Your Map Making Process

[Stewie930]

Hey, i'm new to mapmaking. So far i've been goofing around with hammer, and i've made a few newb maps. I'm afraid that I may be making my maps the "wrong" way however. I'm wondering what process you guys use to make a map.

I'm not talking about the pre-planning stages, but when you load up Hammer and begin making rooms and buildings.


For example, when you make a building, do you make each room individually? And then draw each floor individually for that room?

So far, when I make a building I make the outside walls, and a floor for the entire interior. But i've found that when I begin applying textures I have to cut up the wall alot, otherwise it is applied to the entire building instead of a a particular room.


I appreciate any help.

 

[eiric]

Becides the pre-planning (which is a must, you can't just create a map without some sort of planning). Then I just create some large part first, like the streets so the textures of the wall will fit without moving them. Then I build the houses around or whatever. I try to make the key locations first and later connect them to eachother, making sure I apply correct connectivity and such.

 

[Meyer]

I was kinda wondering the same thanks for that... I haven't really started making any maps really... just trying to make some seperate buildings to see what I can do...

This brings up a question for me btw... If you see this screenshot... the house in the middle right corner...
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it has those round 'tower' like things attached... how do you apply textures to it? I mean so it gets to look like it does in the picture.

 

[StardogChampion]

I think the curved part of the houses are models (props), so they would've been textured in XSI then imported into the editor.