Simple Ladders

Right everyone, as being an amateur mapper (well sort of) now, i thought i'd help with one of the most commonly used items within the map... the ladder.

There are many tutorials on ladder creation. Most of them i found don't really work at all, especially in CounterStrike: Source

After some further research I found a really easy way to create them.

Step 1.
Set up a simple map, with your two levels for the player to go up, including a light and a spawn point. For this I have created a simple box with two levels, thrown in a light and a spawn point and a ladder entity.



Step 2.
Right now create a block the same width as your ladder entity and roughly the same hieght. Set the texture of this to tools/toolsinvisibleladder The texture should look like this:



Apply this texture and your ladder should look like this:



And believe it or not.. thats it, just export your map and bingo you have it. Its really that simple. Now this is a tested and proven method for CS:S so get it going and I expect to be climbing high into your map with my awp soon .

It does make me wonder, are CS:S mappers lazier that they get easy ladders?
The screenies are indeed a tad too big, since they are very clear, half the size would easily be big enough.

But I guess the rest of the tutorial is pretty decent, apart from you typing out lines asif you were just generaly speaking to someone, not trying to educate someone.

Optimize those screens please. 80-100k tops. In jpg format.

How I wish that hl2: DM supported that function.