Your First Map

A step-by-step guide to making your first map using the Source SDK.

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

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

Tutorials on other sites

• Tutorials on Getting Started at Interlopers.net
• Introduction to Hammer