Hotline Miami 2 Level Editor Tutorial Part 1 - The Basics
Summary
TLDRIn this video, Rober r97 and Matt (M4) provide a detailed tutorial on using the Hotline Miami level editor. The aim is to introduce viewers to the basic functionalities of the level editor and help them create better levels through a visual guide. The tutorial covers the placement of objects, setting up items, enemies, and environmental effects, explaining the importance of using hotkeys. They also highlight frequent pitfalls like misaligned angles and the appearance of 'black dots' on walls. Tips on improving levels through practice and experimentation are given, encouraging viewers not to be intimidated by the complexity of the editor. The presenters offer a practical walkthrough on creating aesthetically pleasing and functionally sound levels, promoting hands-on learning and continuous improvement.
Takeaways
- 🎮 Understand the basics of the Hotline Miami level editor.
- 🖥️ Video tutorials are more engaging than written guides.
- 🛠️ Use hotkeys for more efficient level creation.
- 📦 Practice placing items and characters effectively in the editor.
- 🔧 Experiment with different features and tools in the editor.
- 🖱️ Use tools like sampling and fill options to streamline design.
- 🚪 Set up walls, doors, and windows accurately for better layouts.
- 🌧️ Apply environmental effects like rain and darkness for realism.
- 🧐 Regularly test your levels to ensure functionality.
- 📈 Don't be afraid to make mistakes; practice makes perfect.
Timeline
- 00:00:00 - 00:05:00
Rober and Matt introduce their video tutorial series on using the "Hotline Miami" level editor, explaining the lack of video resources and emphasizing the importance of audio-visual guides. They plan to cover a lot of material and start with the basics to help viewers overcome the intimidation of the editor.
- 00:05:00 - 00:10:00
The process of opening the editor and the initial steps of creating a level are covered, explaining downloadable campaigns and the importance of local uploads and downloads. The significance of assigning level titles and songs is touched upon, along with a brief on enemy limitations per character in the game.
- 00:10:00 - 00:15:00
Detailed instructions on placing the player and vehicles in the level, the significance of hotkeys, and a thorough walkthrough of the "Build" tab to create walls, floors, windows, and doors. They cover how to use the grid and tools for efficient level designing and tricks to avoid common visual errors like "wall notches".
- 00:15:00 - 00:20:00
The duo discusses more about floor and wall customization, highlighting the use of various tiles and floor textures. They also explain the differences between exterior and interior walls and the significance of door placement and the use of additional elements like edges for aesthetic completeness.
- 00:20:00 - 00:25:00
Guidance on object placement within levels, including furniture and other interactive or decorative items. They discuss the use of certain editor quirks for object positioning, and character placement is also explored with advice on animation and typical item assignments.
- 00:25:00 - 00:30:00
Human and enemy sprite usage is explained, focusing on behavior settings like patrols and idle states for NPCs (non-player characters). The importance of weapon placements and restrictions per character are emphasized to ensure proper gameplay mechanics.
- 00:30:00 - 00:35:32
The tutorial continues by covering level functionality such as saving, level transitions, special effects, and the significance of testing levels. Emphasis is placed on iterative design, using transitions effectively, and understanding weather effect tools to enhance level atmosphere. Closing remarks encourage creativity and persistence in improving level design.
Mind Map
Video Q&A
What is the purpose of this video?
The purpose is to provide a detailed video tutorial for creating levels using the Hotline Miami level editor.
Who are the presenters of this tutorial?
The presenters are Rober r97 and Matt (also known as M4).
What do they focus on in this episode?
This episode focuses on covering the basics of the Hotline Miami level editor.
Why did they decide to make a video tutorial?
They made a video tutorial because they found written guides less engaging and wanted to cover the extensive material more efficiently.
What do they recommend using in the editor for efficiency?
They recommend using hotkeys for efficiency when working in the level editor.
What is the main challenge when you start using the editor?
The main challenge is the intimidating interface and understanding how to properly use it to create functional levels.
How do you place and move items in the editor?
You can place items by selecting and clicking, and move them by clicking and holding the right mouse button to erase and place them again.
How can you test the level you created?
You can test the level by saving your work and then using the play level feature to see how it operates in-game.
What tips do they give for editing level details like walls and floors?
They suggest using tools like sampling, fill options, and being careful with the grid for accurate placements.
How do they suggest improving initial attempts with the editor?
They suggest continuously experimenting and improving, as making garbage initially is part of the learning process.
