The Level Design Book
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  • The Level Design Book
  • ✨What is level design
  • Book 1, Process
    • 🗺️How to make a level
    • 🧠Pre-production
      • Pacing
      • Research
      • Worldbuilding
      • Scope
    • 🔫Combat
      • Enemy design
      • Encounter
      • Cover
      • Map balance
    • 🛠️Layout
      • Flow
        • Circulation
        • Verticality
      • Critical path
      • Parti
      • Typology
        • Gates
    • 🏠Blockout
      • Massing
        • Landscape
        • Composition
        • Prospect-refuge
      • Metrics
        • Modular kit design
        • Doom metrics
        • Quake metrics
      • Wayfinding
      • Playtesting
        • Player persona
    • 📜Scripting
      • (stub) Navigation
      • Doors
    • ☀️Lighting
      • Three point lighting
      • D6 lighting
      • Lighting for darkness
    • 🏡Environment Art
      • Shape and color psychology
      • Texturing
      • Storytelling
      • Optimization
    • 🌈Release
  • Book 2, Culture
    • 🦜Level design as culture
    • History of the level designer
    • Zero player level design
    • (unfinished pages)
      • History of architecture
      • Structural engineering primer
      • History of environment art
      • History of furniture
      • History of encounter design
  • Book 3, Studies
    • 🔍How to study a level
    • Single player studies
      • Undead Burg (Dark Souls 1)
      • Assassins (Thief 1)
      • (STUB) The Cradle (Thief 3)
      • (STUB) Sapienza (Hitman)
      • (STUB) Silent Cartographer (Halo 1)
    • Multiplayer studies
      • Chill Out (Halo 1)
      • (STUB) de_dust2 (Counter-Strike)
    • Real world studies
      • Disneyland (California, USA)
      • (STUB) Las Vegas (Nevada, USA)
  • Book 4, Learning
    • 🎒Notes for educators
    • Project plans
      • Classic Combat
      • (Unfinished WIP pages)
        • Modern Combat
        • Modern Stealth
        • Exercise: Direct Lighting
        • Exercise: Whiteboard 2D
        • Level Design Portfolio
        • Design Test: Adaptation
        • Exercise: Layout
        • Exercise: Verticality
  • Appendix
    • Tools
      • TrenchBroom
    • Assets & Resources
      • Recommended talks
      • Recommended books
      • Quake resources
        • How to package a Quake map/mod
      • File formats
        • FGD file format
        • MAP file format
        • MDL file format
    • Communities
    • About this book / authors
    • License / copyright
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  1. Book 2, Culture
  2. (unfinished pages)

Structural engineering primer

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Last updated 2 years ago

TODO: summarize some bits from Why Buildings Stand Up

Game example:

https://tf2maps.net/threads/guide-a-primer-on-basic-structures.38329/