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 Brush Entities
7. Adding Point 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
• Level Design Video Tutorials
• L4D Level Design Basics Tutorial
• Tutorials on Getting Started at Interlopers.net
• Introduction to Hammer at EditLife.net