Mapping Resources

BlackPantherBlackPanther Join Date: 2002-02-11 Member: 197Members
edited October 2003 in Mapping Help and Troubleshooting
<div class="IPBDescription">You've got questions, we've got tuts!</div> <span style='color:red'><b><span style='font-size:19pt;line-height:100%'>Put your links to newbie mapping resources here!</span></b></span>

<a href='http://collective.valve-erc.com/' target='_blank'>The collective</a>
From newbie to very advanced tutorials, and not just on mapping

<a href='http://www.karljones.com/halflife/almanac.asp' target='_blank'>HANDY VANDAL'S HALF-LIFE ALMANAC</a>
One of the oldest and most trusted sources for Half-Life info.
Plus MANY exterior links.

<a href='http://www.slackiller.com/tommy14/faq.htm' target='_blank'>General mapping FAQ</a>
Tommy of Escondido's Mapping help Tutorials for Half-Life & Mods:Mapping terms definitions FAQ

<a href='http://countermap.counter-strike.net/' target='_blank'>Counter-Map</a>
CS mapping site, but also has many tuts that are non-CS specific and can be applied to NS.

Post yours.
I'll keep the first post updated.
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  • KalopsiaKalopsia Join Date: 2003-05-15 Member: 16331Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    <a href='http://collective.valve-erc.com/index.php?doc=1039631978-44855700' target='_blank'>Valve Hammer Editor</a>
    Yes this is the program to make maps for half life and it's mods.
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  • WitherWither A Bugged Life Join Date: 2002-12-24 Member: 11513Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, Constellation
    edited October 2003
    And of course:

    <a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=4&t=100' target='_blank'>The NS mapping FAQ</a>
    (Note, this includes the NS specific entity list, lots of mapping goodies and the latest HLTV sdk)

    <a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=4&t=31288' target='_blank'>Custom NS textures</a>

    And for the "bit" more experienced mappers:

    <a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=4&t=21248' target='_blank'>XP-Cagey's thread on reducing maxplanes.</a>

    Good luck!
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  • KageKage Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2016Members
    <a href='http://ns.valve-erc.com' target='_blank'>Selective Design</a>

    Of course it hasn't been up for a while...
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  • watch_me_diewatch_me_die Join Date: 2002-11-10 Member: 8107Members
    <a href='http://www.natural-selection.co.nz/mapping' target='_blank'>http://www.natural-selection.co.nz/mapping</a>

    Aimed towards beginner mappers... I haven't been able to update it in a while because the webmaster seems to have disappeared <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • DroggogDroggog Random Pubber Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3293Members, Constellation
    Detailled NS-specific mapping information:
    <a href='http://nsworld.ns-central.co.uk/mappingguide/MappingGuide.php' target='_blank'>NS World mapping guide</a>

    Don't like Valve Hammer editor ? Try QuArK:
    <a href='http://www.planetquake.com/quark/' target='_blank'>QuArK homepage</a>
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  • ConfusedConfused Wait. What? Join Date: 2003-01-28 Member: 12904Members, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Subnautica Playtester
    <a href='http://www.vlatitude.com/' target='_blank'>http://www.vlatitude.com/</a>

    nearly anything odd or not can be found here also has a great links section
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  • ANeMANeM Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16267Members, Constellation
    Not as complex, but quite helpful for those people who are just slightly intimidated by Hammer.. (I know I was.. and still am.. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> )
    <a href='http://articles.thewavelength.net/' target='_blank'>The Wave Length</a>
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  • SpoogeSpooge Thunderbolt missile in your cheerios Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 67Members
    <a href='http://www.planethalflife.com/schrade/theproject/tutorials/1/setup.htm' target='_blank'>The Project</a> An excellent, easy to follow startup guide for VHE.

