How do start creating environments!

first step: pick an engine (hammer, UDK, unity, etc)

interlopers.net has a lot of beginner tutorials on Valve related games (it uses Source SDK).

A more pressing question really is what game do you want to make a level for? If you just make some level in Unity you're not going to be able to do a great deal with it except put it in your portfolio. But if you really want to learn you need people to be playing it, that's what differentiates a level from a model — so you need a game to make it for.

Nope. Stop right there. You do not go straight into a full scale project. Doesn't happen, literally leads to failure 99% of the time. Start with something small like a single player map for an established game or a multiplayer map.

I would take a guess that most people on this site started in editors for games like HL, HL2, Max Payne, Doom, etc. Making either multiplayer maps or short scripted levels.

What Vilham said. Walk before you can run. If you start running from the start you will fall over, injure yourself. In the end you will get where you want to go faster by walking first, mastering it, and then jogging, mastering it, and then running.

If you want to make levels for any Valve game (Left 4 Dead, Counter Strike, Team Fortress 2, Half Life 2, Day of Defeat, Portal, Alien Swarm) you'll use Hammer. Depending on the game, Hammer is accessed through the tools tab on Steam, or by running an exe from the game's folder.

There are other editors for other games (GtkRadiant for older Quake-based games and Call of Duty, UDK for Unreal Tournament, Red Orchestra, and countless others, the Cryengine SDK) but making something simple for Half Life 2 in Source is probably the best place to start.

start with doing a room in udk or source

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in know the basics of udk and i have created a room in udk....i have viewed ,many tuts and those tuts really makes some sense , i know to material, grid snapping, units measuring, using brushes , using skeleton meshes , using and creating static geometery , and pathnodes pre built assesments etc i have used them to make a small room with low detail and that worked i keep playing that all the day........that make me happy ...............!

the problem with me is i want to create a level just a level like fooliage example in udk-2013-may ........... i want to know how can i start creating that from scratch.....!

Well, look no further: http://eat3d.com/udk

dude, lets be honest, 99% of the time someone out there had that exact problem like you, there are louds of great forums (like this, polycount, gameartist ect) GOOGLE the shit out of the internet man !

Indeed. First port of call for unreal would be:

http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/WebHome.html

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in know the basics of udk and i have created a room in udk....i have viewed ,many tuts and those tuts really makes some sense , i know to material, grid snapping, units measuring, using brushes , using skeleton meshes , using and creating static geometery , and pathnodes pre built assesments etc i have used them to make a small room with low detail and that worked i keep playing that all the day........that make me happy ...............!

the problem with me is i want to create a level just a level like fooliage example in udk-2013-may ........... i want to know how can i start creating that from scratch.....!

Well, look no further: http://eat3d.com/udk

lol look at that blorange man.