Is it easy to create maps for GMOD?
I've always wanted to get into making maps for games, any tips for starters?
basically i've had roots when it came to me wanting to map
i know this guy named "rhapid" and he used to make these tornado maps for garrysmod and i used to help him beta test and i would host the beta servers for him and such
at one point he gave me the go ahead to decompile a map and toy around with it and make an edit and i turned it into a night time version, with a few street lights and it was really crappy looking
anyways so that was august of 2014 and about a year or so later i started thinking "why not just make my own stuff"
so around november late one night i just began making this csgo map seeing what i could toy around with
i chose the source engine since it was the one i was most familiar with at the time with my thousands of hours on garrys mod
at first i was really stuff and i was just throwing stuff at the wall to see what would help me improve (different tactics of making brushes/different ways of detailing maps and making them look good with lighting and stuff) and eventually i've gotten to where i am at today and i will try continuing on improvement
it's hard to really explain how to "get good" with mapping, i just picked it up and really got good with it in a incredibly small timespan of a year and a half