This is a short trailer for the Noesis Interactive training DVD "Advanced Source Level Design" For ordering information visit:

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Advanced Source® Level Design, part of the Noesis Interactive™, MOD Your World™ training series, teaches you to "Create Your World " by focusing on designing and constructing your own custom levels within Counter-Strike™: Source®, Half-Life®2, Day of Defeat™: Source® and other Source® SDK powered games. Learn the fundamentals of Hammer™ as well as advanced texturing, displacement, functionality and optimization techniques.

DVD topics covered include:

* Step by step guide to creating your own Source® levels

* Detailed explanation of the Hammer level editor interface and controls

* Applying materials and textures

* Add triggers, scripts and delays

* Optimization techniques

* Atmospheric effects & entity descriptions

* 2D & 3D skyboxes

* Create level overview maps

* Apply cinematic style color correction

* Create maps for a range of Source® games