von*ferret 9 Report post Posted December 13, 2005 Collection of Help Sites for Level Design themed Files If you wish to add to this, simply reply and I'll add your link in its appropriate category. Thanks to everyone who contributes! General Level Design Articles & Best Practices Common Sense vs Level Design: http://www.johnsto.co.uk/design/common-sense/ Ten principles of good level design: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DanTaylor/20130929/196791/Ten_Principles_of_Good_Level_Design_Part_1.php Starting a new level: http://designreboot.blogspot.de/2010/02/level-design-primer-starting-new-level.html The visual guide to multiplayer level design - http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/BobbyRoss/20140720/221342/The_Visual_Guide_to_Multiplayer_Level_Design.php Multiplayer 101 Level Design - http://www.slothy.com/composite/MP_101.doc Lunaran's Deathmatch Encyclopedia - http://lunaran.com/page.php?id=9 Designing FPS Multiplayer Maps - http://www.ongamedesign.net/designing-fps-multiplayer-maps-part-1/ Deathmatch Map Design: The architecture of flow - http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/195069/deathmatch_map_design_the_.php Deconstructing "Favela" (COD:MW2) - http://blogs.wefrag.com/channie/2010/02/28/deconstructing-favela-part-i/ Designing better levels through human instinct: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6411/designing_better_levels_through_.php Composition in Level Design - http://gamasutra.com/blogs/MateuszPiaskiewicz/20140817/223513/Composition_in_Level_Design.php Level-Design.org Knowledge Base - http://level-design.org/?page_id=2468 Push & Pull: The art of guiding players through an environment - http://www.clement-melendez.com/portfolio/articles/push-pull/introduction/ Ben’s Small Bible of Realistic Multiplayer Level Design - http://www.benb-design.net/Articles/benb_article02.pdf GDC GDC 2010 Level Design Notes - http://worldofleveldesign.com/gdc-2010-level-design-part1-sylvain-douce.php GDC talk on Level-Design Pre-Production: http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1012660/Level-Design-in-a-Day Iterative Level-Design at Bethesda: http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020171/Level-Design-in-a-Day Source SDK Communities HALFLIFE2.NET - http://www.halflife2.net/ Interlopers.net - http://interlopers.net/ Wavelength - http://forums.thewavelength.net/ Slackiller - http://www.slackiller.com/ HLGamer.com - http://www.hlgamer.com/ Half-Life 2 Files - http://halflife2.filefront.com/ Modding Valve Developer Community - https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Main_Page Modding Resources - http://forums.filefr...ad.php?t=173279 Mod Making Tutorials - http://tutorials.mod... ... =61&diff=0 Mod Making Tutorials - http://tutorials.mod... ... a-single-/ Team Fortress 2 http://forums.tf2maps.net/showthread.php?t=4674 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive http://www.worldofleveldesign.com/categories/cat_csgo.php Tutorials Mod Making Tutorials fogs - http://tutorials.moddb.com/70/?fpage=0 A (rare) French tutorial on a lot of things: http://nyko18.free.f...misation#II_3_B Halfwit2:http://halfwit-2.com/?page=tutorials&action=view&item=44 Custom Sky Box Creation: https://www.mapcore.org/topic/19547-tutorial-make-your-own-skybox-for-csgo/ Props Creating a simple model for HL2 with StudioCompiler - http://www.chaosinca... ... r_help.php Tools Cannonfodder's Half-Life 2 Tools - http://www.chaosinca...der/cftools.htm Wall Worm's Tools - http://wallworm.com/ Compile Pal - http://a.pomf.se/ephara.mp4 / https://github.com/ruarai/CompilePal Materialize - Free Texture Map Generating Tool - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtnJToPxBNo Unreal Engine 2 Unreal Developer Network - http://udn.epicgames.com/Main/WebHome <- Unreal Wikipedia - http://wiki.beyondunreal.com/wiki/ Unreal Forum - http://forums.beyondunreal.com/forumdisplay.php?f=13 Unreal Engine 3 http://help.hourence...orialsindex.htm http://www.roboblitz... ... l:Allpages http://www.avld.org/...s/tuts/tuts.htm http://www.chrisalbeluhn.com/3D_Tutorials.html More UE3 related links here: http://itu.dk/people/peder/ Quake 4 http://www.iddevnet.com/quake4/ Cryengine 2 Crytek's official developer portal - http://www.crymod.com Literature The How's and Why's of Level Design: http://www.hourences.com/product/the-hows-and-whys-of-level-design-2/ Level Design for Games: Creating Compelling Game Experiences: http://www.amazon.com/Level-Design-Games-Compelling-Experiences/dp/0321375971/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273437833&sr=1-1 Game Level Design: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1584503696?ie=UTF8&tag=wold-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1584503696 Other Useful Resources Free sounds and sound effects for everyone: http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/ Many useful links regarding level design (among other topics) can be viewed here as well: http://csyvertsen.net/?page_id=242 Great Mapcore Topics Updated by FrieChamp on August 14th, 2014Updated by 'RZL on June 10th, 2018 8 Bøttn, ChA1NsAw, Nexusdog and 5 others reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
von*ferret 9 Report post Posted April 4, 2006 Bumping this, IF YOU FIND ANYTHING PLEASE POST SO THAT WE CAN HELP THE COMMUNITY. I dont care which engine you find ANYTHING, but anything and everything is helpful as long as its of some quality! 1 Bøttn reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Furyo 360 Report post Posted April 4, 2006 Killing Grounds has closed (AKG) and now redirects to the Valve wiki. I'll post my Source links tonight when I'm home. 1 Bøttn reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Minos 5,432 Report post Posted April 4, 2006 Nice stuff. I think this might be useful too: http://www.mapcore.net/forums/viewtopic ... 34&start=0 1 Bøttn reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
