Mapping Links

[thesadist]

http://www.snarkpit.net

A website maintained for advertising new maps and offering mapping support and tutorials.

http://www.interlopers.net

Half-Life 2 editing and mapping.

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SDK_Docs

Official valve source sdk manual. Extensive explanation of how to use all entities and tools.

http://www.editlife.net/

A good website with some more specific tutorials, has come in useful for me.

http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/valve_...tor/map_making/

Another useful link.

[eXs| DanielAndres]

HL2 Map Editing & Optimization Page

Some good Info about Map optimisation.

Halfwit-2: HL2 Bits and Pieces

A lot of Mapping Tutorials, Workshops and Resource Links.

http://www.iwannamap.com/

Selfexplaining Domainname.

[gtamike]

I found this very useful when I started to map.

Hammer videos

[Disgorge]

http://www.philipk.net/ - Good level designer / texture artist. So some nice textures on here.

http://www.johnsto.co.uk/

'the making of ' articles on this website have some very nice tips and hints for beginners.

[Knife_TSGK]

This is heaven

[Disgorge]

no, http://www.lunaran.com/ that is heaven i hope he puts up his tutorial section soon again, but he always has interesting reviews of his own maps etc. good to read, i've learnt alot.

[eXs| DanielAndres]

Wanted to create a new Topic called "Textures Sources" for this but i couldnt create a new one. Im sure Sadist will move this here if needed.

Here you can find some nice Textures with preview. The Material Descriptions are German but this shouldnt be a Problem tough, because there are fullsize Previews and the Filenames byself are english again mostly.

There are some nice Materials for Metal & Stone looking Textures like the Copper below.
Just right-click on them and make them a TGA to create HL2 textures out of it.

http://www.noctua-graphics.de/deutsch/freetex_d.htm





Edit: Moved to 'Textures Links', this post will be removed soon.

[Disgorge]

A good talented level designer, he has some interesting stuff o his website to read if you manage to figure out how to navigate on it. www.button-masher.net

[-=CVRL=- Carioca]

http://www.the-kwl.de/Carioca

my site, there you will find in the download section a big texture pack with over 200 MB of textures only. But only for non-commercial use. Any questions -> let me know...

otherwise good is:

http://www.thewall.de and http://www.mapping-tutorials.de/forum/index.php

but both german sites.

[thesadist]

Hey, thanks for the links, and nice site, good to see the man behind the magic

[-=CVRL=- Carioca]

thx for kind words Sadist, but there isn`t so much magic ^^.

btw, we added you in Bloodsuckers Forum links. Hope its ok..

http://bloodsuckers.de/links.php?t=sub_pages&cat=12

[thesadist]

Thanks Carioca, Ill return the favour and put bloodsuckers forum link on the main forum page.

[gtamike]

This is the video I saw first that got me starting to map.
http://halflife2.filefront.com/file/Hammer..._Tutorial;32907

[eXs| DanielAndres]

Official Left 4 Dead SDK Documentation released

Valve has made the official Left 4 Dead Tutorials available to the public in a wonderful user friendly document.

Info: http://list.valvesoftware.com/pipermail/l4...ary/000000.html

Download: http://www.l4d.com/LevelDesignDocs.zip