The Authoring Tools provides an example Add-on campaign called Dead Line that has source examples. Because the focus of this article is how to assemble the assets into a campaign Add-on, we will assume that you have already learned how to successfully create these assets from this point forward. Mainly, you will be using the Hammer application to create levels, and the other utilities to create custom textures and models.Ī description of how to create these assets is beyond the scope of this tutorial, but you can find useful information in the L4D Level Design Basics Tutorial. This provides you with the applications and utilities you will need to create game content. In order to author content for Left 4 Dead, you will need to install the Left 4 Dead Authoring Tools. Create a homepage for the add-on where it can be downloaded by players.Pack the contents of the Add-on folder into a.Create metadata files and place them in the proper sub-folder.Create game assets and place them in the proper sub-folder.Make an Add-on folder and content sub-folders.There are five basic steps to creating your own custom campaign Add-ons for Left 4 Dead:
