Useful Mapping Links - Updated June 23/2011

[Plague Bringer]

1.2 CUMMING? NEEDS UPDATE!
Always accepting suggestions for websites to add and help filtering out dead links. ()

Thanks to the now inactive TRaK, who put in the work to put the first Useful Mapping Links topic together and keep it updated for quite a while.

If you see a site that is outdated, PM me or post here and I'll either update or remove the link. If you'd like someone (yourself or otherwise) to be added to the Tremulous Mapper's section, again, PM me or post here with a link.

The Tremulous Specific Links section has been removed in favor of them being tagged as either community or official links. This allows them to be in their proper sections while still easily being defined as game-specific links.

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23/6/2011
Added Firstinaction's website to [i]Community Members'[/i] section

16/5/2011
Added [i]General Resources[/i] sections
Added two RGB color value sites to the [i]General Resources[/i] section
Thought about checking for dead links
Didn't
Came back
Looked through mapper's websites
Removed TRaK's link in [i]Tremulous Mapper Websites[/i]; 404  :'(

08/11/2010
Added [i]Programs and Utilities[/i] and [i]Help and FAQ[/i] sections to accommodate a larger variety of links
Amended opening paragraph
Added and amended various links

01/11/2010
Split [i]Textures and Skyboxes[/i] sections

23/10/2010
Amended Tutorials section better accommodate manuals, wikis, and forums
Amended Tremulous Map Repositories section to better accommodate Q3 engine games
[i]Tutorials, Manuals, and Articles[/i] has appropriate sections
Added an *[i]Link Endorsed by Tremulous Developers[/i] stamp for developer websites that fall outside of the [i]Trem Mapper Websites [/i]section
Added *[i]Tremulous Community Link[/i] stamp for tremulous.net/forum/* links and community member websites that fall outside of the [i]Trem Mapper Websites[/i] section
Added and amended various links
Alphabetically organized links
Fixed design and style inconsistencies between sections

06/10/2010
Removed [i]Tremulous Specific Links[/i] section
Removed dead links
Added [i]Reference... and WIP[/i] section
Added and amended various links
Fixed design and style inconsistencies between sections


Programs and Utilities
Ingar's NetRadiant Packages *Tremulous Community Link


General Resources
500+ RGB color values
The Other RGB Color Chart


Tutorials, Manuals and Articles

Tips & Tutorials:
Brain's Mapping Videos *Tremulous Community Link
GtkRadiant Mapping
LevelDK tutorial list
Map-craft Tutorials
Method's tutorials
Richdiesal's Mapping tutorial
Sock's Tutorials
Soubok's mapping tips *Tremulous Community Link
Taiyo.uk's tutorials *Tremulous Community Link
TRaK's Lighting Tips *Tremulous Community Link
Tremulous Mapping Guide *Link endorsed by Tremulous Developers
Wemakemaps tutorials *For q3radiant, but still mostly applicable

Manuals:
Q3A Shader Manual
Q3Map2 Shader manual
The Theory of Lighting

Articles, Wikis and Forums:
GtkRadiant Wikibooks
Jex's Understanding Vis and Hint Brushes *Link endorsed by Tremulous Developers
Natural Selection 2's Mapping forum
Q3Map2 support forums
Q3map2 Wiki


Help and FAQ
Common Map Compile Errors *Tremulous Community Link


Models and Prefabs

Blackrayne.net models
KatsBits models
Map-Craft Models
We Make Maps models


Sounds

Findsounds
Flashkit SoundFX
Freesound
PacDv
PDsounds
SoundSnap


Reference, Concept, and WIP

CG Society Illustrations&Concepts
ConcetArt -dot -org
ConceptShips Art Blog
Game-Artist.net forums
Jan van der Weg - Environments *Link endorsed by Tremulous Developers
Polycount "3D & 2D Videogame Art"
TRaK's Photobucket *Tremulous Community Link
The Reference Material Thread *Tremulous Community Link
RDS General Mapping Thread
RDS&WIP Source Engine Thread (Facepunch)
RDS&WIP Source Engline Thread (Interlopers)
RDS&WIP Tremulous Thread *Tremulous Community Link
World of Level Design Board


