One excellent tutorial for all mappers

[Donlan]

Well I'm not sure if this deserves a topic of it's own but I use one excellent site for help when I optimize a map, it goes in depth on what you can do to improve the performance of a map. I'm pretty sure everyone can learn someting from this.

Please note I didn't create this and full credit goes to the website it's hosted on.

The site covers the following:

-use of nodraw

-areaportals

-occluders

-visleafs

-hints

And last but not least func_detail

So enjoy the tutorial and you may learn something:

http://www.student.ru.nl/rvanhoorn/optimization.php

[Clavus]

Even the Source SDK wiki links to that website for map optimization. It's the best tutorial for optimizing maps on the net

[Donlan]

Even the Source SDK wiki links to that website for map optimization. It's the best tutorial for optimizing maps on the net

Only problem is that on some pages they've kind of over complicated things by not really explaining what they're on about properly.

[Botervloot]

http://www.halfwit-2.com/

http://www.interlopers.net/

General Mapping

http://forums.tf2maps.net/showthread.php?t=807

AWESOME guide I'm using to make pl_mr-green.

[Mr. Darkness]

Woot

[Donlan]

Woot

Nice off-topic & spammy post there