Left 4 Dead Level Creation

Getting started

• Downloading and Installing the Left 4 Dead / Left 4 Dead 2 Authoring Tools
• L4D Level Design Basics Tutorial
• L4D Campaign Add-on Tutorial
• General Level Design documentation

Mapping for Left 4 Dead / Left 4 Dead 2

• Survival Gametype
• Scavenge Gametype
• Your First Left 4 Dead Map
• Common L4D Mapping Problems
• Left 4 Dead Design Theory
• L4D Mapping Notes
• L4D Custom Music Tutorial
• L4D Soundscripts
• Authoring Tools Updates For L4D2

Left 4 Dead Reference information

• List of L4D Entities
• List of L4D Particles
• List of L4D Skyboxes
• List of L4D Soundscapes

Navigation meshes

General

• Navigation Meshes
• Navigation Mesh Commands

Left 4 Dead / Left 4 Dead 2

• Navigation Meshes (Left 4 Dead)
• Left 4 Dead Infected Populations
• Advanced Nav Editing
• Sorting out navigation flow

Left 4 Dead 2 Specific

• L4D2 Specific Level Design topics
• Set Up Wandering or Nighttime Witch
• Querying the AI Director
• Randomizing Weapon, Item and Melee spawns
• Instances

Other

• Creating Left 4 Dead Plugins
• GCFscape (updated to extract vpk. files.)
• User projects
• L4D mapping mailing list