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Here's what I managed to achieve using Firefly 3D extension and LVL Edit. A lot of hard work... without LVL Edit I'll give up I guess...
From an artistic perspective I decided to not use Firefly Billboard objects. Only meshes and primitives (some with spritesheet animations).

Here's one of levels I'm making. Currently no enemies and UI, maybe later. One of the assets isn't mine (hand with a gun) - I'll change it...
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LVL Edit is a level design tool. It is not a modeling tool (at least for the time being). You can import models from Crocotile into LVL Edit or directly from Crockotile into Firefly. I need to take a deeper look into that Crockotile - LVL Edit workflow.

Personally, I use Blender 2.8 (and above) with the Sprytile add-on which is inspired by the Crocotile.

Here's an example. Needs to change some parameters (like camera or primitive type) but should help

yaw: atan2(x, z)
pitch: atan2(y, sqr( x pow 2 + z pow 2))

Hard to say. It depends how your loop detects punctation marks. What are Your String Object delimiters?

Some solution, maybe:
For example: (if Spacebar is a delimiter) > get word from loop index "words only" > and if word has punctation mark > then go to next line.
So maybe two String Objects should be used. One for whole text and one for word...

Hi, here's some level demo powered by Clickteam Fusion 2.5, Firefly and LVL Edit 0.6.
It is much easier to make something when You have LVL Edit tool. Just look above...

When we talk about Firefly features - here's some spritesheet, ray pick, distance calculation and particles (rain)
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Hi everyone,
I want to share some of quick demos of what currently LVL Edit 0.6 can do. All made with Clickteam Fusion + Firefly extension...

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Here's latest version of LVL Edit. Level designig tool for Clickteam Firefly 3D extension. A lot of changes and improvements.
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New features:
- Entity Outliner made from scratch (instead of buggy Objects List)
- Mode: Quick Paint Material
- Grid Marker options: set color, border style, placement visualization
- Filters: Show/Hide Static Meshes
- Color Palette Popup
- Materials: Edit, save and load material: ambient, diffuse, specular and emissive colors
- Materials: Spritesheet checkbox for primitive planes and spritesheet animation properties
- Value Field Step speed tempo depends on how long Up/Down Key pressed
- Different Start Marker Image
- Placement Mode List: when LVL Edit starts - load last selection
- Application menu: Window for showing/hiding panels
- LVL Edit Preferences: Default button to restore default settings
- LVL Edit Preferences: Keep Last Session checkbox
- LVL Edit Preferences: Clear Recent Files list button
- LVL Edit Preferences: App Log: Include Firefly Engine Messages checkbox
- Added reset button for default rotation (0,0,0)
- Save As... Dialog: now with file name when project edited
- Metrics Panel - Your project details
- Auto-Select checkbox for Transformation Mode
- Use mouse wheel while moving camera to accelerate or slow down movement
Bug fixed:
- Dropdown lists wrong position when 21:9 and multiple monitors support
- UI: rotation & flip buttons + always show edited axis line
- Particles wrong values from emmitter shape box min, box max
- Particle position bug when Placing Mode: Click Marker
- Show Start/End markers when Start/End marker created
- Cylinder saving and loading
- Loading animated mesh: scaleY bug for all animated meshes
- Library scrolling working correctly for all amount of images/materials
Shortcuts:
- Shortcuts: F12 - Show LVL Edit Preferences
- Shortcuts: Ctrl+ H - Show All hidden objects from filters list
- About: refreshed popup

Hi DrWho, from my perspective the biggest improvement I'm using a lot are this parent/child events and 260 named values/strings. I had no problems with this add-on/dlc so far.

Thank You. I'm working hard to improve this tool. Next big LVL Edit update coming soon. Here's a video showing current UI and some of Firefly level editor features:
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Will it be easy to find textures that can fit the 3d scenes that we will create ?

I think this will depend on Your assets organization. I'll be working on that to make it as simple as it can be or maybe You're thinking about online assets packages.

Clickteam Firefly Level Editor I'm making goes 2.5+! Here's some of the latest LVL Edit's feature - spritesheet animations:
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Some work in progress level designed in LVL Edit:
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I have a problem here. Font was changed in Settings for Expression Editor but every time Expression Editor shows - I need to change font size again here... to load my font of choice:
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LVL Edit - Level Design Demo I'm working on.
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Hi. Work on the tool is still ongoing and it's doing well. The program is growing in strength. It's on the Patreon website for some time. Soon another version with a lot of improvements.
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Current LVL Edit version:
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LVL Edit 0.5 is a work in progress project. Coming soon...
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If You mean You can't download .rar file - I should look into that. If You have problem with running LVL Edit.exe - that's the LVL Edit Statistics fault - it should be turned off at start (user should be able to decide first if he want to send application stats to help me improve that tool). If You want to avoid that message You can edit file data.ini where LVL Edit is, change line: raports=1 to raports=0 and computer should accept application - no raports. Thank You for Your feedback.

Fixing bugs, adding new features. I'll bring new version to Clickstore in June!

New version of level editor for Clickteam Firefly! It's update time for anyone interested

LVL Edit 0.4.2 changelog
- Invisible properties bug while object selected
- LVL Edit FPP example - alpha channel bug fixed (actions order)
- Fog bug for Static Mesh materials
- Object properties: Quick 45deg rotations buttons updates rotation edit boxes in Transform Tab
- Basic lighting (no save - w.i.p. still buggy)
- Changed zoom values from 100-200% to 0-100%
- Better tooltip position when mouse over animation tab in properties
- Updated testers list
- LVL Edit Settings: changed layout with tabs above
- Object properties: change object name font color depends on it's visibility
- Added: new menu quick buttons (quick save and reset/new project)
- Object properties: proportional scaling trigger
- Object properties: double click on material miniature open it in default image browser
- Added: Take a screenshot button
- Added: Filters show/hide object types
- LVL Edit Statistics

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Hi everyone,
I'm currently working on retro 3D platform shooter using Clickteam Firefly and I'm excited to share with You my tool for designing levels. It's called LVL Edit. Here's some of it's features:

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I know that Firefly has it's own World Editor - but I just looove making apps with Clickteam tools.
Here's some simple FPS level done with it - just to show how to integrate "copy paste LVL Edit loading level" events.

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LVL Edit is still growing. You can go here to see it's updates and what's comming in next (0.4.2) update:
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If You're interested visit project's webside here:
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Current version:
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Hi everyone,
I'm working on some mixture of 2D pixelart/3D low poly platform shooter using Firefly extension and my simple level editor (all done with Clickteam Fusion 2.5). It's not my full-time game project but it's making progress depends on my free time. Step by step.

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I'm currently focused on platform movement. Some test level here

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Inspirations list:
Duke Nukem 3D, Doom, Disney's Hercules Action Game, Oddworld - Abe's Oddysee, Tenchu

Blit function from Surface Object likes alpha channel. So when I have for example hero jumping animation in active object I can see every frame using Blit. I think there is no way to just show one current frame (with alpha channel).

Basics: How to rotate plane with it's frontface and backface visible? Importance of Material Cache's frontface and backface culling + ambient colour of Light Node.
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Basics: How to texture a primitive box
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Latest attempt to test level of my 2.5D action platform game:
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Some lighting test for better understanding it:
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