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Turok Games => Turok Dinosaur Hunter => Turok Dinosaur Hunter Modding/Mapping => Topic started by: Duke64 on December 23, 2016, 06:12:53 PM
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I will share here all of my guides so far I got the User Interface buttons posted. I will share them one by one here.
(https://duke64nukem.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/kexedit.jpg)
Considering you already read this get started modding guide (set developer mode to 1.) We need to first make sure we are in developer mode to edit the game even for maps.
https://duke64nukem.com/2015/12/19/turok-dinosaur-hunter-basic-modding-guide/
Understanding the User Interface
https://duke64nukem.com/2016/12/23/turok-dinosaur-hunter-mapping-user-interface/
Starting a Map
https://duke64nukem.com/2016/12/24/turok-dinosaur-hunter-starting-a-map/
Aligning wall Models:
https://duke64nukem.com/2017/01/04/turok-dinosaur-hunter-map-guide-rotating-models-walls/
Monster Actor Properties (how to make enemies attack)
https://duke64nukem.com/2017/01/05/monster-actor-properties-turok-map-editor-guide/
Collect Keys to open/Activate Exit Portal on a map:
https://turoksanctum.com/keys-exit-portal/
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Thanks i will atleast try for the curiosity.
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How can I play my own maps? I already know I need to press the Play button but every time it loads I just have a black screen
Its something I would have to look into. Need to know something how did you start creating your map did you do new map or edit exist or did you load a map?
I need to create this get started mapping guide now. If you saved map and then hit play and it goes black I'm a bit stunned xD But I think I have an idea actually.
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Okay and when you go into sectors mode is there any sectors?
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I will go over sectors in this guide also its quite a bit to go over but its not so much I will do a general info on sectors. Later I can go over the more complex sector stuff. But sectors are really important Turok can not travel without sectors or beyond sectors. I imagine he can't even spawn if there is no sectors. And they aren't as hard as it would seem but its probably important for someone to go over this glad someone is mapping ye.
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Thanks Duke. I apologies if I annoyed you with all these questions. I'm putting the PDF file to good use!
No problems here with helping. Ask away I will answer when I can dude.
So in my first guide it shows you sector mode. Its this button (https://duke64nukem.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/sectormodeicon.jpg)
So click on that button first before seeing.
This is highly important I say consider this before you continue on your map any. When you click the sectors mode what does the editor show?
This is what I don't want you to see! No red sectors on map is no!
(https://duke64nukem.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/no.jpg)
This is what I want you to see. Sectors are the red colors that go over the map.
(https://duke64nukem.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/yes.jpg)
Also my guide will explain this much more.
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Let me make this guide its heavily needed I had a look at the guide pdf by Daniel and its quaite strong! I approve of that pdf guide maybe sometimes its a lot to read at once.
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Hey see here is the thing. I don't know if its possible to actually add sectors if there are no sectors! You need to start your map with _default.map. Here its not much of a guide Kaiser and the guys are knee deep in Turok 2 busy as they mentioned in an announcement its being worked on. I thought there was some guide somewhere that helped already I believe :S Here is how you want to start a map. I added the small new guide starting a map to the original post also.
Please read through this hole guide its highly important! https://duke64nukem.com/2016/12/24/turok-dinosaur-hunter-starting-a-map/
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So the test map now plays when you hit test?
And that sounds like you need some help with sector mode. I plan to go over it soon I have started but sector mode can get pretty complex but for normal its not as complicated as it seem.
I will say something that may help for the moment. To work in sector mode make sure you are in sector mode and if you right click you will place a vertice. Which is the purple square hehe. You need to connect the sectors to your purple squares simply said.
To use any of the sector modes you must first cntrl+left click a sector so you have a sector selected first.
If a mesh doesnt highlight I know 2 things I would try:
1. Try to select everywhere around it some models have strange hitboxes because of the odd shapes of all of them.
2. I would try to see if its an actor so I would switch to actor mode and then try to select it
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Here's a video of my Kex editor with no buttons (OK and Cancel buttons at the bottom) in the actor properties window. Sorry Dead Link I removed it. I think the description is clear though!
You'll see that even though I was hitting enter after marking spawn flags, they would be dismissed because the buttons were not used.