Tutorial: How to Make a Level Editor

[BtheDestroyer]

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.

[Ped]

Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for.

[Obsidian]

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.

[Traumat1x]

Nice tutorial!
Thanks

[Wolkam]

Nice ! I listen some part of the video 2 and 8 (to see the final version ) 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.

[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.

[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!

[BtheDestroyer]

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.

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

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!

Just setting the value to "" works fine.

[BtheDestroyer]

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.

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

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!

Just setting the value to "" works fine

[ffomega]

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.