How To Create Map In Left 4 Dead

Getting Started

• Downloading and Installing the Left 4 Dead 2 Authoring Tools

• L4D Level Design Basics Tutorial
• L4D2 Level Design Basics Tutorial

• Level Optimization
• Your First Map (General Hammer Tutorial)
• General Level Design documentation
• Common Mapping Problems
• L4D Mapping Notes

Design Theory

• The Left 4 Dictionary
• Left 4 Dead Design Theory

Tutorials and Constructing Elements

• Ladders | Infected-only Ladders
• Checkpoints and Safe Rooms
• Elevators | Elevators and Nav Mesh
• Panic Events
• Breakable Walls | Visible Cue for Breakable Walls
• Finales

Standard Finale | Gauntlet Finale | Scavenge Finale | Custom Finale | Sacrifice Finale

• Rescue Closets
• Cinematic Effects

Post Processing (Film Grain, Vignette, Local Contrast) | Color Correction

• Legacy Assets
• VMF Instances
• Weapon, Item, and Melee spawns | Mounted Minigun | Mounted Machinegun
• Director Queries
• Wandering Witch | Witch Bride
• Instructor Hints
• Tank & Witch Prohibition
• Hard Rain Storm
• Foot Lockers
• Choreographed Scenes
• L4D1 Survivor Bots | L4D1 Survivor Players (survivor_set - Missionfile) | Forcing Survivor Positions
• Scripting (vscripts)| Example vscripts

Entity Manipulation | Custom Panic Events | Custom Finales | Scavenge Finale | Director Scripts | Onslaughts | Official vscripts | Scripting API

• Extended Mutation System
• Revisitable maps, as seen in Hard Rain.

Gamemodes

• Versus
• Survival
• Scavenge
• Mutations
• Multi-Gamemode Support

Custom Assets

• Custom Materials and Textures | Wall Writings and Graffiti | Water Flow
• Custom Models and Animation

Breakable Props | Cinematic Physics | Weapons (Via addoninfo) | Melee Weapons | Intro/Outro Camera

• Custom Sound and Music

Soundscripts | Soundscapes

• Custom Particle Effects | Editing Particle Effects
• Detail Props
• Management and Organization

Shipping

• Creating Add-ons (.VPK Files)
  • addoninfo.txt | Example addoninfo.txt (Deadline 1 & 2)
  • Add-on Art Assets

addonimage.jpg | Campaign Poster | Map Thumbnail Previews | Outtro Background

• Mission File

Official Map Mission Files | Example Mission Files (Deadline 1 & 2)

• Packing (into a VPK)
• Compressing

• Uploading / Distributing
• Add-on Notes (L4D2)

Reference Information

• Authoring Tool Changes
• List of L4D2 Campaign Music
• List of L4D2 Cvars
• List of L4D2 Entities
• List of L4D2 Instructor Messages
• List of L4D2 Missions Files
• List of L4D2 Nav Mesh Attributes
• List of L4D2 Particles
• List of L4D2 Script Functions
• List of L4D2 Skyboxes
• List of L4D2 Soundscapes
• Dissection of Official L4D2 Campaigns
• Dimensions in L4D2
• L4D2 Gamemodes File
• Expert Compile Mode

VBSP | VVIS | VRAD

Navigation Meshes

General

• Navigation Meshes
• Navigation Mesh Commands

Left 4 Dead Series

• Basic Nav Editing
  • Generating
  • Selecting
  • Key Binds / Shortcut Keys | nav_mode.cfg
  • Splitting
  • Adding Attributes
  • Deleting
  • Analyzing
  • Ladders | Infected-only Ladders
  • Connecting
  • Drawing Your Own Nav Areas
  • Grid Snapping
  • Nav Blockers
  • Panic Events
  • Rescue Closets
  • Breakable Walls
  • Nav Flow
  • Finale and Escape Vehicle
• Advanced Nav Editing
  • OBSCURED Attribute | L4D Nav Mesh Attributes
  • Displacements
  • Splicing
  • Merging
  • Raising and Lowering Areas
  • Raising and Lowering Corners
  • Nav GUI
  • Fog
  • Trouble Report
  • Left 4 Dead Infected Populations
  • Sorting out navigation flow
• References
  • List of L4D2 Navigation Mesh Attributes

Other Resources

• SketchUp Source Tools
• GCFScape
• VTFEdit
• Creating Server Plugins
• AI Systems of L4D
• Heat Maps
• User projects

Sites

• Official Left 4 Dead 2 Website
• L4D mappers mailing list | Archives (log-in required)
• L4D2 Custom Campaigns/Maps Forums
• Deadline Example Campaign - L4D1 example add-on campaign by Valve
• Deadline 2 Example Campaign - L4D2, a dramatic sequel to Deadline 1
• The Left 4 Dead Wiki - Part of the Valve Wiki Network
• World Of Level Design - Contains several Left 4 Dead 1/2 mapping guides
• Level Design Video Tutorials - Various video tutorials about mapping.

How To Create Map In Left 4 Dead

Source: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Left_4_Dead_2_Level_Creation

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