    This tutorial walks you through:

    VHE setup
    Creating Brushes (walls)
    Applying textures (including special textures like water and transparents)
    Lights
    and Compiling (though I suggest compiling outside of VHE)
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  • amckernamckern Join Date: 2003-03-03 Member: 14249Members, Constellation
    Here a few that i think can help

    <a href='http://www.geocities.com/adam_tebbutt_mckern/ns.html' target='_blank'>Mapping book for n00bs</a>
    (Has some wrong info, such as target_mp3, "The place where T's plant the bomb")

    <a href='http://www.slackiller.com/tommy14/errors.htm' target='_blank'>Tommy 14</a>
    (Complie errors, and helpful fixes)

    <a href='http://hl2hosting.com' target='_blank'>hl2hosting.com</a>
    (Free web site hosting, better the geocities, or 50megs)

    amckern
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  • enf0rcerenf0rcer intrigued... Join Date: 2003-03-16 Member: 14584Members
    any video tuts? I'm doing fine offa the text ones but they're deadly boring and im a visual learner. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • amckernamckern Join Date: 2003-03-03 Member: 14249Members, Constellation
    vid tuts here

    <a href='http://www.radioactivelego.com/' target='_blank'>http://www.radioactivelego.com/</a>

    amckern
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  • ANeMANeM Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16267Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--amckern+Oct 6 2003, 05:44 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (amckern @ Oct 6 2003, 05:44 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> vid tuts here

    <a href='http://www.radioactivelego.com/' target='_blank'>http://www.radioactivelego.com/</a>

    amckern <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Thats not videos.. Hell, thats not even a site.. its just a large, blindingly bright picture of a radioaction sign with a lego in the middle.. and a random string of numbers and a nubbish hotmail address... <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • DarkATiDarkATi Revelation 22:17 Join Date: 2003-06-20 Member: 17532Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    Textures can be found here, I know Relic25 himself submits some .wads, so NS-ish .wads outside of the official ones do exist! ^_^ Also the "evil" texture packs were created by a guy working on Splinter Cell and they look awesome, perhaps some more originality will be sparked here, as of now newb maps almost always look like NinjaFall or Eclipse. Blah.

    (Don't know if this is a "newbie" mapping resource but someone already posted 69th Vlatitude, which is like the best tut site everz0rxz!)

    Yes... I'm sugar buzzing. w00t!

    <a href='http://www.planethalflife.com/wadfather/' target='_blank'>The WadFather</a>

    ~ DarkATi
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  • amckernamckern Join Date: 2003-03-03 Member: 14249Members, Constellation
    it was a site

    what happened?

    amckern
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  • BlackPantherBlackPanther Join Date: 2002-02-11 Member: 197Members
    This thread should be pinned or keeped up top.
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  • UncledadUncledad Join Date: 2003-10-19 Member: 21781Members
    does any one know if QUARK can be used with NS, the program is soooo much easyer to use than Valve

    link to quark -- <a href='http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~quark/' target='_blank'>http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~quark/</a>
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  • amckernamckern Join Date: 2003-03-03 Member: 14249Members, Constellation
    yes u can use quark with ns (check sticky on main mapping forum page)

    amckern
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  • UncledadUncledad Join Date: 2003-10-19 Member: 21781Members
    obviously been a mapping tard i cant find teh link, can u give me a hand
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  • UncledadUncledad Join Date: 2003-10-19 Member: 21781Members
    obviously been a mapping tard i cant find teh link, can u give me a hand
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  • amckernamckern Join Date: 2003-03-03 Member: 14249Members, Constellation
    uh, is my memory old, or what?

    2 bad links in the 1 thread

    Well the quark sticky must have been removed in the great unstuck saga just before 2.0

    Search for it, prob use key work quark

    amckern
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  • UncledadUncledad Join Date: 2003-10-19 Member: 21781Members
    thx allot
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  • BlackPantherBlackPanther Join Date: 2002-02-11 Member: 197Members
    Bumped to top.
    plz contribute.
    I'm gonna add a few more links to the top post asap.
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