0:00:08.769,0:00:12.940 Hello and welcome to the Wolfire Alpha Map Editor Tutorial. 0:00:12.940,0:00:17.000 Today, we will be showing you how to use the map editor toolset and the function of each 0:00:17.000,0:00:17.330 tool. 0:00:17.330,0:00:21.449 We'll show you how to play with Rabbot, and have him interact with the environment. 0:00:21.749,0:00:25.570 And we'll also be showing you how to build your own structures. 0:00:25.570,0:00:28.790 Alright, let's start by taking a look at our toolkit here. 0:00:28.790,0:00:33.770 You can see from the roll-over tool-tips, that we have the load object tool, the translate 0:00:33.770,0:00:37.280 tool, scale, rotate, add object and select. 0:00:38.500,0:00:43.230 So first let's start with the translation tool. I'm gonna take our object here, using 0:00:43.230,0:00:48.860 left click, we can use the generic translation, relative to the camera, just to move this 0:00:48.860,0:00:50.660 object around. 0:00:51.260,0:00:57.290 And now, using right click, we can use a translation space relative to the plane we select with 0:00:57.290,0:00:58.399 right click. 0:00:58.399,0:01:01.809 You can see the grid system laying out where we're going to be moving the object. 0:01:02.709,0:01:08.809 We can move it off into infinity there, bring it back, and if we hold shift we can actually 0:01:09.100,0:01:11.149 translate along the normal of the planes. 0:01:11.149,0:01:16.289 So you can see that using right click and just one of the planes on the cube, and then 0:01:16.289,0:01:20.819 occasionally shift, we can actually translate the cube along all three axes to put it anywhere 0:01:20.819,0:01:23.159 we want on the screen. 0:01:23.159,0:01:26.189 So, the next tool that we're going to be talk ing about is the rotation tool. 0:01:26.189,0:01:30.229 This is me right clicking on various planes of the cube, and right click is probably what 0:01:30.229,0:01:32.429 you want to stick to most of the time. 0:01:32.429,0:01:37.399 Because it preserves most of the original orientation of the cube, so if you're making 0:01:37.399,0:01:40.329 a building it's really helpful to keep everything aligned together. 0:01:40.329,0:01:44.759 You can also left click, like I'm doing now, and you get a freeform rotation. 0:01:44.759,0:01:49.090 It's also a great way to preview objects. You can see the lighting and shading effects 0:01:49.090,0:01:53.079 really highlighted there as I move the object around. 0:01:53.079,0:01:56.429 So if you're a talented artist like Aubrey, you probably will never need this function, 0:01:56.429,0:01:59.099 but for the rest of us control+z is your best friend; 0:01:59.099,0:02:02.520 That's the undo button and control+shift+z is redo. 0:02:02.520,0:02:05.659 The next tool is the scaling tool. 0:02:06.659,0:02:11.690 You can see that with left click you can scale the entire object to make it larger or smaller, 0:02:11.690,0:02:14.130 but keep all the proportions the same. 0:02:14.130,0:02:19.140 Then with right click the behavior is very similar to the translation tool, because if 0:02:19.140,0:02:26.140 I right click on a face I can move the corner nearest to my right click along two axes. 0:02:26.940,0:02:33.940 And then if I hold shift I can distort and scale the object along the normal to the plane. 0:02:34.110,0:02:36.630 Fans of photoshop will like this next feature. 0:02:36.630,0:02:42.500 Here I am with the translation tool and holding alt and what happens is, not only do I translate 0:02:42.500,0:02:46.440 an object, but this new object is a clone of the original object. 0:02:46.440,0:02:52.440 And then again if I hold shift it all becomes relative to the normal, to the selected plane, 0:02:52.440,0:02:55.260 and I can make clones in all three dimensions. 0:02:55.260,0:03:00.110 And as you might expect intuitively, you can select multiple objects at the same time. 0:03:00.110,0:03:06.710 And then alt-drag with the Translation tool and you'll copy multiple objects simultaneously. 0:03:06.710,0:03:12.710 Beyond regular right click, alt-shift cloning, I can also hold down control to enable the 0:03:12.710,0:03:14.150 map editor snap system. 0:03:14.150,0:03:19.840 And this allows me to nestle cubes together, perfectly adjacently to each other, so that 0:03:19.840,0:03:22.270 I can tile them to make floors and other objects. 0:03:25.000,0:03:28.120 Alright, I'm going to show you another way to select multiple objects at the same time, 0:03:28.120,0:03:32.390 if you hold right click and left click together you can use the box select tool. 0:03:32.390,0:03:35.090 Just drag the box around all the objects you want to select together. 0:03:35.090,0:03:38.810 If you push delete, all the selected objects disappear. 0:03:38.810,0:03:44.000 But now I'm going to select another set of objects. And I'm going to press Control+G. 0:03:44.000,0:03:47.440 This groups them together, and I can create multiple groups 0:03:47.440,0:03:51.360 And then once I have groups I can even select them all and create one giant group out of 0:03:51.360,0:03:52.060 the groups. 0:03:55.060,0:03:59.060 So that's what I've done here. Now it's really easy to reselect the whole group and manipulate 0:03:59.960,0:04:01.540 all the objects in the group together. 0:04:04.000,0:04:08.000 And to de-group I just press Control+Shift+G. 0:04:08.000,0:04:13.250 Intuitively, a group of objects can be copied and pasted elsewhere by using Control+C and 0:04:13.250,0:04:14.100 then Control+V. 0:04:14.100,0:04:19.910 And, of course, Control+V will place the cloned set of objects wherever your cursor was at 0:04:19.910,0:04:23.009 the time you pressed Control+V 0:04:25.009,0:04:29.240 Ok, let's put all the tricks we've learned together to make a quick test level for Rabbot 0:04:29.240,0:04:32.789 and see if he can handle this. 0:04:32.789,0:04:39.349 Just Press 8 to... Send in Rabbot! 0:04:39.349,0:04:41.770 [Beatboxing] 0:04:46.770,0:04:47.669 Oops, there's no staircase. 0:04:47.669,0:04:54.669 I can just push 9 to go back to editing mode and I can push 8 again to go back to Rabbot. 0:04:54.669,0:04:56.990 No beatboxing this time. I promise. 0:04:56.990,0:04:59.650 Alright Rabbot jump! 0:04:59.650,0:05:02.900 Get there! 0:05:02.900,0:05:03.819 Very nice! 0:05:03.819,0:05:04.229 Great success! 0:05:07.829,0:05:10.759 Look at Rabbot standing there all cocky. 0:05:10.759,0:05:12.990 A little ODE updating will take care of that. 0:05:14.990,0:05:15.639 Whoa! 0:05:17.139,0:05:21.139 Alright so you've seen how to build a chaotic jungle gym made out of blocks, but maybe you 0:05:21.509,0:05:27.699 actually want to try building a real looking building asset for a change. 0:05:27.699,0:05:31.699 No, this isn't 10 times speed, I'm just that good! 0:06:56.900,0:07:01.419 We hope you've enjoyed this map editor tour, and please feel free to check out the Wolfire 0:07:01.419,0:07:05.469 blog for the latest Overgrowth development news, and happy modding!