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- 00:00:00well hello everybody it's me Rober
- 00:00:04r97 and uh M4 also known as Matt perfect
- 00:00:08timing yeah we're going to make a uh
- 00:00:10hotline mamy level edit tutorial for you
- 00:00:12because there's none in video form it's
- 00:00:13a whole bunch of written ones but who
- 00:00:15wants to read [ __ ] that yeah Rob say
- 00:00:18that there's multiple guyses on the
- 00:00:21Steam Workshop with um level editor but
- 00:00:24also with spring and we just felt that
- 00:00:26again it would just be easier to make
- 00:00:28obviously a video series for this
- 00:00:31because again like he said he wants to
- 00:00:32read but also it's just so much material
- 00:00:35that we want to cover and this is like
- 00:00:37the most efficient way to do so so yeah
- 00:00:39let's get started yeah in this level or
- 00:00:42episode we are just covering the basics
- 00:00:45I remember when I first opened the
- 00:00:46editor it really intimidated me so
- 00:00:49you're going to watch me make a basic
- 00:00:51level and it'll make all sense to you
- 00:00:53and we can stop getting those shitty
- 00:00:54levels with one type of carpet and a
- 00:00:57bunch of random enemies walking around
- 00:00:58an empty room how about that Al yeah and
- 00:01:00also the the menu
- 00:01:02music that's like not selected but um
- 00:01:06the first thing you want to do is tab
- 00:01:09all you [ __ ] that keep asking me how
- 00:01:11to access Camp campaigns you go to this
- 00:01:13you enter the uh editor
- 00:01:17tab boom all right now these are all the
- 00:01:20ones that you've downloaded you hit
- 00:01:21Escape you hit a now you've got
- 00:01:25campaigns do you want to explain um
- 00:01:28local uploads and downloads in the top
- 00:01:29op yeah so local is the ones that are on
- 00:01:32your hard drive it's the ones that you
- 00:01:34create or the ones you put in the folder
- 00:01:37uploads are the ones that you create and
- 00:01:39you've uploaded obviously and downloads
- 00:01:41is the important one for when you hit
- 00:01:43subscribe in the workshop this is what's
- 00:01:45going to come up all those great
- 00:01:49campaigns so to make a level you want to
- 00:01:53first hit C to
- 00:01:54create yes and you'll get uh a menu
- 00:01:57looking like this and it gives you a
- 00:02:00whole bunch of options first you want to
- 00:02:01title it something what do you want to
- 00:02:03call at this level
- 00:02:04Matt um let's just do editor
- 00:02:08one editor
- 00:02:10one oh no nothing cancer and let's play
- 00:02:14as Hammer because everyone loves the L
- 00:02:16letter your cinnamon bun and then you
- 00:02:19also here you can choose Your
- 00:02:22Song and all of them it's pretty much
- 00:02:24every song from the main game we are
- 00:02:27going to choose the fan favorite sexual
- 00:02:31hit okay oh uh before I leave uh here's
- 00:02:34the available enemies not every
- 00:02:36character can fight every enemy so if
- 00:02:38you want to fight the uh police you
- 00:02:40can't play Evan and if you want to play
- 00:02:42the soldier you can only fight other
- 00:02:44soldiers there's a way around this that
- 00:02:46we'll cover in a later video because
- 00:02:48right now it's the basics mhm as we uh
- 00:02:51kind of go throughout the video series
- 00:02:52we'll soon get to we talk about spriting
- 00:02:55and the wiki where restricted character
- 00:02:56enemies are not going to be a common
- 00:02:58issue but for now we're just going to
- 00:02:59focus on what's available to us as a
- 00:03:01default all right and Hammer is the best
- 00:03:04choice cuz as you see they're all
- 00:03:06highlighted except for soldiers but you
- 00:03:08can get soldiers through a glitch that
- 00:03:09we'll show you probably another episode
- 00:03:12and once you do that you're going to
- 00:03:15have
- 00:03:16the five tabs right here level build
- 00:03:19items MK and enemy yeah I did not say
- 00:03:23those in order
- 00:03:25but uh to do anything you're going to
- 00:03:27have to uh place your player and the
- 00:03:30vehicle down you just click on it and
- 00:03:32you can set it down and if you want to
- 00:03:34move it you're GNA have to click it
- 00:03:35again and hold down the right Mouse
- 00:03:38button erase it and place it and uh
- 00:03:42don't worry the door will show up once
- 00:03:44you actually play and if you're playing
- 00:03:46a character say like the fans where
- 00:03:48there's more than one character there'll
- 00:03:50be little arrows right here to swap
- 00:03:52through it's not that difficult so the
- 00:03:55first thing and once you get good at the
- 00:03:58editor um you can do this in any order
- 00:04:00you want but we're just going to go in
- 00:04:02order through
- 00:04:04here and so build build is the walls and
- 00:04:08the floors mostly as well as doors and
- 00:04:12windows so let's choose just our little
- 00:04:15uh basic White Walls and click to drag
- 00:04:19them and to so right now we have them
- 00:04:22vertically you can get them horizontally
- 00:04:24by clicking this or the much faster way
- 00:04:26hold down shift and hit right right
- 00:04:29Mouse button
- 00:04:31yeah definitely yeah hot keys are
- 00:04:33definitely going to save you a lot of
- 00:04:34time when you're doing this instead of
- 00:04:36again like you're doing like manually
- 00:04:37going through but um like you said with
- 00:04:40the hold shift click right it's at the
- 00:04:42bottom very bottom of the command keys
- 00:04:44of this uh build tab um and I think as
- 00:04:48we go further there's ones when you're
- 00:04:50accessing your level like playing which
- 00:04:52you do contrl p which surprisingly I did
- 00:04:55not know about till like eight months in
- 00:04:58but um again it just saves you a botlo
