Advanced Guide for Map Editor

Overview

Guide for people who Want to make Better Maps and understand Map Maker better.

How to make a New Map

First of all.. THIS GUIDE IS OUTDATED and NO LONGER works. It was written for older version of the editor.

In Main Menu, after reaching Level 10, will show up Map Editor

• Click on Map Editor in Settings
  

• Click on New Map
  

• Choose how big you want your map
  

• Done

Basics

For those who didn’t read “Map Creation” guide.

Camera Movement

• Hold Spacebar then click and drag Left Mouse Button
• You can Zoom out by clicking [ and Zoom in by clicking ]
• In Upper Left corner you can see nuber 2 the Scrolling Speed, if you click on it you can speed up your Camera Movement

Bars

• First Top Bar is for Saving, Loading and Other important things
  

• In Second Top Bar you can Choose Editor Mode
  

• In Third Top Bar you choose different options for Mode you chose in Second Bar
  

• Layers – Check out Layers & zIndex
  

Save & Load

A lot of pople struggle at this, because they think that their game crashed.
It didn’t…

How to Save

Follow these steps to Save your map

1. Press Save
2. Wait 5 – 20 seconds
3. Hold Alt and press Tab
4. Search in shown icons for Java icon stay on it and let go from buttons (on newer windows version it just shows newly opened folder[i think])
5. Find folder you want and Save it

How to Load

Follow these steps to Load your map

1. Press Load
2. Wait 5 – 20 seconds
3. Hold Alt and press Tab
4. Search in shown icons for your Folder
5. Find folder you saved it in and Load it

Properties

Basically info about your map

Play

If you want to Test your Map you have to click on Play

• You must have Spawn to actually Spawn your character
  Important: If you Press Play and you didn’t create Spawn, game bugs and you have to restart Map Maker Same happens when you Press Play and then ESC

• After you Press Play you just Choose where you want to spawn and what you want to be equipped with
• To Exit player/test mode just press ESC

Grid & Scrolling Speed

Grid

• By pressing this you allow showing The Grid of the map

Scrolling Speed

• By clicking this you can choose between 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x Scrolling Speed

<=====Editor Modes=====>

There are four Editor Modes

• Place Blocks Mode
• Sprites
• Lights
• Other

● Place Blocks Mode

In this mode you can Place Blocks

All Functions

1. Small Circle
   

   With this you can place 1×1 block you chose

2. Medium Circle
   

   With this circle you place 3×3 (without corners) block you chose

3. Big Circle
   

   With this you can place 5×5 (not exactly) block you chose

4. Rectangle
   

   With this mode you can fill space of any size

5. Line
   

   Places blocks from point A to point B

6. Select Region
   
   With Select Region You can:
   • Copy
     1. Select area
     2. Hold CTRL
     3. Hold LMB on the selected area
     4. Move somewhere then let go of buttons

   • Move
     1. Select area
     2. Drag it somewhere else (LMB)
     I deffinitely not reccommend using Move.. it is kinda broken, just Copy it and Delete the old one.

7. Cutter
   
   Deactivated

   
   Activated

   Deletes blocks

– Blocks

There is currently 15 block types in Brain/Out

You can choose blocks by clicking:

This shows up:

Info about All Blocks:

● Sprites

Sprites or Textures if you want to call them like that, are the Second Most important thing on your map (first is good Idea).

To Place Sprite click on:

Then Click somewhere on the Map

Keyboard Keys

• CTRL – moves Sprite on the Map Grid
• ALT – Copy
• E – Cutter (You can Select Multiple Sprites, press E and click somewhere on the Map.. that deletes all Selected Sprites)

Sprite Settings

You can get into Sprite Settings by rightclicking:

Then this shows up:

Sprite Choosing

To Choose Sprite you want click on:

Info about All Settings:

• Sprite – Choosing Sprite you want
• Scale – How big your Sprite is
  – Scale 2.0 would be 2x bigger than original

• FlipX – Flips Sprite in Horizontal way
• FlipY – Flips Sprite in Vertical way
• Cache – Not sure
• zIndex – Look into Layers&zIndex section
• Layer – Choose Layer 1, 3 or 5
• ID – For Coding
• Team – Not sure What this does, but you can change
  in Which team it is

