Team Fortress 2/Docs/Level Design

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/w/images/8/84/Tf2-16px.png Getting started

• Downloading and Installing the Source SDK
• General level design documentation
• Team Fortress 2 Design Theory
• Basic Map Construction for Team Fortress 2
• Team Fortress 2 Mapper's Reference

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/w/images/8/84/Tf2-16px.png Constructing Elements

Basic Elements

• Respawn Areas
• Resupply Areas
• Team-Specific Barriers
• Team-Specific Doors
• Round time

Goal Systems

• Control Points
• Territorial Control
• Flags
• Multiple Round Linear Goal Systems
• Payload Goal System

User Modes

• Cyclic Control Points
• CTF Keep-Away
• Domination
• Making non-standard maps "Rotation Friendly"

Tricks & Effects

• Modifying the Respawn Time
• Modifying the Mission Briefing
• Teleporters
• Creating Respawning Dispensers

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/w/images/8/84/Tf2-16px.png Other TF2 Mapping Information

• List of TF2 Entities
• List of TF2 Skyboxes
• List of TF2 Soundscapes
• List of TF2 Particles
• Making Custom Materials for TF2

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/w/images/8/84/Tf2-16px.png VDC diaries

• Baliame/TF2 Progress
• MrTwo/TF2 Ideas
• Mode6's TF2 Map Hybridization article
• Daeval's Experiments
• MrThompson/TF2 Mapping
• Haydon's Mapping Adventures
• Team NightHawK's TF2 Mapping