Category:Pt/Level Design

Getting Started

• Building your first map in Hammer
• Introduction to Editing
• Optimization
• Entity Inputs and Outputs

Half-Life 2

• Single-Player Mapping Tips

Team Fortress 2

• Team Fortress 2 Level Creation

Portal

• Portal Level Creation

Left 4 Dead

• Left 4 Dead Level Creation

Counter-Strike: Source

• Counter-Strike: Source Level Creation
• How to Develop a Map That Works

Day of Defeat: Source

• Day of Defeat: Source Level Creation

The Ship

• The Ship SDK
• The Ship Level Creation

Intermediate Topics

• 3D Skyboxes
• Level Overviews
• Cubemaps
• Displacement Surfaces (Terrain)
• Entity Hierarchy (parenting)
• Grouping and VisGrouping
• HDR Lighting Basics
• Releasing a Map
• Nodegraph construction
• Dynamic assaults
• Physics Entity Overview
• Creating and Using Prefabs
• Prop Types Overview
• Source Mapping for Half-Life 1 Mappers
• Intermediate Lighting

Half-Life 2

• Regions & Atmospheres

Advanced Techniques

• Color correction
• Expert compile mode
• Bspzip (Embedding Custom Content)
• Menu Background Maps
• Filter Applications

Counter-Strike: Source

• Navigation Meshes

Hammer Editor

• Hammer Editor Documentation
• What's New
• Hotkey Reference
• Hammer Feature Requests

Abstract Mapping

Objects

• List of entities
• Prop Gallery
• Items (weapons, pickups)
• NPCs (monsters, allies, characters)

Troubleshooting

• Level Design FAQ
• Optimization (level design)
• Troubleshooting Level Design
• Using the Showbudget Panel
• Compile Errors
• Source SDK FAQ

Design Theory

• Single-Player Mapping Tips
• Bounce (level design)
• Loops (level design)
• Push Gameplay
• Map Compiling Theory
• How to Develop a Map That Works
• Adding More Detail to a map
• Mapping Process

External Links

• Level Design Video Tutorials - A list of video tutorials related to Source mapping.
• File Hosting Sites - A list of reliable websites for hosting user created maps
• News Site List - A list of websites for hype/advertisement and discussion