
Introduction
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Level Editor is irrlicht based application used for making game levels/maps.
This editor saves the maps in irr format easily loadable by irrlicht applications, thus usable by various irrlicht games.
Beside creating static scenes, this editor aims to ease the creation of various standard game content like
 - creating inventories and container objects (like filling chests on the map with items)
 - creating dialogs for conversations with NPCs
 - adding predefined trigers/events like open door, move to another area (load another map), interact with scene objects
 - add monster behavior and AI
 - etc.
 
This Editor will not aim to improve graphical presentation with methods like volume shadows and bumpmaps and whatnot. But as opensource,
it should allow you to add whatever you need for your game.

This Editor aims to be as xml configurable as possible, thus suiting different needs without need for recompiling.

Example games are made with Level Editor to demostrate its posibilities. Tutorials cover these games and you can read
more about them (what they demonstrate, how to build em) in separate tutorial files.

User Manual:
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You should see game objects window with a list of available game objects in a tree to the left.
Pick an item and drag it to the map. Click on the map to place it.

Navigation:
Move selected object by clicking on it and dragging it around (left mouse press and hold).
Rotate selected object by pressing SHIFT + left mouse press and hold.
Scale selected object by pressing SHIFT + mouse scroll.
Rotate map with right mouse press and hold.
Pan map with SHIFT + right mouse press and hold (or WASD keys).
Zoom map with mouse scroll.

Extra:
You can declare object a container (check tutorial about adding content) and add content to it.
You can write scripts for pickable and trigger objects, check tutorial on writting scripts.
You can declare object to be an NPC, and write conversation dialogs for them (tutorial 4).

Petar Bajic
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Homepage: www.mystic-peanut.com
July, 21 2008.