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The following are some of the more commonly requested tutorials on basic construction techniques. If you have a question about how to build or use a particular piece of architecture, email us and let us know and we'll get a tutorial posted for it.
| Ladders | Ladders need no explanation |
| Flowing Water | How to make the water flow in a given direction |
| Clear/Breakable Glass | Create transparent glass, both solid and shootable |
| Multi-Floor Elevator | How to create an elevator that makes multiple stops |
| sky | Get that damn cool sky in your level today |
| Rotating space texture | Make your space rotate like the boss level in Quake2 |
| path_corner | Used to make a path for monsters to walk |
| Incremental Rotation | make a rotating entity only turn a little bit each time it is triggered |
| HINT Brushes and Sky Bug | Learn about seeing through sky brushes into rooms and using HINT brushes to stop it from messing you up. |
| Power Cubes | Place power cubes into your level |
| Floating crates | Make a crate float in water |
| Air Strike | Make a viper plane drop it's bombs |
| Teaming entities | What the team key does to func_trains |
| Crates on a conveyor belt | have crates travelling along in your warehouse levels |
| Crate Crane | A crane that carries a crate around. Also good for warehouse levels. |
| Gib Spin Crusher | A spinning crusher that squashes the insane marines. |
| Gib Pipe Crusher | A pipe crusher that spits out the insane marines as gibs. |
| Point_combats with monsters | make a monster set the alarm off |
| Clip brushes | Keep the player from getting caught on obstructions |
| Quake 1 style teleporter box | An alternative to the standard Q2 teleporter |
| Keyed doors | Use the door after it's been keyed open |
| Transistor-Like Logic Gates | Sophisticated method of creating traps that require certain conditions met. |
| Force fields | Force fileds |
| Hint Texture | Written by Xian (id software) |
| Hint brushes | a Graphical explanation on using the hint brush/texture |
| rotating_lights | as seen in the xatrix mission pack |
| Exploding crate thing | a crate will drop of an explosive charge |
| Lighting Your Map | how to light up your map, using different methods |
| "Reflective" floors | how to create the effect of a shiny, reflective floor |