Leveleditor: How to

Jons Space Adventures Leveleditor

- A guide in how to use the jsaLevelEditor

-This guide is under construction atm, but you can hopefully find something useful here now :)

Installation

You will find the package containing this guide and the leveleditor at: http://developingjsa.blogspot.se/p/free-leveleditor.html

If it is not there then its gone...

You will need Java 1.6 to be able to use the mapeditor

Download the latest edition at:

http://www.oracle.com/index.html

Interface

BuildArea

Right click for popup-menu

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Map-Info

Shows information about the current map.
Map Pack: This is the map-pack name that is used to identify the maps in the phone. You cannot use names that are used by the native game maps.



Map Number: Shows what the current mapnumber is.

File-Options

New: Creates a new map with the specified map-pack name. Automaticly increases the mapnumber.

Save: Saves the map with the name and number specified in map-info. Saves in the /maps folder that lies in the same place as the jsaLevelEditor.

Save as: Shows a dialog that allows you to switch to a new map-pack name.

Load: Loads a map. Also sets the Map-info to this map-pack name and number.

Selected Object

Information about the selected object
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Zoom

This is the zoomlevel for the camera used in buildarea.

Slide to the right to zoom in, slide to the left to zoom out.

Modes

This is the modes you can be in while creating maps.

Build vs Play.

When you have Build selected you can add objects in the buildArea by rightclicking in it. You can also reset the map. If you rightclick on a welcomeplanet(green) you can select that planet to shoot from.

When play mode is selected you are basicly playing the same game as on the phone. Left click on the planet with the blue dot(the rocket) and drag the mouse. You will see the whole projected path for that shot. Releasing the button will make the rocket go off in that path.

Easy, normal and hard

These are the same levels of play that you can find in the phone game. Switch between these to try how hard it is to play on hard or how easy it is.

Messages

This area shows messages from the program. Shows if a map loaded ok etc.

Tips when creating maps

Teleporters are funny when they work in more ways than one...
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