Your First Map

A step-by-step guide to making your first map for Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, using the Source SDK.

1. Getting Started
2. View Navigation
3. Basic Construction
4. Creating a Room
5. Applying Textures
6. Creating Primitives
7. Adding Entities
8. Adding Light
9. Adding Prop Models
10. Saving and Compiling

Once complete, users may wish to look at the Level Design Category from more advanced articles.

Other Tutorials

• Introduction to Editing
• L4D Level Design Basics Tutorial
• Level Design Video Tutorials
• Tutorials on Getting Started at Interlopers.net
• Introduction to Hammer at EditLife.net
• Introduction to Hammer and Your first room in depth. On Vadear.com