Games Planet Presents : Blood Mapedit Help Lesson 1

Lesson 1

Building a Simple Sector

On this page, you'll learn how to build a simple sector in Mapedit, and test your map in Blood.

After you've run Mapedit, familiarize yourself with the controls. Move the mouse around to see what it does, and even press a few keys if you'd like.

Some basic controls are A to zoom in, Z to zoom out, and the numeric keypage enter key to toggle between 2D and 3D mode

Alright, to start with, in 2D mode, position your your mouse cursor over a grid point and press spacebar.

Now move your mouse around. Notice that there is a white line extending from the vertex you just made.

Now press spacebar again on another part of the map to anchor another vertex. Notice that you've made one side of a sector.

Make another vertex and then for the last one, target your mouse on the original vertex and press spacebar.

Now, there should be a a rectangle or 4 sided figure in front of you like the one below.

To view your room in 3D mode, press the numeric keypad enter.

Notice that you can move around your room just like you could in the game.

Later, we'll learn how to add textures and raise the ceiling on the room below.

Now, press the numeric keypad enter again to return to 2D mode.

To save your map, press esc in 3D mode, and then press a. Now type in a name to save your map as, we'll call it mymap.

To test your map, type this DOS command in your Blood directory, blood map mymap, substituting mymap with whatever you named the map.

To make your simple room into a more interesting room, read on to Lesson 2.

Send any questions or comments to Michael Durgala.