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Create an animated title

GoldSrc Essentials · Updated 14 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

Written for version 2.5.1. Some labels may have changed since.

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Since the Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update, the engine builds an animated title from TGA files when liblist.gam has animated_title "1". The tiles live in resource/

You create the animated title in the tool, and it creates all the files and folders it needs.

1. Open the Title editor

Open Modding > Main Menu > Title

2. Turn on the animated title

Set the Animated Title switch to On.

The Animated Title switch

3. Generate the title

Click Generate from text and type the title you want.

The ` character makes a lower-case lambda, and the ' character makes an upper-case lambda.
Generating the animated title from text

4. Save the title

When everything is set, click Top Menu > File > Save Title Your animated title is ready.

The animated title on the main menu
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