- 00:05:00of time when you're doing this sounds
- 00:05:02like they've called the cops I you at
- 00:05:04can you hear that I can all right so
- 00:05:07also if uh just like the car or the
- 00:05:10player you can erase walls that you
- 00:05:12don't like um now if you can see that
- 00:05:15little black dot right there uh for some
- 00:05:18reason when you drag them upwards it
- 00:05:20creates black dots when you drag them
- 00:05:22downwards those ugly black dots are out
- 00:05:24there same with horizontally you drag
- 00:05:25them this direction no black dots drag
- 00:05:28them that direction black dots
- 00:05:30nobody likes black dots yeah so again if
- 00:05:32you do it from bottom up you're going to
- 00:05:34get um what they call door what AM IES
- 00:05:38wall wall notches and if you do them
- 00:05:40when you're doing horizontally you do
- 00:05:41from right to left again like you said
- 00:05:45you'll get the wall notches and it just
- 00:05:48like here's our little room and now so
- 00:05:51we don't just have the void floating in
- 00:05:53it we're going to want to select a
- 00:05:55floor uh so to choose the different
- 00:05:58types of floors you want to check these
- 00:06:00boxes and so you have things like wood
- 00:06:03planks rugs tiles bathroom
- 00:06:08stairs uh asphalt train which is like
- 00:06:12subway stations and rails outdoor litter
- 00:06:15and edges litter and edges are different
- 00:06:18they do not take up a space um that the
- 00:06:21rest of them do they layer on top and to
- 00:06:24make a nice level you're going to want
- 00:06:25to take advantage of these and I'll show
- 00:06:28you so uh let's choose chose a nice
- 00:06:30purple click it and you drag
- 00:06:33it and there you have the floor if you
- 00:06:35want to get rid of something you can
- 00:06:36erase it also if you have a ton and
- 00:06:40that's tedious to uh hold right Mouse
- 00:06:42button and erase all of it if you want
- 00:06:44to get all rid of it you just click one
- 00:06:46of these void spaces here it's all
- 00:06:50gone um when you mod this might come
- 00:06:54bite you in the butt to do it that way
- 00:06:56but currently we're not going to have an
- 00:06:58issue with that yeah with all the tiles
- 00:07:00that listed too you're obviously not
- 00:07:02going to use everything like there's
- 00:07:03obviously stuff in like the floor um
- 00:07:06subtab that I've never even touched
- 00:07:09because like you just have colors that
- 00:07:10are just like a bright ass yellow and
- 00:07:12you're just not about to
- 00:07:14like there's some terrible ones or just
- 00:07:16like almost black but not quite like I
- 00:07:19don't understand the point of these
- 00:07:21anyways so we have our floors now uh to
- 00:07:24go back to the other walls so here we
- 00:07:26have Windows the same concept if you've
- 00:07:28ever played hotline Mii you know window
- 00:07:29is and you hate them uh doors as well
- 00:07:32now the doors have a bunch of different
- 00:07:34functions uh if you don't click any of
- 00:07:36these boxes here when you have doors
- 00:07:38selected which are these Brown uh
- 00:07:40rectangles right here uh then it'll just
- 00:07:43a regular door acts just like it locked
- 00:07:46you can't go through it it will never
- 00:07:47open or close
- 00:07:49duh then if you choose cut scene it will
- 00:07:53remain locked until you kill everybody
- 00:07:55in the level so let's put that one right
- 00:07:58here let's put the locked one on the
- 00:08:01other side and then mirror is the
- 00:08:04special one mirror is will flip the way
- 00:08:10the door opens so you can have fun
- 00:08:12double doors and I really hope I placed
- 00:08:14this correctly I can never
- 00:08:16remember now we'll go over this and
- 00:08:19level design better but here's edges and
- 00:08:21they're B um they'll look like this just
- 00:08:24you know an edge and it goes over the
- 00:08:26other layer it looks really nice when
- 00:08:28you put them under
- 00:08:30doors so a little bit of the floor isn't
- 00:08:33coming out and you can wheel through the
- 00:08:35mouse to choose similar ones much faster
- 00:08:39yeah I know at least with the if we're
- 00:08:41looking at the bottom like the first top
- 00:08:43half is going to be ones that are
- 00:08:44associated with rugs and they have a
- 00:08:48generally good variation but some of
- 00:08:50them like there's like at least four of
- 00:08:52them that are just black it looks like
- 00:08:54which I don't think are that helpful but
- 00:08:57the most common one I use with the
- 00:09:00edges themselves is like the top right
- 00:09:02and it's like a brownish one and I find
- 00:09:05that with most levels I've made that
- 00:09:06it's helpful but again when you're using
- 00:09:08them there's both uh with the horizontal
- 00:09:12and vertical um Edge placements you kind
- 00:09:15of get a a feel for how it's going to
- 00:09:17like set in the door itself in your
- 00:09:19doorways yeah so before you ask me this
- 00:09:22question no you cannot zoom in the
- 00:09:24editor it sucks it's annoying yeah uh
- 00:09:28you can't like eventually get used to it
- 00:09:30and then once you actually hit play
- 00:09:32obviously you'll be a lot closer to the
- 00:09:34map so you'll be able to see it better
- 00:09:37yeah and most of it is really just like
- 00:09:38editing and editing and how like Rob
- 00:09:41just said when you're going to be
- 00:09:42actually in game playing it that's kind
- 00:09:44of your time where you're going to be
- 00:09:45really inspecting your levels and
- 00:09:47especially when we talk about objects
- 00:09:49where some of them kind of like set in
- 00:09:52walls differently if they're against
- 00:09:53something and of course it's just a lot
