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These tutorials explain things related to level design in general.
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Designing great 1vs1 maps -- General level design (at my blog, xsmd.org/brain) -- Tutorial with a focus on item placement, and designing interesting pickup places in your map.
These tutorials explain things related to Quake II mapping.
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Making Quake II maps today -- An overview -- Gives an overview of modern Quake II engines and mapping tools.
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Changelevel Trigger (SP) -- This explains how to create a trigger that changes the map when the player
completed a level. For single-player maps only.
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Quake 2 Palette Textures -- Converting skybox textures to pcx format with the Quake 2 palette
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Quake 2 level video -- Making a HD video of your Quake 2 level for youtube
These tutorials explain things related to Quake 3 Arena mapping. Most of the stuff in here also applies to other games based on the id Tech3 engine.
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Creating a Skybox -- This explains how to create your own skybox using Terragen.
These tutorials explain things that don't deal with level editing in the first place. They rather explain computer and internet basics you'll come across sooner or later during your level editing career.
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Using IRC -- This explains how to use IRC, a chat system used by many online communities and project teams.
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Using FTP -- This explains how to use FTP, a protocol used to upload (and download) files to (and from) FTP servers.
Whatever.
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CounterStrike mapping -- Don't ask. I was bored. ;) And I really made a CS map but lost it because of a broken HDD.
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