Heh, that brings back memories of the modding community – e.g. TheWall 😀
Also I did use the Hammer Editor for a school assignment demonstrating “CAD” and especially light calculations for 3D engines. Nobody of the auditors knew it was “just” Half-Life at all (no-gui ftw) 🤪😂
the hammer editor was the first time i did scripting and it was like… my idea of what programming was for a long time? basically putting a “script object” in space and running into it.