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AndrewFM [developer] 5 Feb, 2018 @ 2:54pm

Rain World Level Editor Release

Official Rain World Level Editor

The Official Rain World Level Edtior can be used to make your own custom maps that can be added into the game. With some time and modding experience, you can even make entirely new regions with it. It is the actual editor that the developers created and used to make all of the maps currently in the game, so it is very powerful and flexible!

There was already an early access release of the editor given out to modders, but using the editor required having an installation of Adobe Director, which is obsolete software that is hard to get a hold of. I've put together this "public ready" release of the editor, which can be run as-is without having to install any additional software. Just download it, extract it, run it, and you're good to go to start creating levels. There's also been a number of usability tweaks and improvements made to the editor based on the feedback and experiences of the modders that have been using the early access version so far.

You can download the latest version of the level editor here[ln.sync.com]

Resources

The Level Editor can be tricky to learn to use, and requires a lot of experimenting and trial and error. However, there are a number of resources available to you along your level editing journey:

• The Rain World Modding Wiki[rain-world-modding.wikia.com] has a number of articles to introduce you to working with and controlling the level editor.

• Here is a comprehensive video guide on using the level editor to make maps and regions.

• The Rain World Discord has a #modding channel where you can get support from other level creators: https://discord.gg/rainworld

• I've made an image converter application[ln.sync.com] that will convert PNG files into level editor projects. I suggest holding off on using this tool until you've made a few maps with just the level editor alone (so that you can get a feel for everything). But once you're familiar with things, this tool is very useful to speed up your workflow.

• If you make any levels with the editor, feel free to share them in this topic! RainDB also features a spotlight of some of the outstanding community-made maps: http://raindb.net/gallery

Last edited by AndrewFM; 13 Jan, 2019 @ 1:48pm

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Normal Primate has Rain World

5 Feb, 2018 @ 4:26pm

👏👏👏

Kaeporo

7 Feb, 2018 @ 1:11am

Awesome. I'll check it out.

A very fierce smell has Rain World

8 Feb, 2018 @ 10:15am

cool! however i have trouble getting the level play in the game so i can try the level out, how can i do that?

AndrewFM [developer] 8 Feb, 2018 @ 1:14pm

It's a little bit tricky, take a look through this article which explains how to connect your level to an existing region: http://rain-world-modding.wikia.com/wiki/Adding_new_Maps

AndrewFM [developer] 19 Apr, 2018 @ 4:49pm

The level editor now contains project files for all of the maps in the base game.

CHEEEN

21 Apr, 2018 @ 11:41am

holy molly

CHEEEN

23 Apr, 2018 @ 8:47am

btw will you guys add steam workshop support?

A very fierce smell has Rain World

23 Apr, 2018 @ 11:14am

theres many mods for rainworld at www.raindb.net

but steam workshoup would be great :P

Normal Primate has Rain World

23 Apr, 2018 @ 4:16pm

Originally posted by CHEEEN:
btw will you guys add steam workshop support?

We've spoken to the mod community about this a few times, and to my understanding the consensus was to keep things as-is, since switching to steam workshop would break the current mods and workflow. But we’re open to it if that changes!

Shame

3 Jul, 2018 @ 8:28am

I feel like the level editor should really be put on the official game's site: http://rainworldgame.com/

Things like this are harder to find and work with, same with mods, so steam workshop being in place for the game would really be great too.

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AndrewFM [developer] 13 Jan, 2019 @ 1:50pm

Kaeporo made a detailed video tutorial showing how to use the level editor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ0DO-fmPCE

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Isaac Hipkiss has Rain World

2 Mar, 2020 @ 6:27pm

HOW DO I TEST MY LEVEL GOD ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ DAMMNIT NOONE EVER EXPLAINS IT!!!

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A very fierce smell has Rain World

3 Mar, 2020 @ 2:52am

Originally posted by Isaac Hipkiss:
HOW DO I TEST MY LEVEL GOD ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ DAMMNIT NOONE EVER EXPLAINS IT!!!

If it is a small level (1 screen), select the rendered .png and .txt files of your level from the level editor, copy them and paste into the game files ".../Rain World/Levels"

now if you did this correctly and don't have a broken level, it should appear in the arena mode.

as larger levels (2 screens or more) don't work in arena mode, you need to add them to a region which is a lot more complex.

hope this helps you try your level in-game

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the captain now has Rain World

15 Jul, 2020 @ 4:54am

would you guys be cool with open sourcing this project? Ive been having a nightmare of a time trying to run it through WINE on linux but id definitely be willing to throw my hand in on developing on a port if the means to do so were out there

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