Quick Mapping Tips and tricks

[henke37]

Amateur hour when it comes to file formats then.

 

[wareya]

Press ctrl+s to save your map. Click the controller to compile it.

 

[EArkham]

info_no_dynamic_shadows exists and you use it by selecting faces, and no shadows (pickups or players showing through walls, etc) will appear on that face.

Wait, you have to actually select the faces with that entity? I thought it was a global setting and always wondered why I could never tell the difference when using it. lol, woooow.

 

[fubarFX]

a quick one just came to mind

if you have water in both your skybox and your gameplay area, make sure they share the same cubemap to avoid reflection seams

 

[RaVaGe]

If you have a brush inside another brush, and you want to select the brush inside, select the brush outside and keep the left button pressed until the selection switches to the other brush.

 

[Tumby]

I quick thing I like to do is set the scale of all my tool textures (trigger, hint, areaportal, skybox) to 10. Not 0.10, but 10. Basically, fuckin huge. It makes it a lot easier on the eyes.

It's not like I made a texture pack kind of thing just for that.

http://forums.tf2maps.net/showthread.php?t=22216

 

[Seba]

If you have a brush inside another brush, and you want to select the brush inside, select the brush outside and keep the left button pressed until the selection switches to the other brush.

pageup/down also does this but you can go back to the previous selected brush

 

[Freyja]

You can fix overlays on 45 degree faces being upside down by flipping their U and V values, ie. If U Start is 1 and U End is 0 then make U Start 0 and U End 1 (Do this for the V as well)