Team Fortress 2 Level Creation

Getting started

• Downloading and Installing the Source SDK
• General level design documentation
• Team Fortress 2 Design Theory
• Basic Map Construction for Team Fortress 2
• Team Fortress 2 Mapper's Reference

Constructing Elements

Basic Elements

• Round time
• Setup Gates

Spawnrooms

• Creating a Spawnroom

Spawnroom Elements

• Respawn Areas
• Resupply Areas
• Team-Specific Barriers
• Team-Specific Doors

Goal Systems

• Arena
• Control Points
• Flags
• Multiple Round Linear Goal Systems
• Payload Goal System
• Territorial Control

User Modes

• Cyclic Control Points
• CTF Keep-Away
• Domination
• The Hunted

Tricks & Effects

• Modifying the Respawn Time
• Modifying the Mission Briefing
• Adding a Maplist Thumbnail
• Adding an Introductory Video
• Teleporters
• Creating Respawning Dispensers
• Creating Respawning Sentry Guns
• Creating Fire
• Creating Audio Playing Buttons

Additive Mapping Information

• List of TF2 Entities
• List of TF2 Skyboxes
• List of TF2 Soundscapes
• List of TF2 Particles
• Making Custom Materials for TF2