How to come up with map layouts?

[obodobear]

I usually just think of a theme and a basic idea of what general areas the map will have. Then I start the map and change things around as I go to balance it all out. I try to make everything as basic as possible at first and add detail in later, this makes things a lot easier to quickly switch around and experiment with.

 

[henke37]

Creating a layout is easy
But creating an interesting, unique and balanced layout is hard.
Hell, I could even call a box with two spawn points a layout

You mean cp_cloak?

 

[[Rx.] Christian Troy]

You mean cp_cloak?

Funny you mention that as that is the one I use to clear the cache after building cubemaps for other maps.