Willi Leopold's Outdoor Level Design Tutorial

I don't really recommend using blocks. Use models and terrains instead but with c_ instructions like c_move, c_trace, etc.

Thanks lolek, but you have to know that I already use the colormap
It works great, but it would be easier if there would be a grass script that doesn't need a bmp where I have to define first where I want to have grass (because I want it just everywhere where is grass texture). But I don't want to complain - even if it takes me 15 minutes to get it working, your colormap is great. I don't want to imagine how long I'd have needed if I'd have placed all the 1500+ grass models in my level per hand... so, thank you for the colormap ^.^

Hi,

I'm glad, that after so many years my tutorial is still usefull. Loopix called my attention to this topic and it was nice to read.

Wish you all the best and more luck with your game projects than I had.

Regards,

Willi

because every1 ignored him or just rubbished his project i expect, i personally loved it but alas was not around when he wasz a member

No, this wasn't the reason. Of course there were critical voices, but mainly I got very positive resonances. There were many reasons to stop the project - too many to count them all here - for example some private problems like health problems.

Then I was very frustrated because of the then new version of the 3DGS many things didn't work anymore. I also realized, that's impossible to make such a game alone, especially if it shouldn't be a 0-8-15 game. I had worked 2 years on the game and the first level was still not finished. And it was already then outdated. So I'm very surprised, that my tutorial is still helpful.

But the main reason was, I had found a company that wanted to develop the game together with me professionaly and distribute it worlwide. I still have the 30+ pages of contract. But then the company went bancrupt. After that I had no motivation to continue my work.

But Loopix' mail to tell me about this topic brought back a little bit game fever. So I have opened a new site on my homepage with 2D-games. There you will find the predecessor of "Malika - The Young Sorceress", an isometric 2D-game, created with The Games Factory. During the work on this, the idea for the 3D-game was born, so I stoped this project and switched to 3DGS. If you want, you can download the 2 levels of "Malika - The Sorceress Queen" I had made. Maybe you want to take a look at what was before the 3D-game.

Sorry, at the moment the game is only on the German version of my website, but the game is in English.

Willi

Hey Willi...is it really you? I'm very happy to see you loged in! Thanks also for your statement to the troubled destiny of Malika! I hope things are going better for you now...also in privat.

Thanks a lot for sharing Malika 2d...the screens are looking great...I'm downloading it right now...

Cheers!

Nice to see you here in 3DGS Forum again. For a few minutes, it felt like 2 or 3 years ago.

Hi Willi

i'm glad to talk with some talentued people like you
with an old 3DGS version the game you'have done is really top, and for a one man project this is outstanding.

I really like a lot your level tutorial, and i'll tr to download your demos.
With the new 3DGS bversion and C_move instructions you could use models/terrains for your game and a lot more frame rate.

But even with Blocks BSP, your game is outstanding , complete and varied gameplay, very top.

You don't want to make another 3D project ?

Just to amaze us

I'm wondering, is he here to stay or just thank us for all the compliments?

I also want to encourage you to come back. You could be a valuable and very appreciated member and many of us could learn some things from you (like your outstanding climbing code). You could enter a team or you could lead an own team and this way a game could created much faster.

I hope to see you again here in theses forums.

Frank

Hey! You won't leave us will you?
I mean, this would really be a great loss to all of us. Honestly, your level design tutorial is still the best I know about and, in addition, is the one that finally got me started on my project. I do use MDL-based levels now, but those are based on the same technique, only I use MDL instead of WMB for speed reasons.
You see, I'm also trying to encourage you to stay. And, like Frank just formulated precisely, you would be a very valuable member because of your long experience with 3dgs, and we would all appreciate to see you on these forums again!

Cheers,
Matrix

Willi,

Some parts of Malika in the video were just excellent. You did a very sweet job of programming on that, so kudos to you. You actually made me start to figure out how you accomplished some of what you did, and that was years ago, Excellent! Come back to 3DGS anytime.

Loco

It was definitely an excellent tutorial for the times, and, well, when you were doing that then on your own, that is really impressive, it was definitely a large help to me in the development of my methods for building a level. Definitely think it would be great if you even just popped in once and a while.

P.S. Seeing Willi post also took me back a couple years for a minute there .

Regards,
Ayrus

Hi, many thanks for all your kind words. I will take a look at the forum from time to time. But at the moment I have not the time to engage in a 3DGS-projekt.

And if I would, it would be - you can guess what? - "Malika - The Young Sorceress". I had written the complete story for this 20 level game (not including sub-levels). Of course it had to be done in a team and redone from the beginning. There was mentioned in this thread several times that you can create now landscapes from models. So you can create and texture parts of the landscape in any software and then put it together in WED? And what's about the collision detection? Okay, here - at least not in this thread - is not the place to ask such questions. I can inform me myself.

I must confess, it would be really nice to create this game. You never can know what happens.

Regards, Willi

P.S. If you take a look at my homepage, you will find an Online-Game there. Just another Snake-Clone, but a very special one.