- 00:09:56easier when you do in game just to check
- 00:09:58on things and how they look
- 00:09:59mhm did you want to touch um with the
- 00:10:02exterior doors I think it was just a
- 00:10:04brief discussion of um typically in the
- 00:10:07first game how you like um like a map we
- 00:10:12have right now those the wall that is
- 00:10:14parallel to hammer is going to have one
- 00:10:17strip of like red wall and that just is
- 00:10:19claiming that that is basically the
- 00:10:22exterior and the rest is this thing it's
- 00:10:25the little green and uh red arrow and
- 00:10:28you click on it where you want to put a
- 00:10:30door and they will not be able to leave
- 00:10:33I don't really like this in my levels
- 00:10:34but uh the act the campaigns of hotline
- 00:10:36Mami like once you go through the door
- 00:10:38you can't go back out for uh balance
- 00:10:40reasons so you can add that too uh you
- 00:10:43can get creative with them too but the
- 00:10:45basic use is for putting it at the
- 00:10:46starting door like this and uh so like I
- 00:10:51think I have the rer I don't use these
- 00:10:53so I hope this is correct I think I I
- 00:10:55like to allow my player to like if you
- 00:10:56kind of get rushed in the beginning you
- 00:10:58can kind of like back out and sort of
- 00:11:00like bait enemies but yeah I just think
- 00:11:02it's unrealistic like why the heck can't
- 00:11:04I go out this Open Door MH but I some
- 00:11:08people like them and it is H and so
- 00:11:13other walls we have nasty green sewer
- 00:11:15walls we have red brick walls they're
- 00:11:17usually the ones that you use for the
- 00:11:19exterior whereas the white ones go on
- 00:11:21the interior so let's fix this right now
- 00:11:24and yeah you can just like click and
- 00:11:25drag
- 00:11:27over what you had oops
- 00:11:32um we have these wooden plank walls we
- 00:11:36have regular wood walls we have Subway
- 00:11:40walls and the most fun stair railings
- 00:11:44which there's four different types
- 00:11:46depending on which side the poles or
- 00:11:48whatever you want to call them
- 00:11:50are and I typically make them pointing
- 00:11:54in towards the stairs it's up to
- 00:11:57you yeah I know um some people put them
- 00:12:00out I personally I put them out but
- 00:12:01honestly it does not matter and if
- 00:12:03people berate you over it it's like it's
- 00:12:05so insignificant so I it really is up to
- 00:12:08you so yep another uh fun little exper
- 00:12:12uh trick you have is these three boxes
- 00:12:15up here I should have covered this way
- 00:12:18earlier um you click this first one and
- 00:12:22whatever wall you have highlighted let's
- 00:12:23go back to the whites um and whatever
- 00:12:25carpet you have if you click and drag it
- 00:12:28just makes it instantly I highly
- 00:12:29recommend you never use this function
- 00:12:32ever it's useless and you make ugly
- 00:12:34levels with it but it's there uh the
- 00:12:36much more useful sampling tool if you
- 00:12:38ever used Ms paint you know what it is
- 00:12:40you uh click it you click what you want
- 00:12:42to sample and then you have that and
- 00:12:44then the fill option also like Ms paint
- 00:12:47you fill a room with whatever color uh
- 00:12:50it's got a fun glitch sometimes that
- 00:12:52it'll fill up like a space up here it's
- 00:12:55really not a big deal you understand the
- 00:12:57concept of it yeah be very careful with
- 00:12:59The Fill tool though cuz I've had times
- 00:13:01where I'm making something and I acci
- 00:13:03like have it selected I don't realize it
- 00:13:06and again I just get a bright ass purple
- 00:13:09on an entire floor so that's
- 00:13:11fun uh you can turn the grid off and on
- 00:13:14the grid helps with measurements uh some
- 00:13:17people like it some people don't Matt I
- 00:13:20keep it
- 00:13:21on and it's uh because I'm just used to
- 00:13:25it at this point but it's a good it's a
- 00:13:27good yeah it's it's up to you man uh so
- 00:13:32now we've covered all the the build
- 00:13:34sections let's go to items and we have
- 00:13:38all of these items just how many items
- 00:13:41do you think there are just
- 00:13:43hundreds uh probably like 100,000 uh
- 00:13:4510,000 100,000 there is a lot of option
- 00:13:48options and they're
- 00:13:50like they only have one descriptor and
- 00:13:53they're exactly like this there's no
- 00:13:54spaces in them um basically dinon just
- 00:13:57used whatever code they had and that's
- 00:14:01what you have to deal with So eventually
- 00:14:04you'll know what's you'll know pretty
- 00:14:05much everything uh you'll know the names
- 00:14:07just if you're like oh I'd like to have
- 00:14:09I have a kitchen that I need filling in
- 00:14:11let's type in kitchen and you'll get
- 00:14:14some kitchen stuff but not everything uh
- 00:14:16yeah you'll get some you'll get some
- 00:14:17weird ones I think the most interesting
- 00:14:19one is uh like hey what about those
- 00:14:21beach umbrellas I've seen they're under
- 00:14:24parasol
- 00:14:26parisel and it just kind of odd stuff
- 00:14:28like like that and again it's just you
- 00:14:30just have to deal with it but once you
- 00:14:32find it you'll not really forget about
- 00:14:34it yeah I I I mean this is just one of
- 00:14:38those experience things uh to to know
- 00:14:41like just what's in the editor just you
- 00:14:43know uh if you don't know what to put in
- 00:14:46your level at that time I would say just
- 00:14:48like scroll through everything and just
- 00:14:51I mean I think it's the best way to find
- 00:14:53something so yeah uh what do we want in
- 00:14:55our first room let's put a nice uh
- 00:14:58couch if I could spell it right couch
- 00:15:00and let's put it here and then uh have
- 00:15:04about a table so type in
