First Look at the Stormgate Custom Games Editor

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2s	hi I'm Aaron Larsson the lead campaign
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

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