Mapping Guides

Useful Information

Textures

• Material Proxies
• Displacements
• Multiple skyboxes aka fake skyboxes
• Creating retro/ps1-style textures
• "Glue" different textures together by adding a third texture

Modeling

• Creating a collision model

Optimization

• Mapcore optimization guide
• Brushsides information
• Hint brushes
• Areaportals

Surf

• Mmod - Creating surf ramps
• Smooth spiral ramps
• The problem with triangle ramps
• Creating smooth surf ramps

Blender

• Blender export tutorial
• General topology tips
• Optimizing assets
• Curves
• Making an armature follow a path
• Procedural chains
• How to make PS1 style objects
• How to quickly model a hand
• Imphenzia - countless tutorials