The following list are tutorials that I have found to help my mapping skills.  All credit belongs to the respective author.  Click on the [author’s name] to go to the tutorial.  Click a section title to return to the top of the page.

Note: Any [red text] indicates an invalid link. I have kept the text just in case the site ever returns.

Table of Contents

• Before You Open The Editor
  • [Design Theory]
• The Editor
  • [The Editor]
  • [General Info]
• The Basic Elements to a Level
  • [Brushes & Volumes]
  • [Textures]
  • [Static Meshes]
  • [Lighting]
• The Other Elements to a Level
  • [Sound]
  • [Terrain]
  • [Miscellaneous]
• The Finishing Elements to a Level
  • [Navigation]
  • [Optimizing]

Design Theory

• Ethics [Odedge]
• Game Play [Hourences]
• Level Design Musings [CliffyB.com]
• Lighting [Hourences]
• Texturing [Hourences]
• Weapons & Pickups [Architectonic]

General Info

• Actor Icons [Hazel H.]
• Actor Properties
  • Advanced [UDN]
  • Collision [UDN]
  • Display [UDN]
  • Events [UDN]
  • Force [UDN]
  • Karma [UDN]
  • Light Color [UDN]
  • Lighting [UDN]
  • Movement [UDN]
  • Object [UDN]
  • Sounds [UDN]
• Console Commands [UDN]
• Glossary [UDN] [Unreal Wiki]
• Keyboard Shortcuts [UDN]
• Level Preview (Creating) [Architectonic]  [Hazel H.]  [UDN]
• Problems & Solutions [Hazel H.]
• Your First Level [Architectonic]

The Editor

• Browsers
  • Actor Classes [Unreal Wiki]
  • Animations [Unreal Wiki]
  • Groups [UDN]  [Unreal Wiki]
  • Meshes [Unreal Wiki]
  • Music [Unreal Wiki]
  • Prefabs [Unreal Wiki]
  • Sounds [Unreal Wiki]
  • Static Meshes [Unreal Wiki]
  • Texture [UDN]  [Unreal Wiki]
• Intro to UnrealEd [Architectonic]  [UDN]  [Unreal Wiki]

Brushes & Volumes

• Errors [Hourences]
• General Info [UDN]
• Properties [UDN]
• Semi-solid Brushes [Hourences]
• Shaping Brushes
  • 2D Shape Editor [Hazel H.]  [UDN]
  • Brush Builder [Unreal Wiki]
  • Clipping [UDN]
  • Rotating [UDN]
  • Scaling [UDN]
  • Sheet Builder [Unreal Wiki]
  • Vertex Editing [UDN]
• Volumes [UDN] [UDN] [Hazel H. Moving]

Textures

• Aligning on BSP [Architectonic]  [Unreal Wiki]
• Applying on BSP [Unreal Wiki]
• Alpha Channels [Hazel H. Creating in PS 7]
• Cube Maps [SlayWeb]
• Environmental Maps [Hazel H. For Fluid Surfaces]
• Materials [UDN]
• Seamless Textures [Hazel H. Create using Photoshop 7]
• Shaders [Hazel H.]
• Skyboxes [Hazel H. Create using Terrigen]
• Specifications [UDN Technical Information]
• Surface Properties Window [Unreal Wiki]

Static Meshes

• Adding To Level [Architectonic]
• BSP to Static Meshes [Hazel H.]
• General Info [UDN]
• Skins [Odedge Changing Appearance]

Lighting

• Colors [Unreal Wiki]
• Coronas [Unreal Wiki]
• General Info [Architectonic]  [UDN]
• Spot Lights [Fubarnz]
• Standard Lights [Unreal Wiki]
• Vertex Lighting [Hourences How lights effect static meshes]
• Zone Lighting [Unreal Wiki]

Sound

• Ambient Sounds [Architectonic]

Terrain

• General Info [UDN]
• Creating [Angel Mapper]  [UDN]

Miscellaneous

• Emitters
  • Creating [Hazel H.] [UDN]
  • Examples [UDN]
  • Properties [UDN]
• Fluid Surface [UDN]
• Level Transitions [UDN]
• Lifts & Movers [Architectonic]  [UDN]
• Projectors [Angel Mapper]  [UDN]
• Scrolling Scoreboard [Hazel H.]
• Skyboxes [Architectonic]  [Hazel H.]
• Teleporters [UDN]
• Triggers [UDN]

Navigation

• AI Pathing [Architectonic]  [Blitz Unreal Advanced] [Epic]  [UDN

Optimizing

• Antiportals [UDN]
• Build Options [UDN]
• Collision [UDN]
• General Info [Angel Mapper]  [Hourences]  [UDN]
• Profiling [UDN]
• Static Meshes [Hourences]  [UDN]
• Terrain [UDN]
• Zoning [UDN]