• X – Horizontal Position on the Map
• Y – Vertical Position on the Map

Shortcuts for Sprites

I discovered some useful Shortcuts you may use

To Search for Sprites click on:

Shortcuts:

1. “Station” – Sprites from Map Station, same goes for Other Maps
2. “fr-obj” – Furniture etc.
3. “c-” – Metal Block Variants, Read Hints&Tricks
4. “rr” – Clouds, Background
5. “nitr” – Glass Variants
6. “ed-” – Numbers 0 – 9
7. “wall” – Walls
8. “box” – Boxes

● Lights

For Atmospheric feel you can add Lights

To place Light you have to Click on:

Then Click Somewhere on the Map

Keyboard Keys

• CTRL – moves Light on the Map Grid
• ALT – Copy
• E – Cutter (You can Select Multiple ights, press E and click somewhere on the Map.. that deletes all Selected Lights)

  Settings:
  To go into Setting Rightclick:
  

  This Shows up:
  

  Settings:

  • FlipX – Flips Horizontally
  • zIndex – Look into Layers&zIndex
  • Layer – Look into Layers&zIndex
  • ID – For Coding
  • Team – Not Sure
  • Color – Changes Color of the Light – by HTML
  • Distance – Light Power by Blocks
  • x – Horizontal Position
  • y – Vertical Position

● Other

Other Mode contains The most Complicated Things.
At The same Time it is The most Interesting one..

To go Into Other Editor Mode press this:

Keyboard Keys

• CTRL – moves Other on the Map Grid
• ALT – Copy
• E – Cutter (You can Select Multiple Others, press E and click somewhere on the Map.. that deletes all Selected Others)

  Functions
  Other mode has 39 different Functions

  To select Function Click on:
  

  This Shows up:
  

– Functions

Settings

All Functions has its own Settings, but Some Settings are Same:

• Layer – Read Layers&zIndex
• x – Horizontal Position on the map
• y – Vertical Position on the map
• zIndex – Read Layers&zIndex
• ID – For Coding
• flipX – Flips Horizontally
• Team – Changes Team of The Function

Function List & Informations

1. Fireplace
   Spawns Fire Animation which doesn’t Demage

2. Freeplay Menu Activator
   You can Press E on it (as Player) to Enter Freeplay

3. Right Target Spawner
   No Idea yet

4. Shooting Disablet Marker
   Disables Shooting, Weapon throwing, Granade throwing etc. in 66×66 Area

5. Door
   Follow These Steps to Make working Door
   • Make Two doors
   • Go into Settings of One of Them
   • Find “Tag:” and Write there (for example) “door“
   • Write it to the second Door’s Tag too
   Two Doors with the same Tag are Connected to each other

6. Top 100 Menu Activator
   You can Press E on it (as Player) to Enter Top 100

7. Hide Other Marker
   No Idea yet

8. Snow
   Spawns Snow on The Map
   – Works only on High Details

9. Switchboard
   Lootable “Chests” in Freeplay
   – You can Change what Sound it does when Opened and Closed

10. Exit Door
    In Freeplay You exit through this
    – Doesn’t do Anything in Map Maker

11. Conditioning
    Makes Sound and Rotates

12. Apartment Locked Door
    Self Explaining
    – Doesn’t do Anything in Map Maker

13. Garage Locked Door
    Self Explaining
    – Doesn’t do Anything in Map Maker

14. Spawn
    Spawn is Used for Spawning on Certain position
    – In Settings you can Set its Name

15. Subpoint
    You can spawn on Subpoint Through Spawn
    – You have to Change in Spawn’s Settings Range (Range: 1 meants its Range is 1 Block)
    – Subpoint Must be in Spawn’s Range
    – Where You Spawn is Random

