What are the best mapmaking guides/tutorials?

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vinylrake
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What are the best mapmaking guides/tutorials?

Post by vinylrake »

In hopes of coming up with a list of mapmaking related guides and tutorials (and resources?) to create a useful sticky topic...

For as many of the following topics as you feel qualified to post about (or other related topics if you think of any others):

What are the best mapmaking guides/articles you know of? Feel free to post multiples - identify guides by category if you can. e.g. It's useful to know that a mapmaking guide is a good reference for unit editing or adding water to a map or whether it's a good overall A-Z beginner's guide.

Some potential categories:

1) A-Z mapmaking guides that if you follow you will end up with a playable map

2) Intermediate/Reference mapmaking guides: Sources of info you refer to once you know the basics but wouldn't be of much use to a newbie.

Some Specific mapmaking topics/categories:

3) Submap creation/editing (Colormapping, terrain, displacement, shadow , reflection,etc), Scripting, Unit editing, Unit creation, Sounds, General Fearing, General Loathing, other tool specific guides, making multiplayer maps, making solo maps, etc.

note: I'll put compile the suggestions and add links when the list is 'done'.
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Post by A-Red »

Ares Scripting Tutorial:

http://hl.udogs.net/files/Uploads/%20Us ... torial.zip

There's also Clem's colormapping tutorial, and a basic fear/loathing map creation guide by Magellan. I don't have links to those, but they must be around.
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Post by vinylrake »

Some nominations:

Best A-Z mapmaking tutorials:
Cydonian's mapmaking guide
Mapmaking for Newbies (by Heal with Steel)
Magellan's Quick and Dirty mapmaking guide

Colormapping:
Clem's Color Mapping Walkthrough
Clem's Colormap Indexing Tiptutorial
Making Textures for colormaps (Soma)

Scripting:
Ares' Scripting tutorial
Phish's "How to script a very basic single player level using Loathing"
Sonork's Scripting Tutorial
Troll's Scripting Tutorial
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Post by vinylrake »

A-Red wrote:Ares Scripting Tutorial:

http://hl.udogs.net/files/Uploads/%20Us ... torial.zip

There's also Clem's colormapping tutorial, and a basic fear/loathing map creation guide by Magellan. I don't have links to those, but they must be around.
Those are available at the Myth Graveyard.
Lots of Myth stuff at http://mythgraveyard.org.
Sometimes I put hard to find stuff in my my Udogs folder.
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