- 00:15:06table and let's get a small table
- 00:15:09that'll work yeah and there really is so
- 00:15:12much in the furniture list like at least
- 00:15:14now at least pretty recently I've been
- 00:15:17using the editor for about I'd say like
- 00:15:1910 months to a year and I like realize
- 00:15:23that luggage is like within it I think
- 00:15:26they're in stronghold that um main beard
- 00:15:29level so again just stuff like that like
- 00:15:31I didn't even realize was in there oh
- 00:15:33yeah uh so if in a lot of items you'll
- 00:15:37see there's a bunch of different
- 00:15:38versions thank you for saying luggage
- 00:15:40because that's a good example so if I
- 00:15:43turn the mouse wheel up or down it'll
- 00:15:45scroll through all the options or you
- 00:15:47can just click but I don't know why you
- 00:15:49would ever do that when you just have
- 00:15:50the scroll wheel yeah scroll wheel is
- 00:15:52your go to yeah and
- 00:15:54so like like you see this has only one
- 00:15:57item that means this is the only version
- 00:15:59of 50 blessings table but with the new
- 00:16:02uh with the like the ATM you have busted
- 00:16:04open sort of busted open and nice and
- 00:16:09closed and to your uh here's here's the
- 00:16:12acid baths there's a whole bunch now
- 00:16:14certain uh items will have animations
- 00:16:17and you can scroll through all of them
- 00:16:20but when you place it like it'll uh go
- 00:16:23through its Behavior so like this Acid
- 00:16:24Bath Bubbles and I would suggest never
- 00:16:27using the Acid Bath because yeah and
- 00:16:29once we get to Spring and stuff like you
- 00:16:31said with object behaviors it's
- 00:16:33something that does affect uh modding
- 00:16:36but of course that's for another yep
- 00:16:37also so you're like hey these these are
- 00:16:39all cool but what if I want to place a
- 00:16:40civilian or something well then you over
- 00:16:43here you check people and now you have
- 00:16:45all the Sprites of pretty much everybody
- 00:16:48now there's some cool glitches that when
- 00:16:50you uh so say I
- 00:16:52want
- 00:16:54uh say I want like a character with an
- 00:16:57animation for instance like attack knife
- 00:17:01it's pretty much up in the air which
- 00:17:03animation is actually going to be there
- 00:17:05here um but with people if you if you
- 00:17:08don't want them to stand fully still you
- 00:17:10can change the speed of the
- 00:17:13animation so if you want him just to
- 00:17:15stand here now he doesn't count as an
- 00:17:17enemy he's just a Sprite the enemy tab
- 00:17:19is right here but
- 00:17:22uh most people have animations with
- 00:17:26speeds there's not a whole lot of point
- 00:17:28to most of these yeah I mean it's really
- 00:17:30just Spam like when you see the um
- 00:17:32shipost campaigns that people just put
- 00:17:34the speed all the way up like see here's
- 00:17:36all the versions of here's all the
- 00:17:37versions of Jake dead like it doesn't
- 00:17:39need an animation speed but you can
- 00:17:40scroll through the different ones and
- 00:17:42it'll choose one at random for you to
- 00:17:44have like it I doubt it's going to be
- 00:17:46this one like I I'll give you an example
- 00:17:48I'll give you three versions of dead
- 00:17:50Jake and it'll all be the same once I
- 00:17:52hit play um but that's how you do items
- 00:17:56and people pretty simple oh and
- 00:17:59I if you if you want to have it an angle
- 00:18:02hold shift and scroll the mouse wheel to
- 00:18:06uh spin it or hold shift and hit right
- 00:18:08Mouse button to do 90° turns so you
- 00:18:11don't have everything at one angle so
- 00:18:13rotating yeah rotating objects that need
- 00:18:15to be rotated is a must like and more so
- 00:18:18like a couch is fine if it's like
- 00:18:20parallel against whatever wall it's at
- 00:18:22but when we get to stuff um with like
- 00:18:24boxes what Rob was just saying with the
- 00:18:26squirrel wheel again there's so many
- 00:18:28variations of boxes and again it makes
- 00:18:31it sound like it's a bigger deal than it
- 00:18:32is but with that it's not that after a
- 00:18:35while if you're putting down the same
- 00:18:37box in your level people are going to be
- 00:18:39like all right there's something going
- 00:18:42on here all right next I think we
- 00:18:44covered all of items pretty much
- 00:18:46anything important uh next we'll have
- 00:18:49enemy and you can use these arrows to
- 00:18:52click through all the available enemies
- 00:18:54that your character has Hammer has
- 00:18:56everything but soldiers so you see all
- 00:18:58of them but side soldiers uh there's a
- 00:19:00glitch to get them to have soldiers but
- 00:19:02we're not going to cover that right now
- 00:19:04so let's do
- 00:19:05Mafia and you'll have all the different
- 00:19:08ones you'll have their different
- 00:19:10behaviors so there's two types of
- 00:19:11behavior for melee and three types of
- 00:19:13behaviors for
- 00:19:16guns static which means he doesn't move
- 00:19:19at all Patrol which means and it it
- 00:19:22describes what it does right here uh
- 00:19:24turns 90 degrees left when the path is
- 00:19:26blocked so he will turn here uh go here
- 00:19:29go here go here I'm going to move that
- 00:19:32item so yeah all the patrols and
- 00:19:35including the fat enemies do the same
- 00:19:38behavior like he just said with the p
- 00:19:40turn 90 Dees left when path is blocked
- 00:19:42as you can
- 00:19:43read yeah and I'm going to rearrange the
- 00:19:46furniture so he actually can like walk
- 00:19:48this direction and you can get created
- 00:19:50with the items to give him a specific uh
- 00:19:53Patrol uh
- 00:19:55fats uh you should know what these are
- 00:19:57you should know what the character typ
