would love to work ona LibreHL project for replacing the full game assets with libre BSD3 assets

opened by MissLav 1
Add autobuilds with artifacts

I think it should be very easy, just downloading/compiling fteqcc and running make. If you're interested, here is my recommended list of CI's: Appveyor GItlab CI Github CI

Thanks.

opened by tyabus 0
New game: Falling through the train
When trying to play either the German CD version or the English "Day One" Demo (installed via the launcher), the player will just fall through the train when starting a new game, resulting in an immediate death. It seems the player isn't moved together with the train.

What I did:

Install Half-Life (using an old Windows installation for testing purposes) and update to version 1.1.1.0

Copy the game directory to a Linux machine

Extract http://fteqw.org/dl/fteqw-sdl2-linux64.zip into the game directory

Extract https://github.com/eukara/freehl/releases/download/04-18-2021/valve-04-18-2021.zip and copy the contents of the valve-04-18-2021 directory into the game directory.

Start the game with ./fteqw-sdl2

Now I'm wondering: Am I missing something, or is this not implemented yet?
opened by laenion 1

Releases(08-29-2021)

08-29-2021(Aug 29, 2021)

Binary release archive. Use this if you just want to play. You have to supply your own content from the Half-Life CD version. If you use the data from the Steam release, you will be missing some menu assets.
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
valve-08-29-2021.sig(310 bytes)
valve-08-29-2021.zip(1.75 MB)
04-18-2021(Apr 18, 2021)

Binary release archive. Use this if you just want to play. Either supply your own content or use the built-in package manager to download demo data and mod content.
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
valve-04-18-2021.zip(1.60 MB)
03-16-2021(Mar 15, 2021)

Binary release archive. Use this if you just want to play. Either supply your own content or use the built-in package manager to download demo data and mod content.
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
valve-03-16-2021.zip(1.55 MB)