Mapping Sites

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January 2024

This is a list of sites about mapping, including tutorials, articles, communities, etc. Creative toolset to becoming a game level designer and 3d environment artist.

• Mapeadores - Mapping community.
• Balticforever - Mapping and modeling community.
• Facepunch - Forums with a huge Source Engine Mapping Section.
• Gamebanana > Tutorials - Tutorials related to a variety of Source Games.
• Halfwit-2 - Another collection of Mapping tutorials.

Note:Half-Wit-2 is no longer up. However archives do exist

• Interlopers - Half-Life 2 News & Tutorials.
• L4Dmaps - Mapping forums and resource site for the L4D series.
• Lambdageneration - Articles & Tutorials about Source Engine modding & level design.
• Mapcore - International game development community with many users working in the game industry.
• Mappingbase German mapping community with more than 300 tutorials for the Source Engine.
• mIKe's ReVeNGe - HL2DM Community with an Excellent set of Tutorials!
• Modding-Area - Tutorials on Mapping, Beginner to Advanced, all in French!
• TF2Maps.net - Mapping forums and resource site for TF2.
• The RaZZeR App - German tutorials on Source engine development.
• The Snarkpit - Mapping and modeling community site.
• The Wall - German mapping community for Goldsource and Source.
• Portal Mapping and Modding - Mainly Portal and Portal 2 Source Engine mapping and modding Discord server.
• ThinkingWithPortals - Portal 2 mapping community and public download database.
• The Whole Half-Life - Mapping community and tutorial site with busy forums for Goldsource and Source mappers.
• UberMicro - Mapping forums for all Valve games. Help with Valve's Hammer Editor.
• World of Level Design - Website dedicated to mapping tutorials, 3d environment modeling, level design articles.
• PROJECT-S (УРОКИ)