ET map tutorials

(bsimser) #1

Okay, so sue me. The level designers guide is an excellent resource (thanks SD!) but I’m looking for a hand holding tutorial for ET maps. In other words, a hello world ET style. Something I’d like to see would be:

  1. The bare minimum to get an ET map up and running. Step 1, step 2, etc. minimum entities needed, etc.
  2. Individual steps on creating a command post, a constructable, etc.
  3. Single tutorial on making an objective trigger something like the end of the game

Like I said, I know the level designers guide is great but it’s a reference. I’m not looking for a how-to-build-a-level tutorial in Gtk but a more ET geared one that talks about how to do ET stuff.

Something in between a general map building tutorial and the designers guide. Anyone planning to do this or know of somewhere hosting this kind of thing? TIA

(D3C0Y) #2

i think the tutorials will pop outta the floor like it did with rtcw

(sock) #3

This is something which will come from the community and if I hear of any I will post them on this forum. It was decided to create a reference manual so people get the maximum amount of information. I know its not newbie mapping friendly reference manual but there will be plenty of people who will be filling this void.

Sock
Feel the :moo:

(bsimser) #4

Thanks sock. I saw Hummer posted a hello world style tutorial already. I was going to put something together as I had figured out the basics. Now we just need some of the specific types of things you can do in ET done as walkthroughs, making reference to the reference guide. I’m sure they’ll popup as time goes on. I think the initial “I CANT GET MY MAP WORKING” threads are begining to die down as everyone builds the “big room” levels and moves on.

(Drakir) #5

I have written down a small tut on how to get your map working, also provided a test.map download so that you can look inside the map.

Get the tut at my mapping place: http://www.drakir.tk