Dont know if this topic has been brought up but if there is anyone out there can walk me though how to make a map or to add on to them or I can just give you my ideas and we can work together I have some awesome Ideas to make some Custom maps like Dust2.5 or Inferno2 and have them just for the n00b server would make us super bad ace

www.google.com

or yay

If you're interested in making a map, this guy has some good tutorials. If you want live feedback, you can add me (garrettthegreat1 or ??? if you go through someone's friend list).

the hardest part about map making is the architectural predesign, if you don't walk into map making knowing where bombsite a and b are, and what you're going to do it's a waste of time. Theres been MULTIPLE attempts by this community to create a custom map and they all go down the drain because no one can keep at it ilong enough.. Before undertaking it, understand that even if you work at it 4-5 hours a day it'll still take anywhere up to 2-3 months to complete. follow garretts link as im sure its the one I used ..nope its not...hold one let me find the one I used....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W0sWjQ5XaA

that guy does the best tutorials Ive seen, follow all his vids and you'll be fine.

Well I work 3 24 hour shifts a week at my battalion and have got alot done will keep y'all up to date with my progress

It takes one person probably a few months of steady working to make a map. In highschool me and a friend were making a map of the school for cs. Then after colombine happened, we quickly scrapped it for obvious reasons. But even with two of us knowing what we were doing, it was nowhere near finished after a month and was A LOT of work. Good luck if you decide to do it though. Youtube tutorials are def the way to go for basics though. Goodluck mate.

K so Ive made this map in 4 days 72 total hours tryed to post a demo for ppl to tell me how they like it but I cant get the bsp to stick does anyone know how to share my bsp and sound cache of my map so ppl can look at my demo of my map and tell me what they think?

Play the map in CS:S and type: record demoname

Then when you've recorded a full run around the map, type: stop

Then, upload the demo and post here.

don't you have to have the map though to watch the demo?

No. You just have to have CS:S. A .dem file has nothing to do with map ownership other than that whoever recorded the demo has the map.

I tryed to upload the demo on the members side of the fourms and no one could watch it so I dont know I will record another demo and post it here and see if things change but I will wait until i add a few more details to make the map look that much nicer

I stand corrected, in order to play back a demo, you'll need to take the .bsp file, and the soundcache and put them into folders named after the same folders they're already in (e.g. "maps") and then zip 'em up along with the .dem file before uploading it.

K cool Ill give it a go