-ArttyIntel- wrote:
Well as you know I have Hammer. But I suck at it. Really hard. But yet I am great at google sketchup. I have noticed that people use sketchup for L4D2 maps. And Obviously L4D2 and Portal are made by the same company so I was wondering if you could use sketchup for Portal map making.

You can, but my expertise doesn't fallow sketchup very well. Here is the VDC link

Is there any alternate programs good for mapping/

Alternatives, possibly softimage. Maya Maby.

-ArttyIntel- wrote:
Hmm. Is it more work to do it in sketchup?

Is there any alternate programs good for mapping/

I use cinema 4d, better than maya, like 3ds max but easier, and you can make your own texture maps, bump maps, light maps easy. XSI Softimage for animate and export to mdl.

Darkylight wrote:
-ArttyIntel- wrote:

Hmm. Is it more work to do it in sketchup?

Is there any alternate programs good for mapping/

I use cinema 4d, better than maya, like 3ds max but easier, and you can make your own texture maps, bump maps, light maps easy. XSI Softimage for animate and export to mdl.

He ment for making vmf maps.

-ArttyIntel- wrote:
I skimmed it,

I would reccomend reading it from start to finish.