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DarkBASIC Discussion / how do you make levels and edit them?

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DarkB
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Posted: 28th Mar 2004 08:11
well?
BearCDPOLD
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Posted: 28th Mar 2004 20:49
Okay, first step. Put the level "blueprint" down on paper. Then, if you aren't one yourself, get a good artist to do some concept drawings of what it will look like as far as detail goes. Next you need to create the barebone structure of your level (the ground, the buildings, hallways and doorways). Then for every piece of geometry in your level (rocks, boxes, etc.), you need to make them in a 3d modeller. Once you have all that completed you put them all together either in a 3d modeller, or in another program that will remember where you placed everything and save into a format that will load into DB.

The quicker method, of course, is to use Cartography Shop or MagicWorld.

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DarkB
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Posted: 29th Mar 2004 09:20
i nead to buy software to make my own levels? huh, oh well, i guess i'll just buy it.
TEH_CODERER
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Posted: 29th Mar 2004 15:53
What?!!!
Magic World is free!

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There's also 3d Map Maker. If you need to save cash there are some very legal free solutions that you can find if you're resourceful. ie:Google.

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i see you just joined the DB forum
basic is a language.... you must make everything ....

most people assume that a level is a game,
a game actually plays levels...
Unless you wrote a game, you can't play a level...
its a catch 22....

start on paper
figure out how you will represent a level in code....
see the huge dungeon demo as an example.
It uses notepad as a level editor and shows how to
write code to load that level...

There are tools that help simplify things, but you should know
how they work BEFORE you try using them. Magic World is cool, but can't do everything for you. You will need to modify it for your purpose. But, in order to modify it, you must understand how it works. How it reads data from a binary file and converts that into a 3D matrix object. I use it to load infinit matrix objects instead of the default size matrix. Also I use it for DBPro instead of DBC. Its a great app and saves me the time required to build it myself.

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