16. Marker
    No Idea yet

17. Left Target Spawner
    No Idea yet

18. Item_Chip_Spawner
    No Idea yet

19. Safe
    Spawns Lock which you can Open like Normal one in Freeplay

20. Elevator Door A
    Elevators are Complicated but if You would want i will make and Describe it

21. Quick Play Menu Activator
    You can Press E on it (as Player) to Enter Quick Play

22. Rain
    Spawns Rain on The Map
    – Works only on High Details

23. Shooting Range Door
    You can Press E on it (as Player) to Shooting Range

24. Trigger
    You can Program through This

25. Chemical Exposure Particles
    Animation of Green Shower like particles

26. Elevator Room A
    Elevators are Complicated but if You would want i will make and Describe it

27. Ambient Sound
    Makes Sound
    – You have to write there exact File name

28. Find Game Menu Activator
    You can Press E on it (as Player) to Find Game Menu

29. Item_Chip_Receiver
    No Idea yet
    – Makes Marker on the Minimap and has Animation

30. Elevator Floor A
    Elevators are Complicated but if You would want i will make and Describe it

31. Elevator Controller A
    Elevators are Complicated but if You would want i will make and Describe it

32. Crate Container
    Creates Container

33. Indoor Marker
    If you are in Range of (63x63) Background turns Black

34. Pumpkin
    Spawns Pumkin with it’s “AI“

35. Chemical Exposure
    Area in Which you Get Demage over time
    – At least you Should
    – You can Change Area of it

36. Elevator Door Animation A
    Elevators are Complicated but if You would want i will make and Describe it

37. Helicopter
    Spawns Helicopter which does Sounds and has Animation

38. Locked Container
    Spawns Lock which you can Unlock like Normal one’s in Freeplay

39. Flag
    Creates Flag
    – Works Simillary as Spawn
    – You can Capture it

Layers & zIndex

Layers are one of the most important things in Map Making, if you want to be Better Map Maker you must know how to use the properly

To open Layers Tab click this arrow:

This Shows up:

There is seven Layers:

• Lights
• Layer 5 – Sprites
• Player
• Layer 4 – Sprites
• Layer 3 – Blocks
• Layer 2 – Blocks
• Layer 1 – Sprites

  Info

• Layers are above each other so Everything in Layer 5 si Overlapping Layer 4 and so on..
• In every Layer you can place only what it is for, so for example you cannot put any Sprite into Layer 3
• You can Make any Layer not–Visible and Visible again
  

• Same for Locking, you Cannot do anything to anything in Locked Layer
  

What is that?

• Layers of Layers – Layers 1, 4, 5 and Lights has Many more Layers which you can Move Things Into
• Example: There are two Sprites in Layer 4, Sprite 1 and Sprite 2, I want S1 to be Above S2, so i change zIndex of S1 to 3<
• When Created All sprites has zIndex 2
• If Sprites have same zIndexes they are Divided by When they were created, New ones are Above Old ones

Hints & Tricks

I have Found out some Things that you May Find Interesting and could maybe Help you.

Block-Sprite Trick
In Sprites you can Find Blocks like Glass, Core etc.
So if you need for example Glass block that cannot be destroied place Invisible Core and Over it place Glass Sprite on Layer 4 or 5.

Same Goes for Every other Block.

You can do same thing just for hiding Blocks.
For example you need to Hide Blocks of Stairs so you put another Sprite (Wall forex.) into Layer 4.

Stair (Ladder) Trick

You know that if you place Ladder next to the Block in same Layer it disapeares.
To prevent that easily you can place Ladder next to the Block than Another one Over/Behind it in different Layer OR you can put Sprite of Ladder Over it (i use this more)

Without Trick:

With It (Second Layer Way):

With It (Sprite Way):

Map Maker as Private Server

I don’t know Why but People say that you cannot use Map Maker as Your Server to play with your Friends on.
You CAN

How to:
When you are In Map Editor just press ESC and Invite your Friend through Invite a Friend

Or tell him your Room’s ID

Buildings in Distance
You can make a building that looks like it’s in the distance…. you reduce the scale of the building (sprite) then put it above the ground and place dirt wall under it (set all of them under the 3rd. layer so it won’t cover/block you) Idea by: RhimFlesS

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I Hope it helped You at least a little bit.

MADE BY:

Wolf [WsW]

Questions are Welcome