Mapping tips & tricks

Solutions & workarounds for Hexen II mapping problems

I am not a skilled mapper by far, and some of those tips & tricks may be known already. I (re?)discovered them on my own because I needed solutions to practical problems I faced while working on Wheel Of Karma: A Tulku Odyssey. So they might be useful to you for your own Hexen II projects as well, who knows...

They come in different flavors:

	Mapping T&T involving some HexenC coding (and progs.dat recompilation)
	Mapping T&T with no coding
	Mapping Academy: not so much T&T, but rather tutorials about overlooked native features in Hexen II

The list will grow over time...

• Water, Air, Life. -

  Tricks for outdoors settings

  - 04/16/2021
• Unblock chains -

  How to set up complex chains of events

  - 04/12/2021
• Hubs not drubs -

  How to logically connect maps and use puzzle pieces

  - 02/20/2021
• Rotating doors -

  How to set up rotating doors

  - 08/31/2020
• You shall not pass! -

  How to prevent monsters from going somewhere

  - 07/26/2020
• Ticket to Ride -

  Smart ideas to leverage the func_train_mp entity

  - 05/22/2020
• Stairway to Heaven -

  How to make a ladder and use CLIP brushes

  - 05/19/2020
• Better call Mario! -

  How to fix a leak in a map

  - 05/18/2020
• Fashionable debris -

  How to change the skin of a 3D model

  - 05/10/2020
• Follow the Yellow Brick Road -

  How to keep the player aware of their objectives

  - 05/07/2020
• Ending on a high note -

  How to make a nice intermission screen with text and backgroung image

  - 05/06/2020
• Armors Unmessed -

  How to enforce armor bonuses no matter the player class

  - 04/30/2020
• Secrets a la Quake -

  How to make Quake style secrets in Hexen II maps

  - 04/28/2020

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