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I've been playing with the map editor, though I wish I knew what some of the things mean, such as STD, RGT, DWN, SK... two of these might mean right and down, but STD (standard?) or SK ... I am still quite clueless.

Also, I don't know the difference between INIT and SPAWN in the Enemy dialog, or how big a difference the difficulty in strength equates to what you're shooting them with, and all that. :3

Or what shift+x will do (test run the game) later maybe.

So far I'm having fun with this :3 but you guessed it, eagerly awaiting the chance to "see" what I'm doing in the editor.

No rush though, I can just fiddle with the editor for a while.

jimbo5 days ago

It is in the documentation above. Under “Enemy” - Std means Stand (the enemy just stands there), Rgt and Dwn means the enemy will either march right and left, or down and up (between walls), and Sk means the enemy will seek out the player right away. Init means the level initializes with the enemy right away, whereas Spawn means the enemy will spawn only when the player walks over a Trigger. And Shift-X means X can be any key - if you are in the middle of nowhere, Shift-S will immediately bring you to the Start (if there is one) and Shift-E will immediately bring you to each enemy in succession. I will try to improve the documentation.

Jammet5 days ago

Ah, apologies for missing the entire bit about the documentation. I wents hands on, immediately there. I think everything else appears to be even made in such a way that it all explains itself then.

Kinda wish I was able to freely define the dimensions of doors for purely creative reasons, but only because I'm spoiled from mid-90s Doom wad editing, where I would create doors the shape of an X in the center of a plus intersection of corridors and such. ^^

You rock, I'm back playing with the editor.

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