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| 2s | hi I'm Aaron Larsson the lead campaign |
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| 4s | designer here at Frost Giant and today |
| 6s | I'm going to be giving you an early look |
| 8s | at the stormgate in-game editor that we |
| 10s | are using to develop the game here I am |
| 13s | playing stormgate on Titans Causeway and |
| 17s | uh I want to make some changes to this |
| 18s | map to do that I simply push |
| 23s | F12 the game will take a quick moment |
| 26s | and it'll put me right in the editor so |
| 30s | first up we're going to be starting in |
| 31s | the terrain Tab and using the cliff tool |
| 34s | um what I want to try to do here is see |
| 36s | if I can make this area a little bit |
| 38s | safer for the player to take of course |
| 41s | we don't want to make it too easy so |
| 42s | let's add a ramp in here as well and um |
| 46s | one thing you'll notice here is I've got |
| 48s | symmetry turned on so I can just go back |
| 50s | to the other side and that's already |
| 53s | done for me there are a lot of different |
| 55s | options for symmetry including a |
| 58s | rotational two-way rotational four-way |
| 60s | Sy |
| 61s | the Symmetry tool doesn't just work with |
| 63s | Cliffs Um this can also work with just |
| 66s | about every other tool we have here so |
| 69s | we'll start with a little bit of of the |
| 70s | Sandy |
| 72s | texture and put a little bit of dirt |
| 75s | around it as |
| 76s | well so as I'm painting in you'll notice |
| 80s | that this is actually taking information |
| 82s | from the height map that the texture |
| 83s | uses this way we can get naturall |
| 86s | looking transitions without too much |
| 89s | effort in order to really speed up our |
| 92s | development time we really wanted to use |
| 94s | paint brushes for as many things as |
| 96s | possible things like uh height |
| 98s | manipulation we can paint collision and |
| 102s | even paint |
| 104s | water in addition to that we also have |
| 107s | tools for painting things like trees |
| 109s | down we can create forests like really |
| 112s | quickly or even better we can take the |
| 116s | uh light forest and replace some of |
| 119s | these um quite easily just using these |
| 121s | paintbrush tools and when it comes to |
| 124s | decorating we have a whole number of |
| 126s | options for decorating maps and one of |
| 128s | the things that we did to help us find |
| 130s | things quickly is create tags so I can |
| 133s | type in forest and that will give me um |
| 137s | not just things that are named Forest |
| 139s | but things that go in our forest tile |
| 141s | set so we can add all number of things |
| 143s | that belong in the um Forest tile set oh |
| 147s | and butterflies for the flowers that'll |
| 148s | be nice now let's go ahead and add some |
| 152s | more functionality to this map I have |
| 153s | got this idea I want to create a convoy |
| 156s | that moves across the map and give the |
| 157s | players a chance to intercept that |
| 159s | Convoy for a chance winning some extra |
| 162s | resources in order to get this Convoy |
| 164s | working we're going to use triggers we |
| 166s | use triggers um to build our content um |
| 169s | this is very similar to how it worked in |
| 171s | Warcraft 3 and Starcraft 2 and we use |
| 173s | this in order to speed up the map making |
| 176s | process but it also is a lot safer you |
| 179s | can just start plugging things in and |
| 182s | it'll start working now I've got a |
| 184s | couple triggers set up here and I'm |
| 185s | going to walk through |
| 186s | them first we have a convoy spawn |
| 189s | trigger and we can use the events to |
| 193s | tell the mission when these events |
| 194s | should happen so starting with map |
| 196s | initialization as well as every 120 |
| 199s | seconds of mission time we're this whole |
| 201s | event is going to |
| 202s | fire and what we're going to do is we're |
| 205s | going to create a chicken we're going to |
| 207s | assign it to a variable and then we're |
| 209s | going to tell that chicken to move |
| 211s | across the map to the other |
| 213s | side the other thing we're going to do |
| 215s | is we have a convoy dies trigger we can |
| 218s | pass that variable that we set up |
| 220s | earlier into this event and when that |
| 223s | chicken dies we can uh create a reward |
| 226s | all right here we are in Game and look |
| 229s | at that our little chicken is moving |
| 231s | across the map let's go ahead and test |
| 233s | out to see if um it'll drop some |
| 237s | rewards it did hooray everything's |
| 240s | working great all right so going into |
| 242s | the data tab we have a lot of places |
| 246s | where we can put data different game |
| 248s | effects like Buffs or buttons for |
| 252s | abilities or various um game effects |
| 255s | like creating unit or doing damage or |
| 258s | healing um so on and so forth not only |
| 261s | can you use any number of existing |
| 263s | effects that we've already created but |
| 265s | you can also quickly and effectively |
| 267s | create something completely custom so |
| 269s | let's go ahead and create a new unit |
| 271s | with some new |
| 273s | abilities let's give it the Weaver's |
| 276s | lash |
| 277s | ability and we also want to give it a |
| 280s | button on the command card and let's go |
| 284s | ahead and make some updates to the Lash |
| 285s | ability as well let's turn on |
| 289s | AutoCast and we'll set the coal down to |
| 292s | one all right that should do it let's |
| 295s | test it |
| 296s | out all right so our boss spawned here |
| 300s | let's give him some bad guys to |
| 305s | shoot there you have it that's the start |
| 307s | of a new ability there's a lot of ways |
| 310s | to take it from here to really customize |
| 312s | and make it exactly the way you want it |
| 315s | to thanks for watching this early |
| 317s | demonstration of the stormgate in-game |
| 319s | editor these are work in progress tools |
| 321s | that we're still building functionality |
| 323s | for and there's a lot of work that needs |
| 324s | to be done in order to make this tool as |
| 326s | userfriendly and fast as possible we |
| 328s | can't wait to release the stormgate |
| 330s | in-game Editor to the public and see |
| 332s | what the world will create with these |
| 334s | [Music] |
| 341s | tools |