Sandpit is a sandbox mod for Half-Life.
Features include:
- Spawn menus for Half-Life and Opposing Force monsters, models and sprites
- Pose menu for changing skins, bodies, world and mouth position position of monsters, models and sprites
- Automatic mounting of Opposing Force, Counter-Strike and Day of Defeat content
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10 years ago the first version of Sandpit was released - it wasn't much - just the spawn menu and a few monsters from Half-Life, all based off some VGUI tutorials by Richard Zad at The Wavelength. For the next few years Sandpit got lots of updates with lots of features but by 2010 other projects (like Sandbot) had started to take up more time.
In 2013 full-time work rolled around and not a lot of programming got done for fun anymore, but the updates to Half-Life and the release of the updated SDK re-ignited some interest and Sandpit started getting some more attention again. In the background, work on Basis got moved to new Half-Life SDK.
In 2015 a new job meant more desire to finally get Sandpit v4 to happen. Until then nothing had really been done beyond patching a code-base that was very obviously messy and in need of some love. Basis was tidied up and released publicly in 2015 and in 2016 and a new Sandpit was forked off Basis to take advantage of the fixes and structure that it brought. Work continued slowly for the next little while, but by the second half of 2018 it was still far from completion. The looming 10 year anniversary of Sandpit meant a lot of work got done in September, October and November of 2018 to get the most important features done in time.
In spite of best efforts, there was still an annoying bug in v4.0 that couldn't be reliably reproduced during testing and so a day later v4.0.1 was released to fix it.
There's still lots more planned for Sandpit (follow Sandpit to stay informed) - here's to another 10 years!
P.S. there are still two days left to vote for Mod DB's Mod of the Year - vote for Sandpit at Moddb.com
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Feature 7 commentsA new episode of Podcast 17 featuring Stargate: Legacy, Half-Life 2: Dawn, Valve's recent interview on GTTV, brief discussions about SHIFT and Perfect...
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Sandpit v4.1
Full Version 82 commentsSandpit v4.1 adds a new Sprite Menu, some Opposing Force entities, entity scaling and more.
SandPit 4.0.1 (EXE)
Full Version 18 commentsSandPit 4.0.1 installer version. Automatically detecting Steam HL1's path.
Sandpit v4.0.1 (ZIP)
Full Version 46 commentsSandpit v4.0.1 fixes stability issue in the previous release.
Sandpit v4.0 (ZIP)
Full Version 20 commentsSandpit v4.0 is a complete re-write of Sandpit on the latest version on the Half-Life SDK.
SandPit 3.7.1 (EXE)
Full Version 40 commentsSandPit 3.7.1 installer version. Automatically detecting Steam HL1's path.
Sandpit v3.7.1 (ZIP)
Full Version 34 commentsFixed crash on map change (thanks SylvesterBarry@ModDB). Extract the .zip to steamapps\common\Half-Life\ and restart Steam to play.
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Can I use it on Half-Life Non-Steam?
minihootdaowl you can try but I only test with the Steam version.
I tried, when I try to bring up the spawn menu, nothing happens, and when I look in the console, it says the command used to bring up the spawn menu was not found. Same with prop menu.
minihootdaowl not sure then - try with the Steam version as it works for me.
where is monster_player
Mallian not in v4.x - it didn't really have any AI.
Any way to go thirdperson?
Shelby_Kun the "thirdperson" command should work like in standard Half-Life.
Didn't work for me. I have zero clue why
Shelby_Kun I can't remember the exact requirements but maybe it only works in single player? Or if cheats are enabled?