Left 4 Dead Level Creation

This page contains articles relating specifically to Level Design for Left 4 Dead.

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