- 00:19:58are Idol is a bit
- 00:20:00strange uh I'm not sure how much they
- 00:20:02come up in the campaign but there's
- 00:20:05three different Idol animations for like
- 00:20:07say the mafia and he will either spawn
- 00:20:10with these two will spawn with gun once
- 00:20:13they see you and they they they behave
- 00:20:14just like static enemies essentially
- 00:20:16they'll pull out a gun it's random
- 00:20:17though it's not like how static enemies
- 00:20:19are where you can you have to choose
- 00:20:21what kind of gun they have and then
- 00:20:23that's the gun they'll have it's not
- 00:20:24like holl mam one I was going to say
- 00:20:26with the the phone idle guy I'm was
- 00:20:28positive that when he sees a player he
- 00:20:31takes out a silence pistol with the
- 00:20:33smoking animation it's kind of random
- 00:20:35what he kind of shoots you with and you
- 00:20:39have for these you have pipe knife bat
- 00:20:42this is pretty simple stuff
- 00:20:44folks uh miscellaneous why they called
- 00:20:47it miscellaneous I have no idea it's
- 00:20:49weapons it should have been called
- 00:20:51weapons uh yeah Bas but you know you
- 00:20:53spawn in weapons the blackedout ones you
- 00:20:56can't use because that character doesn't
- 00:20:57have the spes for for it so I'm going to
- 00:20:59give Hammer a pistol and this assault
- 00:21:02rifle and they'll just float there as if
- 00:21:04they're regular weapons uh enemies who
- 00:21:06can't use these weapons like the mafia
- 00:21:08will never pick that thing
- 00:21:09up and then we're back to level which
- 00:21:12we've already put down hammer in the
- 00:21:14vehicle because otherwise we can't save
- 00:21:16which I'm going to do that right now
- 00:21:17which is file save or contrl
- 00:21:21S just like every other windows program
- 00:21:24uh
- 00:21:26these it's a bit uh
- 00:21:30it's a bit glitchy the uh the hours the
- 00:21:33minutes the days you'll never see that
- 00:21:35the only thing that comes up will be
- 00:21:37what state is it it in so we're going to
- 00:21:39say Texas and it will say Texas only in
- 00:21:43campaign when I hit player now you'll
- 00:21:45not see the word Texas yeah and we'll go
- 00:21:47over that the layouts of like what um
- 00:21:50distinguishes a single level from a
- 00:21:52campaign
- 00:21:54but put it simply dinon has abandoned
- 00:21:57the editor all the mistakes like the
- 00:21:59these minor little things they're never
- 00:22:00going to fix you just have to work
- 00:22:02around it by putting the entire address
- 00:22:05in the State Bar here uh you can change
- 00:22:07the S rank score and the the S rank
- 00:22:10score will affect like all the lower
- 00:22:13grades below it but so this is the max
- 00:22:16score that you have to get and no one
- 00:22:18really gives a [ __ ] about these anymore
- 00:22:20um in editor but it's probably good to
- 00:22:23put some number in but so it's not just
- 00:22:26zero it just looks nicer on the score
- 00:22:27screen and then then of course level
- 00:22:29title you can if you don't like what you
- 00:22:30originally called it you can change that
- 00:22:32so instead of editor one we're going to
- 00:22:33call it editor zero and it would
- 00:22:38change also you can change your author
- 00:22:41yeah go I was going to say um with
- 00:22:43changes being made in the top right with
- 00:22:46the grid section and the wall guides it
- 00:22:48says level settings if at all that
- 00:22:51you're making a level and you want to
- 00:22:52change your player character there is a
- 00:22:55possibility that I think it does delete
- 00:22:57your enemies it's actually correct so if
- 00:22:59you go to options if you've made a
- 00:23:00mistake and you choose level settings uh
- 00:23:03you can do that it'll warn you that
- 00:23:05you'll lose your enemy placement if you
- 00:23:07only if you change to a character who
- 00:23:10can't use uh the enemies that you have
- 00:23:13set so I go to henchmen he only has gang
- 00:23:17so we would lose those if we choose them
- 00:23:18we can change the song change the
- 00:23:20title and that shouldn't be an issue
- 00:23:24yeah that's a good point say I change
- 00:23:29say I changed to the rat let's go to the
- 00:23:31rat and I hit okay uh we'll lose hammer
- 00:23:33and we'll lose this little thing but we
- 00:23:35can put him
- 00:23:37here and we can put his little buop and
- 00:23:39see the enemies didn't leave because we
- 00:23:40didn't choose that yeah
- 00:23:45okay we're just going to say I'm in
- 00:23:47Pakistan right now yeah um please donate
- 00:23:50to Matt he's trying to get out of Syria
- 00:23:52right
- 00:23:53now no no no so yeah I can you can leave
- 00:23:57s that I do apologize for for the
- 00:23:58background noise on my part of course
- 00:24:00it's um day before the
- 00:24:024th of July so obviously you have
- 00:24:04everyone going crazy with fireworks
- 00:24:07anyways once you have a Master full
- 00:24:10level right here you could create a new
- 00:24:12floor so Control Alt F or clicking new
- 00:24:15floor under the level tab in the
- 00:24:18toolbar and it will create this and I
- 00:24:21forgot so you're like oh crap well where
- 00:24:24is everything how do I know you click
- 00:24:25show wall guide and this is what the
- 00:24:28bottom floor look like this will help
- 00:24:30you line everything
- 00:24:31up so he's going to come from the stairs
- 00:24:37here so we're going to want to continue
- 00:24:39stairs there and this looks absolutely
- 00:24:41horrid I'm
- 00:24:42sorry yeah so that'll look good and
- 00:24:47then he'll have and it's not a huge deal
- 00:24:50if the two floors don't match up with
- 00:24:53each other I don't think most people are
- 00:24:55paying attention but it's nice to know
