Map making tips

Has anyone got any tips for Hammer/Sledge for a person making their first map? I know there are a few YouTube tutorials but is there anything that isn't obvious which might help?

Thanks

Use CTRL + E to center the view to whatever you have selected

I'd also like to know as well, since I'm doing it a bit from scratch and I'm trying to make a very nice map myself too.

can anyone help me with the skybox? i tryed to add it but it wont let me run my map. else if its "running" i cant see anything (no skybox, no grass which i placed or anything else)

learn how to make everything
- doors ladders respawnable windows etc
then make more complex maps, dont make a huge project for ur first map
it will be bad and ull want to scrap it as u learn that everything u made
could be done better and more efficiently

Try and keep off of the square design most maps look like. Try and if you can go for quality over quantity,

Valve Hammer Editor, I create - I edit the maps only there, it's convenient, simple and cozy!

I used this playliost when I was learning hammer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF3er5ls...CqYx6sKaXk

You can create displacement in material section and can configure that for yourself, like make big radius, distance

16-10-2017, 08:52 PM

Scout Wrote: You can create displacement in material section and can configure that for yourself, like make big radius, distance

Did you purposely cut off your sentence after distance? Or am I just reading it wrong?