Level Design Video Tutorials

Certain mapping techniques may be more easily understand through video demonstration then reading text. Below is a list of video tutorials sorted by author and video format.

RenStrike

vimeo

• HL2 HD Tutorial - Beginner Tutorial 1
• HL2 HD Tutorial - Beginner Tutorial 2
• HL2 HD Tutorial - Beginner Tutorial 3
• HL2 HD Tutorial - Beginner Tutorial 4

USTREAM

• Ren TV - 4.23.2008 Displacements with subdivide, Cubemaps, and path_tracks and func_tracktrains
• Ren TV - 4.24.2008 Creating a small room with basic detailing
• Ren TV - 4.26.2008 A TF2 Map from spawn to first cap point

Big Lou

YouTube

• Hammer Interface and Tools - Part 1
• Hammer Interface and Tools - Part 2

Vaatrad

YouTube

• Tutorial 1 - Your First Map
• Tutorial 2 - A Few Tips
• Tutorial 3 - Basic Sky
• Tutorial 4 - Objectives and Tips on Spawns
• Tutorial 5 - Brushes
• Tutorial 6 - Textures and Decals
• Tutorial 7 - Stairs and Ladders
• Tutorial 8 - GUNS!
• Tutorial 9 - Water, Glass and Teleporters
• Tutorial 10 - Doors
• Tutorial 11 - Props
• Tutorial 12 - Environmental Effects
• Tutorial 13 - Buttons, Triggers + Explosions
• Tutorial 14 - Displacement Geometry
• Tutorial 15 - 3D Skyboxes

3kliksphilip

YouTube

• Tutorial for Map Making
• Tutorial for Map Making 2
• How to make your map look good (With lighting)
• Adding objects into your level
• Water in 30 seconds
• Block tools, Shapes, Clipping and Vertexes
• Making objects move in 45 seconds
• Different Lighting Styles
• Doors Tutorial
• Custom Textures Part 1
• Custom Textures Part 2
• Hills, mountains and bumps (displacements)
• Glass Window Tutorial
• 3D Skyboxes
• Update to muck things up Help here
• Soundscapes
• Adding Teleports
• Custom sounds
• How to do fake DMM Glass ( Digital Molecular Matter)
• ELEVATORS, TRAINS AND TRACKS
• How to add dangly objects with physics
• ROCK FALLS OF DEATH
• Rope Tutorial
• Cubemaps
• Weapon Spawners
• Decompiling Maps
• Special Effects
• Water doesn't work: fixing leaks and holes

Duck

Google Video

• Hammer basics
• Basic map creation
• Making an elevator
• Elevator creation (Intermediate)
• Creating a camera in CS:S maps
• Ladders and resizing
• Placing Doors in maps
• Placing props in maps
• func_buttons and movelinears
• Making lasers and fire
• Platform combine
• Creating a surf map "wedge"
• Teleport tutorial
• Displacements geometry
• Resizing only one brush face
• Displacement blending

rocketrascal34

YouTube

• Tutorial 1: "simple things"
• Tutorial 2: "prop basics"
• Tutorial 3: Part1 "Lighting"
• Tutorial 3: Part2 "still lighting"
• Tutorial 4: "De_Cs_ buyzone and doors!"
• Tutorial 5: Water, Displacements, and glass Oh My!
• Tutorial 6: "elevator!"

M4pster

YouTube

• Tutorial, Your first Map: Part 1
• Tutorial, Your first Map: Part 2
• Tutorial, Vid 2; Doors: Part 1
• Tutorial, Vid 2; Doors: Part 2
• Tutorial, Vid 3; Buttons: Part 1
• Tutorial, Vid 3; Buttons: Part 2
• Tutorial, Vid 3; Buttons: Part 3
• Tutorial, Vid 4 - Ladders
• Tutorial, Vid 5: Sky: Part 1
• Tutorial, Vid 5: Sky: Part 2
• Tutorial, Vid 6: Water

Interlopers.net

AVI (XVID)

• Video Tutorials

Brandished

Flash/HTML

• Making a 5 Control Point Map for TF2