Textures and... *Refer to website/readme for terms of use

CGtextures
EvilLair's textures
Filterforge
Hourence's Pitores, Kraden, and Nature
KatsBits Textures
PhilipK textures
RAA texture pack
Shebob's Textures
TRaK's textures *Tremulous Community Link


... Skyboxes *Refer to website/readme for terms of use

Amethyst7's skyboxes
Hipshot skyboxes
Quake 3 Arena Skybox Collection
Sock's textures/skyboxes


Tremulous and Quake3 Map Repositories

FunZone Maps
Lvl - The Q3A Map Database
Mercenariesguild Download Center *Link endorsed by Tremulous Developers
Random Key Whacking File Repo
Tremulous Pak List


Tremulous Mapper Websites

Tremulous devs:
DASPRiD
Godmil
Jex
Overflow
Stannum
Community members:
F1rstinaction19
n.o.s. brain
Ingar
Odin
Soubok
Supertanker
Taiyo.uk
Yourface

[Plague Bringer]

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[Plague Bringer]

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[CreatureofHell]

Not complaining, just trying to help:
Brain's site is http://imn2rc.unvanquished.net/ and you could put up links to his video tutorials.
TRaK's site is http://trak.mercenariesguild.net/node/12
TRaK textures are therefore at http://trak.mercenariesguild.net/node/3
Supertanker's site is http://supertanker.mercenariesguild.net/
Blackrayne models are at http://www.blackrayne.net/models_1.php
Beergarden and tremcentral links are broken.

[CATAHA]

Supertanker and TRaK links are dead.

[Knowitall66]

Collection Of pretty much every Quake 3 skybox there was (Up to the date this pack was released): http://lvlworld.com/review.php?id=2023

TRaKs "Lighting Tips": http://gameboom.net/node/1187
Commander Keen's "Lighting Theory"; http://www.keenleveldesign.com/html/misc/lightingtutorial1.htm

KatsBits (Has some models and textures for download): http://www.katsbits.com/
Map-Craft Models: http://www.map-craft.com/modules.php?name=Map_Resources

Souboks Site: http://sites.google.com/site/soubok2/tremulous
TRaKs Photobucket acc: http://s231.photobucket.com/albums/ee138/2xG/
Stannums Site: http://www.janvanderweg.com/
Godmils Site: http://www.godmil.f2s.com/index.html


Map repos:
http://betaserv.tk/paklist.html (Lists links to maps from a bunch of different repos)
http://maps.randomkeywhacking.com/index.php?section=base

Sorry about this being a bit of a mess :S

[your face]

so have an inactive member take over the thread of another inactive member. wooo

[Plague Bringer]

so have an inactive member take over the thread of another inactive member. wooo

I'm here on no less than a bi-monthy basis, which is enough to keep up a thread like this for such an old engine & small community. Recently, though, I've been lurking daily. An infrequently-updated-but-more-up-to-date-than-anything-else thread like this is much better than the lack of one. TRaK's gone. I'm not. Case, meet point.
... Then go inside point.
Case in point.

[CorSair]

Thanks Plague, I had a urgent need of some links, and now you gave them, when some links were lost in teh internetz. Was planning too to sweep old and find some new links. But didn't got time to do that because of my other important activities IRL.

