Rooms with Archway



This is the basic tutorial to teach you how to create two rooms with an archway. To view this map in Shadow Warrior download rooms.zip




Fig 1. 2D mode of a sector.

1. In 2D mode (numeric pad ENTER toggles), make a sector by pointing the mouse at a starting point for the first wall of the sector and hit the SPACE bar. Drag the mouse where you want the first wall to end and hit the SPACE bar again. Keep doing this until you come back to the starting position to complete the sector. Make sure that you have place the white arrow inside your sector and press SCROLL LOCK for the player starting position. A brown arrow will indicate the SINGLE player starting position and will be under our white arrow at this time.

2. Go into 3d mode (numeric pad Enter), and raise the ceiling by pointing the mouse cursor on the ceiling, pressing Page Up several times while holding down the left mouse button. Make the height of the room 160 pixels height. To check the height go back to 2D mode (numeric pad Enter) place the mouse cursor in the sector and press TAB. On the lower left you will see the height of the sector.



Fig 2. Insert two vertices.

3. Place two vertices eight grid squares apart by placing the mouse cursor on the north wall and hit the INSERT key.


Fig 3. Adding an archway sector.

4. Make the archway three grid squares deep (north direction). This is done by using the SPACE bar as we did in 1 above. You must connect each vertice. If you do it right the line between the two sectors will turn red.


Fig 4. Adding a larger room.

5. Make larger room connected to the archway as you did in 4 above. The line between the two sectors will turn red.


Fig 5. 3D mode view of an archway.

6. Lower the ceiling height of the archway to 112 in height as we did in 2 above. Now you can change the textures in 3D mode by pressing "V" twice and choosing the texture(s) that you want. Also. you can shade the walls, floors, and ceilings by hitting the + and - numeric pad keys.




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