Official L4D Mapping Tutorials

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Official L4D Mapping Tutorials

cold_blood3d 27 Feb 2009 17:21

Valve has released the official L4D mapping tutorials.

http://www.l4d.com/LevelDesignDocs.zip
Download and extract the .zip, then open index.html

This contains a ton of helpful info and tutorials for:

• Getting Started
• Your First L4D Level
• Ladders
• Visibility
• Nav Meshes
• Checkpoints
• Checkpoint Rooms
• Outdoor Levels
• Level Organization
• Level Standards
• Clip Brushes
• Elevators
• Panic Events
• Breakable Walls
• Finale Events Part 1
• Finale Events Part 2
• Finale Events Part 3
• Additional Finale Components
• Nav Flow
• Advanced Nav Editing
• Versus Maps

Note that some of these tutorials depend on the SDK, which isn't out yet.

source: list.valvesoftware.com/pipermail/l4dmapper

Thanks to arramus for posting this up in the Forum!

Last edited on 03 Mar 2009 02:32 by cold_blood3d Show more

Re: Official L4D Mapping Tutorials

TorakGod 27 Feb 2009 19:35

WHOMG, this must mean the SDK will be out very soon! Happyhappyhappy

Re: Official L4D Mapping Tutorials

Taurous 28 Feb 2009 23:39

I don't know what might be doing this but when I try to open the tutorials in Internet Explorer none of the pictures load and right clicking on them and pressing show picture does nothing. It also says Error in the bottom right of the page

Re: Official L4D Mapping Tutorials

Taurous 01 Mar 2009 19:31

Fixed

Re: Official L4D Mapping Tutorials

cold_blood3d 01 Mar 2009 20:07

that's a strange problem, what was wrong?

Re: Official L4D Mapping Tutorials

Taurous 03 Mar 2009 01:58

Turned out I had clicked save instead of open when I downloaded it so all I had to do was hit extract and put it some where and It worked

Re: Official L4D Mapping Tutorials

mikeumus 01 Mar 2009 14:36

8o

This is freakin sweet!

Thanks for telling us cold_blood. I plan to get involved/participate with a few map productions going on and this will be a good jump start for me(I have mapped with the Hammer Editor before, but not for L4D specifically).

Cya Around!,
~Mikeumus

Re: Official L4D Mapping Tutorials

iwirthless 02 Mar 2009 15:45

This is beautiful, but I am having the same problem that Taurous was having, but with Google Chrome.

I have not tried with IE yet, but is it compatible with all the browsers?? Or is it just IE right now.

Great work though! This will help me so much =D!

Re: Official L4D Mapping Tutorials

iwirthless 02 Mar 2009 16:26

NEVER MIND!!!

Just started to work on Chrome, thanks!

Re: Official L4D Mapping Tutorials

Kenny2005 (guest) 06 Jul 2009 12:08

Can someone please reupp that .zip-File? it's a dead link…Thanks ;)

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