Its been a long time coming, but a new level design tutorial for 3D GameStudio should be completed soon (read: in about a week). Here are the topics we will cover in the tutorial:

Working with WED
- The WED Work Space
- Setting Up Short Cuts
- Working with WED's Views
- WED's Grid System

Plotting and Planning
- The Beginning
- Deciding the Genre
- Doing Research

Getting Started
- Using Snapping
- Start Simple
- Duplicating
- Rotating
- Vertex, Edge and Face Move

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
- Bigger is Not Always Better
- Using Texture Scaling
- Color Coordinating Your Textures

... And more.

Each section will have tips, tricks and things to avoid and why. This is intended as a tutorial for the beginner and intermediate level builder alike. Images will be shown throughout the tutorial to help solidify ideas and concepts and a demo level/game will be included with the tutorial. The images within the tutorial will be from the small, two level game so that the examples are from a real project. I will attempt to walk you through what I do when I create levels.

Some shots from the project (many of you have seem them before, though):

This will be great thanks for all the hard work your putting into this Dan

will this also include the tutorial for the new templates?

Very very coool Dan, I have been hanging out for
your tutorial and seeing your example screens again
is a big moral boost for the inspiration,
Thats how I's like my levels to look.
Cheers,

This is what newbies like me are waiting for! Tutorials with concrete examples will definitely help everyone and make 3DGS even more popular... Keep it up.

I am adding more to the tutorial even now. The next section (after "A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words") is all about lighting your level:

Let it Shine
- Using Light

This section alone includes four tips on lighting:

- Rarely Use Pure White Lights
- Use Soft Lights
- Set a Basic Level Ambience
- Rarely Use Sunlight

More to come!

Looking forward to it Dan. Your stuff looks great as always. Not sure if it is in the plans but if not a small section on effects would be cool -just a few of the steam leaking from a pipe variety to add atmosphere.

Hi Burt,

The tutorial for Conitec is not about effects or coding at all. It is strictly a level design tutorial. In other words, we are covering the basics of how to use WED to make your 3D image in your mind beceom a "reality" in 3DGS.

The section on Lighting is completed and now I must move on to the last section of the tutorial: It's The Little Things that Count.

This section will be all about adding details that really add to the overall atmosphere of the game.

so in otherwords the tut is all about using WED to build your level to get the most of it prior to adding script work correct?

hope so , I'm sure myself and others are realy missing out on what we can do pull out of WED itself.