Tutorial: How to Make a Level Editor

I recently made an 8 video long tutorial series on how to make a dynamic level editor/creator in Fusion 2.5. If you're interested, here's a link to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...Wor0u1M9R5g9RU
(The audio isn't the best in the beginning, but it's fixed a few videos in)
Hope this can at least help someone ;) Also, if you have anything you think I should add to this, let me know so I can update the series.

Finished EXE: http://www.mediafire.com/download/1u...vel_Editor.exe
Finished MFA (for learning purposes only, do not redistribute): http://www.mediafire.com/download/vl...vel+Editor.mfa

I'm fine with people redistributing the MFA as long as credit is given.

Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for.

With my volume on all the max settings, even the 8th video of this series was only some sort of whispers. You are at like 1/30th the volume of the commercials that play.

Also your links to the MFA here and on youtube do not link to the mfa but the .exe.

Nice tutorial!
Thanks

Nice ! I listen some part of the video 2 and 8 (to see the final version :D) And for me sound is not bad. The engine seems very cool and powerfull. I will take a look soon on all the videos. Thanks to take time and to share that.

Thanks BtheDestroyer! I'm going through this right now :) I'm learning some good stuff. One question though, If I build the editor using the Associative Array Object, can the regular array object read the array files created by the associated array object? I would like to make my levels iOS/Android readable.

One thing I'd add (I'm not sure I'm doing it the right way) would be a way to delete tiles. I managed to get it to work by adding this line to the Tile Drawing portion of the level edit frame:

*Repeat while Right Mouse Button was clicked
AssArray: "Tile;" + Str$(( XMouse / 32 ) + EScrollVal( "Hor Scrollbar" ) ) + ";" + Str$(( YMouse / 32 ) - 4 + EScrollVal( "Virt Scrollbar" ) ) to "0"

Hope this helps someone! ;)

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Originally Posted by CRKFIEND

Thanks BtheDestroyer! I'm going through this right now :) I'm learning some good stuff. One question though, If I build the editor using the Associative Array Object, can the regular array object read the array files created by the associated array object? I would like to make my levels iOS/Android readable.

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Sadly, no. They build files using different methods. I can see if I can do a separate series on how to do it for iOS/Android if need be, though ;)

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Originally Posted by CRKFIEND

One thing I'd add (I'm not sure I'm doing it the right way) would be a way to delete tiles. I managed to get it to work by adding this line to the Tile Drawing portion of the level edit frame:

*Repeat while Right Mouse Button was clicked
AssArray: "Tile;" + Str$(( XMouse / 32 ) + EScrollVal( "Hor Scrollbar" ) ) + ";" + Str$(( YMouse / 32 ) - 4 + EScrollVal( "Virt Scrollbar" ) ) to "0"

Hope this helps someone!

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Just setting the value to "" works fine.

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Originally Posted by CRKFIEND

Thanks BtheDestroyer! I'm going through this right now :) I'm learning some good stuff. One question though, If I build the editor using the Associative Array Object, can the regular array object read the array files created by the associated array object? I would like to make my levels iOS/Android readable.

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Sadly, no. They build files using different methods. I can see if I can do a separate series on how to do it for iOS/Android if need be, though ;)

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Originally Posted by CRKFIEND

One thing I'd add (I'm not sure I'm doing it the right way) would be a way to delete tiles. I managed to get it to work by adding this line to the Tile Drawing portion of the level edit frame:

*Repeat while Right Mouse Button was clicked
AssArray: "Tile;" + Str$(( XMouse / 32 ) + EScrollVal( "Hor Scrollbar" ) ) + ";" + Str$(( YMouse / 32 ) - 4 + EScrollVal( "Virt Scrollbar" ) ) to "0"

Hope this helps someone!

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Just setting the value to "" works fine ;)

This level editor is perfect for me!! With some slight modifications, I was able to create levels for my own map editor. Originally I used excel and converted the xml files with sketchy's array editor, but since the recent patch his program no longer shows string arrays.