- 00:24:56exactly like where he comes up the
- 00:24:58stairs yeah just basically yeah trace
- 00:25:01your previous kind of floor and
- 00:25:02obviously I would leave that setting on
- 00:25:04at all times mhm just use your best
- 00:25:06judgment to line it up and how you think
- 00:25:08the next transition can look so we have
- 00:25:11the second floor and we have breakable
- 00:25:12walls here I forgot to cover those shoot
- 00:25:14them with a shotgun they break otherwise
- 00:25:16you're not going to get through them uh
- 00:25:17you'll be able to figure it
- 00:25:20out so once you've completed this floor
- 00:25:23and you want to link
- 00:25:24them uh you what I just did there is I
- 00:25:27held shift in control at the same time
- 00:25:29and the right and left Arrow
- 00:25:31key to uh shoot back and forth through
- 00:25:35them so once you want them to go you go
- 00:25:36floor
- 00:25:37transition and just like any object you
- 00:25:40can change the direction you can't make
- 00:25:41it go uh anything but 90 degrees but
- 00:25:46it's the same concept and you will click
- 00:25:49and drag where you want to go so click
- 00:25:52and drag in the direction that you want
- 00:25:54him to go so he has to be walking that
- 00:25:57direction for the floor transition to go
- 00:26:00and these sliders will allow you to put
- 00:26:04like that's what he'll spawn on that
- 00:26:06level so he won't if you don't move it
- 00:26:08he'll uh right where he walks that's
- 00:26:11where he'll Appeal on the next floor but
- 00:26:12if you slide the X and Y axis he'll
- 00:26:15appear someplace different so we want
- 00:26:18him a little bit further up the stairs
- 00:26:20so we'll put him right
- 00:26:22here maybe I can get it there we go and
- 00:26:26the more floors you have the more check
- 00:26:27boxes you'll have have I can't check
- 00:26:29first obviously because it's already on
- 00:26:30the first uh but that it's pretty simple
- 00:26:34that's how that works yeah just get a
- 00:26:35feel for it and you'll kind of see how
- 00:26:37it is and if you make mistakes
- 00:26:39especially like you said when you have
- 00:26:40multiple floors just go in and adjust it
- 00:26:43but
- 00:26:44yeah all right and then make sure to
- 00:26:47create one to go back or you can't leave
- 00:26:48the level they only work one way so you
- 00:26:51have to make two to go one to go up and
- 00:26:53one to go down right and make sure too
- 00:26:56that you're not overlapping like he's
- 00:26:57doing kind kind of pushing him more away
- 00:26:59from the bottom staircase of the first
- 00:27:01floor so again like when he enters from
- 00:27:04the second floor to the first floor he's
- 00:27:06not going to hit that level transition
- 00:27:08again and it's going to bring him back
- 00:27:09up also if you don't like stairs you can
- 00:27:12do
- 00:27:13elevators elevators act pretty much just
- 00:27:17like floor
- 00:27:18Transitions and uh wherever you put them
- 00:27:22the person's going to rise at that spot
- 00:27:25and he they'll show up right there
- 00:27:29now we have a beautiful level you're
- 00:27:30happy with it you want to test it you
- 00:27:32want to see if it plays well you uh go
- 00:27:34to file I would recommend saving it
- 00:27:37option often because you never know when
- 00:27:39you're going to get a crash but you're
- 00:27:40going to go oh by the way uh my Jakes
- 00:27:43are all lined up together correctly
- 00:27:46now uh and play level or control P
- 00:27:49control p is faster so it'll give you
- 00:27:52the
- 00:27:53basic uh loading screen unless you
- 00:27:56change it you can only change it with
- 00:27:57campaign
- 00:27:58and here you go you start up the
- 00:28:02level oh yeah I can't go backwards I set
- 00:28:06that all right so we cleared this floor
- 00:28:09so now we can't go through this one cuz
- 00:28:11I locked it this one can now open
- 00:28:14because we cleared everyone on the floor
- 00:28:16and these are oh yeah I correctly did
- 00:28:18this and here's the mirrored ones so go
- 00:28:23here boom all right now your level plays
- 00:28:27amazingly you walk down you go to your
- 00:28:32car I placed that so
- 00:28:38wrong and it'll spit you back to here
- 00:28:41and you can edit there or you can
- 00:28:42publish it we'll cover publishing
- 00:28:44another video I hope that this like 30
- 00:28:47minute Fiasco uh was a help for you or
- 00:28:51kind of closing we'll talk about just
- 00:28:53special effects which Rob going to show
- 00:28:56you at the top it's under the level file
- 00:29:00and here we've already done new floor
- 00:29:02previous floor uh create cut scene will
- 00:29:04be in a different
- 00:29:05video so the first one is ADD rain which
- 00:29:08instantly adds it to the entire map and
- 00:29:10to get rain out of your indoor areas you
- 00:29:12click and
- 00:29:14drag so you can click and drag from like
- 00:29:17any
- 00:29:18direction and just make sure it's lined
- 00:29:20up and when you're happy with it you
- 00:29:22right click and you'll be out of that
- 00:29:23menu if you're unhappy with it you're
- 00:29:25going to have to restart from scratch
- 00:29:27because
- 00:29:29it's just poorly designed uh the other
- 00:29:31thing is daylight which you can't change
- 00:29:35everything's just brightly lit now and
- 00:29:39you can remove it by clicking the same
- 00:29:46button back same with
- 00:29:51daylight going to remove that and the
- 00:29:55other thing is
- 00:29:59darkness which just like the rain you
- 00:30:02click and drag and now that room is dark
- 00:30:05and you can multiply the effect even
- 00:30:08worse so have Darkness yeah just layer
- 00:30:10it and I mean it takes processing power
- 00:30:14but you have now if you're unhappy with
- 00:30:15the way you did Darkness you're going to
