[Video tutorial Series] TF2 Map Making From Scratch

[YM]

Been saying "I should do a new TF2 mapping tutorial series" for a while and today it happened. Here's episode 1. From first opening Hammer++ through to a first compile

Episode 2:

Episode 3:

Episode 4:

Episode 5:

 

[YM]

Released Episode 2 covering clipping, spotlights, environment lighting and overlays

 

[YM]

Doin what Valve never could, Episode 3 is now out

 

[YM]

If you love options and settings and menus, boy do I have an episode for you! Episode 4 out now, added to OP

 

[YM]

Update with Video #5 introducing a vital source feature: Displacements!

 

[Sonoma]

stickied!

 

[GoldVenom]

Hey, I installed the ABS pack before I encountered Hammer++. and I installed the BAMF pack. I'm still seeing Freemans and my KOTH icons are just blank boxes. is there anything I'm doing wrong?

 

[Sonoma]

Look to see if you have the fgds properly installed and then check your Game Configurations tab in the Hammer Options menu if you haven't already done so you need to restart Hammer

Yours will look different from mine, but make sure both the tf-abs.fgd and the bamf fgd are in the Game Data files, if not click the Add button then scroll to the proper fgd file to include it. These FGD files should be located in the Team Fortress 2/bin folder

 

[GoldVenom]

Oh thank you! I realized that I didn't add \bin\tf-brokk.fgd into my game data files. Sorry about that. <: P

But I appreciate the help though. : )