CS:GO 3 Workflow Techniques - How to Draw Top-Down Level Design Map Layouts

Top-down layout is a schematic design or a floor plan of your map.

It could be created in Photoshop, Illustrator, Google Sketchup or AutoCad but using software for layouts is unnecessary.

Best and most practical way of creating top-down layouts is pen and paper.

Hand drawing layouts are not complicated. You do not need to know how to draw. All that's required is ability to visualize how your level is going to play. You have to plan out map's playable paths, alternative routes, connecting routes, choke points, objectives, obstacles and boundaries of the world.

This tutorial is focused on Counter-Strike defusal (DE) gametype but the technique and principle behind it can be applied to many other games with similar gameplay mechanics.

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