- 00:30:17have to hit controll alt
- 00:30:20D and hit it again to open up the tab
- 00:30:23again you have to just
- 00:30:25restart yeah and that's what it is TDS
- 00:30:28what's different about the rain and the
- 00:30:29Darkness effect is that the rain you
- 00:30:31start out and the entire area is covered
- 00:30:34and where you're basically is
- 00:30:35highlighting areas of course like the
- 00:30:37interior that you're not going to let or
- 00:30:40just not have rain there but
- 00:30:41unfortunately with Darkness um which
- 00:30:44kind of makes sense that again you're
- 00:30:46just specifically highlighting it's not
- 00:30:47the entire area you're starting out with
- 00:30:49it's just specific um rooms that you're
- 00:30:51going to be ising that forward like he
- 00:30:53just did with the the fat guy in the top
- 00:30:56right all
- 00:30:59right uh what else is there um Sunset
- 00:31:03which is similar
- 00:31:05to uh brightness or
- 00:31:09daylight it's pretty much the same
- 00:31:13thing I'm not sure exactly what it
- 00:31:15changes do you know what it changes me
- 00:31:18um with sunlight uh add daylight or add
- 00:31:22Sunset I think um Sunset is the one
- 00:31:26that's there's one of them that's like
- 00:31:28kind of overbearing I know obviously
- 00:31:30it's using like um stronghold um yeah I
- 00:31:34think it's just the variation of how
- 00:31:37intense the brightness is yeah and some
- 00:31:39of them I again I can't really recall
- 00:31:41which one it is but one of them is kind
- 00:31:42of overbearing and
- 00:31:45typically yeah like it's rare that
- 00:31:47people use them but it might give a good
- 00:31:49kind of effect to a level depending on
- 00:31:51the scenery like you might have a like
- 00:31:53Resort type
- 00:31:56Place uh also another option is change
- 00:31:59background and this is the basic one
- 00:32:02pink cyan or there's dark brown which I
- 00:32:04think will also add thunder
- 00:32:07noises yes the the brown yeah I think
- 00:32:11yeah Brown does that the red one is just
- 00:32:13a default red red is just default uh
- 00:32:15jungle day will add trees and that uh
- 00:32:18evening and night uh it'll just change
- 00:32:21like the shade of the tree and then
- 00:32:22ocean waves like uh Dead Ahead be ocean
- 00:32:26waves you can't see it until you hit
- 00:32:28okay and then it looks like that I think
- 00:32:32the best one if we have rain is going to
- 00:32:34be dark
- 00:32:36brown uh these don't show up in campaign
- 00:32:39but in single levels it really helps uh
- 00:32:42set the mood if you want a certain mood
- 00:32:45you're saying also level borders it's
- 00:32:47another click and drag sort of deal and
- 00:32:51it's one of those kind of useless
- 00:32:53scenarios
- 00:32:56unfortunately but
- 00:32:59uh when we get to notepad++ they're
- 00:33:02super important but until then I
- 00:33:04wouldn't worry about that yeah and I was
- 00:33:06going to say too with um the build Tab
- 00:33:08and the first tab on the uh far right
- 00:33:11going with level borders and the same
- 00:33:13thing there's a um Little Red Cube and
- 00:33:18it's oh yeah we forgot to cover this uh
- 00:33:20it's invisible
- 00:33:22walls uh you can't see them when you're
- 00:33:25actually playing the game but you sure
- 00:33:26can't go through them
- 00:33:28yeah and I think there's sometimes
- 00:33:30glitches where enemies will kind of go
- 00:33:31through them but for this example we
- 00:33:33might kind of border reor so he's like
- 00:33:37the player's not able to kind of go
- 00:33:38around the whole building and just kind
- 00:33:40of contain him there but make sure of
- 00:33:42course uh he can access the car or in
- 00:33:46his case The Bu stops you're not like
- 00:33:49straining him they're
- 00:33:50contextual M and I'm going to flip that
- 00:33:53bus seat cuz it was bothering
- 00:33:56me
- 00:33:59okay but in terms of I think we did yeah
- 00:34:03yeah in terms of closing words I was
- 00:34:06going to say um how many floors is too
- 00:34:09little or too much um now realistically
- 00:34:13I mean of course the game is not
- 00:34:14realistic but if you're making a house
- 00:34:17like just a normal house level like this
- 00:34:19is decent it's not really going to have
- 00:34:22six floors and I think typical for that
- 00:34:25it's going to be like three to four
- 00:34:28and when we kind of get to level
- 00:34:30development um you have issues where
- 00:34:33like levels kind of seem to drag on or
- 00:34:35like they're too short but of course
- 00:34:37kind of using your best judgment um when
- 00:34:39to get making these settings but of
- 00:34:41course like I've said um we'll touch
- 00:34:42space with this in our next video but I
- 00:34:45think closing words best advice overall
- 00:34:48and everyone agrees on this is
- 00:34:50experience and you defin just play
- 00:34:53around with the editor like I know when
- 00:34:54I first started I was just messing with
- 00:34:56it for like a month or so so and um just
- 00:35:00trial and error and don't garbage don't
- 00:35:02worry just keep uh making that garbage
- 00:35:05better and better and eventually you're
- 00:35:06going to have nice levels yeah yeah and
- 00:35:07like don't be intimidated it's like
- 00:35:08obviously you're just making whatever
- 00:35:10but of course just take your time with
- 00:35:12making your content and of course we
- 00:35:14hope that don't do this this is bad this
- 00:35:17is bad this is just for the basics next
- 00:35:19next episode I think we're going to make
- 00:35:21it uh look nicer yeah we'll touch one of
- 00:35:24the episodes at least but um yeah I
- 00:35:27think that's why I'm say all right well
- 00:35:29thank you everybody yeah stay tuned
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