Tutorial: How to Make a Good Map

[Leo_V117]

Uniform your mapping. Buildings alwayss eem to light better if:
- You plan them with a grid size of 4. Create a decent floorplan out of a decent texture.
- Create doors at 3 in height and 2 in width using a grid size of 3.
- Windows are 2x2 grid size of 3.
- Stairs are 4x1 grid size 2.
- Walls are 1x grid size 2 in thickness.

I built the entire of New Elizabeth using these rules and my Dev textures. And look how nicely it came out.

[chocolatepie33]

(THANK YOU!)

[cork279]

Never copy and paste HUGE areas, Sandbox will most likely crash

Try not to copy and paste fairly large areas. When I did this, the game crashed upon saving the map, and corrupt the save file.

Following on from the above point, save to a different file each time (e.g. map1, then map2, then map3), you could just use the usual backup files, but they're not always created for me, for some reason.

[chocolatepie33]

thanks once again, the wiki page is now updated.