insta 88 Report post Posted April 4, 2006 Here's a mirror for AKG : http://www.gmodcentral.com/mirror/akg/index.htm 1 Bøttn reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Furyo 360 Report post Posted April 4, 2006 I'm sure most of you on the Source engine know these sites already, this is for the newcomers: Snarkpit: http://www.snarkpit.net/ A (rare) French tutorial on a lot of things: http://nyko18.free.fr/Hammer/?p=optimisation#II_3_B Free sounds and sound effects for everyone: http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/ Halfwit2:http://halfwit-2.com/?page=tutorials&action=view&item=44 Obviously the Valve wiki should be listed as well: http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Main_Page Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
┌HP┘ 9,753 Report post Posted July 24, 2006 Here's my 50cent! =) Yet another great bump han? Source engine resources Communities HALFLIFE2.NET - http://www.halflife2.net/ Half-Life 2 Online Source - http://www.hl2source.com/ Cannonfodder's Half-Life 2 Tools - http://www.chaosincarnate.net/cannonfodder/cftools.htm Edit Life - http://www.editlife.net/ Slackiller - http://www.slackiller.com/ HLGamer.com - http://www.hlgamer.com/ Half-Life 2 Files - http://halflife2.filefront.com/ Interlopers.net - http://interlopers.net/ Mod HQ - http://www.mod-hq.com/ Half-Life 2 Mods - http://www.hl2mods.co.uk/ HL2Mapping.com - http://www.hl2mapping.com/ Iwannamap.com - http://iwannamap.com/ Forums Wavelength - http://forums.thewavelength.net/ Hammer AMMAHLS - http://ammahls.com/index.php?page=downloadcat&cat=tools Category:MappingTutorials | HalfLife 2 Knowledge Base - http://www.hl2world.com/wiki/index.php/ ... gTutorials Gamewag - http://www.gamewag.com/hl2.html Modding Source Blog - http://www.sourceblog.net/ VERC - http://collective.valve-erc.com/ Valve Developer Community - http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Main_Page Tutorials ..:::MNeMiC Tutorials:::.. [V4.0] - http://www.mnemic.tk/ Modding Resources - http://forums.filefront.com/showthread.php?t=173279 Mod Making Tutorials - http://tutorials.moddb.com/?search=true ... =61&diff=0 VMT - http://0mfg.co.uk/hl2_mod.html 69th Vlatitude - http://www.vlatitude.com/tutorials.php Mod Making Tutorials - http://tutorials.moddb.com/106/Complete ... a-single-/ Mod Making Tutorials fogs - http://tutorials.moddb.com/70/?fpage=0 Gamewag - http://www.gamewag.com/hl2.html The SnarkPit - http://www.snarkpit.net/editing.php?pag ... s&game=HL2 HL2World Knowledge Base - http://www.hl2world.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Edit Life - http://www.editlife.net/tutorial.php Interlopers.net - http://www.interlopers.net/index.php?page=tutorials.htm Props Creating a simple model for HL2 with StudioCompiler - http://www.chaosincarnate.net/cannonfod ... r_help.php Static Models - http://www.hl2world.com/wiki/index.php/Static_Models Textuting Hammer Face Edit Dialog - http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki ... ture_Group Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hourences 164 Report post Posted February 7, 2007 Unreal Engine 3 tutorials: http://help.hourences.com/tutorialsindex.htm http://www.roboblitz.com/RoboBlitzEdito ... l:Allpages http://www.avld.org/pages/tuts/tuts.htm Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FMPONE 5,979 Report post Posted February 7, 2007 Source Panorama technology tutorial: http://blog.johnsto.co.uk/?action=view&id=57. other random wisdom from DaveJ: http://blog.johnsto.co.uk/ the best map directory on the web as far as I'm concerned (perhaps this could go under PR category or something): http://lanmaniax.com/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rick_D 696 Report post Posted November 4, 2007 i've decided to pick up unreal engine, all the links here are dead (i don't want to learn unreal3 just yet) - can anyone recommend some good tutorials on just using the engine - also getting static meshes from maya (preferably 8.5) into the editor/engine? big thanks in advance Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hourences 164 Report post Posted November 4, 2007 http://architectonic.planetunreal.games ... level.html http://www.3dbuzz.com http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/JBrzezinski ... rkflow.htm http://udn.epicgames.com/Two/StaticMeshes.html http://udn.epicgames.com/Two/ActorX.html There is no reason not to learn UE3, knowing UE2 is pretty much entirely useless right now. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
┌HP┘ 9,753 Report post Posted November 4, 2007 There is no reason not to learn UE3, knowing UE2 is pretty much entirely useless right now. Yeah, I guess so... If anyone knows any useful links regarding UT3 editing, post away please. I know the game isn't out yet, but RoboBlitz has been released ages ago, I bet there's already some tut's and articles around the internets. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hourences 164 Report post Posted November 4, 2007 Unreal Engine 3 tutorials: http://help.hourences.com/tutorialsindex.htm http://www.roboblitz.com/RoboBlitzEdito ... l:Allpages http://www.avld.org/pages/tuts/tuts.htm ? Theres not much more than that, or at least not any large sites. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
┌HP┘ 9,753 Report post Posted November 4, 2007 ok, I guess we'll have to wait... In a few weeks, we're gonna put our hands on the official Epic tutorials that come with the collectors edition, so... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Buddy 815 Report post Posted November 4, 2007 ":3quxqsuv]ok, I guess we'll have to wait... In a few weeks, we're gonna put our hands on the official Epic tutorials that come with the collectors edition, so... Collectors edition of what? gears? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites