1. Introduction
2. A Quick Tour of Hammer
3. Constructing the Basic Room
4. Placing a Simple Light Entity
5. Placing a Spawn Point
6. Compiling Your First Map
7. Loading Your Map in the Game

Now, we still need to place a spawn point inside the map. Otherwise, the map simply won't know where to put the player when the map loads from the console. We won't worry about buyzones and teams for now. For goodness sake, we'll spawn a counter-terrorist.

Make sure that you're still using the Entity Tool. On the right side of the screen, type info_player_counterterrorist from the entity selection box. As you probably notice by now, the list automatically zooms in on your entity as you type, so you don't actually have to type in the whole entity name. Press Enter to select it.

Click inside your box on the top (x/y) view again, and then adjust the vertical placement of your green player entity. It's very important that you place the entity at least eight units above the floor. Otherwise when the map loads, your player is going to get stuck in the ground, unable to move.

Placing a counter-terrorist spawn