+1 to you

[Knowitall66]

Didn't realize you were including Reference links here's some (May post some more later (Sorry about untidiness was kind of rushed ));

http://www.game-artist.net/forums/ - "Work In Progress" & "Finished Projects" are handy though not just environments. "Sketchbooks" Has concept art.
http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1007419 - Source engine RDS thread (Note: The forum has a cap on the maximum number of post in a thread so if you don't see any posts in the thread for a few hours, then chances are a new thread has been created (Final comments may reflect this))
http://www.interlopers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3153&sid=3e11a8cc722adf4dcdc35485b20a8229 - Source engine RDS thread
http://forums.mapcore.net/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=1552&sid=7f32b7351f903723a96ee791b9c2e886 - RDS thread for random engines and games
http://ns2devs.com/index.php?/forum/15-level-design/ - Natural Selection 2's Mapping forum
http://www.polycount.com/forum/index.php - "3D & 2D Videogame Art" Contains plenty of interesting works (Though not all Environments)
http://forums.cgsociety.org/
http://conceptships.blogspot.com/ - Concept art blog various artists, most art is of ships but some include environments.
http://www.worldofleveldesign.com/forums/ - A level design board.

http://lvlworld.com/ - Quake 3 map repo, plenty of screenshots
http://www.fpsbanana.com/ - Screenshots in maps section of site, mostly for source engine games
http://www.moddb.com/mods - Some mod works are quite impressive (For example 'Black Mesa')

[Plague Bringer]

Links are much appreciated K66.

Any ideas for improvement to the list (be it a new subsection or a different way of organizing) are welcome. I'm adding links as I come across them.

[Knowitall66]

No problem. Also, you may want to separate the tutorials and articles.

[Plague Bringer]

Thanks Plague, I had a urgent need of some links, and now you gave them, when some links were lost in teh internetz. Was planning too to sweep old and find some new links. But didn't got time to do that because of my other important activities IRL.

+1 to you

CorSair, I missed you earlier. I'm glad this helped you out.  

Oh yeah...


Update:
Amended Tutorials section better accommodate manuals, wikis, and forums
Amended Tremulous Map Repositories section to better accommodate Q3 engine games
Tutorials, Manuals, and Articles has appropriate sections
Added an *Link Endorsed by Tremulous Developers stamp for developer websites that fall outside of the Trem Mapper Websites section
Added *Tremulous Community Link stamp for tremulous.net/forum/* links and community member websites that fall outside of the Trem Mapper Websites section
Added and edited various links
Fixed design and style inconsistencies between sections

[Plague Bringer]

Just keepin' 'er at the top 'til the someone gives me a sticky. 

[Survivor]

Replaced old sticky. 2 general notes:
1) If anything needs moderator action it might be better to pm an active mod (or semi-active like me) directly and request it, than just waiting it out. If it's useful we won't mind making a few clicks.
2) Threads are indeed getting old and especially reference threads suffer from this. You'll notice that anyone who comes up with a good new or replacement guide in the strategy section gets a sticky, and it won't be different here, or in any other forum dealing with trem. However, mods have (had) their specific subforums they check(ed), and some might now be without their regular oversight. That's why 1) is so important.

[Plague Bringer]

Replaced old sticky. 2 general notes:
1) If anything needs moderator action it might be better to pm an active mod (or semi-active like me) directly and request it, than just waiting it out. If it's useful we won't mind making a few clicks.
2) Threads are indeed getting old and especially reference threads suffer from this. You'll notice that anyone who comes up with a good new or replacement guide in the strategy section gets a sticky, and it won't be different here, or in any other forum dealing with trem. However, mods have (had) their specific subforums they check(ed), and some might now be without their regular oversight. That's why 1) is so important.

Thanks for the sticky and I'll definitely keep that in mind. I was thinking about PMing a mod but was rather hesitant because of my position in the community. Anyway, lesson learned, and thanks again. 

[keiex09]

omm.

[Firstinaction]

Well Plague bringer add my map- https://sites.google.com/site/first19maps/

[Plague Bringer]

Well Plague bringer add my map- https://sites.google.com/site/first19maps/

Not a problem. If anyone comes across any links they would like to add - be them to a personal site or a handy resource, don't hesitate to post or send me a message.