Tank Brawl

Tank Brawl

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Official Editor Guide
By Zin
This is the official detail guide for Tank Brawl level editor, including sharing your created map to Steam Workshop for others to enjoy.
   
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Basics
Below is the main elements in the editor:

You have 20 Campaign to editor, when selecting one of those 20 Campaign you will brought into the editor. Each campaign will be divided into multiple sub area. Each of those sub area is different map. Use the Area Button in the middle of the screen to go between areas of the campaign. As soon as you navigate to an area, the campagn will save the area and consider it included in the campaign. To delete unwanted area, go to the campaign Level folder ( Select Publish Button and Select Change Thumbnail, go to Content folder ) and delete the area you do not want.

The palette are the the collections of objects that you can place in the world, they are divided into 4 groups:
  • Tanks: These are enemy tanks, bonus items and others
  • Nature: Objects in nature theme
  • Desert: Objects in desert theme
  • City1 and City 2: Objects in the city theme

Bound
There are four bound markers like the one above, they mark the rectangle area that if you put all the objects inside that rectangle, your level is played, it will be the fixing style, i.e the camera doesn't move along with your tank. If you put objects outside that bound, the area will be considered as large and the camera will follow player's tank.

Snap: This control how the objects are aligned to the world, for example if snap is 16, you can only place objects at position 0, 16, 32, 48, 64, 80..etc

Ground: Control your ground theme
To Move Camera Arround the Map: You can use any of those method:
  • Use Up, Down, Left, Right button
  • Move your mouse the edge of the screen
  • Using your right mouse to drag the ground
Placing and Moving Objects
To place an object into the world: Select an object from the palette, then move your mouse to an empty and left click. To change the orientation of the object you are going to place, right click on the empty place.
To move an existing object: Using the left mouse to drag the object around.
To delete an existing object: Right click on the object.
To change an existing object's scale and orientation: Left click on the object and use the menu on the right to change those value.
Share your map on Steam Workshop
To share your map on Steam Community workshop so others can download and play it, click on the Publish button, a publishing menu will appear:
  • First line is your map name, it will default to "Your name - level X", you can change this once you published your map.
  • Second line is the status of the map, it will be either "Published", "Not Published" or "Changing", you can not publish your map or re upload it if another upload/change is in progress
  • Publish button will upload your map to Steam Community
  • Update info button take you to the item workshop website where you can change your map name, descriptions, and add images, video, link ..etc.
  • Change thumbnail button take you to the local folder of the map where you can the preview.jpg image which is used as the map thumbnail on Steam Workshop Website. Inside the folder's Content subfolder you can see all the sub area file: for example area_1.bin, area_2.bin. Delete the area you don't want if required.
Player Tank Customization
The Green Tank and Red Tank specify where players will start.
The Yellow Star that you can add from the "Tank" palette group are spawn point where your tank will spawned after dieing.
Click on player tank object will bring up the Player Menu:
Allow Customization tick box specify if player can customize their tank using the available points specified below
Speed, Damage, Bullet and Live specify how many points player tank have for this campaign area.
Config Enemy Tank
Enemy Tank can be placed on the world or spawned from the spawner. Click on enemy tank will bring up its properties. Most of them are self explanation.
Level Guard Tick box decide if player need to kill the tank in order to clear the level.
Lock Door control which door will be unlocked when this tank is killed, if multiple tanks have the same locked door, they all need to be killed for the door to be unlock
Final Words
I am here, checking this forum everyday so if you are not sure about something, or found a bug, just drop a comment and I will answer as soon as possible.
2 Comments
18er hot wings 29 Aug, 2020 @ 6:50am 
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Magnata 29 Jun, 2016 @ 9:37am 
Parabéns pela iniciativa :AOEKnight:.