My design theory walkthough
Source engine map making:
A walk through of how I start a map all the way till its a playable version. For this im going to make a small 1 scene/area map focusing on visuals and at the end of this i will post the playable version aswell to download (Will require Half life 2: Epsiode 2)
1) First of all, Im the type of person who randomly gets ideas while doing anything basicly. What i then do is type down ideas to go along with this, An example of this image below.
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2) After i have a few ideas dotted down, I go hunting for reference materiel As for this i went on goggle and found images of forest paths and water falls ETC. Anything that i can look at while mapping to give me ideas and base some parts on. Below are some examples of what i found:
http://www.artrenewal.org/artwork/736/736/4526/the_forest_path-large.jpg
http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_456/1259265349BSpbjl.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-t7XHcWw3QwE/TfritqP8EeI/AAAAAAAAANs/g0vOH3uj-mQ/s1600/forest.jpg
http://www.discoverglencoe.com/images/go_images/inchree_1.jpg
http://www.visitcumbria.com/julian/spout-force-f25p16.jpg
3) I then hope into Source SDK and begin mapping out a Very rough idea of the scene im making, getting the idea of the space. While doing this i mark out the path/space i want the player to be bound to in this map in orange and the rest of the map in grey.
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