Overview
Want to feel what gmod 9 is like, but don’t want to download it off moddb? you are in luck!here are the top 10 ways to make hl2 feel like gmod
Use Console Cheats
This is the easiest way to make hl2 feel like gmod
Half-Life 2 has a variety of cheats that make the game more fun
impulse 101 – gives you every weapon in the game (gravity gun, crowbar, pistol, 357, smg, ar2, etc)
god – makes you unable to take damage or die
npc_create npc_zombie (breen, antlion, monk, etc) – spawns an npc
Make your own maps
This can help feel more like gmod by adding non- half-life 2 maps
You can access Hammer Editor by going to file explorer, then to your steam hard drive (or steam file within another hard drive)
Steam
– steamapps
–common
—Half-Life 2
—-bin
—–scroll until you see hammer
click on hammer, and it will bring you to the map editor
there are many detailed walkthrough videos for hammer across the internet, so I will not talk about it here
when you want to play your map in game, just go to file, save (give it a name)
export
run in-game
suggestions for your maps for games/ gamemodes
for your hammer maps, the best idea is to model them after other source games. Maps including ctf_2fort (Team Fortress 2), l4d_hospital01_apartments (Left 4 Dead), testchmb_a_11 (Portal), and de_dust2 (Counter-Strike).
