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

Setting up the Source SDK First Map Tutorial 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 Player Equip Tutorial Speed up compiling Areas that hurt people Walls you can walk through Weather Rain Snow Precipitation

Duck

Google Video

• Hammer basics
• Basic map creation
• Connecting two rooms
• 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
• 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 Vid 1: Your first Map: Part 1
• Tutorial Vid 1: 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

See Also

• Category:Level Design